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Starved disabled girl, 16, weighed only 23 pounds when found

Last updated Friday, June 8, 2012 - 6:18am

CHICAGO - When teenager Darlene Armstrong arrived at the emergency room curled on a stretcher, she weighed a skeletal 23 pounds.

In serious condition, the 16-year-old had cerebral palsy and couldn't walk or talk, but the stunned medical staff also focused on her shriveled 3-foot, 10-inch frame, her sunken cheeks and protruding ribs.

The doctors at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago agreed the girl had been starved for some time.

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Salt Lake County pays $144k to family of inmate who starved

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 10:25am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Salt Lake County is paying $144,000 to settle a federal lawsuit with the family of a 19-year-old Magna man who starved to death last year in the county's jail.

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Father testifies in disabled daughter's starvation death case

Joseph A. Slobodzian The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 9:51am

PHILADELPHIA -- Daniel Kelly Sr. said he loved his disabled daughter Danieal, would never have done anything to harm her, and had accepted that she "would be totally dependent on me for the rest of her life."

He also conceded that he had "procrastinated" when it had come to such things as getting Danieal a new wheelchair, eyeglasses and doctor visits and enrolling her in school.

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Woman stranded in Nevada for weeks upgraded to solid food

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 5:15pm

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- A Canadian woman who lived off nothing but trail mix, fish oil tablets and candy for seven weeks in the remote Nevada mountains was upgraded to a solid diet Monday, and hospital officials said her spirits were "extremely high" despite nearly starving to death.

A search team mounted horses and all-terrain vehicles in a bid to find her husband, 59-year-old Albert Chretien. He set off on foot March 22 to get help after the couple got stuck on a muddy road in northeastern Nevada while on a road trip to Las Vegas.

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Woman stranded for weeks in Nevada was close to dying

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 12:09pm

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- A Canadian woman who survived a seven-week starvation ordeal in the mountains of remote Nevada remained in fair condition Monday in Idaho, hospital officials said.

Rita Chretien, 56, of Penticton, British Columbia, was found on Friday by hunters who spotted her van mired in mud on a national forest road in Elko County, Nev., near the Idaho border.

Searchers continue to look for her husband, Albert Chretien, 59, who remains missing after setting off on foot March 22 to get help.

Alone in the rugged and isolated country, Rita Chretien survived

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