Malnourished seven-year-old girl's heartbreaking final words to neighbor who fed her chicken nuggets before returning to monster parents who 'glued her mouth shut' and left her to die

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Posted on 11/20/2024 12:11:54 AM PST by Morgana

A malnourished seven-year-old girl died in an Oklahoma hospital just days after she told a good-hearted neighbor that her abusive parents loved her.

Violet Mitchell was taken to St. Anthony's Medical Center on August 2, where doctors said she was 'extremely malnourished' and was 'essentially skin and bones' with 'sunken eyes,' the Kansas City Star reports.

But just two earlier, a kind neighbor tried to help the young girl.

'I took her [in] because she was hungry,' Tera Day told NewsNation. 'I fed her chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and carrots.'

Day noted that the girl 'didn't tell me anything about her parents, just that they loved her.

'That's all she said and she cried, and I took her back home,' Day recounted.

A recently-released autopsy has since determined Mitchell's death was due to a 'failure to thrive' after finding a plastic baby bottle blocking her small intestine.

She weighed just 29 pounds, and was wrapped in a blanket, 'wearing a diaper that was otherwise sized for a three year old,' the doctors told investigators, according to documents obtained by KOCO.

She also had a bacterial infection and injuries to her cheek, shoulder and left leg, as well a 'pale green' discoloration on her stomach.

Violet's mother, Lisa Mitchell, and her boyfriend, Anthony Yonko, were later arrested on child neglect and aggravated abuse charges.

Police said they received a call shortly after doctors pronounced Violet dead from a relative of the family, who said he overhead a group phone call in which numerous people were 'trying to come up with the same story regarding the death of Violet,' according to the Oklahoman.

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1 posted on 11/20/2024 12:11:54 AM PST by Morgana

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