A five-year-old girl was found weighing just 19 lbs (half the average weight for her age) after her mother allegedly forced her to live in a closet because she looked too much like her father. Continue reading after the jump.
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Asusena Marie Gonzales has been charged with child abuse and neglect after allegedly starving and beating her daughter at their home in Oklahoma City. The little girl was severely malnourished. The bones in her joints were visible, her arms and legs were painfully thin and she was covered in marks from being beaten with a cord, police said. Social workers said the 31year-old’s other five children appeared healthy, but Gonzales allegedly targeted the little girl because she looked the most like her father, and the couple had fallen out.

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