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Parents Who Locked Starving Girl in Basement Plead Guilty; Parents Plead Guilty to Abusing Girl

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Third District Judge Leslie Lewis thought she had ``seen it all.'' That was before viewing photographs of a 6-year-old Cache County girl whose adoptive parents locked her in a basement room to starve. When authorities found the girl last November, she weighed 31 pounds. Her emaciated body was covered with bruises and burnlike lesions, her hair was infested with lice and her feet were covered with fungus. ``It's impossible to believe the extent of...

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1998 Mar 5