OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA (BNO NEWS) — Police in Oklahoma City have arrested a 31-year-old woman on child neglect charges after a beaten and shockingly malnourished girl was found in a closet, officials said on Wednesday.
A police report released on Wednesday said officers responded to the home of Asusena Marie Gonzales on Monday after an investigation by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) which found that a 5-year-old girl in her care was made to stay in a closet and was given a cup to urinate and defecate in. The girl was also said to have been beaten and was extremely malnourished.
Responding officers described the girl as appearing ‘very malnourished and emaciated.’ “[The victim’s] arms and legs were very thin and you could see the bones at her joints. She had very little muscle tissue on her bones,” one of the officers wrote in a report.
Police described Gonzales’ house as in relatively good order and five other young children at the home appeared to be healthy. “[The DHS worker] told me that [the victim] was the target of abuse because she allegedly looked the most like her father and [Gonzales] did not like the father,” the police report said. The closet in which the victim was forced to stay smelled like urine and feces.
Officers at the scene found that Gonzales had seven open city warrants for offenses such as disorderly conduct and failure to show insurance. She was then arrested and later charged with child neglect.
The victim was transported to an area hospital where she was found to weigh only 19.8 pounds (8.9 kilograms). “I noticed she had a couple of small cuts on her arms that had dried blood attached to them. When I spoke with her, she did not focus on my face and uttered words I could not comprehend,” the officer’s report said.
Gonzales told police that she had not taken the victim to a doctor since she was 4 years old and mentioned that the girl was born premature and weighed only four pounds (1.8 kilogram) when she was born. Gonzales remains in jail.
she needs the exact same treatment for four years then jail her for another 8
This happens right here in Dominica. Mothers always treat their children or child bad whenever they have a problem with the father. I am a mother now and was and still is a victim of that problem. Not only do i lokk like my father but also is his favorite so for that i was forced out of the house after my father was thrown out. Thanks to the Almighty who came to my rescue and send a good man my way.So i know whats its like.
she should be jailed for life this is more than death this child died many times but god no one day rescue will be their lord you are so good guide this child
heartless! what does the child have to do with whats going on between the mother and father. Lord have mercy on our children
These poor kids. I wonder how the other children in the house felt with this going on.
lord help those children out there. these paople are sick!!!!
This lady definely need to see a psychiatrist she cannot be o.k.
The lady only needs punishment. If she needed psychiatry why doesn’t she from time to time jump in front of a moving vehicle?
The psychiatry approach only means she should get away with doing onto others.