2 girls found starving; have well-fed siblings

[Roon]

WICHITA, Kan. - Two emaciated girls who told police they ate only when their father wasn’t traveling on business were hospitalized after police found them in an advanced state of starvation.

“It’s the worst case of malnutrition I’ve ever seen,” said police Lt. E.J. Bastian. The 6- and 7-year-old girls were found Friday in a home’s basement, were they were kept.

The girls’ stepmother, whose biological children were found healthy and well-fed upstairs, was taken in for questioning. Their father, traveling on business, was to be questioned when he returned, police said.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13988087/

[xultar]

1. If the father couldn't tell his girls were starving he needs to go to jail

[Rex]

2. So they lived in the basement, starving.

While the step kids ate their fill upstairs. Evil parents.

[hobbit709]

3. Let's lock the stepmother in the basement

for weeks at a time without food. Make the punishment fit the crime.

[Moderator]

4. Lock

Instead of moving this local crime story, as is our usual policy, here is a link to the discussion in GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1703627