Disabled girl, 16, found starved down to 23 pounds by her mother four MONTHS after social services received first emergency call.

Starved: Darlene Armstrong, pictured here in hospital, weighed only 23lbs and could not walk or talk when she was removed from her family home after being starved by her mother. Law enforcement officials leaked this picture to the media.

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A 16-year-old girl with cerebral palsy weighed only 23lbs and could not walk or talk when she was removed from her family home after being starved by her mother. 

Darlene Armstrong measured just 3’10’’ tall when she was rushed to hospital in Chicago in March. 

The severely disabled girl could have been rescued four months earlier if the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) had followed set procedures, an investigation by the Chicago Tribune reveale

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157692/Disabled-girl-16-starved-23-pounds-mother-MONTHS-social-services-received-call.html#ixzz1xYfdqa3L