article_snippet: Officials in Indiana knew that a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl was being subjected to appalling neglect four years before a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl was rushed to hospital covered in feces and weighing just 35lb.
article_snippet: Court documents indicate that the teenager was brutally beaten by the teenager caretakers, lodged on a blood-and-feces-stained mattress and forced to eat human waste and go to the bathroom in a bucket.
article_snippet: Last December the girl prisoner was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in Anderson covered in feces and so thin that police said bone were protruding from the girl prisoner skin.
article_snippet: We wouldn't accept treatment of an animal that way, let alone a human being, a 15-year-old girl.'
article_snippet: That is just disgusting and no child should have to go through anything like that.'
highlights_snippet: Teenage girl taken to hospital in 2014 covered in feces and weighting 35Ibs .
  
highlights_snippet: Teenage girl was brutally beaten and forced to eat human waste, say court papers .
  