And the parents
Violet's mother, Lisa Mitchell, and her boyfriend, Anthony Yonko, were arrested on child neglect and aggravated abuse charges
Posted on 11/20/2024 12:11:54 AM PST by Morgana
A malnourished seven-year-old girl died in an Oklahoma hospital just days after she told a good-hearted neighbor that her abusive parents loved her.
Violet Mitchell was taken to St. Anthony's Medical Center on August 2, where doctors said she was 'extremely malnourished' and was 'essentially skin and bones' with 'sunken eyes,' the Kansas City Star reports.
But just two earlier, a kind neighbor tried to help the young girl.
'I took her [in] because she was hungry,' Tera Day told NewsNation. 'I fed her chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and carrots.'
Day noted that the girl 'didn't tell me anything about her parents, just that they loved her.
'That's all she said and she cried, and I took her back home,' Day recounted.
A recently-released autopsy has since determined Mitchell's death was due to a 'failure to thrive' after finding a plastic baby bottle blocking her small intestine.
She weighed just 29 pounds, and was wrapped in a blanket, 'wearing a diaper that was otherwise sized for a three year old,' the doctors told investigators, according to documents obtained by KOCO.
She also had a bacterial infection and injuries to her cheek, shoulder and left leg, as well a 'pale green' discoloration on her stomach.
Violet's mother, Lisa Mitchell, and her boyfriend, Anthony Yonko, were later arrested on child neglect and aggravated abuse charges.
Police said they received a call shortly after doctors pronounced Violet dead from a relative of the family, who said he overhead a group phone call in which numerous people were 'trying to come up with the same story regarding the death of Violet,' according to the Oklahoman.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is why they make Louisville Sluggers.
Poor baby.
Angels have her now.
Poor child.
I am sorry you did not know love while here.
Millstone.
Yonko is a Ukrainian name.
And he doesn’t look a bit insane or mom underfed.
/s
How could anyone do this?
For crying out loud, I feed exhausted bees!!!
How much more precious is a child???
I don’t understand the neighbor. What kind of goons live in that neighborhood? Are they all inbred idiots who don’t understand an emergency situation when they see one? A starving child should mean a call to the police.
This is just horrific. How? Why? I will never understand.
She swallowed a plastic baby bottle? Sounds like she had a bowel obstruction. She must have suffered terribly.
This little on is holding the hand of Jesus. She is loved now.
And the parents
Violet's mother, Lisa Mitchell, and her boyfriend, Anthony Yonko, were arrested on child neglect and aggravated abuse charges
There are so many people who can’t have kids and want to adopt and monsters like this kill their kids with horrific abuse.
In wonder how they’d like to go through the horror they put this poor baby through.
Heartbreaking. I hate all these kinds of stories. These two need robust vivisection.
Horrible.
The child was late-term aborted.
I live about 10 minutes from Oklahoma.
I have learned that it is the most feral, abusive wasteland in America.
This story isn’t uncommon. I see people selling babies alongside the road a few times.
She’s in the loving arms of Christ.
Mill stones, rope and deep water.
The thing that bothers me, is the thoughts it gives me that I do not even want to entertain as to what should happen to these two, because then I feel I am on par with their level of evil, even though they deserve a similar evil applied to them..
Wait.
What?
I suppose seeing the parents have crazy eyes is redundant.
I typed it, I mean it.
I’ve never seen such evil done into people as I have from Oklahoma.
Child abuse in many forms had been rampant there for generations.
As Arthur Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes observe:great evils may be easier done in isolation where there a few to hear or see.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.