Rachel Shannon
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When she arrived there, staff were absolutely horrified at her condition.
At the time, she weighed just 35 pounds.
And I don't think I need to tell you this, but that is literally an insane weight for a 14 year old girl.
The average weight for a 14 year old girl is between 100 and 110 pounds.
I can't even fathom the length of time that it would have taken for her to have been starved for her to reach such a low body weight.
It was also found that she had a very large bruise on the right side of her forehead.
She had a very low body temperature, multiple pressure sores on her body which are caused from being immobilized for a prolonged period of time, and had a blood sugar of 24.
A normal blood sugar for a fasting teenager is between 70 and 100.
So again, she hadn't eaten in a very long time.
This did not appear to be the case of a girl who had been sick for a week who had just been eating as much as she could but just couldn't keep much down.
Even when you're eating and throwing up, your body will still absorb some of it, especially with what Walter said.
He had earlier said that she ate and didn't throw up until hours later.
If that were true, she would have had at least some sort of evidence of nutrition in her system, but she didn't.
According to hospital staff,
her low body weight was a result of prolonged extreme malnutrition and starvation, not a rapid onset of weight loss, not from five or six days of being sick.
As staff and detectives were finding this information out, officers were back at the station questioning Walter about how his daughter ended up in this condition.
Walter again told officers that MG had autism with the mentality of a 6 year old.
He said that she was abused by her mother before moving in with him, but he wasn't aware of these issues until he was already living in the trailer.
He found out that she had slept with a knife under her pillow because she was afraid due to the abuse she suffered from her mom.
He said that she would give her sleeping pills and things like that.