A mother who slowly starved her Down’s Syndrome daughter to death in a filthy bedroom covered in takeaway boxes and used diapers was sentenced to nearly ten years in prison.
Elaine Clarke, 49, ‘bought herself handbags and shoes,’ while daughter Debbie Leitch, 24, wasted away in a dark, feces-covered room that smelled of death.’
Leitch’s face was ‘completely encrusted with scabs and thickened skin, such that she was no longer recognizable as being a young female’ when she was discovered in August. Read the full article here ▶
