KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri woman accused of locking her 10-year-old daughter inside a closet, where she often ate, slept and went to the bathroom, did not receive proper treatment for a mental disease, her attorney said Monday during opening statements in the woman’s trial.
The woman was charged with first-degree assault, child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child after her daughter was found in the filthy closet reeking of urine in June 2012 in the family’s Kansas City apartment. The girl weighed just 32 ...