Disabled girl, 13, with mental age of a toddler abused to death after being forced to live in foul makeshift caged bed A DISABLED teenager with the mental age of a three-year-old was abused to death after her grandmother made her live in a horrifying makeshift cage.
Melanie’s mother and grandmother admitted to keeping the disabled girl in a cage, according to AZ Family.
Police said they found Melanie, 13, covered in bruises at her grandmother Virginia Lujan’s home in Tempe, Arizona.
Melanie’s horrifying condition was revealed to cops when they received a call on Tuesday night about the disabled teenager not breathing.
It is unclear how long the girl had been kept in the cage but police said it could have been months or even years.
