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. Violet Mitchell was taken …
MOGADISHU, Somalia — No mother should have to lose her child. More broadly, at least 448 people died this year at outpatient and in-patient malnutrition treatment centers across Somalia through April, according to data compiled by humanitarian groups and local authorities. Mortality surveys conducted in parts of Somalia in December and again in April and May by the U.N.’s Food …
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