Police: Woman Starved, Tortured Young Niece:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
MIAMI -- A woman is accused of starving and torturing her 7-year-old niece for whom she was supposed to be caring.
Felicia Watkins, 37, is charged with multiple counts of child abuse. She appeared before a judge Thursday in Miami.
Miami police said they were first notified after the girl's teacher noticed her fingers were swollen to the point that she could not hold a pencil.
Police said Watkins, who works in the cafeteria at Miami Beach High School, repeatedly abused her niece inside the Liberty City apartment she shared with her husband.
"The aunt confesses and says this was all a part of discipline and punishment," Miami police spokesman Delrish Moss said. "So she seemed to think her actions were pretty normal. She was rather cavalier about it."
Police said Watkins squeezed the girl's fingers with pliers, whipped her with an electrical cord and starved her to the point that she weighed just 48 pounds.
The girl came to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother was arrested, accused of killing the girl's father.
Any thing I say can't be said any better than the way impqueen said it.
One point for the pliers, another for the electrical cord, one more for starving the kid, another for being so nonchalant about it, one more point for that hair, and one last point for the fact that this poor kid comes from such a screwed up family. That's six.
