Ame Deal murdered! Four relatives charged!

Another very sad case.  Ten year old Ame Deal took a popsicle out of the freezer without permission and for punishment she was stuffed in a footlocker, and locked with a padlock.  But this isn’t the story this family told the detectives at first. They claimed that Ame was playing hide and seek with friends and must have hid in the footlocker.  When Arizona police found Ame she was only 59 pounds and wearing soiled clothes.

Charged in the case are her cousin John Allen 23, Samantha Allen 23 charged with first degree murder, aunt Cynthia Stoltzman 44, grandmother Judith Deal 44, charged with child abuse and kidnapping.  Stoltzman was Ame’s legal guardian.

“I don’t break down well in front of other people, but when I’m by myself, I can lose it real easy,” Stoltzman said. “Ame was an awesome hider, let me tell you. … There were places she would squeeze into that I didn’t think my dog could squeeze into.”  The Auntie told this to the media. I guess Ame was so good she needed help padlocking the foot locker.

Detectives found a pattern of horrifying abuse, including forcing the little girl to eat dog feces, making her sleep on the shower floor and forcing her to exercise barefoot outside in the blistering heat.

Allen and Allen confessed that they locked Ame in the footlocker on the 12th of July and found her dead on the 13th of July.  Stoltzman and Deal also admitted to locking Ame in the footlocker.

Shirley Deal, Ame’s mother fled from the abusive home several years ago and she is living in Kansas.  Wait, what?  The mother left the house KNOWING that there was abuse going on in the home?  She did her share of criticizing the family members stating they need to spend the rest of their lives in jail, or lethal injection.  REALLY!  She is just as much to blame for taking off and leaving the child in an abusive home.

All are said to make court appearances on 8 August 2011.

Ame died in a 31- by 14- by 12-inch padlocked footlocker. Rest in Peace Ame!

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