Adopted girl, 13, found dead wearing just a diaper in unimaginable house of horrors

A erstwhile Florida Department of Children and Families worker has been arrested for allegedly abusing her 13-year-old adopted daughter, who was recovered dormant wearing conscionable a diaper.

Diane Natasha Mack, 34, who erstwhile worked arsenic a guardian advertisement litem - a idiosyncratic appointed by the courts strategy to correspond the interests of idiosyncratic who is incapable to attraction for themselves - called constabulary to her location successful the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring play and recreation assemblage connected Friday astatine 12.19am to study her adopted girl dormant aft uncovering her 'lying unresponsive' connected the floor. 

When deputies arrived astatine the scene, they recovered the unidentified unfortunate dormant adjacent to the beforehand door, wearing thing but a diaper and showing 'clear' signs of maltreatment and neglect, the Highlands County Sheriff's Office reports.

'She was highly emaciated and evidently malnourished,' Sheriff Paul Blackman said. 'Her assemblage was covered successful wounds successful each stages of healing, including lacerations that were intelligibly precocious suffered.'

The sheriff went connected to telephone the crime country 'one of the astir disturbing ... I person encountered successful much than 30 years of instrumentality enforcement.'

'There are nary words I tin accidental that tin genuinely convey the nightmare that this child's beingness indispensable person been.'

Authorities present assertion that Mack initially told officers connected the country she recovered the miss connected Thursday greeting - but aboriginal changed her clip of find to astir 3pm.

Further probe besides uncovered grounds suggesting the girl, who was homeschooled, had been locked up successful a garage, the sheriff's section said.

It is unclear however agelong the miss had been kept wrong the garage, officials said, but 'it appears she was secured to the store doorway and monitored from wrong the location by a information camera that had been mounted successful the garage,' officials said.

Deputies besides assertion Mack near her girl 'lying dormant connected the floor,' portion she utilized 'pool chlorine' to effort to destruct grounds wrong the garage.

She besides allegedly took the clip to thrust astatine slightest 4 different children who were surviving wrong the location with her to different residence successful Titusville, earlier she returned to Sebring to study the girl's death. 

Mack is present being held without bail astatine the Highlands County Jail arsenic she faces charges of first-degree execution portion engaged successful aggravated kid abuse, aggravated kid abuse, kidnapping and destroying evidence.

Sheriff Blackman, meanwhile, has insisted the section 'will bash everything successful our powerfulness to marque definite that determination is justness for this child.'

'Parents person a work to emotion our children and marque definite nary harm comes this way,' helium said. 'To spot a kid treated this mode is not lone heartbreaking, it's infuriating.

'What makes it adjacent much appalling is that the fishy is simply a erstwhile worker of not lone the Department of Children and Families, but besides worked arsenic a guardian advertisement litem. 

'That idiosyncratic whose occupation it was to look aft the payment of children could dainty their ain kid successful this mode is simply beyond belief.'