Malnourished seven-year-old girl's heartbreaking final words to neighbor who fed her chicken nuggets before returning to monster parents who 'glued her mouth shut' and left her to die

A malnourished seven-year-old miss who was brought dormant to an Oklahoma infirmary successful aboriginal August had told a good-hearted neighbour conscionable days earlier that her abusive parents loved her.

Violet Mitchell was taken to St. Anthony's Medical Center successful Midwest City connected August 2, erstwhile doctors said she was 'extremely malnourished' and was 'essentially tegument and bones' with 'sunken eyes,' the Kansas City Star reports.

She weighed conscionable 29 pounds, and was wrapped successful a blanket, 'wearing a diaper that was different sized for a 3 twelvemonth old,' the doctors told investigators, according to documents obtained by KOCO.

A recently-released autopsy has since determined Mitchell's decease was owed to a 'failure to thrive' aft uncovering a integrative babe vessel blocking her tiny intestine.

She besides had a bacterial corruption and injuries to her cheek, enarthrosis and near leg, arsenic good a 'pale green' discoloration connected her stomach.

But conscionable 2 days earlier her death, a benignant neighbour said she fed the young girl.

'I took her [in] due to the fact that she was hungry,' Tera Day told NewsNation. 'I fed her chickenhearted nuggets, mashed potatoes and carrots.'

Day noted that the miss 'didn't archer maine thing astir her parents, conscionable that they loved her.

'That's each she said and she cried, and I took her backmost home,' Day recounted.

But Violet's mother, Lisa Mitchell, and her boyfriend, Anthony Yonko, were aboriginal arrested connected kid neglect and aggravated maltreatment charges.

Police said they received a telephone soon aft doctors pronounced Violet dormant from a comparative of the family, who said helium overhead a radical telephone telephone successful which galore radical were 'trying to travel up with the aforesaid communicative regarding the decease of Violet,' according to the Oklahoman.

The caller besides said Anthony's brother, David, and Lisa's sister, Tiffany, were heard admitting they knew Violet was dormant earlier she was brought to the hospital.

An apprehension study besides states that 1 of Violet's cousins, different 7-year-old girl, told investigators she knew that Violet died successful a crib, wherever her arms and legs were often tied up with strings.

The young miss went connected to archer constabulary that Violet was fed breadstuff and small else, and told cops that her parent 'spilled blistery crockery connected Violet, connected her look and arms,' according to an affidavit.

She besides said Lisa would bushed her girl often, mostly with a broomstick, glued her rima unopen and kept Violet successful a crib for a agelong clip - perchance a period - and would stay tied-up erstwhile her parent and Anthony near the house.

If Violet cried, her parent and Anthony 'cursed astatine her and kept nutrient from her.'

The miss claimed she would sometimes drawback Violet and tally retired of her flat truthful that her parents would halt hitting her and would untie her cousin, but past necktie her backmost up earlier everyone came back, retired of fear.

David, Anthony's brother, and Lisa's sister, Tiffany, were besides arrested successful transportation to the lawsuit erstwhile constabulary determined they knew astir the abuse, but failed to study it to police.

Violet's parents and Tiffany are present being held connected a $5million bond, portion David is being held connected a $1million bond.

The parents person pleaded not guilty, and had initially told constabulary they thought Violet had the flu erstwhile they brought her to the hospital.

That morning, Anthony said helium awoke to his woman telling him Violet was not moving and was sick, and his member past drove them to the hospital.

The mates besides had different children that are present successful the attraction of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, according to KOCO.

Mitchell is present scheduled to look successful tribunal connected November 27.

In the meantime, assemblage members are calling for justness for the young girl.

'They should spent the remainder of their beingness successful jail, because  that's a baby,' said Bridgette Mccullough, different neighbor.

'That is simply a baby, they are truthful helpless.'