Girl neglected and beaten

 A 15-year-old Wisconsin girl found walking barefoot in pajamas near her home last week told police her father and stepmother had forced her to live in the basement for years and that they beat her, starved her and even forced her to eat her own feces.

The couple, whom The Associated Press is not naming to protect the identity of the girl, were arrested Friday on suspicion of child abuse and neglect, and a judge set their bail Tuesday at $20,000 each, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

According to a police officer, the girl said her father, 40, and stepmother, 42, had forced her to live in the basement since 2006 and that an alarm would sound if she went upstairs. She said she ate what she could find on the floor and in the garbage, and that her father and stepmother had forced her to eat her feces and drink her own urine.

The girl weighed just 70 pounds when she was brought in, and Dr. Barbara Knox, of American Family Children's Hospital, told police the the girl suffered "poses a significant risk of death" and that chronic starvation had caused her puberty to be arrested. Knox also said the girl would be at high risk for other disorders and complications that can lead to death, according to the cop.

The girl told investigators she fled her home because she was afraid her stepmother was going to throw her down the stairs. She said she had been let out of the basement to "clean some papers" for the woman, who became angry because she wasn't doing it fast enough and threatened to throw her down the stairs.

The police said the girl's father initially gave the police medical explanations for her condition, but a hospital social worker told police there was likely much more to the case.

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