DES MOINES — Natalie Finn, the West Des Moines teenager who
starved to death in October, was wearing an adult diaper and lying on
the linoleum floor of her bare bedroom when police and medics discovered
her, according to newly unsealed court documents. The
16-year-old "appeared to have been laying on the floor ... in her own
waste for some time," West Des Moines police Det. Chris Morgan wrote in
an affidavit. She died a short time later at a hospital. The home reeked
of both human and animal waste. Blankets that were "heavily soaked" in
what officers believed was urine covered the floor of the room Natalie
shared with two of her siblings, according to the documents. The room
had no beds or furniture. ...
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