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Shirley and David seemed to have a rocky relationship, and Shirley claimed that David was extremely abusive to her. They moved around a lot and they ended up living with his family at one point, but then Shirley was kicked out of that home, being forced to leave her children behind.
Ame’s aunt, Cynthia Stoltzmann, ended up getting full custody over her and was appointed as her legal guardian.
Prior to Ame and her extended family landing in their garbage-filled, overcrowded home in Phoenix, Child Protective Services had been made aware of several different issues.
The deplorable living conditions the children lived in was one thing reported to CPS, while Ame was the center of several other issues.
The school she attended in Ogden, Utah, had reported that Ame had lice, was constantly dirty, and even had cat pee in her shoes when she showed up one day.
It wasn’t long after CPS was made aware of the family that they up and left town, moving to Phoenix and deciding to home school all the children.
The home in Phoenix was hardly a home; run down and packed full of people. Some lived in tents outside in the yard.
At least a dozen other children lived there with Ame, along with her Aunt Cynthia, her cousin Sammantha Allen and her husband John Allen, her grandmother Judith Deal, and her father David Deal.
And every single person under that roof was aware of the abuse that Ame suffered.
Facebook; Ame plays with a toy in the photo above, at age 3
