Chip Chick
If Ame’s family members weren’t abusing her, they were standing by and letting it all happen to her.
Infuriatingly enough, after her death made international headlines, neighbors started to come forward to say they knew it was going on. They simply did nothing about it.
They lived their lives just feet away, completely ok with a little girl being treated like trash.
Ame was starved. She was in a constant state of hunger. She was 48 inches and weighed under 60 pounds at the time of her death.
She was beaten by her family. Sometimes with a board. She was chained up like an animal.
Her family made her walk on scorching, hot pavement. Barefoot. They made her sleep inside of a bathtub, with no pillows or blankets. Nothing.
They forced her to pick up dog poop. They made her eat it. They smeared it on her face.
Ame was the only child in the Deal household who got treated in such an appalling way. All because they didn’t think she was part of her family…because David Deal was disputably her biological father.
On July 12th, 2011, Ame was forced into a box. It used to house her sister’s Barbie collection until she received so many they just couldn’t fit inside anymore.
But Ame fit. The box was 13 inches deep, 15 and a half inches wide, and 31 inches long.
It was hardly the first time Ame was made to get inside the Barbie box, but it would end up being the last time.
