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A Texas woman was arrested last week after her 11-year-old autistic son

was reportedly found severely underweight and with other injuries indicative of abuse.

At a preliminary hearing, prosecutors laid out the horrible

conditions the boy was left in.

It's alleged in that case that the defendant starved the child, made the child live in a

fecese build room, locked away. Baytown Police said that in May, Rachel Blaylock's son

was found in a locked room by himself, despite

several other people living in the mobile home. The boy, who weighed 46 pounds, had rotting

teeth and was covered in dried feces. Medical records stated that the boy was hospitalized

with feces on his teeth, in his ears, and under his nails. Investigators noted the

smell of feces and other bodily fluids

throughout Blaylock's home. Blaylock 41 allegedly claimed her nonverbal son, who could not use the

bathroom on his own, would throw feces around his room. A child protection services investigator

instructed an officer to tell Blaylock that her son needed medical care.

Blaylock allegedly responded, quote, I can't just drop everything I'm doing and take him to the

hospital so a quack-a-hast doctor can say, oh, I don't know what's wrong with him, so we can see

another one. Blaylock admitted to replacing her son's door with the screen door she kept locked

because he would flee the home naked.

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