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Insane! And to add insult to injury she kept collecting the girl’s Social Security checks … This woman deserves to rot in jail. According to NY Daily News reports : Amber Keyes, 35, faces a charge of injury to a child for allowing her daughter Ayahna Comb, who suffered from cerebral palsy and couldn’t feed or clothe herself or move without a wheelchair, to wither away and die in January. It was only in June, when her other child and two friends were looking for a cheese stick to eat in the Houston apartment, that they found Ayahna Comb’s emaciated, blanket-wrapped remains – weighing only 14 pounds – inside the fridge, the Houston Chronicle reported . An autopsy determined the child died of malnutrition and dehydration and the death was ruled a homicide last month. “By not providing the proper parental care or seeking medical and/or professional assistance for [Ayahna’s] condition, the defendant caused injury to [Ayahna] by omission, which led to the death of [Ayahna] due to neglect,” authorities wrote in Keyes’ charging documents, obtained by the Chronicle. Keyes told authorities she panicked after Ayahna stopped breathing one night in January and tried CPR, but never called authorities after she failed to revive the frail child. Instead, she stuffed the girl into the fridge and continued to use it during the several months the body lay inside, authorities said. Keyes didn’t take the girl to the doctor for two years prior to her death and that towards her death on Jan. 29, found the girl “always difficult to feed,” the paper reported. While the body chilled for months in the fridge, Keyes continued to collect Social Security benefits in her disabled daughter’s name, she told authorities. She also lived with another young daughter, who has been taken into protective custody. Keyes previously lost custody of a third child, who was 18 months old in 2002 when child services learned her boyfriend was abusing the tot and removed the child from the Houston home. After the girl died, Keyes continued to tell the child’s father, Armand Comb, that she was still alive, he told KHOU-TV in June. He even spoke to Keyes, who pretended Ayahna was listening as Comb sang her a song. She’s still in jail, in lieu of $50K bail. Just terrible. That poor innocent, helpless little girl. Our prayers go out to the three kids who found the body. That has to be traumatic. Houston County Sheriff’s Office/Handout

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