The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA 12-year old boy was found beaten, starved to death and covered in faeces in his family’s home.Maxwell Schollenberger was locked in a bare, unlit room with its blinds and windows nailed shut.The youngster existed in a state of “perpetual suffering” for a long period, according to a Pennsylvania prosecutor.He never received medical care and never went to school, Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf told reporters.There was no furniture in the unlit second-floor bedroom except a filthy mattress.
Maxwell was so weak that he could not walk or even stand when he died.The boy was so malnourished that he could no longer digest.
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