A Perth couple are on trial accused of starving their teenage daughter to the point she weighed barely more than 27 kilograms and was at risk of having a heart attack.
A court has heard a 17-year-old Perth girl was so malnourished that she was as small as an 11-year-old, weighed just 27 kilograms and was at risk of dying,
Prosecutor Jehna Winter said dance school teachers had been concerned enough about her appearance, and lack of physical development, to approach the girl's mother. Worried about her strength and stamina, a dance teacher refused to enter her in a dance festival and sought to reduce her program. At that school, a teacher told the mother her daughter's "lack of weight and muscle tone affected her dancing".
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