The girl was so famished she would eat her own hair and flaking skin and whatever else she could come in contact with. When she was hospitalized after her discovery, a sign had to be put on the door of her room warning that the girl had to be watched to prevent her from eating her own hair and feces, "because that's what she was used to," Zwisohn said.
She also faces a host of physical, emotional and intellectual problems as the result of her confinement and lack of nurturing, Zwisohn said. Not only was she confined, but she lacked the energy to move.
"That's what caused her body to seize up in that position," Zwisohn said.
The muscles around her core failed to develop, causing her physical problems. She lacks social skills and has temper tantrums, is a compulsive eater and suffers from impaired cognitive ability, Zwisohn said.
It's not likely she will be able to live and work independently, Zwisohn said.
"There is no way this child will now be what she should have been," she said.
Holly Smith said Brian Gore told investigators that the girl had been born in good health, but no one knew she existed. The Gores began leaving her alone a few days after she was born and eventually began leaving her alone for longer periods of time, including overnight, while they went to NASCAR races and on other trips.
Brian Gore would give the girl something to eat before work but gradually even that diminished, said Holly Smith.
"He just wanted to forget," Holly Smith said. "They treated her like a pet."cooked.
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I pray this little girl never knows another day of hurt, of neglect, of pain. What "sunny" endured at the hands of these pigs is just numbing. We see so much here. So very much. It takes a lot rattle me to the depth that a case like Christian Choate's and little "sunny"
I will never be able to forget. This is a good thing. We should not forget. But I do pray with all my heart that "Sunny", if she cannot forget, at least experiences much joy in her future life, to offset her beginning a bit.