A NONVERBAL autistic teen has been found dead in her mother’s home after she was starved to the point of looking like a child, cops said. Delilah Villegas, 19, was covered in sores and lying dead in the fetal position when her body was discovered in her family’s Texas home on Valentine’s Day. Cops raced to the home in Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb, after Villegas’ mom Crystal Canales, 41, called 911 and said her daughter was struggling to breathe. When investigators arrived, they noticed a foul smell emanating from the teen’s room and uncovered her “mummified” corpse, Balch Springs Officer Pedro Gonzalez said at a conference Saturday.
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HORRIFIC DEATH ‘Mummified’ body of disabled 19-year-old found in home with corpse mistaken for a child due to decaying limbs and wounds
