Fla. couple accused of locking up, starving 7-year-old

TAMPA, Fla. -- A mother and her boyfriend were arrested for allegedly locking the woman's 7-year-old daughter in a room for four months and giving her so little food she looked like "a walking skeleton," police said.

The girl weighed just 25 pounds -- less than half the normal weight for a child her age -- when police found her this month, according to a police report.

Connie Warrington, 23, and David LaPointe, 36, were arrested Friday on multiple counts of child abuse, including caging, food deprivation and medical neglect, police said.

The girl told police that LaPointe hated her and deprived her of food because she "was bad." He punished her by biting her in the back, the police report said.

LaPointe and Warrington have two children of their own, a 1-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, who are healthy and in state custody.