MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — Marchelle Pertilla and Eugene Medrano are accused of abandoning a special needs 14-year-old girl in deplorable, unsanitary conditions with seven dogs for nearly a year. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office says she survived on food delivery services and online grocery delivery orders her mom would place. Authorities say while the couple had two other children living with them in Pensacola, they told the victim identified by initials C.D. she couldn’t stay there. On January 4th, a concerned Dollar General store worker in Eight Mile called 911 after seeing the girl stumbling down the road.
“She said that her stomach hurt. She kept saying her stomach was hurting, that she passes out a lot,” said Jessica Smitherman.
During a preliminary on Tuesday, a detective testified C.D. was dehydrated. When the sheriff’s office went to the trailer the 14-year-old was living in off Jarrett Road, the detective said you could smell feces and urine while looking into the windows. The victim told the detective she had a hard time cleaning because she fainted a lot. Four dogs were inside the home, while three were outside. The following morning, when deputies executed a search warrant and entered the home, one the dogs, a boxer, had died. The detective said there was trash, roaches and feces on the floor in every room…