A tortured life, a wicked death
Jul 02, 2020
3 minutes
A me Deal was just 10 years old in 2011, and already, her little life was unbearable.
She lived in Arizona with her extended family – aunts, uncles and cousins – after her mum Shirley left home, having suffered abuse by relatives.
The father, named on her birth certificate as David Deal, denied Ame was his child. Without a mother or father, Ame’s aunt Cynthia Stoltzmann was her legal guardian.
Also living in the chaotic household was Cynthia’s daughter Sammantha, 23, and her husband John Michael Allen, 22.
After such an
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