DCFS confirms a 15-year-old teen was abused prior to being shot and burnt [Video]

THIBODAUX, La. — The 15-year-old girl, who law enforcement says was tortured by her own mother and her mother’s boyfriend, remains in the hospital. 

According to the sheriff, the abuse was able to go undetected, in part because the teen was homeschooled.

It’s a case that’s shocked even the most experienced law enforcement professionals. At a press conference on May 16, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet said, “I have children, I have grandchildren, I’d protect them with my whole life, for somebody to do that to their child, I can’t even put it to words or understand.”

Sheriff Soignet says in April, Latonya Harris and Terrence Washington, a 15-year-old girl, and another child had left Louisiana and had a car accident in Baytown, Texas. The sheriff said when Texas authorities …