Child with cerebral palsy dies hours after being taken from her mother by the state

14-year-old Marie Freyre died after going into cardiac arrest in a Florida nursing home that was five hours away from her mother

"I started crying because I knew it would be too much for my daughter on that trip," Freyre told [ABC News]

"There was no doctor there to receive her, only nurses. They didn't send a report on how to give her food or meds.

They didn't give her food or water until late hours of the night.

My family has been destroyed."

Via the Huffington Post, which also reports that federal investigators found "numerous children who didn't need to be there..." when visiting Florida nursing homes.