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Parents’ videos show ‘life of torture’ that preceded Utah 3-year-old’s death

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Ogden • When Ogden police Officer Sitka Hrabal went into Miller Costello and Brenda Emile’s Grant Avenue home in July, she couldn’t believe what she saw.

In the middle of a bare living room, a little girl lay dead on the beige carpet, swaddled in a pink blanket.

The girl, Angelina Costello, weighed 13 pounds. Her ribs were visible, her legs and arms thin and covered in bruises. Burn marks on her face and chest were caked with makeup — an attempt, Emile later told police, to minimize the severity of her injuries.