www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-31359158
First of all the person in custody was regularly offered food and drink, but declined to take it.
Secondly that person was only there because there was nowhere else for her to go as the other more appropriate agencies do not have the facilities.
Thirdly she would have been seen at least once, but probably a number of times, by a police doctor and has to be checked every hour as a minimum, every half an hour if vulnerable (which she was) by a gaoler.
Lastly, at 16 you can marry, legally copulate, etc...so you are not exactly a 'child' as most people see it, (although being under 18 she'd still fit some definitions).
Crappy, sensationalist headline.
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