WEST VALLEY CITY — A West Valley couple accused of starving a 5-year-old girl to the point that she would eat nonfood items has been charged.

Daniel James Fivas, 32, and Jessica Marie Harmes, 44, were each charged Friday in 3rd District Court with child torture, a first-degree felony.

“The defendants in this matter purposefully withheld food from the victim. Over the course of at least two years, the victim has been plummeting in health and growth,” prosecutors wrote in charging documents.

Investigators say the young girl was so hungry that she ate “frozen foods, Play-Doh, moldy bread that had already been placed in the trash, and various other items,” including her own feces, the charges state.

When the girl was admitted to Primary Children’s Hospital in August, “she weighed the same

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