The girl's mother, identified only by her family name Hsu, took the child to hospital late last month, saying she had stopped breathing after hitting her head in the bath.
The child, who had bedsores and minor bruises around her eyes, died in hospital after emergency treatment failed to revive her. The hospital reported the suspected abuse to police.
The girl was suffering from severe malnutrition, police said. Her weight was that of an average one-year-old, roughly one-third that of a normal eight-year-old, while she was also much shorter for her age at just 90 centimetres tall.
Suspicions of abuse were further aroused after it was found that the girl had never gone to school, and had not sought any medical treatment since she was vaccinated at two years old, when she weighed six kilogrammes.
In a front-page story, the Apple Daily newspaper cited medical examiners as saying the girl was as thin "as a skeleton", and that some funeral home workers were in tears after seeing her body.
Hsu denied abusing her child and said she planned to send the girl to school after she got healthier, according to the police.
She could face a maximum life sentence if convicted of abuse leading to death charge.
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