NORTH LAS VEGAS -- It started as a routine maintenance check at Loma Vista Apartments Monday.

First, a worker found a belt connecting the bathroom and bedroom doors.

When the worker went inside, a starving 4-year-old girl was discovered tied up and surrounded by filth.

"Laketha Moore was allegedly leaving her daughter tied to a bed in her bedroom, and locked in there for hours, 10 to 12 hours a day, five to seven days a week," North Las Vegas spokeswoman Chrissie Coon said.

According to the arrest report, the girl said she was hungry because "Mommy ties me up all the time."

Her injuries were repulsive and included a black eye, cuts on her nose, cheek, a bruised rib cage, back, ankles and matted hair.

"This is a heartbreaking case where a little girl ultimately has suffered for probably many months before it was actually brought to someone's attention," Coon said.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- A North Las Vegas woman is under arrest on 31 felony counts of child abuse, after her daughter was found alone in their apartment.

According to North Las Vegas Police, 36-year-old Laketha Moore was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter was found locked in a her room in their apartment at 1200 West Cheyenne Avenue Tuesday afternoon.

Apartment personnel found the girl and called police. She had multiple injuries, both old and new, to her head, neck, torso and legs, police said. The child was taken to University Medical Center for treatment. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A new data center is now open for business, and it means dozens of new jobs in the valley.

February 27 marked the grand opening of viawest's new facility in North Las Vegas. The data center will provide cloud services, host servers and infrastructure for hundreds of companies.

The president and CEO of viawest, Nancy Phillips, says demand for services like these keeps growing in southern Nevada.

"We see the demand only continuing to pick up. Our growth has been phenomenal," she said. "The opportunity to open this new center is a real testimonial to a lot of hard work."

The data center is in its first phase of completion. When finished, it will occupy 100,000 square feet at its new location.