I have read the book, silverleaf. Apples and oranges. The child in the book was starved, beaten, psychologically screwed with beyond imagination by his nut job Mom. That child should have been taken and it was a shame that he dealt with so much horror before he was. This isn’t any way similar. IMHO.
60 some odd posts and no one mentions Prader-Willi syndrome, which is CLEARLY not the fault of the parents.