This thing had a fiance?
Why on earth does it take two years to have a trial?
I hope she gets beaten.
I think it’s psychological. The mom was petrified of giving the kid sugar. Did a family member die of diabetes? Does the mom have it and wants to stop the kid from getting it. She refused the nurse from giving the kid food. That’s fear.
In our screwed up system, she could have had dozens of kids taken for abuse but when she has a new one, they refuse to take hi because she hasn't abused him yet. Her track record means nothing. They will not protect the children from abusive parents. They wait until the abuse occurs and the damage is done.
I've seen it first hand in neighbors we had the misfortune to live next to.
All social services is interested in is protecting their jobs and cash flow from the government.
It doesn’t look like she had a problem with food.
Can a child ever recover from this, physically and mentally, if he starts getting proper care? I think this will impact his entire life.
Horrible story. Horrible mother. So it says she was sentenced: for how long and to what— jail, probation, time served?
Or did I miss something? God forbid these journalists provide complete a story.
Maybe a good punishment for her would be to make her food supply in prison be the garbage cans in the cafeteria.
His parents said they had put him on a "no-sugar diet" and fed him nothing but crackers.
Terrible story.
Odd that it is from a Cincinnati, OHIO television station.
There are so many safety nets in place for needy families these days that neglectful behavior like this has to be willful.
There is always Meals-on-Wheels or similar programs, WIC, etc., not to mention multiple Christian charities willing to step in. There are really no “poor” in this country.
I was a juror in a similar case about 17 years ago. The child was 13 and weighed 50 lbs. His parents chained him to the bed at night because they said he would run off. Because of one juror we could only convict of attempted child abuse.
6 kids?! she shouldn’t be able to continue to reproduce.
Stories like this make me so angry. How is it nobody saw this poor child before now? He is 8 yrs old. Keeping food from him didn’t just start. IMO, lock the mother up and do to her what she did to that poor boy. Even that would be too good for her. Prayers this child can have some normalcy in his life now.