Cops: Neglected Boy, 4, Wasted Away to 10 Pounds(child survives)

[sexxytazz]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343150,00.html

PACE, Fla. — Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they have arrested a woman suspected of severely neglecting a 4-year-old boy.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Haines says the boy weighed only 10 pounds when he was hospitalized earlier this month but his condition is improving.

I will NEVER understand starving a child. IMO,You have to be a cold, cold heart and just plain evil to stand back and watch a baby slowly starve.

[Annie143]

always in Florida. This has happened often up in the Panhandle.

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by sexxytazz [*]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343150,00.html




I will NEVER understand starving a child. IMO,You have to be a cold, cold heart and just plain evil to stand back and watch a baby slowly starve. [/*]

Very hard to believe someone can be so heartless.. I am glad he was saved.

my grandson will be one friday and he weighs 22 pounds.

why is it so hard for people to feed and change diapers.......

and when he is feed and clean he is a happy baby and easy to take care of

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by txfemale45 [*]my grandson will be one friday and he weighs 22 pounds.

why is it so hard for people to feed and change diapers.......

and when he is feed and clean he is a happy baby and easy to take care of [/*]

My son just turned 4 and weights 39lbs. and he is small for his age. It is not hard. People like this should not breed!

[melanie78]

Originally posted by Heidi J. [*]

My son just turned 4 and weights 39lbs. and he is small for his age. It is not hard. People like this should not breed! [/*]

My baby will be 3 soon. He is so tiny for his age and he is 32 pounds!

I bet the mom is FAT!!! That always seems to be the way!

[Annie143]

My grandson is 4 and is tall and so thin. Only 35-37 lbs but he has been sick a lot in his short life span. He had mono when he was three and that really hurt him. He would get so tired and listless. My poor baby.

[sexxytazz]

Even at 7 my grandson is only 50 lbs, but he is tall. My granddaughter just turned 3 and is almost 40lbs...she is short and solid.

I just do not get the concept of refusing food to a child. We have always fed the kids first in our family, and even now my adult sons who have yet to have children, will stand back and not eat until the little ones get fed and not just at home, but anywhere they go.

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by Annie143 [*]My grandson is 4 and is tall and so thin. Only 35-37 lbs but he has been sick a lot in his short life span. He had mono when he was three and that really hurt him. He would get so tired and listless. My poor baby. [/*]

I had a friend that had mono one time and I seen the effects on her, I can't imagine with a baby.. I hope he is getting better.

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by sexxytazz [*]Even at 7 my grandson is only 50 lbs, but he is tall. My granddaughter just turned 3 and is almost 40lbs...she is short and solid.

I just do not get the concept of refusing food to a child. We have always fed the kids first in our family, and even now my adult sons who have yet to have children, will stand back and not eat until the little ones get fed and not just at home, but anywhere they go. [/*]

The other day at my friends house, my son walked over to her fridge and opened it and got some purple grapes.. Her and I were kind of stunned he did that, before I could say anything, he turned to her and told her he perferred the green ones! I explained to him that we don't just go into peoples refridgerators and cupboards like that. I have never seen him do that before, but I never really thought to teach him not to..lol

It is just pure evil and ignorance to not feed your child. There is plenty you could go without before you would let your child starve!

[Annie143]

I hope he is getting better.

He is better, though I think we forget how sick he was and how long it takes to get over something like that. The family is young and it is hectic, chaotic, everyone on the go......

thank you for your concern.

I heard that this child wasn't getting his seizure medications either, which makes me think this child was disabled which makes the story all the more despicable.

The mother is feeding her drug habit instead of her baby.....
Just my opinion... but who would like to make bets on it?.....

Originally posted by herlock h. [*]Has there been any updated information, a news story link? Seems kind of odd that more hasn't been released about this child and his condition. Ten pounds at 4 years seems sort of suspicious, that and it being a Fox News story....

Herlock [/*]

Not if the child had cerebral palsy or some other similar disease.

[sexxytazz]

http://www.newsherald.com/headlines/...ay.php?id=1315

Sheriff ’s investigators say the boy was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola with a temperature of 91.1 degrees.

He had a pre-existing condition and was supposed to be on medication, but lawmen say doctors found no traces of it in his system, according to a Sheriff ’s Office news release. They said he also had bedsores and weighed only 10 pounds, the news release stated.

http://www.wesh.com/news/15740612/detail.html

http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/17143266.html

[sexxytazz]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cri...tarved.boy.cnn

Nancy Grace Video.

Child had a birth defect. 600.00 per month in social security checks for the childs use, mom also babysat.
Mom just wasn't ready to be a mother?


I can understand she was overwhelmed. I think most anybody, first time mom or not, would be. But it does not excuse her...help is available. Can somebody explain to me why it is so difficult to ask for help? Is this a pride thing with our younger generation?

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by sexxytazz [*]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cri...tarved.boy.cnn

Nancy Grace Video.

Child had a birth defect. 600.00 per month in social security checks for the childs use, mom also babysat.
Mom just wasn't ready to be a mother?


I can understand she was overwhelmed. I think most anybody, first time mom or not, would be. But it does not excuse her...help is available. Can somebody explain to me why it is so difficult to ask for help? Is this a pride thing with our younger generation? [/*]

No, it is not a pride thing. I can't think of anything but lazyness. The child had bed sores for crying out loud! She let him lay there and wither away!

So sad..

[sexxytazz]

Originally posted by Heidi J. [*]

No, it is not a pride thing. I can't think of anything but lazyness. The child had bed sores for crying out loud! She let him lay there and wither away!

So sad.. [/*]

The reason I asked about pride was because I have a nephew who has CP. His body is that of a young man, but functions on a 2 month old level. My brother and SIL has always found it difficult to ask for help with him, believing he is their responsibility. They have asked in the past, but it was with great difficulty. And no, he has never had bedsores or been that far underweight.

How sad for this baby. I wonder if his future will now be a state run home or a foster family?

anyone that would bring their baby to this womans house should be looked at....... I would not let her watch my dog...

[sexxytazz]

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/13252/1

The report also states that the child’s mother brought the boy to a pediatric clinic a month earlier — on Feb. 12 — at which time the boy already weighed only 12.8 pounds. The mother was allowed to take the boy home.

“It would appear that he (the boy) has been somewhat lost to follow-up,” according to Dr. Thomas G. Mignerey

Ya think??

According to the sheriff’s report, the boy suffers from Lissoncephaly, a rare brain formation disorder.

He is prescribed to take five medications, including medicine for seizure. There was no trace of the seizure medication in the boy’s system when he was admitted at Sacred Heart, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.

I've heard of lissencephaly. It's an incurable birth defect and its victims have devastating mental deficiencies and usually do not live very long even with the best of care.



http://www.lissencephaly.org/

[melanie78]

Originally posted by RachelRose [*]

I totally agree with you, Sophia. Nancy Grace so often gets the story wrong - and good luck trying to talk over her loud screaming voice to get to the truth.

This mother was 15 when she had this severely disabled child, who was on a tube to be fed.

Who released a child with this kind of disability to a child not even old enough to drive?

She's being made to hang for a LOT of people's inattention, in my opinion. [/*]

I didn't know he had this disorder when I first read this story. Also the fact that she HAS seeked medical attention for him and was released both times!

I wonder what stage the bed sores are? Was he neglected or was this just the disorder?

[sexxytazz]

Ok, I jumped on this gal before the story came out totally and I am sorry.

Both of these children, mother and baby, was let down by the system.

[bkqueen]

I can't even imagine. I'm not aware of the whole story, so I won't attack the mother without knowing it but.. so so so sad.

When I lived overseas, one of the girls I took care of suffered from AIDs. She turned 3 while I was there and her weight varied between 4.9kg and 5.4kg.. which means that at her heaviest she was 11lb.

I can't imagine the hospital seeing this poor child and not doing anything.

It's sometimes hard to imagine how small a child that size is, so heres some photos of my girl that I cared for.

She was a pretty normal height for a three year old. Also please note that this was after spending 4-6 weeks in the nutritional centre, near death. so this is her "healthier".

This is her with her sister, who was uninfected
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5...ashowerid8.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1333/attiamanx5.jpg
laying down.. this is pretty much all she did, as she didn't have much energy.
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7...amasidefo8.jpg

If you've ever seen the 'world vision' commercials, those are nothing compared to this little girl. I remember the day she arrived into our care, I was dumbstruck, I couldn't even speak. She was so tall and long and just bones.

Originally posted by bkqueen [*]I can't even imagine. I'm not aware of the whole story, so I won't attack the mother without knowing it but.. so so so sad.

When I lived overseas, one of the girls I took care of suffered from AIDs. She turned 3 while I was there and her weight varied between 4.9kg and 5.4kg.. which means that at her heaviest she was 11lb.

I can't imagine the hospital seeing this poor child and not doing anything.

It's sometimes hard to imagine how small a child that size is, so heres some photos of my girl that I cared for.

She was a pretty normal height for a three year old. Also please note that this was after spending 4-6 weeks in the nutritional centre, near death. so this is her "healthier".

This is her with her sister, who was uninfected
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5...ashowerid8.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1333/attiamanx5.jpg
laying down.. this is pretty much all she did, as she didn't have much energy.
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7...amasidefo8.jpg

If you've ever seen the 'world vision' commercials, those are nothing compared to this little girl. I remember the day she arrived into our care, I was dumbstruck, I couldn't even speak. She was so tall and long and just bones. [/*]

Wow so very sad
God bless you

[VC2]

I will get bashed for this, but imo the mother should be given support for even trying to deal with this disease at the age of 15 and the years afterwards. It would have been to much for many adults, and otehrs would have been happy to abandon him.

The size issue seems to come from the disease and feeding problems, which would be why the doctors were not to concerned at 13 lbs. Yes a follow up should have been done. His meds should have been in him as well but god knows if she fully understood, if she had enough money for them (the 600 may not have covered food and rent, let alone meds all the time).

Christopher reeve died of bed sores. He had the best care money could buy.

I don't see a lot of neglect, yes some, but she may have just needed a helping hand.

IMO

[bkqueen]

Originally posted by Leather&Lace [*]

How wonderful for her that you came into her life if only for a short time. Bless you and yours. [/*]

To be honest, I think I was much much more blessed than she that she came into my life.

She changed me forever, that girl.

[Heidi J.]

Originally posted by sophiafox [*]http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...WS01/806130321

She loved him and kept him alive for four years. That is way beyond any life expectancy for this illness.

He goes into a hospital and state care and now he has past away. [/*]

Wow.. I do appologize for ever blaming the mom. She has lived through alot in her short years. More then I could ever handle. Thanks Sophia for keeping us updated.