I’m a pretty big guy in by 40s and that kid weighed as much as me. That’s horrific.
I wonder how heavy the parents are.
Searching for their names returns mugshots. They’re not petite.
That’s 115kg. Damn.
At age 7, the CDC median weight is about 22.9 kg for boys.
The surviving child “was morbidly overweight, was dirty, knots in her hair, naked outside when law enforcement arrived,” so it’s not just about nutrition/exercise, it’s general neglect.
That’s more than I weigh and I’m an adult who eats a lot
Yeah that is more than I weigh and I am 196cm tall. What the actual fuck
So there is a point where we can call it child abuse?
Because we as a society recognize a sickly thin child is likely not getting proper nutrition. An obese child is fine though, usually. At least in America.
Death seems like their line, yeah.
I’m thinking we should maybe bring that line a little closer to overweight/obese than obese/death.
I do think it would probably be reasonable to charge for neglect / abuse depending on circumstance in atleast cases where the child is severely physically disabled from their weight and there is no underlying illness in the child to cause such a desire to eat. Or maybe even further to if there is an underlying illness causing it and they refused to acknowledge such or seek help if acknowledged.
In Australia they made obesity kids a crime and they called abuse rightfully so tbh
Honestly, I was always heavy as a kid and got a lot of shit for it. I was over 300lbs when I finished high school and made it to 400 not long after. My parents were cooking for me and they used to make me an entire box of pasta for dinner and making sure I ate all of it since I was a growing boy. A lot of meals they made for me were over 2,000 calories by themselves, and I didn’t really now any better.
I’m currently at about 180lbs or so. This is after I went the other way and got so tired with being fat that four years ago I had put myself on such a restrictive diet I weighed 135lbs and started experiencing side effects from malnutrition.
So now I deal with a whole bunch of trauma like not being able to eat in public without anxiety attacks, I have 12ish pounds of loose skin that I’ll need almost six feet of incisions to remove if I can ever afford to get that done.
I absolutely view it as child abuse and I honestly wonder if my life would be better if my parents would have taken a nutrition class or if my doctors as a kid gave them shit instead of me. Surely the 12 year old is cooking and buying all this unhealthy food right?
Abuse is different from neglect. And unfortunately, even neglect is shaded by the common understanding of the time, because you can’t neglect to get your child vaccinated at a time when no-one knew about vaccines, for example.
So as society gets fatter, the threshold for overfeeding your kids being neglectful or abusive rises. Sadly.
Should charge anyone that had contact with this kid with something as well. Teachers, family, etc. And investigate how the fuck we live in a society that allows this to happen. This didn’t happen overnight. This child was being abused for 7 years if they were that heavy. Or they had some Medical condition that wasn’t being addressed.
The kid being abused is a failure of the parents. The kid dying is a failure of our society.
They had no contacts; the family were hoarders, they didn’t allow the children to attend school. They’re literally monsters.
Yes, but that’s still a failure of society. A 7 year old is legally required to be in school and any exception to that (homeschooling, medical) would also require a physical interaction and evaluation of the child’s conditions. The state either completely abandoned this child; or individuals meant to ensure the safety of children ignored their responsibilities. They need to be held accountable as well. You don’t “miss” the abuse of a 255 lb 7 year old, a 180 lb 5 year old, etc.
Hoarders, famously, aren’t moving around avoiding law enforcement. They have an address, they pay taxes and claim dependents for tax breaks so they can hoard more stuff. We as a society failed this 7 year old.
in another article that was posted on reddit it claimed that the kid had only been to a doctor like once in his entire life, had never attended school, never went outside, and CPS was never called on them ever. Essentially no one knew this kid, and probably the other ones, even existed.
Christ on a cracker imagine being a kid and your entire life all you knew were 4 walls and food. jesus.
This may be the craziest thing I’ve read all year and I live in the US.
What. The. Fuck.
That’s a lot more than me, and I’m 6.5 and not skinny.
You write pretty well for being only 6 and a half years old!
