I dunno. Where do we draw the line? Are the Moms that only feed their kids Doritos, Mac-n-Cheese, Mountain Dew and NO fruits and nuts having THEIR children taken away from them?
Granted, no one wants to see children hurt due to stupidity like either of these examples, but again, where do you draw the line?
I hope THIS kid can recover some brain cells before it’s too late; babies NEED a TON of fat for good brain development.
From what I understand, once a doctor diagnoses failure to thrive a parent can lose the child. Starving your kids of nutrition will cause them to be taken away.
We shouldn’t really be looking into laws, to solve these kinds of problems. The bottom line is that children are going to suffer all kinds of abuse, dietary and otherwise, whatever the laws say. The best approach is to bring back the idea that this mother would be essentially unwelcome and shunned anywhere she tried to go. And anyone befriending her would suffer a similar fate. And any business hiring or interacting with her would suffer financially. Let her isolation and misery serve as warning to others.
In other words, trust in the collective wisdom of the masses (who are far more intelligent than any legislator or judge), and, culturally, grant the masses the legal right to enforce non-violent punishments as they see fit.
This is the only real long-term solution, but would require a massive cultural change.