Posted on 12/16/2017 1:34:33 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Mother is arrested after 6-year-old son with 'severe developmental disabilities' is found by child services weighing just 13 POUNDS
A mother has been arrested and charged with child abuse after child services found her six-year-old son weighing just 13 pounds.
Andrea Caldwell, from Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested on December 8 when an employee with the DCS conducted a routine visit to the boy and discovered he was severely underweight and neglected.
The 32-year-old has been charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect.
Her son was born with severe developmental disabilities that require a GI and feeding tube, according to WMC Action News 5. It's not clear what the specific developmental disabilities are.
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Ghoul.
Dare I ask ?
Not sure if the “ask” is racially-based or something else, but it truly doesn’t matter. No child should be treated that way.
And if I misunderstood your post, please accept my apologies in advance.
I don't know if I'd call her a ghoul. Sounds more like she was just overwhelmed.
She’s living in a hotel and has no car, yes I’d say she’s very overwhelmed.
Cystic Fibrosis? Profound cerebral palsy?
Very difficult situations for even the most competent parents, and pretty much impossible for those with no resources.
The “dare I ask” has two options.
1) black drug addict
2) white drug addict
Of late, it seems option 1 is more frequent.
1) black drug addict
2) white drug addict
Of late, it seems option 1 is more frequent.
She's white. Don't know if she's a drug addict but there's a massive heroin epidemic going on right now that's devastating white America.
Does it freaking matter what color she is? Anyone living in a hotel, no car, with a disabled child can’t be doing very well.
The doctors told her to feed the child baby formula and that is what she did. The 6 year old went from 49 pounds (the size if my Siberian Husky) to 13 (the size of my cat) in around 6 or 8 months. Something is very wrong here.
Any freepers who have a disabled child, have you been told to feed a kid this age baby formula?
TC see my post ten....same for rest of you...does that sound right?
My first thought is that even if the mother is following "doctor's orders" by feeding her disabled child infant formula, any normal person would know that if the child is continuously losing weight, the kid needs some different form of assisted alimentation, and should be taken to the hospital.
My second thought is that this mom is not "any normal person," this mom is immobilized by depression.
I saw that in person when I was helping staff a women's shelter many years ago: young mother with two little girls, staying at a hotel in Erie, PA, so depressed she often couldn't even get out of bed to go to the toilet, hotel room reeking of urine. The two little girls (maybe ages 4 and 7?) went down to the bar on a daily basis to beg for snacks, the 7-year-old acting as the "little mother" to make sure the younger one got enough. Police FINALLY come to check out what's happening, discover this appalling situation. They put the mom and girls with us (shelter) until they could get through the county and court paperwork to have the mom psychiatrically evaluated and the kids put in stable foster care.
I don't know how it ended up. We just had them for a couple of days, and lost contact after they left our shelter.
So my guess might be the mom was overwhelmed and severely depressed, and the Dept of Children's Services (or the equivalent) were neither prompt nor effective.
Lord have mercy. 40x.
That's a very good point. This situation involved a large group of people all living in a motel room. We really can't ask comfortable, well-off people, "Does this seem normal to you?" Nothing about the situation is the standard case.
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