Posted on 05/26/2024 9:48:38 AM PDT by Morgana
An Ohio mother was sentenced on Friday to at least nine years in prison for manslaughter after feeding her diabetic four-year-old daughter a diet consisting mainly of Mountain Dew.
“Tamara Banks pled guilty to manslaughter in March for the death of her daughter, Karmity Hoeb, who died in 2022 of a diabetes-related brain injury,” The New York Post reported. “Banks, 41, often gave the girl bottles of baby formula mixed with the neon-green sugary soda, according to prosecutors, long after she should have been weaned off bottles.”
Karmity died at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital due to diabetic ketoacidosis, the Cincinnati Inquirer reported. The child displayed symptoms of a “serious medical issue” for several days, but Banks did not call 911 until her daughter turned blue and stopped breathing, according to the report. Prosecutors said a later scan showed Karmity was brain dead.
Prosecutors argued that Karmity was abused, neglected, and denied proper nutrition and medical care. They also found that her teeth had rotted away by the time of her death, and that her parents had never taken her to a dentist. Mountain Dew notably contains 77 grams of sugar — far more than the less than 24 grams recommended by experts, according to the report.
“This is one of the most tragic cases I have ever encountered,” Clermont County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Clay Tharp said. “This child did not have to die.”
Banks also had a son who went into a coma when he was four years old because of undiagnosed diabetes, prosecutors pointed out. Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Victor Haddad said Banks should have learned from her son’s condition about the dangers of diabetes before her daughter’s death, the Inquirer reported.
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whys she in a wheelchair? 2 fat to walk?
I have seen too many kids in strollers with bottles of blue or bright yellow drink in them.
That was in a welfare town we used to live in. And it was not a high percentage of minorities.
Probably faking illness to avoid jail.
When you and I were younger kids with developmental issues were warehouse in the crib units of state hospitals which is why we never saw them. Now they are kept by parents because the kids get social security disability benefits and mainstreamed into public schools.
Of course, some them are just the victims of bad parents.
Just 9 years. Its good to be a woman who murders a child. Really really light sentences. Everyone making excuses for her.
Say what? Diabetic in the family and rule number one by anyone and everyone is LIMIT CARBS!!! And sugar is the worst carb, so Mt. Dew is essentially a poison for a diabetic. I think you are mistaken about the ADA.
Papa is highly similar, also charged and found guilty, and to be sentenced soon.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/25/us-news/ohio-mom-headed-to-prison-for-tots-deadly-mountain-dew-diet/
Morgana -Dr Spock was a hit when I was a kid! My parents had a copy of his book. Yet we were potty trained as soon as possible and taken off a bottle when old enough. I don’t think today’s parents even read Dr. Spock let along know who he is/was.
I agree that young parents today are not consulting Dr. Spock. But 45 years ago when my wife and I were new parents he was a valuable resource, although even then you would hear him disparaged with remarks like BobL. I don't think anyone who made these blanket criticisms had read his book.
Yep, if one doesn’t SPANK their kids, they get monsters.
Thankfully, there are drugs to deal with that.
oh. never thought of that.
Lawyers idea no doubt!
I know of a woman who was nursing her daughter at LEAST when the kid was 5yo. Probably longer. Woman is a world celebrity in a certain elite facet of the arts. A left-wing loony tune.
How about the death sentence for the pig? She didn’t just kill the girl; she tortured her, too.
Right.......she deliberately caused untold damage to the tyke.
Children need discipline but they don't need to be hit.
We didn't spank but did isolate i.e. stay in your room by yourself until you can behave. You decide.
They *hated* being removed from their siblings and missing all the fun play time activities and would get their act together quickly.
As toddlers when they'd spaz out in the market because they wanted something we wouldn't buy me or my husband would take that child out and sit with them in the car. No argument. No discussion. You're outta here. And it worked.
Awful! Just awful!
“Children need discipline but they don’t need to be hit.”
Agree, they need to be WHACKED if spanking is insufficient. Eventually they’ll associate PAIN with misbehaving.
Karen’s around everywhere. You can’t go anywhere without them.
I asked Alexa for information on Doctor Spock and got a biography of actor Leonard Nimoy. I had to ask for Doctor Benjamin Spock to get the author of “Baby and Child Care”, and that was only . I get the distinct impression that this woman would not have gone so far.
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