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Posted on 05/10/2026 4:27:51 PM PDT by Morgana
A Wisconsin stepmother accused of starving and imprisoning her 14-year-old autistic stepdaughter until she weighed just 35 pounds entered a no contest plea to multiple felony charges in the shocking child abuse case.
Melissa Goodman, 52, appeared by video from jail in a wheelchair and pleaded no contest to chronic neglect causing great bodily harm, chronic neglect causing emotional damage and false imprisonment.
She faces up to 46 years in prison when she is sentenced on July 1.
According to a criminal complaint, the teenager was found in critical condition on August 21, 2025, after her father, Walter Goodman, called 911 and reported that she had not eaten in four to five days and was lethargic, vomiting and nearly comatose.
When officers arrived at the family's 'house of horrors' in Oneida, Wisconsin, they found the 14-year-old weighing just 35lbs. Her bones were visibly protruding and police initially mistook her for a child half her age.
She was rushed to the hospital suffering from severe malnutrition and life-threatening complications including untreated diabetes, acute respiratory failure, cardiac dysfunction, severe hepatitis, pancreatitis, hypothermia and hypoglycemia, according to the complaint.
Nurses said the teen also had pressure sores and a massive bruise on her forehead, and required feeding tubes before she was able to eat on her own.
Prosecutors alleged she had been locked in her bedroom for years, deprived of food and water, forced to sleep on the floor without a mattress and monitored by surveillance cameras.
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hogs work well too and leave nothing
True
She starved the kid because she’s too obese to even get out of her chair.
Yet somehow, she found a way to eat....
Wall them all up together in a room with only a water tap. Never open the room again.
SALT water
Agree, but method should just be bullet then hogs. It’ll be a good day for the hogs, and they deserve one.
The love thy neighbor thing isn’t for the benefit of that neighbor who has committed an offense, it is for your personal benefit and well-being, to prevent a culture of honor killings from developing. We can see what the desire for revenge and the inevitable cycle of revenge has done for the Palestinians, for example, and for gangs. It is self destructive and corrupting and seldom just.
It also isn’t a rule for government- in fact, government is the proper avenue for vengeance, which is why it has the ordained authority to bear the sword of justice.
This is one of those cases where cruel and unusual punishment should be meted out to Monster Mom ( and yeah, I know that’s not our way) but, the prison system should be allowed to starve her to ‘almost death’ then take her out to the yard and hang her. Same with the rest of the ‘adults’ who did this to a child.
After the monsters die may they burn in hell for eternity.
47 years? I bet she won't last 47 months. Someone will kill her...
No bullet. Just don’t feed the hogs for a day or two then drop her in the pen. Hilarity commences. Soundtrack of Yakkity Saks.
Render them down to nothing.
My eyes...My eyes... Need a picture of a beautiful female in a bikini...
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