[EBH]

County places obese Cleveland Heights child in foster care

County workers were alerted to the child's weight in early 2010 after his mother took him to a hospital for breathing problems. He was diagnosed with sleep apnea, which can be weight-related, and was given the breathing machine. Social workers began to monitor him under what the county calls protective supervision.

Last year, the boy lost weight but in recent months began to gain it back rapidly. That's when the county moved to take the child, records show.

The mother said that when she found out that other kids and a sibling might be giving her son extra food, she tried to put a stop to it and explain to him that he could eat only certain foods.

She tried to follow the recommendations of the doctors, such as getting him a bike and encouraging him to get exercise.

The mother wonders what role genetics plays in the boy's condition -- both she and his father and some other family members are overweight, she said. However, she also has a 16-year-old son who is tall and thin.

The mother agreed to enroll the child in a special Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital program called Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight.

[Linda Frances]

Just like Hitler, the state demands that all people should like a certain way. If they can take kids away, they can take an individual away too. Obamacare will be too expensive if people are not all slim and healthy. CONTROL.

[Ezekiel]

An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds

Calm down everybody it's not as bad as it looks. He's 15.

/s

The mother agreed to enroll the child in a special Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital program called Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight.

The poor kid. Something about that doesn't sit quite right.

[driftdiver]

Poor little guy, he’s screwed no matter what happens.

[petercooper]

Yeah the genetics did it, not the 12 Big Macs for snacktime before dinner.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In all this, was there ever a screening for congenital metabolic illness? I’d bet the gummit paid very minimal attention to heredity. This might be a special needs child but I doubt that the mom was purposely stuffing the kid silly, or that a program for ordinarily obese kids was sufficient to address the problem.

[The Working Man]

Just another step on the slippery slope. Soon as parents we will only be genetic donors and the children will be taken at birth automatically. The state does EVERYTHING better don’t you know.

[Abathar]

I bet this headline put a big ‘ol smile on Michelle’s face when she read it.

[SteelCurtain_SSN720]

We should immediately ban, or increase taxes, on fatty foods.

Hopefully /s is obvious

[samtheman]

Maybe they should outlaw obesity; make it a felony.

Try this kid as an adult; lock him up.

They want to lock us all up anyway; this seems like a good place to start.

[elli1]

But now lawyers for the mother say they've been told that the foster mother who has the child in a neighboring suburb is having trouble keeping up with all of his appointments.

There was even a discussion about getting the foster mother additional help or moving the child again, this time to a foster home with a personal trainer, Amata said.

"I wonder why they didn't offer the mother that kind of extra help," Amata said.

I can't even begin to imagine the psychological damage the state is inflicting on this poor kid.

[King Moonracer]

He’s been super sized. Didn’t anyone tell the sheeple that they’ll end up looking like the first wookie if they eat like the first wookie?

[sueuprising]

This is a case of social worker overkill.I suppose to make their jobs seem relevant and influential, these overzealous government henchmen considered ripping a kid from his family the best solution to lead him on the road to healthy living. I cannot imagine how anyone can think this was the right thing to do. What is more surprising is how the State of Ohio could allow this Socialistic, nanny state overture to occur in a presumably democratic society. The mother could have used assistance when the boy was home and it would have cost the state much less money.

[Chode]

you gonna eat that???

[GeronL]

but if you put the kid on sex-change therapy drugs, that’s fine??

[reaganator]

I know parents who allow their children to eat WHENEVER they are hungry.

[hitchwolf]

It just would have been easier to not allow your kid to eat anything they want in sight.

[org.whodat]

This women is an idiot, the state worked with her for a year.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

200 lbs at 15 years old, my dispute would be that the child doesn’t need foster care, he needs hospitalization; and if there is no medical reason for his weight, then his mother needs court-ordered psychiatric analysis.

Though chronic health problems may not develop for some years, being so morbidly obese will likely cause damage that could result in acute problems, not just chronic ones, such as heart, liver and kidney damage.

There is probably a good chance that the mother suffers from the equivalent of reverse anorexia (bigorexia) by proxy. As fat as her child is, in her mind he is starving to death and look emaciated. (Bigorexia is normally associated with weight lifters who think they look too small and wish to gain too much muscle mass, but in some cases applies to just body bulk and weight, not just muscle.)

As such, there are some medicines that would effectively normalize her perspective, so she could see obesity as obesity, not as starvation.

[CTOCS]

The bigger sin is that the kid is 15 years old and only in the third grade. How come nothing is being said about that?

[Future Useless Eater]

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