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In all seriousness, when you have morbidly obese babies, and 5-year olds who are too fat to walk up a flight of stairs without having to catch their breath - yeah, I think that's a form of child abuse.
But its not the 24/7 Fox News network! Its actually Fox but the local news at 5 (didn't have it there specifically for the news it just came on) :'(. Theres a hot Greek anchor on it...so I guess thats its saving Grace.
Quote from: BlueTsunami on February 26, 2007, 06:32:41 PMBut its not the 24/7 Fox News network! Its actually Fox but the local news at 5 (didn't have it there specifically for the news it just came on) :'(. Theres a hot Greek anchor on it...so I guess thats its saving Grace.prove it
This thread should be about hot news anchors, not fat kids who like to stick their heads into bags of Four Cheese Doritos.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Britain_Child_Obesity.htmlMother may lose custody of obese boyBy COURTNEY FRENCHASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERLONDON -- Authorities are considering taking an 8-year-old boy who weighs 218 pounds into protective custody unless his mother improves his diet, officials said Monday.Social service officials will meet with family members Tuesday to discuss the health of Connor McCreaddie, who weighs more than three times the average for his age."The worst case would be Connor getting taken into care. He is well cared for," the boy's mother, Nicola McKeown, told ITV television.A spokeswoman for health officials in Wallsend, North Tyneside, 300 miles north of London, said the hearing was part of a process that could eventually lead to Connor being taken into protective care. She declined to comment further.The health agencies organizing the meeting said they "have been working with the family over a prolonged period of time and will continue to do so."Officials would not say whether Connor suffered from a medical condition that led to his obesity, citing privacy issues.An unidentified health official was quoted as telling The Sunday Times that taking custody of Connor would be a last resort, but said the family had repeatedly failed to attend appointments with nurses, nutritionists and social workers."Child abuse is not just about hitting your children or sexually abusing them, it is also about neglect," the official was quoted as saying.Dr. Colin Waine, the director of the National Obesity Forum in Nottingham, England, called Connor's lifestyle "extremely dangerous," adding he is at risk of developing diabetes in his early teens, and cardiovascular and nervous system problems in his 20s."He's really at risk of dying by the time he's 30," Waine said.Dr. Michael Markiewicz, a pediatrician, agreed."I'm not saying they can't care for him, but what they are doing is through the way they are treating him and feeding him, they are slowly killing him," he said.Connor's case attracted national attention after his mother allowed an ITV News crew to film his day-to-day life over the course of a month.Connor's mother said he steals and hides food, frustrating her efforts to help him. He eats double or triple what a normal seven-year-old would have, she said."If I didn't give him enough at teatime then he would just go on at us all night for snacks and stuff," she told ITV.Connor, who lives with his mother and sister, has difficulty dressing and washing himself, misses school regularly because of poor health, and is targeted by bullies."People pick on us because of my weight. They call us fat. It makes us feel sick of the nutters always shouting at us," Connor told ITV.
http://www.happinessonline.org/MoralCode/TakeCareOfYourself/p10.htmMARTINEZ, California (CNN) -- A California woman whose 13-year-old daughter Christina weighed 680 pounds when she died of congestive heart failure in 1996 was found guilty Friday of misdemeanor child abuse.Marlene Corrigan could get up to a year behind bars at her sentencing February 27. She was acquitted of felony child abuse, punishable by up to six years in prison.When Judge Richard Arnason issued the verdict after a five-day non-jury trial, Corrigan showed little emotion, then slipped out a side door without comment.Arnason opted for the less serious misdemeanor conviction on the grounds that passive, rather than active, misconduct helped trigger Christina's death.Christina's nude body -- covered with bedsores and feces -- was found on her mother's living room floor, police said.The defense chose to have the case heard without a jury in the belief that the judge would remain objective in the face of the harrowing details of Christina's death.hugChristina and her mother The case attracted wide attention, creating a forum for opinions on obesity.Prosecutors insisted they were not claiming that raising a fat child is a crime. Instead, they said Corrigan was charged, because of the condition of her daughter's body, especially the bedsores."The felony charges are based on the condition of the child's body, not the size of the child's body," prosecutor Bryan Haynes said.But Corrigan's attorney and some activists for obese peoples' rights disagreed."This is a case about fat prejudice. It's absolutely about that, a prejudice we don't even know we have," defense attorney Michael Cardoza said.Corrigan, a single, working mother caring for her dying parents, had said she did everything she could to help her daughter reduce her weight, and that she was "heartbroken" when her daughter died.
