TW. Child dies from untreated diabetes and a diet of Mountain Dew

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TW, also Daily Mail link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13458491/tamara-banks-mountain-dew-karmity-sentenced.html

Shocked by this story. 4 year old is fed almost exclusively on Mountain Dew in a baby bottle, which caused her teeth to dissolve and her to die from untreated Type 1 Diabetes.
The couple have an older child with diabetes who ended up in a coma previously. Surely this should have been sufficient to put them on the radar of social services or the equivalent? These children have been failed. By their parents primarily but there must have been others that ignored the signs if neglect.

That is horrendous those poor children no care at all.

I won't read the link as it sounds distressing, but I wonder what social services and health care is like in the US, there is a very strong anti big government, anti free at point of delivery health care sentiment in the US which can't help prevent awful cases like this. Cruel and inadequate parents exist everywhere, proper funding by the state helps prevent it. I think in the UK we are in danger of heading down a US model.

Agreed. Also hi fructose sugar is a big diet thing there too.

I guess it depends on the US systems all linking up - SS and doctor’s concerns when the siblings was not brought for follow up appointments after falling into a coma - maybe they don’t collaborate or these poor children just fell through the cracks. Either way, it’s disgraceful the sheer neglect inflicted on these children, and especially the little girl who died.

I once saw a very overweight baby (I don’t say overweight flippantly either) of maybe 8-10 months old being fed a baby bottle of Coke on the tube (actually saw the mother open the can and tip it into the bottle, while the DGM held the baby). How can anyone be so thick and neglectful is beyond me.

I regularly watch my 600lb life and it's full of hugely obese women in the main who feed their kids like this. Can't be arsed to move off the sofa to cook or feed their kids. It's cruelty, abuse and neglect - and how they get the money to do so beggars belief.

I strongly believe that people need to have a minimum level of IQ to be able to have children, otherwise they aren't financially supported.

The mum was able to advocate for her own needs, but neglected those of her children. So it goes beyond being thick. Awful

I once saw a very overweight baby (I don’t say overweight flippantly either) of maybe 8-10 months old being fed a baby bottle of Coke on the tube (actually saw the mother open the can and tip it into the bottle, while the DGM held the baby). How can anyone be so thick and neglectful is beyond me.

That is shocking. I feel like there are warnings everywhere about the dangers of sugar. I don't understand how people get to the point of thinking that sort of thing is OK.