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Mother loses custody & is charged with criminal neglect for allowing son to become morbidly obese

July 21, 7:38 AM · Daniel Weaver - Albany CPS and Family Court Examiner

Obese child at McDonalds by Robert Lawton. Copyright Wikimedia Commons
According to today's issue of USA Today, Jerri Gray, a 49 year old mother from Travelers Rest, South Carolina was arrested in June on a criminal neglect charge because her son weighed 555 pounds by the time he was fourteen years old. Her son was taken away from her and put into foster care.

Rather than appear in family court as she was supposed to, Gray fled with her son and was picked up in Baltimore and charged with custodial interference.

What has happened to Jerri Gray is rare but not new. In 2007 New York State charged the parents of a young adolescent named Brittany T. with neglect for allowing her to reach the weight of 261 pounds.

According to the Child Welfare League of America, the court required Brittany's parents to purchase a gym membership and take her there several times a week. The court also ordered nutritional counseling and cooking classes for the family.

Child Protective Services in Chemung County, New York claimed that Brittany's parents did not fulfill the terms of the family court's mandates. Chemung County Family Court agreed with Child Protective Services, however, the Third Division of the Appellate Court overturned the decision made by family court.

Charging parents because of their children's morbid obesity has resulted in the expansion of neglect laws in the few states that have dealt with the issue. Morbid obesity is now considered a neglect category in most of the states that have charged parents with neglect for having severely overweight children.

People are split on whether or not morbid obesity is truly neglect. Those who support the idea say that if letting a child starve is neglect, then overfeeding a child, which leads to serious health problems, is also neglect.
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weighed 555 pounds by the time he was fourteen years old.

Will national healthcare cover this???? Not without eyescan or fingerprint scan......bios tracking for the stupid.....pay attention
EVERYONE will fall into this......the taxpayer will demand VALUE.......

we will now be valuing humans----VIA---healthcare,,,,,for ALL aspects of our lives.......read the menus, dont drink this,dont smoke
that etc etc....well, unless it's taxed and taxed out of reach.....those affording the 'sin recreations' are those able to pay.....

so what is value??? Freedom??----not anymore......