Missouri: 4 month old dies of starvation :(

jenbowman · January 2009

https://www.kmbc.com/news/18431960/detail.html

sandy02 · January 2009

"Some of it is a lack of knowledge. I know a lot of abuse occurs when parents themselves don't have an adequate understanding of what a child needs at each developmental stage,"

There is no eff'ing way you can 'not know' that you need to feed your child. They should be charged and put behind bars.

mommajen8 · January 2009

i'd like to starve the parents to death. that makes me sick.

aimeelv · January 2009

Heartbreaking. I hope the parents are charged with homicide.

Can't Wait To Be A Mama · January 2009

That is sickening. What the heck were they thinking?

Kateysomething · January 2009

sandy02:

"Some of it is a lack of knowledge. I know a lot of abuse occurs when parents themselves don't have an adequate understanding of what a child needs at each developmental stage,"

There is no eff'ing way you can 'not know' that you need to feed your child. They should be charged and put behind bars.

Seriously. The child weighed 5 lbs at birth and weighed even less when he died. At 4 months old. Ugh.Ugh.Ugh.Ugh. DH wouldn't even let me finish telling him about it.

Bride2bMO · January 2009

That breaks my heart.

I don't know how you could kill another adult, I don't think I ever could, but I REALLY can't even begin to imagine how you hurt an infant. I honestly think part of their brain must be missing. A normal person can't be capable of this.

Regardless, throw the book at them.

Conway714 · January 2009

Wow that is soo sad! I wonder if the mom had ppd. My heart breaks for that poor baby...

JuneMommy2B · January 2009

That turns my stomach. Today I held my preemie nephew who was born 10 weeks early. He's now almost 6 weeks old and weighs 6 lbs. I can't imagine a 4 month old baby weighing less than he does. I hate those people. I don't know them, but I hate them.

babynorthrip · January 2009

IckyThump · January 2009

Ugh, awful, awful, awful. I would like to know more about the parents or mother. Something must have been wrong (drugs, metal illness) for her to just flat out not feed her baby.

I want to wake up DS and hug him.

blueshirt2003 · January 2009

That is sick..

chalmette · January 2009

This is why I can't watch the news. I'm seriously sick to my stomach reading that. How can you not feed a baby?!

xtina05 · January 2009

I may be over-emotional today, but I cry right now. That breaks my heart that the poor baby starved to death. (

Stupid parents. They deserve a serious punishment.

sep24/05bride · January 2009

That is so freaking horrible. How could you just sit there and let your baby scream in hunger?? What also disturbs me is that I live in KC, and the thought that some little person so close to me is dying and I cannot do anything to save them makes me want to cry!

megan&jay · January 2009

That just breaks my heart, how could someone ever do something like that! They should be starved to death as well to feel the pain that this poor innocent baby had to go through

Libramom2b · January 2009

sep24/05bride:
That is so freaking horrible. How could you just sit there and let your baby scream in hunger?? What also disturbs me is that I live in KC, and the thought that some little person so close to me is dying and I cannot do anything to save them makes me want to cry!

Sad thing is there was probably not much screaming / crying involved with a 5 pound 4 month old. I am sick. So sad.

princess4u81 · January 2009

someone should starve the parents to death! That poor baby

hlsgrad · January 2009

sickening.

Temp778367875008010 · January 2009

This is beyond terrible. There are so many people out there who would have jumped at the chance to love and nurture that baby. I can't even imagine being able to do that to a sweet, innocent baby.

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