Remember when I posted about Christina Corrigan years ago on this blog? That case happened in the 1990s, and she was a teen girl who died at 700lbs. In her case, her mother took her to the doctor, though they said they found her with fast food boxes and in a messy condition. It was always believed she could have had Prader Willi.
This poor child died in a hoarded-up filthy house, covered with sores, and they said they fed him a bag of chips, some French fries and sugary soda. They look like they were eating themselves so why didn't they give him any normal food?
Malnutrition would have ended his life eventually too.
Both parents neglected him and refused to take him to a doctor even though they went to the doctor themselves. It's sick they all ran to the vet for their dog who got sick that very day, but a poor child covered in infectious sores and with huge weight, is ignored. Both have been charged with second degree murder and other charges.
Unless they force fed this poor child, he definitely would have had some genetic obesity from both parents and very likely could have had Prader Willi Syndrome. One thing I found out reading about this case is two years ago the doctor they took him to once, wanted them to take him to a pediatric endocrinologist, and they never did this. That alone is serious neglect and not caring about your own child. If the husband is smart enough to do IT for a dental company, he's smart enough to know some basic medical facts.
Why was Casper kept out of school too? He needed to be in special ed to have them help him with his severe non-verbal autism and whatever else was wrong. The 5-year-old sister, the cops wrote, was feral and not even clothed. You keep reading about these cases now where these parents totally neglect the children and if they are special needs there seems to be more chance of it. Joseph and Kendra Duggar both got arrested for child neglect beyond his SA charge, and I've seen suggestions on other websites that they locked their kids up, and didn't toilet train them. Maybe these are just conjectures but their children were taken away for criminal charges beyond the SA charge from Florida.
What is scary about this case is the father had a good enough job with health insurance. They just let their child die instead of getting him help! Cardiomyopathy by the way can be caused by UNTREATED thyroid disease. It happened to me as I've talked about on this blog many times and almost led to my demise. I knew about it by my late 20s but around my late 30s/early 40s after we moved here, I remember those times I was getting heart scans almost every two months. When it comes to medical neglect of kids, given my history, throw the book at them! I notice commenters are in shock this child gained 150lbs within 2 years to go to the 255lbs. Endocrine problems or others could have caused that too. Thyroid disease also brings the skin sores, but that could just be from the fact they never gave this poor kid a bath. Other endocrine illnesses were possible too beyond the effects of possible Prader Willi/overfeeding. I noticed one commenter wondered if he died of sepsis, that's very possible given the skin infections.
You can tell many of these parents just give up on their kids. Why wouldn't anyone give this kid a bath beyond the supposed wet wipes? Sometimes I think autistic kids may be better off being handed to the state in humane institutions [maybe that's an oxymoron I know] instead of being raised by monsters like this. Autistic kids are being abused way too often. Something has gone very wrong. I wonder if they fed him constantly too like if it was a Prader Willi situation just to keep him quiet. It's weird to see the kid cuddling up to the mother in photos, and then later she leaves him lying in a bed for 12 hours a day and leaves him to die. No one bothered to brush either kid's hair either. If you can't get the kid in a shower/or get him up or lift him or to eat anything decent. Call 911, take him to a hospital or something for goodness sakes! It's another abuse horror story. it makes you wonder where was the rest of the family? Why didn't they report anything? Did they even get to see the kids or did they ignore what was going on and push it under the rug?
It's another troubling story, and this stuff is happening way too much.
