4 year old found weighing only 10 pounds
Posted March 29th, 2008 by minortopics | via ap.google.comA 4 year old boy was being withheld food and water and was found severely malnourished and starving, weighing only 10 lbs.
PACE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they have arrested a woman suspected of severely neglecting a 4-year-old boy.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Haines says the boy weighed only 10 pounds when he was hospitalized earlier this month but his condition is improving.
Deputies on Friday arrested 19-year-old Erin Brittany Markes, identifying her only as the boy’s caregiver.