This really frikin disturbs me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CINCINNATI (AP) —By LISA CORNWELL
An Ohio mother was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds. Three others also were charged, including the teen's former nurse.
A Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton indicted the four women.
Makayla Norman died March 1 from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition, the Montgomery County coroner's office ruled.
"She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen," Ken Betz, director of the coroner's office, said Thursday.
Authorities have said that the teen died minutes after paramedics rushed her to a hospital.
The girl's mother, 42-year-old Angela Norman, also was indicted on a felony count and a misdemeanor count of endangering children, prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan said. Norman, of Dayton, was in the county jail Thursday, he said. No attorney was listed for her.
The teen's former nurse, Mollie E. Parsons, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, failing to provide for a functionally impaired person and tampering with records. Two other women — Kathryn Williams and Mary K. Kilby, are each charged with failing to provide for a functionally impaired person and failing to report child abuse.
Flannagan, who said arrest warrants have been issued for the three women, said he did not have additional information on the relationships of Kilby and Williams to the girl. The prosecutor planned to speak about the case in a news conference later Thursday.
The women could not be reached for comment; their telephone numbers were not immediately available.
Authorities had said last month that they were investigating the death.
Children's services had a referral on the family in September 2009, but was unable to substantiate any allegations, Ann Stevens, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services said Thursday.
Stevens said she could not provide any additional information because of confidentiality requirements, but she said that the department would have assisted the police and the prosecutor's office in their investigation of the girl's death.
So what do you think of the charges brought against the "people" involved?
-=Chipmunk=-
CINCINNATI (AP) —By LISA CORNWELL
An Ohio mother was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds. Three others also were charged, including the teen's former nurse.
A Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton indicted the four women.
Makayla Norman died March 1 from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition, the Montgomery County coroner's office ruled.
"She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen," Ken Betz, director of the coroner's office, said Thursday.
Authorities have said that the teen died minutes after paramedics rushed her to a hospital.
The girl's mother, 42-year-old Angela Norman, also was indicted on a felony count and a misdemeanor count of endangering children, prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan said. Norman, of Dayton, was in the county jail Thursday, he said. No attorney was listed for her.
The teen's former nurse, Mollie E. Parsons, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, failing to provide for a functionally impaired person and tampering with records. Two other women — Kathryn Williams and Mary K. Kilby, are each charged with failing to provide for a functionally impaired person and failing to report child abuse.
Flannagan, who said arrest warrants have been issued for the three women, said he did not have additional information on the relationships of Kilby and Williams to the girl. The prosecutor planned to speak about the case in a news conference later Thursday.
The women could not be reached for comment; their telephone numbers were not immediately available.
Authorities had said last month that they were investigating the death.
Children's services had a referral on the family in September 2009, but was unable to substantiate any allegations, Ann Stevens, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services said Thursday.
Stevens said she could not provide any additional information because of confidentiality requirements, but she said that the department would have assisted the police and the prosecutor's office in their investigation of the girl's death.
So what do you think of the charges brought against the "people" involved?
-=Chipmunk=-
We didn't have the technology we do today to prove things, maybe shit was just as bad but we didn't know about it.
