WTF ?

[auntAgonist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_re_us/brf_malnourished_woman


This is SO sad and so wrong :(

:cry:


FLINT, Mich. - A 22-year-old developmentally disabled woman weighing only 43 pounds was found in a bedroom at her mother's home, and the mother was charged with abusing her, authorities said.
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The woman was wearing only a T-shirt and four soiled diapers on a mattress stained with urine and feces, The Flint Journal reported Saturday.

She was taken to Hurley Medical Center on Wednesday, where she was stable.

"It's just appalling," prosecutor David Leyton said.

The woman's mother was being held at the Genesee County Jail pending arraignment on a charge of second-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult, officials said. If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.


aA

[Left Is Write]

1. My heart hurts.

:(

[Arugula Latte]

2. I'm amazed she's alive. Forty-three pounds?

:scared:

It almost seems impossible for an adult to weigh that little. How sad. My gawd, what is wrong with some people?

[Generic Brad]

3. Four years in prison is not enough

This sounds more like attempted murder (albeit slow death by starvation) than abuse of a vulnerable adult.

[auntAgonist]

4. up to FOUR years ...

Life isn't long enough :(