Abused child...I'm confused.

Really, I'm confused, reading people's responses to the article about the 218 lb child. Why in the world does anyone feel sorry for his mother?? She's the one who made him sick. She was given a pure, healthy baby and she turned him into a sickly child who will be lucky to make it to adulthood. He faces a lifetime of obesity, diabetes, cholesterol problems, heart disease, breathing problems, joint pain, ridicule, loneliness. All because she didn't do her job and keep him safe and healthy. This article brought tears to my eyes, but it also made me livid. He should be placed in the care of someone who's not to lazy and selfish to take proper care of him, and his piece of trash mother should be in prison. Lisa

Well, some emotions have been riled up here with this poor boy. I feel sorry for him, knowing what it is like being an obese adult, how a child would cope with it is beyond me. I do blame the mom but I don't think she belongs in prison or is necessarly a piece of trash. We don't know the full cir****tances with the case. Maybe the mom has tried to help him but he is just to head strong for her and she is weak. Maybe she does not realize how much harm she is doing to him. Remember we are seeing this through the eyes of obese people that have had all the problems that come along with obesity. I think that she needs to be educated as well as the boy. If she does not comply with the nutrition classes or counseling, then more drastic actions need to be taken. If that means taking the boy from his mom, so be it. At least he will get the help he needs then and hopefully she would too and they could be reunited in a healthier situation. Something has to be done though before the boy dies. Gay

The reason her custody was under threat to begin with was that she failed to comply with orders to attend classes, etc. If she's too weak to do whatever she must do to take care of the child, she shouldn't have him. She's no better than those Munchausen by proxy mothers, making their kids sick. Or any other child abuser. Poor kid.