That poor little guy. Fly with the angels and may God's loving arms embrace you.
This is just stupid
My daughter was seriously under weight and has legions and dermatitis all over her and was hospitalised twice but she has got
1. hidden relflux
2. global developmental delay
3. Feeding difficulties
And thats just what they can identify SO FAR. It took 3 peadiatricians and a gastroenerologist and 2 years to work all this out so far. Thats not the parents fault that their childs health team may be a bunch of idiots at the end of the day yolu can only push so far. I don't blame this mother at all
The boys genitalia may have been scrubbed with Pine Sol due to the wetting and the breakdown to the skin on the buttocks could have been pressure sores from having to lay on that bed all the time due to surveillance and being unable to move much from lack of nourishment. I don't believe that this boy wasn't abused because all it would of took was visits to the ER, repeated if necessary to get some help.
I have to take a time-out on this one. As horrible as it sounds, I am not convinced that she did it. The pathologist made this statement:
"Can diabetes in children be deadly if untreated, doctor?" Costy asked. "Absolutely, yes," replied Reiber, who also acknowledged that he had not reviewed the boy's previous medical records. "
I think most of us know someone who has diabetes, but how many of us know someone who has gotten as ill as this child from diabetes? Ridiculous....unless you receive NO medical care at all! As I read this story, I immediatley thought of a much rarer, though not unheard of disease that is usually hereditary. It is based on a problem with the enzyme pathways that typically break down hemoglobin in the liver. The by-products of your red blood cells which are dying everyday, eventually build up and depost thier selves in your skin and tissues. There are many different kinds of these diseases, and they are generally referred to as "porphyria" diseases. Go to google, and select "images" and type in the word "porphyria". Here is an example of a little boy with congenital porphyria.
Here is a description of his disease:
A 4-year-old boy, presented with blistering and scarring of skin. He had vesicles and erosions with mutilations of the skin over exposed surfaces (Fig.1). There was hypertrichosis over face and extremities, teeth were stained red (Fig. 2) with moderate splenomegaly. The urine was red with increased levels of urinary and erythrocyte porphyrins. A diagnosis of Congenital Erythropoeitic Porphyria was made.
Now, wouldn't you think this child had been abused? I think this case should be evaluated further. What if this mother is poorly educated, and had been doing the best she could with a child who had special needs? I find it odd that the abuse was limited to the "skin".....why no broken bones? The "skin breaking down" and "raw tissue" sounds much more like a porphyria disease. Sad case any way you look at it.
One other point, and I will shut up. If you follow the link link to the article originally posted by Dark Shadows, you will read the following:
"Authorities found Raijon unresponsive at his home on the 700 block of South 40th Street in Richmond. The boy lived in a locked bedroom outfitted with a surveillance camera and an alarm that notified his mother when he got off the bed, and Moses fed him food mixed in a blender, police said.
Richmond police Officer Timothy Gard testified today that he arrived at the home and was overpowered by the smell of Pine-Sol, "so much so that it irritated your nose." That initially led investigators to believe that Raijon may have ingested it. But the coroner's report said toxicology reports came back "negative for Pine-Sol constituents." Moses told police that she used Pine-Sol to clean the house and to mask the smell of her son's urine, as he was prone to wet the bed, Gard said. She also kept Pine-Sol in open containers in the house, including Raijon's room, the officer said. "
Did she feed him the food mixed in a blender because his gums were bleeding from his disease??? Did she have the security cameras installed because she was afraid he would injure himself? The smell of urine being a problem is also an alarm bell for various metabolic diseases. I am not at all convinced that this child was abused....I think he was sick. Perhaps he should have been in the hospital, but that is a far different situation than saying the Mother caused the injuries.