From the article: Melissa Goodman and Lefever "were extremely obese to the point of being nearly bed-bound, and rarely left the residence." While the 14 year old nearly starved.

If I was a judge, I'd make sure in jail, they'd all get a similar diet as the one they gave that child.

Until they were almost as small.

Bet they never have to "lay nice and quiet to get what they want" such as basic needs like food.

Just lost 40 ish pounds myself so from 300 to 260, but I'm also tall AF. And even in my darkest depression bed ridden days, I could still get out and buy my cats food! This kinda shit really makes me wonder about our future as a species.

There's a case going on now in my home state, a boy fell off the radar (homeschooled) since 11 years old I believe. In his 30s now, he set his house on fire to escape, he weighed something like 65 pounds I think it said

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327122/connecticut-captive-stepmom-house-fire

DCF (CPS) was called when he was a child multiple times, but once they moved him to "homeschooling" he became trapped. Utterly horrible.

It's the same questions comming from our community, how could this happen?

“Home schooling” would be my guess. That’s how most of these cases go.

There's a reason that denying children a decent public education used to be a crime, and a big part of the reason was shit just like this.

Bruh seriously! Like I skipped school one time and got caught by truincytruancy cops. And I would've gotten away with it if I wasn't wearing tight fitting jeans with my big butt what showed my wallet's outline. How do these fuckers get away with not getting their kids to school for months‽

You say that as if there’s a good explanation. People slip through smaller cracks then that all the time

JFC! Why does it seem it's always obese people doing this‽ Like I'm not spring chicken myself, but I can't imagine starving your own kid! My life was slightly better before watching that report and reading the transcripts.

16 kg

Well, you'll be shocked to find out, that she probably is autistic and most parents are comparable to them, most just maintain a facade by feeding their children and letting them to school.

I can't be bothered to use workarounds if they can't be bothered to make it readable world wide on the world wide web.

I read the article, didn't have much detail other than family hated her based on messages. The family said the girl doesn't eat because she autistic.

the father told police or paramedics that she "was autistic" and had not eaten in 4-5 days.

"Police also spoke to the victim's teacher from 2019 to 2020, who allegedly said she remembered the victim being "friendly and talkative" and could not recall anything about her being autistic or enrolled in any special education programs. Rather, the teacher said the victim had been "a healthy normal third-grade student, who interacted appropriately with her peers and staff."

this is from a different article I found: https://lawandcrime.com/crime/living-in-a-house-of-horrors-trio-allegedly-starved-14-year-old-who-weighed-just-35-pounds-was-kept-locked-up-in-her-bedroom-with-a-camera-on-her/

It seems the father was making excuses to deflect away from his mistreatment/abuse/neglect.

However, when police interviewed one of Goodman's friends, he recalled a time in August when he was at the home fixing a four-wheeler and the victim came out and asked him about what he was doing. The friend said this "irritated" Goodman, who told her to keep quiet before allegedly making several disturbing comments. From the affidavit:

He heard [Goodman] make comments like, "If she misbehaves, I' m not going to feed her today." [The friend] said he told [Goodman] that he can't do that, and [Goodman] said, "Well I keep her locked up in her bedroom with a camera on her, and that's where she stays." [The friend] said he told [Goodman] that he can't lock a kid in a bedroom, that was abuse. [The friend] indicated that at times when [Goodman] brought [the victim] to his house, [Goodman] would tell [the victim] to "Shut the f— up," and "Sit there and don't say nothing."

Holy gods, why the hell didn't this friend report this fucker at the he knew it was child abuse. He knew the kid was being denied food and kept locked in her room around the clock. I mean, how could you live near where this is happening and not contact the authorities?

I also blame the state. The mother went to prison five years ago and the child was put in the care of the father. Was there no follow up to make sure the kid was at least sent to school?