Doctor charged in Ohio teen's malnutrition death

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DAYTON ? A Trotwood doctor has become the fifth person charged in the starvation death of a severely handicapped 14-year-old girl.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Dr. Margaret Edwards with three counts of failing to report abuse or neglect in the death of Makayla Norman. Edwards was Makayla?s doctor from July 2010 until the child?s death on March 1, 2011. Edwards treated her in July and October of 2010 ? the last five months before the teen?s death. All three counts are first-degree misdemeanors, punishable by up to six months in a county jail.

Edwards was required by law to report abuse and neglect, according to Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck, Jr.

Makayla weighed 28 pounds at her death, her body covered with filth and open bedsores, her hair and eyebrows infested with lice, her diaper and colon filled with feces. Stricken with cerebral palsy, Makayla could neither speak, move, nor feed herself.

Police and prosecutors claim Makayla was abandoned by her mother, her nurse, the nurse supervising Makayla?s care and the nurse/social worker in charge of overseeing the taxpayer-funded program that kept Makayla with her family ? all with the consent of her mother.

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[whitebread]

Disgusting :angry:

I will never understand how some people can treat their own family that way.

Where's the love? (seriously)

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

thats...disturbing :|

[Growled Member]

Distrubing....and disgusting.

[+Warwagon MVC]

"Her diaper and colon filled with feces" ... her colon was filled with feces? well no **** (no pun intended)