Ohio puts 200-pound third-grader in foster care

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CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight.
The Plain Dealer reports (County places obese Cleveland Heights child in foster care | cleveland.com ) that the Cleveland 8-year-old is considered severely obese and at risk for such diseases as diabetes and hypertension.
The case is the first state officials can recall of a child being put in foster care strictly for a weight-related issue.
Lawyers for the mother say the county overreached when authorities took the boy last week. They say the medical problems he is at risk for do not yet pose an imminent danger.
A spokeswoman says the county removed the child because caseworkers saw his mother's inability to reduce his weight as medical neglect.
 

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Holy crap that is big for an eight year old. Good on the county for taking the kid away because the mother was putting his life at risk. Ridiculous that the mother's lawyers think that she should still be allowed to care for him even though she is basically sending him to an early grave.