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- Ninh, on 03/28/2008, -34/+163Darwin award, anyone?
- n0ia, on 03/28/2008, -1/+121Wait... the mother wants an inquest? How about the fact that all she would eat was WATERMELON!
The mother should have taken her child to the doctor as soon as she realized she wasn't eating healthy. - m3th0dm4n, on 03/28/2008, -3/+87How could the mother not know she was going to die when she was refusing to eat anything? Pretty sure eating is a part of staying alive. You don't need a ***** inquest to know what happened.
- CAPITALLETTERS, on 03/28/2008, -6/+64Buried for daily mail.
- sexybobo, on 03/28/2008, -1/+55Her daughter was at home for one month and didn't eat any thing and she is blaming the death on the hospital. The parent should have taken the daughter to a psychiatrist and if that didn't work back to the hospital to be tube fed until she would eat.
- eddie72, on 03/28/2008, -5/+54I think the mother had more to do with the child's fear than the child. If you noticed in the article the mother had taken the girl to a hospital to have all her teeth removed. Since the girl is already terrified of dentists in general how did that affect her psyche ?
- jordanisj, on 03/28/2008, -1/+48So... did no one think of an IV feeding drip? Or sedation? wtf
- bamafun, on 03/28/2008, -6/+52At first glance this sounds unusual, but I think this has the potential to happen more than we realize. It's important to take children to a friendly dentist that specializes in treating children. I had a friend who took her daughter to the "Family Dentist" and he ended up slapping his hand over her mouth hard enough to leave an imprint of his hand on her face when she went to get up out of the chair suddenly when he was about to give her a shot to deaden the area he was working on. He didn't seen that many children before and didn't really know how to handle them. She told him off, reported him to the dental board, and took her daughter to a pediatric dentist that was wonderful.
- UGM2099, on 03/28/2008, -4/+47Darwin is not about innocence.
- aethelberga, on 03/28/2008, -2/+39This has less to do with a fear of the dentist and more to do with parental neglect. How do you let your child refuse to eat to the point where they die? Long before that point you taken them to a doctor or look at psychiatric help. Now the mom wants an inquest - like someone else is somehow to blame.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+33Wow, I'm really sick because I saw this story heading in a completely different direction.
- kingmanic, on 03/28/2008, -3/+34Nature doesn't really care anything about 'innocent' or 'guilty' or 'evil'. It only really cares about 'can survive' and 'can't survive'. Apparently the neurological set up and particular environment this girl had belonged to the 'can't survive' category.
- ChairShot83, on 03/28/2008, -3/+27Open wide! Here comes the airplane!
No seriously, why not just pinch her nose closed and force her to breathe out of her mouth? - theodenking, on 03/28/2008, -5/+29Of course. This is natural selection in action.
- pak314, on 03/28/2008, -1/+22I still remember when I was very young and went to the dentist. He started to do some work in my mouth and I got scared and started crying. So he gave me something in my hand that I couldn't see since I was reclined. It felt like a candy bar so I calmed down. After everything was over I looked down and saw all I got was a toothbrush package! Man was I ever disappointed.
- OUberLord, on 03/28/2008, -0/+21If anything the mother should be charged with child neglect. How could she possibly not have known about what her child was and was not eating, and why wasn't a followup visit made when her eyes became sunken? Who honestly thinks that a growing child can eat nothing but watermelon and survive? Tragic, sure, but the hospital did absolutely nothing wrong here.
- daRoach, on 03/28/2008, -2/+23I thought everyone in the UK was afraid of dentists.
- kingmanic, on 03/28/2008, -2/+23Evolution hard at work? Sad about the untreated mental disorder but the parents ought to have noticed their child not eating and done more then just watch for a month.
- cargoboy45, on 03/28/2008, -1/+21"I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."
Here's how this should play out. Mom throws enough of a fit that cops finally do and inquest. Cops perform said inquest, result of which was parental negligence. So my answer to the "questions that need answering" is.... WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING??? - sgiffy, on 03/28/2008, -1/+21"I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."
Damn right there should be. The first one would be why did you not take your daughter back to the hospital or to a mental institution. - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+20I can deal with the injections and the drilling, it's when they get that ***** hook thing out and go treasure hunting that freaks me out.
- sgtpppr, on 03/28/2008, -5/+24Not much shocks me on the Web anymore, but digg has finally done it. How can so many people talk about an 8 year old mentally ill girl as 'stupid', 'a waste of air', and say 'good riddance'. Some of you people seriously need to look at yourselves. This girl had a severe mental disorder and instead of getting her treatment, her parents let her die from it. Can you imagine having a mental illness so powerful that you sat and starved yourself to death slowly over a month? How is that funny? Honestly, when you laugh and say 'thank god she can't breed' in response to the death of an 8 year old girl at the hands of neglectful parents you seriously need to seek professional help or at least educate yourself a little bit. It's no wonder so many of the severely mentally ill are homeless and live a life of emptiness.
- serif69, on 03/28/2008, -2/+20Is it safe?
- StormTroopr, on 03/28/2008, -1/+19I think that is the point. (not trying to be an ass, I seriously think that is the purpose of survival of the fittest ([ unless retarded people have some sort of other power to help them survive {besides preying on general human compassion}])
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -8/+26She was obviously mentally handicapped, do they get darwin awards?
- Pimpalicious316, on 03/28/2008, -0/+17hell yeah, dugg for triple bracketing
- theOster, on 03/28/2008, -0/+17any comments about the parents? how the ***** can you let your kid go without eating for a month?? did they really think that she was eating "on her own time" and that they jsut weren't seeing it? i don't get it. i think the parents should be investigated.
- Lokishot, on 03/28/2008, -3/+19You have to be over 18 to have a Darwin award.
- ken0624700, on 03/28/2008, -0/+13The inquest should be on the parents - how they can let the child starve to death without doing anything.
- Harabeck, on 03/28/2008, -1/+14FTA: "Then one day I went to her room and found her cold. We called an ambulance but she was already dead. I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."
I agree, there should be an inquest into your negligence you horrible parent. - sagat, on 03/28/2008, -0/+13Daily ***** Mail, just a little less plausable than the UFO story.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+13That's impossible. Intravenous feeding. Even brain dead patients are fed one way or another. This story is completely impossible. You don't survive a month eating bits of watermelon.
And you don't just die over night from a kidney failure either. You get hemodialysis treatments. - diggit83, on 03/28/2008, -2/+14Yes....
- sponeil, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11Exactly. The parents should be brought up on charges for neglecting her until she died. I don't know any parents that would sit there and allow their kids to eat nothing but watermelon for a month as their health deteriorates and they die. I have 2 kids myself, and I'd never let that sort of thing go on for more than a couple of days.
- chanop, on 03/28/2008, -1/+12The Special Darwin Awards!!!!!!!!!
- Unriggable, on 03/28/2008, -7/+18Part of me thinks "What a tragedy" and another part of me thinks "What a dumbass"
Typical of children to develop phobias, this one just went really far. - TnTBass, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11Agreed. How can the parents blame someone else for this? The kid died within a month of leaving the hospital, so obviously the child wasn't eating. Why didn't the parents do anything about that?
- flipzmode, on 03/28/2008, -2/+12I'm confused on why the mother is demanding answers and getting all upset and wondering what happened when the article says the girl refused to eat (except for watermelon I guess). "I'm sorry ma'am, but your daughter died because you never informed us that she wasn't eating!" Not to mention the article says the girl died almost 2.5 years ago!
- mwilkinson, on 03/28/2008, -6/+16are you ***** kidding me....
- kargur, on 03/28/2008, -0/+10Why is the mother blaming others for her daughter's death? If one of my 4 children refused to eat due to a phobia, I would be doing everything in my power (therapy, tube feeding, whatever) to help him/her. It is the parents responsibility to safeguard the life of the child. She should have been intervening far before her child was that starved.
- ilves7, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9yea... 'gave me something in my hand that I couldn't see' was definitely starting down the wrooong road
- rocketpop, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9People have already said it, but what the mother here (and likely the father) are absoultely rediculous--blaming the hospital for their daughter dying on their own time.
Let me get this straight... You brought her home, you fed her nothing but watermellon, she started getting weak, she lost tons of weight, she started getting sunken eyes, and you did nothing about it... and then she died. And then you blamed the hospital. "The hospital should have told me I had to feed her more than watermellon!"
Its their fault for not doing more about it. They let her die. If your kid won't eat anything but watermellon, you don't just say "OK". - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -3/+12No mental institutions in Great Britain?
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9Yes there should be an inquest, and the mother should be arrested for allowing her daughter to waste away for a month all the while blaming the hospital.
- lordno, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10Not saying that the dentist should have slapped the child in face but I would rather my dentist slap my child in the face than have my child move when they are about to get a shot. The needle could damage a nerve in the jaw bone, pierce the tongue or the cheek, or get injured much more because they jerked when they were about to get a shot. My father is a dentist and the best thing you can do if you are a parent is NOT go into the operating room with your child. Your child will act much better if you are not there.
- sjug, on 03/28/2008, -21/+30This is brilliant, if only all the stupid were killed off at such an early age.. Where were her parents in all of this?
- jemka, on 03/28/2008, -3/+12To this day, I'm terrified of the dentist.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10I bet you a thousand dollars that this stems from her father 'making her put things in her mouth'.
Am I the only who has thought of this? - theOster, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9the doctors don't just take it upon themselves to say "lets rip em all out. we'll tell mum later". i dont think so. the parents HAD to have given consent. i think eddies point still stands.
- Mageling, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9They help me not see mental people walking around.
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