Parents Arrested After 15MO Weighing 14Lbs ‘Doesn’t React To Hunger’

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Cheyenne Hicks, 31, and Zachary Thornburg, 31, were charged with child neglect and creating risk of injury after a nurse found their son weighed just 14 pounds and did not react to food or a bottle.

Hicks and Thornburg brought the 15-month-old child to a medical checkup, where doctors told them they needed to bring the child to the children’s emergency room.

After the couple failed to take the child to the hospital, doctors called child protective services

Police and CPS went to the home and found it in disarray, with food containers, trash and dirt throughout. They found the child in a separate room.

Officials said the child’s room had a crib soaked with urine, the child’s clothes were wet and he wore a soiled diaper.

Police noticed the child was severely underweight for his age and was covered in a rash.

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