Sentenced: Ohio Parents Mostly Fed 4YO Diabetic Daughter Mountain Dew in Baby Bottle

[cubby]

They got a strong diabetes, a brother and a sister with type 1, so "mommy dearest" knew she was setting this child up to die, she knew better, she deserves nothing.

Diabetes has devastated my family. My daddy's baby sister was type 1, diagnosed when she was 5, 1958, the year I was born on the day after her 5th birthday. We were like sisters more than aunt and niece. She died in 1999 at 47 from a heart attack and I miss her more and more.

Every female since her in my family has developed type 2, they are all now dead except me and I'm the oldest of them all. I want to live and I try my best to take care of myself. It's not that hard if you want to at least try.

Now my younger son is type 2, he has lost a lot of weight but he still doesn't really work at it. His girlfriend's mother is a type 1 and she (gf) understands what he needs and is at least trying to make him behave a bit better. All I can do is hope.

The shit going on in this story just breaks my heart. It can be done, I am living proof of it.

 

[BBBLUE77]

Useless bit of trivia.
Mtn dew was invented by 2 Brothers to mix with their whiskey!

Yes, we call that a "Crowntain Dew"

 

[Sugar Cookie]

An Ohio woman was sentenced to nine years to 13 1/2 years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to her 4-year-old daughter’s death.

Tamara Banks, 41, was sentenced after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, WXIX-TV reported.

According to Clermont County prosecutors, Banks’ daughter died on Jan. 24, 2022, because she was denied proper nutrition and medical care, according to the television station. That included bottle feeding the child Mountain Dew until the girl’s teeth became rotted, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors claimed that Banks and Hoeb bottle-fed their daughter mostly with Mountain Dew, WCPO reported. When the girl died, she had almost no teeth left in her mouth because they had become rotten and fell out, according to the television station.

Woman sentenced in malnutrition death of daughter, 4, who was fed Mountain Dew in bottle

Tamara Banks pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

www.wftv.com

 

[cubby]

Fat, lazy, selfish, hateful sack of shit.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Karmity

You can look at a child and see they have a light in them that cannot be dimmed and when I look at Karmity I see she had that.

Rest in Paradise baby girl!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Christopher Hoeb was sentenced Tuesday to at least seven years by Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Victor Haddad, who followed a recommendation from prosecutors offered as part of Hoeb's April guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter.

Karmity suffered neglect and abuse for the majority of her life and her parents denied her proper nutrition and medical care, according to prosecutors. The girl's death was a result of diabetic ketoacidosis − a life-threatening complication of diabetes most often associated with Type 1.

Prosecutors said Karmity lived with undiagnosed diabetes and her death could've been prevented with proper treatment and care.

Karmity also suffered from a condition that caused her teeth to dissolve due to her being fed sugary soda through a baby bottle. Prosecutors said Banks would often mix baby formula with Mountain Dew, long after Karmity should've been weaned off a bottle, and that investigators were unable to find evidence of the child ever visiting the dentist

"A lot of carelessness and laziness is what caused this," Hoeb said in court Tuesday.

Brian Goldberg, Hoeb’s attorney, said that during several phone conversations the two have had, Hoeb repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions and that he wishes he could bring his daughter back.

Karmity was Hoeb’s first child, said Goldberg. Hoeb worked full-time at Walmart while she was alive and was not present for much of the neglect at the center of this case, nonetheless, Hoeb accepted responsibility for the outcome.

“He was not around for much of this behavior, but ultimately, he is accepting responsibility, he’s entering a plea of guilty,” said Goldberg. “He wishes he could go back in time and change things. This is something that he will live with the rest of his life.”

Banks has a history of mistreating children under her care, prosecutors said in court filings. In 2011, her then-four-year-old son fell into a coma from previously undiagnosed diabetes. While the boy recovered, prosecutors said Banks continued to neglect his medical needs, failed to have him seen by a doctor and never attended his follow-up visits.

Hoeb was not aware that Banks had another child with diabetes until after this incident, he said on Tuesday.

"I take it very seriously, because my mother had diabetes and passed away from that, as well," said Hoeb.

Clermont County Assistant Prosecutor Clay Tharp argued that Hoeb is equally as responsible as Banks, emphasizing that the child never received healthcare to address the complications leading to her death.

Karmity last saw a doctor several months after she was born and her parents failed to obtain health insurance for her, prosecutors said, noting Banks regularly refilled her prescriptions and had doctors visit her apartment to ensure her own medical needs were met.

“This behavior was just so neglectful that it quite frankly led to her death," Tharp said. "It’s one of the most tragic cases I’ve ever been a part of."

MSN

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Did a doctor visiting this mountain of fat in the home never see or notice the child was neglected and unhealthy?

 

[GoneWest]

Did a doctor visiting this mountain of fat in the home never see or notice the child was neglected and unhealthy?

What kind of doctors go to the patients house?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Maybe more like a visiting nurse - but they still should have seen the horrible shape this little girl was in.