This mom is in trouble for neglecting her kid's teeth

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MANATEE COUNTY - Police say a Palmetto mother neglected to provide her child with needed dental care, which led to severe tooth decay.

Tamika S. White, 19, was arrested Wednesday on a felony neglect charge.

Her daughter, whose age was not listed, has suffered from tooth pain for more than a year, according to a Palmetto Police Department report.

The child's grandmother urged White to take the child to the dentist.

White took the child to a dentist who told her the child had bottle mouth -- tooth decay common in infants and toddlers, the report said.

But White's Medicaid coverage would not pay for the treatment, and she refused to seek money for treatment through child-support payments from the child's father, police said.

She also did not seek another specialist who would accept Medicaid or any other treatments that would be covered, according to a report.

White was in the Manatee County jail on Thursday without bail.

Quazzie

Let her hang!

Overheal

That'll be thrown out of court anyway.

Captain-America

I don't see the problem with her being arrested is.

Dancor

Quazzie wrote: »

Let her hang!

Then rot and decay

Mr.Lizard

Very important to keep your teeth, White.

[-0-]

Sounds like a case for Jude Judy.

muppetkiller

Speaking of Teeth did you see Biffo's dirty rotten orange Teeth in the Times and Indo today ....a disgrace our fearless leader hasn't even the most basic of Hygiene. tut tut His mummy should be arrested too.

What's red and bad for your teeth?

A brick.

phasers

She'd better brace herself for a cavity search when she goes to jail

Captain-America

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antodeco

I wonder if she'll agree to give the "tooth, whole tooth and nothing but the tooth" in court

Overheal

dancor wrote: »

Then rot and decay

phasers wrote: »

She'd better brace herself for a cavity search when she goes to jail

antodeco wrote: »

I wonder if she'll agree to give the "tooth, whole tooth and nothing but the tooth" in court

Ugh.

I think this can be locked now.

there's a kid on my mothers road, she's 5 or 6 and her teeth - the ones she still has - are black and broken.
So around easter she's playing outside (lovely little kid in fairness) and offers my daughter a lollipop from this big plastic egg which was FULL of sugary cheapy e number filled sweets. She proceeded to inform me that her mother had bought it for her in the €2 shop because she had been so good and didn't cry when the dentist took out her tooth the day before :eek:

phasers

Overheal wrote: »

Ugh.

I think this can be locked now.

what's wrong with puns? They add a brush of class to a thread

AlmightyCushion

Deleted User wrote: »

there's a kid on my mothers road, she's 5 or 6 and her teeth - the ones she still has - are black and broken.
So around easter she's playing outside (lovely little kid in fairness) and offers my daughter a lollipop from this big plastic egg which was FULL of sugary cheapy e number filled sweets. She proceeded to inform me that her mother had bought it for her in the €2 shop because she had been so good and didn't cry when the dentist took out her tooth the day before :eek:

Just to let you know e numbers aren't bad for you. Even vitamin c has an e number and it's impossible to have a diet that doesn't include any e numbers.

994

Highly immolar behaviour

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Just to let you know e numbers aren't bad for you. Even vitamin c has an e number and it's impossible to have a diet that doesn't include any e numbers.

oh I know, I'm actually the one who always tells people that ha! they're just EU approved additives! I was just trying to add to the image yuckiness of the sweets in question haha!

Overheal

Fine,

Overheal wrote: »

Ugh.

I think this can be flossed now.

Fixed my own post.

kleefarr

The number of kids, as young as 6, that I see going to school eating sweets in the morning is amazing!

antodeco

kleefarr wrote: »

The number of kids, as young as 6, that I see going to school eating sweets in the morning is amazing!

Stalking much? Are they sweets you gave them? :pac:

johnny_knoxvile

Jesus when i seen the title of this thread i thought Shane Mc Gowan's mom was in trouble!

kleefarr

antodeco wrote: »

Stalking much? Are they sweets you gave them? :pac:

:rolleyes:

I should have included 'while I'm taking my own 5 and 6 year old sons to school' when I typed it.

We are very careful with their sweet allocation. Only 2/3 things as a treat over the week-end.

Mr.Lizard

kleefarr wrote: »

The number of kids, as young as 6, that I see going to school eating sweets in the morning is amazing!

What's the deal with all the fat primary and secondary school kids these days? Is it their diet or just lack of exercise? I think in 10 or so years we'll be looking at an America-like situation with giant lardasses walking around in large numbers.

Degsy

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

What's the deal with all the fat primary and secondary school kids these days? Is it their diet or just lack of exercise? I think in 10 or so years we'll be looking at an America-like situation with giant lardasses walking around in large numbers.

Its the presence of sugar in almost everything thats not home cooked and the lazyness and unwillngness of people to actually cook for themselves.
Ingredients on foods make much of the presence of fat in products but dont mention sugar with quite the same gravitas.
The fact is that sugar is almost completely unnecessary in any kind of diet and yet its everywhere!

GhostInTheRuins

Degsy wrote: »

Ingredients on foods make much of the presence of fat in products but dont mention sugar with quite the same gravitas.

It only works because people are idiots. If somethings says "99% fat free" you can obviously eat as much as you without getting fat :rolleyes:

antodeco

kleefarr wrote: »

:rolleyes:

I should have included 'while I'm taking my own 5 and 6 year old sons to school' when I typed it.

We are very careful with their sweet allocation. Only 2/3 things as a treat over the week-end.

My 5 year old daughter asks for sweets, but rarely gets them. If she eats all her dinner, she can have a ibt of chocolate. I wont give her sugary sweets at all. However, her mother has started to give her chewing gum and sugary drinks, more so as a result of its 'easier to shut them up with them'.

you know it's a bad idea to reward kids with sweets if they eat all of their food. Just pointing it out is all, a child should never be encouraged to eat all of the food on their plate as this leads to overeating and obesity.

S.I.R

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

What's the deal with all the fat primary and secondary school kids these days? Is it their diet or just lack of exercise? I think in 10 or so years we'll be looking at an America-like situation with giant lardasses walking around in large numbers.

i was fat when i was a kid, Really short and all...


puberty kicked in now im taller and bigger ( in all places ) then anyone you more then likely i know


the joys of growing up :rolleyes:

S.I.R

S.I.R wrote: »

i was fat when i was a kid, Really short and all...
.......................
the joys of growing up :rolleyes:

***aww, hugs ***

kleefarr

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

What's the deal with all the fat primary and secondary school kids these days? Is it their diet or just lack of exercise? I think in 10 or so years we'll be looking at an America-like situation with giant lardasses walking around in large numbers.

Well, where I am, it's probably the fact that they follow up the early diet of sweets in the morning, with takeaways five days a week at lunchtime, through out most of their school lives.

I'm sure most parents would rather their children have a proper meal at school instead of a take away every lunch time. At €10+ a day it's very expensive and I'm sure schools could do better with less, say €5 a day.

Turd Ferguson

We're all forgetting the most important part of this....is the mother hot?

Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

We're all forgetting the most important part of this....is the mother hot?

yeh - she looks like she could be shane mcgowans twin sister

Insect Overlord

Deleted User wrote: »

yeh - she looks like she could be shane mcgowans twin sister

*fap fap fap*

kleefarr

kleefarr wrote: »

The number of kids, as young as 6, that I see going to school eating sweets in the morning is amazing!

Remember visiting family friends house before - kid hardly ate their healthy dinner, then rushed eagerly to the sweet cabinet for afters.
I swear to god, it was like a bloody sweetshop all stuffed into that cupboard. Boggling.

kleefarr wrote: »

I'm sure most parents would rather their children have a proper meal at school instead of a take away every lunch time. At €10+ a day it's very expensive and I'm sure schools could do better with less, say €5 a day.

5 a weekday is still 100 a month - a loaf of bread is about 2! lots of sandwiches.
It's scary the amount of kids wandering around with big bags of chips and junkfood at lunch time. Just seriously unhealthy.