Parents arrested after ‘starved toddler with broken skull was forced to eat his own feces’, cops say
TWO parents have been arrested after their toddler was found with a fractured skull and was so malnourished he ate his own feces, officials said.
Jade Newman, 21 and Delane Bostic, 25, were arrested after their two-year-old was found weighing 18 pounds with broken bones all over his body, county officials said, as reported by WTVD.
The parents had taken the toddler to the hospital this week, where he was found to be severely malnourished, county officials said.
X-rays revealed the child had skull and rib fractures, and brain injuries, WTVD reported.
The child also ate his own feces, officials said.
Neighbors told WTVD that they would frequently see two kids run outside of the North Carolina home without their parents.
They said sometimes, the children would run around naked.
Newman and Bostic are charged with child abuse with serious injury, according to arrest records accessed by The Sun.
The parents are both held on $250,000 bond.
Upon her arrest, Newman was also charged with a misdemeanor of failure to return rented property with the option to own.
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Last week, The Sun reported a 21-month-old baby will likely be disabled for life, after he was severely starved and abused by its parents.
Another father was accused by prosecutors of starving his 10-month-old baby girl to death because he believed she was too weak to help on the farm.
Police were shocked to find a 16-year-old boy who weighed just 26 pounds, after his mother starved him.
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