It makes one wonder how many cases aren't discovered until it's nearly too late. One gets to the point where you can hardly read the newspaper accounts because you know the victims have been suffering so.

In the meantime, people are spending millions of dollars on this fiasco of an election and begging for more.

Something is out of whack!

worse in recent years or if it's being more widely reported on the 24/7 news channels and social media. Whatever the reason, it needs to be stopped.

Unfortunately, there's nothing stopping bad people from having children, or bad parents from having more children.

I knew a family friend when I was a teenager who completely ignored her daughter, just fed her, changed her and put her in a playpen all day, to the point the girl couldn't walk or speak until she was past 3 yr old. My sister, bless her, began going over to their house daily and playing with her, reading to her, taking her to the park, etc, which is the only reason that little girl grew up to be a halfway normal human being instead of a resident of a psyc ward.

but we are recognizing what abuse and neglect really is instead of looking the other way with the thought of "not my business what happens in someone else's home"

I'm in the upper management part of our child welfare agency but I see stories like this far too often. People are always so focused on physical child abuse because thats where you will see child death stories on the news, but its neglect where you get the most deaths in child welfare, and there are so many kids you see every day with no bruises but are so hungry and have health issues as a result of that.

Buying alcohol instead of food for the kids? Gross!

but sh** like this, I cannot understand - how do you allow things to get that out of control - it's terrible

Yes it is terrible.

Poor little kid. The parents should be sterilized, I'm sorry. Some people should never reproduce.

Accessibility also means not being able to afford it. Lack of sex education? This is a sad, sad story, and I'm afraid it's more common than we would think.

That's your source?

Here are 16 other sources. Take your pick:
http://www.newsjs.com/ca/it-broke-my-heart-ohio-officer-helps-7-year-old-boy-trying-to-sell-teddy-bear-for-food/dlA1NM6sO9bmHCM8D9ILg0Yg702NM/

My heart bleeds for these boys.I guess that makes me a "bleeding heart liberal." So be it.

But she's at Grandma's for the weekend!