California Girl Injected With Botox Removed From Mom's Custody

Source: ABC News

A California mother has lost custody of her 8-year-old daughter after she injected the girl with botox in preparation for a beauty pageant. A person with knowledge of the situation told ABC News that the girl, Britney, is doing well but did not offer more detail on the ongoing investigation into the girl's mother, Kerry Campbell.

On Friday, the San Francisco Human Services Agency, launched an investigation into Campbell after she admitted to "Good Morning America" that she injected botox into her daughter's face to help her in beauty pageants.

"It's pretty unusual for a mom to be injecting an 8-year-old with botox and certainly is grounds for an investigation," said Trent Rohrer of the San Francisco Human Services Agency on Friday.

Campbell and daughter Britney, appeared on "Good Morning America" last week defending the 8-year-old pageant contestant's use of botox.




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From Gawker ...

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Kerry strives to prevent secondary signs of sexual maturation in her daughter:

"She also has her virgin wax monthly, which gets rid of her fluffy leg hair and makes sure she wont develop pubic hair in the future."

Some signs of sexual maturation, however, are to be desired:

Britney says: "My friends think it's cool I have all the treatments and they want to be like me. I check every night for wrinkles, when I see some I want more injections.

"They used to hurt, but now I don't cry that much.

"I also want a boob and nose job soon, so that I can be a star."

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http://gawker.com/5785030/mom-gives-8+year+old-botox-and-virgin-waxes

on the sicko kiddie pageant circuit who does this....

are they looking for the others too?

It's one thing to have contests to see who has the cutest kid who can do the cutest things.

But the mothers that do these contests are whack and do some wretched things to their children. And the kids don't know any better, they just want to make mom happy.

These kiddie pageants should ban the practice of exploiting young girls to make them look grown up.

it's frigging very wrong.

:puke:

Some people don't deserve children.

They should do something about those twisted, perverted and sick pageants instead.

Any mom who did this is not fit to retain custody.

...mother to be injecting shit into her daughter's face that she buys off the Internet...That just needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

PB

On the Young Turks, Cenk and his co-host were talking about this case (you can see it in the DU video forum, I believe) and they talked about the fact that the mother had been somewhat open in that she had purchased what had been described as "botox" from a person online. In the interview that was excerpted, and which was given at a later date than her previous statements, the woman seemed to insinuate that the botox has been purchased from some shadowy figure in some way associated with her doctor, the child's doctor.

Either way, it's illegal to purchase botox if you're not a physician and certainly not legal to sell the material (assuming it is even botox) to a person to administer by their own hand. Botox stands for "BOtulinum TOXin". It's an extremely neurotoxic substance. It literally makes wrinkles go away for a short period of time by paralyzing facial muscles. That is how it works! Misapplication could conceivably kill someone which is why all such injections (and the substance itself) are used only on the strict supervision by a practicing physician.

I won't even go into the other charges that a DA could throw down in a case like that- the above stuff I mentioned is more than cause for charges of endangerment of a child.

PB

that the company that makes it makes the doctors that want to administer that stuff jump through all kinds of hoops to do it. They won't let just anyone do it, not even a doctor. You have to be certified in it. I used to work at an eye clinic that added this as one of their services. One of the doctors spent a week away from patients studying the manual just so he could take the company's test.

don't know if they are now, if not, they need to have some serious rules attached to them. Specifically, your child should not be made up to look like an adult. They should not be dressed like an adult. They are kids!

A mother who is capable of this could be doing other sick things to her daughter as well. A child isn't better off with a parent who is pathologically narcissistic.

and she's gotten plenty of negative feedback.

She's only clueless in the sense that any pathological narcissist is clueless: she cannot conceive of her child as anything but an extension of herself; in her twisted mind, she is as free to botox her child's face or wax her child's privates as she is to botox her own face or wax her own privates. Her child, as a separate, valuable person, doesn't exist in this mother's mind; in that sense she IS clueless.

Like a teabagger is clueless.

...was injecting shit into her child's face that she bought off the internet. That alone is worth getting her away from that "mother" ASAP.

PB

I think the problem is the existence of the pageants. Maybe they need to be phased out for little girls, and age-appropriate pageants be emphasized.

and be state-licensed. If you need a license for a day care center, for a school, for a summer camp, and for other child-centric businesses and activities, pageants should be among these.

You know... here's my cute kid playing the piano or twirling a baton, everyone takes home a little trophy. I do see some conceivable benefit to improving public speaking and poise.

But they really need to ban the fake beauty and sexualized aspects of it. There is no conceivable excuse for running a swimsuit competition for four year olds. And for all the clueless moms out there- your child is screaming because waxing hurts and because they're terrified of the spray tanning machine. The answer is to not hurt and terrify your child, not to insist "she loves to do this" or "she'll get over it".

It would be soccer, cheerleading...shit, you know if they had math contests that gave out huge prizes there'd be "math mothers."

"Come on Billy, what the hell is wrong with you? Why can't you do quadratic equations?"

'Because I'm four!'

Yes the pageants are fucked up. But anything "parents" have decided to use to live vicariously through their kids gets fucked up in short order.

It's sad the Mom has already accomplished transferring her own poor self image to her
daughter.

Parenting classes and a child psychologist to help the child reaffirm her own self worth would
be appropriate, I think.



"As a doctor, if I'd seen this mother, I would be required to report her to protective services because it's maltreatment... Any doctor who would give a parent botox to administer to their children should lose their license…there's not a state where you don't need to be a licensed doctor or under direct supervision of a doctor to inject this," Besser said.

Besser said that botox is used to correct children who are cross-eyed or suffering from some neurological disorders, but not typically for cosmetic reasons.

"If you inject it in the face and it drifts to your throat, it can prevent you from swallowing. If it drifts to your breathing muscles..you can stop breathing. In a young child, if you're chronically using it on the face, it may actually change the shape of your face because your muscles interact with your bones to form what your face eventually looks like," Besser said.

unnecessary.

http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news18138.html

LIKE other eight-year-old girls, Britney Campbell loves dancing to Lady GaGa, is fond of fashion and enjoys putting on make-up.

But Britney's beauty regime goes way beyond playing with Mummy's lippy.

Once every three months, Britney climbs on a beautician's table and watches as mum Kerry prepares needles of Botox and fillers to be injected into her face.

Beautician Kerry, 34, from Birmingham, buys the substances online and injects them into her daughter's forehead, lips and around her eyes.

The beauty-pageant obsessed single mum also takes her to have her body waxed, in a bizarre bid to stop her growing hair when she eventually hits puberty.

Kerry says these shocking and potentially dangerous treatments will guarantee Britney becomes famous as a teenager.

...more...

possibly have a wrinkle, never mind wrinkles. So she was injecting healthy normal
skin lines...unreal.

getting herself to be famous), then the mother has accomplished both goals ahead of schedule. Both are famous now--or at eeast infamous.

Mission accomplished.

With any luck, her daughter will recover from her mother's madness.

maybe but most likely not.... she has already been shown 100 ways she is not good looking enough the way she was naturally and sez things like 'I want a boob and nose job'. Her mother is very ill and has done a lot of damage to her daughter at a very early age.

or is the little girl displaying a distinct pout in both pics? Hard to know without seeing earlier photos.

Removing the child was a mistake and complete over reaction. This little girl is still better off with her mother. The father was passed away several years ago. A warning to the mother would have been more appropriate. The child loses by this removal.

The kid's probably happy to be away from psycho-mom.

I would be.

Every time I hear something like this, I think about Jon Bonet Ramsey. Little girls are little girls PERIOD!

If you want your kids to grow up to be rich and famous, think about golf or tennis.

Assholes like this lady would probably put the kids on steroids though~

the mother moved here from england. probably this this was acceptable here from all the reality/baby beauty pageant teevee shows! :(

combined with
That would mean it's legal to inject your child's face with unapproved medicines.

Instead of fucking up their kids treating their daughters like animate dolls and then competing to see who has the coolest, they should be designing exteriors for animatronic robots.

Not sure if :sarcasm: or not...


That seems to be where their talents lead them, everyone's happy...and nobody gets hurt.

in July, but there is quite a big movement against it. I've signed a petition, which has so far been ignored by the relevant Minister (Peter "Do-Nothing" Garrett), so now concerned parents are planning to hold protests outside the Victorian Parliament (Melbourne is the first proposed venue for these pageants).

I believe putting small children through these pageants is a form of child abuse, and there can't be any doubt that it teaches little girls that their only value lies in their looks and sex appeal. And I'm afraid that when I look at the majority of the mothers who put their children through this, it seems that most of them are living their own fantasies through their daughters. I'd like to see laws passed world-wide to forbid any girl under the age of fourteen to take part in beauty pageants. Let children be children.

this is so fucked up.