6-MO Baby Starved to Death
Two Fayetteville parents were charged Friday with starving their 6-month-old child to death and failing to care for his severely emaciated twin brother, according to court records. Terrance Lamar Roberts, 26, and Jessica Naomi Lewis, 27, both of the 2900 block of Gravely Place, are charged with two counts each of intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. The charges allege that Roberts and Lewis caused the death of one son and severely injured another through “substantial nutritional and medical neglect resulting in failure to thrive.” READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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