Fat Government
A juvenile court was to decide — on a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, boy’s ninth birthday — whether the boy would go back to his family, friends, and school. The boy’s crime? He weighs over 200 pounds. Because his mother couldn’t get his weight down, a spokeswoman for the local child services department said, the agency snatched him. Juvenile public defender Sam Amata said the boy was an honor-roll student who took part in school activities. The boy’s mother said she tried to follow doctors’ recommendations and stop her son from eating food other kids might have supplied. (AC/Cleveland Plain Dealer) ...If you laugh at fears of a mandate to eat Brussels sprouts, just remember: first they came for the fat kids.Original Publication Date: 18 December 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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