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To: Sowbug who wrote (36731)2/27/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph   of 61433
 
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Truth is stranger than fiction:

Mom sentenced in obesity death

United Press International - February 27, 1998 16:45
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MARTINEZ, Calif., Feb. 27 (UPI) - A judge in northern California has
spared a mother from going to jail for child abuse in the death of her
680-pound daughter.
Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason instead sentenced 49-year-old
Marlene Corrigan today to three years probation, 240 hours of volunteer
work, a $100 fine and counseling.
Corrigan pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse in the death of
her 13-year-old daughter, Christina, whose naked, filthy body was found
in her bed in November 1996.
Prosecutors initially charged the mother with felony child abuse for
neglecting Christina, which could have led to a prison term.
But she was acquitted of the felony charge in the non-jury trial, and
said at today's sentencing for the lesser offense that she will suffer
for the rest of her life without her daughter.
Corrigan acknowledges she was too passive in caring for Christina and
would have handled her weight problem differently had she knew then what
she knows now.
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Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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