Editorial: A 6-year-old starved of food — and protection
An editorial from the Chicago Tribune:
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The pathologist determined the preliminary cause of death to be failure to thrive due to extreme malnutrition. The 6-year-old boy weighed approximately 17 pounds when his father brought him to a local hospital on Nov. 3, already deceased.
According to charts from the World Health Organization, the average weight for a 6-year-old boy is around 50 pounds. A normal weight for an infant between the ages of
