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A five-year-old girl weighing over 10 stone (63kg) was taken into care by social workers last summer in what has been called a tragic case.
The girl weighed three times more than an average five-year old child, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Experts in child protection have called the case a "tragedy" and could not understand how the local authority or nursery staff had not intervened sooner.
She was taken into care in August last year in Newport, South Wales, at which point she weighed 10st 5lb: heavier than any five-year-old girl or boy recorded in a UK school since 2008.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/10-stone-fiveyearold-taken-into-care-8991352.html
The girl weighed three times more than an average five-year old child, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Experts in child protection have called the case a "tragedy" and could not understand how the local authority or nursery staff had not intervened sooner.
She was taken into care in August last year in Newport, South Wales, at which point she weighed 10st 5lb: heavier than any five-year-old girl or boy recorded in a UK school since 2008.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/10-stone-fiveyearold-taken-into-care-8991352.html
