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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
This combo made from photos provided by the Outagamie County Sheriffs Dept shows Christopher Sultze, 35, left and Mary Sultze, 36, of Appleton, Wis. The couple was released from jail on bond this week after they were each charged with a felony count of child neglect. Prosecutors allege the couple starved their infant daughter for months because they were worried she would become obese. Keep reading for the full disgusting new story..
Courtesy of The Associated Press
Written by Todd Richmond
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain just 5 pounds in the 14 months after her birth, prosecutors allege.
Christopher and Mary Sultze, of Appleton, were each charged this month with a felony count of child neglect, and each faces up to a year in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.
Christopher Sultze, 35, appeared in Outagamie County Circuit Court on Thursday and was released from jail on bond on the condition that, among other things, he’d have no contact with the child. His preliminary hearing was rescheduled for next week.
Mary Sultze, 36, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday in exchange for her release on bond so that she could tend to her other three children, said her attorney, Brandt Swardenski. She, too, was ordered to have no contact with the daughter she’s accused of starving.
Neither has entered a plea.
“I have serious reservations about whether there’s any criminal activity here or just misguided parenting intentions,” Swardenski said. “This is a case where we need to reserve judgment until we learn more details on exactly what occurred.”
Christopher Sultze’s attorney, Michael Petersen, declined to comment.
According to the criminal complaint, the couple’s daughter weighed slightly more than 8 pounds when she was born in July 2010 and weighed just 13 pounds this past September. A doctor told police the girl would have to weigh 22 pounds to even appear on the growth charts for her age. Another physician noted that the child had no subcutaneous fat on her body and was essentially starving.
Doctors began tracking the girl’s lack of growth and weight gain at her four-month checkup in November 2010, when she weighed just 7 pounds, 9 ounces.
Her parents began to grow irritated that doctors were continually concerned about her weight, the complaint said. They insisted they were feeding her enough, and said their other children grew slowly and that they believed the girl would eventually gain weight.
Months went by with no significant improvement and tests for potential medical problems came back negative. In August, the family’s doctor convinced the Sultzes to admit the girl to Children’s Hospital of Fox Valley for an evaluation, investigators said.
The girl gained 8 ounces over a day at the hospital, but a social worker assigned to the family as part of the admittance process noted that the girl’s parents were upset by recommendations that they needed to feed her more calories and said they wanted to take their daughter home, against the advice of her doctors.
According to the complaint, Christopher Sultze told a doctor he didn’t want to have obese children and he kept insisting the girl would “get fat” at the hospital.
He later told police and another social worker that his family follows a very low cholesterol diet. He said he underwent bypass surgery for a blocked artery when he was 25 years old.
Court records show that Mary Sultze was charged in 2009 with misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct for biting her four-year-old daughter on the arm. According to the criminal complaint in that case, she told police she bit her daughter to teach her a lesson after the girl bit her older sister. Mary Sultze acknowledged that “it probably wasn’t right to do.”
She ultimately pleaded no contest to the disorderly conduct charge, which is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. Prosecutors dismissed the battery count.
Appleton, a city of about 70,000, is 125 miles northeast of Madison.
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Ok, I’m defending this woman in any way, because starving a baby to make sure they don’t get fat is horrifying.
But the biting thing? When I was a kid, my older brother bit my back so hard I had to get stitches, and my mom bit him back. He never bit me again. Obviously she didn’t bite him nearly as hard as he bit me, but sometimes kids just need to know first hand that biting hurts.
Maybe this lady should have starved herself instead. What dirt bags.
WTF.
How could you strave your child I hope they go to prison and be straved like they did to their baby!
strave?? Do you mean starve?
I think instead of starting with the baby, daddy dearest could have nagged mom a little more – she’s got a bit of baby fat herself… Scum. Both of them.
Normally, I strongly disfavor telling people how to run their lives. But this couple make a good argument for rigorous licensing procedures for people who want to breed…
I find it funny, mom is over weight.
That thing on the right is a woman?
The mom looks like Benny Hill..lol!
The mom does look a bit masculine, that’s for sure! It could be that the factt hat she is overweight has a lot to do with her trying desperately – and incorrectly – to keep her child from the same fate. Unfortunately, children who don’t get proper nourishment don’t develop mentally, so the poor kid is in for a rough ride.
i’m glad someone else noticed the mom looks like Benny Hill.
I think some serious parenting classes should be in order BEFORE either of them ever come near their children again!
Giving them the benefit of the doubt…and that is really hard to do…they sound like they don’t have the smarts to be decent parents.
These kids may be better off with some other family member until and IF these parents ever ‘get it’ and can be good parents! You know…the type that actually feed their kids!
And to be honest, I’d watch that family member like a hawk. DNA being what it is…makes you wonder what these kids will be like. Especially when starved!
All of you who are so horrified at what these two did to those kids should really stop and think for a minute. I,in no way, condone what was done. I hope they lock these two up and lose the key. However you are going to have shit like this happen when your Government considers an overweight kid to be an abused kid! Playing devils advocate,I have to say that maybe the two of them were afraid of some nosey neighbor or DSS official saying they let their kids eat to much! In our society today, political correctness and overbearing Government causes a lot of crap like this!!!! Think about it!
It is never too early to tech your kids about healthy eating habits. It’s when you are completely uneducated about what that means that things like this happen. I mean how dumb do you have to be to starve an infant so they don’t get fat? Parenting classes and maybe a lesson in what kids require for their nutrition compared to adults.
They’re going to prison for less time than they starved their child and that’s IF they get the maximum sentence IF they get convicted.
Also, they have 3 other kids??? How did it take 4 kids to realize that these people shouldn’t be parents????
These people are sick. Mom is an overweight scuzzbucket, Dad is probably one of those guys who is continually deriding her for being fat, when she is the best he could get so how much of a prize is he? I would love to see these people locked up and systematically starved for 14 months, just like they did to their baby. I wonder how malnourished their other three children are? Sickening…
keep in mind the mum is a fat bitch
They did everything in their power to keep a newborn from gaining weight, which is essential to thrive, all because they are afraid of obesity? Why didn’t they starve their fatt butts instead of their helpless child? My god, these people are disgusting cruel freaks. I hope their fellow inmates hear of their crime. Ain’t no justice like jailhouse justice.
So the mom still gets to “take care” of her other 3 kids? Why weren’t all 4 of the children taken from her?
um, did anyone else notice that the article stated that the other three children were slow to grow? They probably restricted their diets in infancy too. It is just sick to think of starving a baby!
there is absolutly NO excuse for what these people have done to that poor child….and if they were conserned about the child being “FAT” than they should of talkd to the doctors about a healthy diet and weight gain…they knew the hole time their child was WAY TOO LITTLE….it seems to me that moomy dearest should get put on a diet and the father could maybe eat something…just by looking at them you can tell they dont care about health….they are both pathetic and deserve to be locked up!!! poor kids
i blame the media and the Dr who did not educate the parents well enough. babies gain weight. FAST. media says “youre fat!!” to everyone over 90 lbs, they probably thought that she was gaining too much weight too fast, and would be fat.
These people shouldnt be harrassed, the should be put where they belong, in a mental institution. (which might help mommy dearest with HER weight problem) poor kids
omfg i can’t believe this wtf am i saying this world is full of vain ass holes look i am a bi 15 year old guy with long blond hair and scrony most say i am a fag because of my long hair but the guy with
short hair is fine this ain’t right don’t make your kid be what you
want and starving a BABY wtf is wrong with parents today un!!!!!!!!!