While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia’s
religious police, called “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice,” we do have our own strange version of vice
squads. Only, the trespasses they root out today are less likely to
involve heroin and harlots than Twinkies and trans-fats. And their
latest move is the arrest of a mother and the seizure of her child. Her
crime? Her son is too fat.
Tracy Miller at the Daily News reports on the story, writing,
“A 555-pound teenager in South Carolina is at the center of the latest
legal case to consider whether child obesity is a form of child abuse.”
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