Friday, March 28, 2008
Parents get probation for starving their 3-year-old
LISBON — A “low-functioning” couple may lose custody of their children after authorities found their 3-year-old child weighed just 16 pounds, authorities said.
The good news is the child is apparently doing well, authorities added.
The couple was not in a program such as the Columbiana County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and did not have jobs, said Timothy McNicol, the assistant county prosecutor who handled the case.
Daniel R. Clutter Jr., 33, and his wife, Tabitha Lynn Clutter, 24, of Wilbert Avenue, East Liverpool, were sentenced Friday. Each had pleaded guilty earlier to a felony charge of endangering children.
Judge David Tobin of common pleas court ordered them to serve five years’ probation, with the first month served in the Eastern Ohio Correctional Center in Jefferson County, a prison alternative facility.
McNicol recommended probation because the Clutters are what he described as mentally low functioning.
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