Mother wins back permanent custody of obese Ohio boy

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio juvenile court judge removed a protective order on Thursday in the case of a third-grader who was taken from his mother’s custody last October after he tipped the scales at 219 lbs (99 kg). Juvenile court judge David Stucki ruled in favor of a mother’s petition to permanently restore the boy to her custody and to close the boy’s case with the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services. Social workers were alerted to the child’s medical situation in March 2010 when the boy, then 7, was hospitalized for two weeks with severe breathing problems. …