Parents Get 10 Years For Son’s Malnourishment

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allowing their blind and autistic son to become so severely malnourished that he nearly died and doctors likened him to a concentration camp survivor.
District Judge Ingrid Bakke sentenced David and Vanessa Hall of Longmont on Tuesday for felony child abuse.
“There was a conscious decision to isolate him … so that nobody would see what kind of condition he was in,” Bakke said about the