A UK mom has admitted to killing her teenage daughter by allowing her to become morbidly obese.
Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 39, pleaded guilty to gross negligence manslaughter and allowing the death of a child for failing to care for daughter Kaylea Titford, 16, according to Wales News Service.
The wheelchair-bound teen was found dead in bed in her family’s home in Wales in October 2020 — having suffered “multiple medical issues,” including spina bifida, the report said.
Both her parents were accused of allowing her to grow morbidly obese by not managing her diet and exercise, then failing to get her medical help when she clearly needed it, the outlet said.
In pleading guilty at the Dec. 12 hearing, mom Lloyd-Jones admitted in Mold crown court that it had been “reasonably foreseeable” that her actions would lead to an obvious risk of death.
The girl’s 44-year-old dad, Alun Titford, has however denied the same charges. He is scheduled to stand trial next month.
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Lloyd-Jones will be sentenced sometime after the dad’s trial, her hearing was told. Judge Rhys Rowlands warned her that “all sentencing options will be open,” while saying credit would be given for the mom’s guilty plea.
A separate hearing into the girl’s cause of death had earlier heard that it was from “inflammation and infection in extensive areas of ulceration arising from obesity and its complications in a girl with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (water on the brain),” The Sun said.
A final conclusion on that was also adjourned until after the criminal case has been concluded, the outlet said.
“While the medical cause of death was proposed by Dr. James may itself be natural, the circumstances precipitating Kaleigh’s death are under investigation by Dyfed-Powys Police,” Coroner Graeme Hughes had said.
“As such those investigations give me reason to suspect that Kaleigh’s death may be unnatural, in that a natural cause of death may be considered unnatural where there is some culpable human involvement or contribution to that death.”
