Nancy Grace

Child Help.

Virginia, thank you for being with us.

Many people don't know that starving a child can result in permanent brain damage.

Have you ever seen anything like it before, Virginia?

Dr. Kendall Crowns, Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrant County, that's Fort Worth, never a lack of business.

He is the esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU.

I know that you heard this, but let me repeat it again.

A seven-year-old little girl barricaded in a locked bedroom closet, locked from the outside, soiled, a seven-year-old weighing just 29 pounds,

confined to a three by two foot closet.

She has been given at most one corn dog and a half cup of water a day.

She is now suffering permanent moderate to severe cerebral

Dr. General Crowns, a child of seven years old should weigh around 70 pounds, 40, 45 to 70 pounds.

Is that right?

A seven-year-old average, of course, they grow at different weights.

The average is 51 pounds for a seven-year-old child, but it ranges from 43 to 70.

So where would you place 29 pounds?

In that spectrum, 29 pounds.

If a seven-year-old can weigh up to 73, she's not even half the weight of a seven-year-old.

Dr. Crowns, isn't it true that a child weighing 29 pounds typically, and I'm basing this on charts and statistics that I prepared, is typically a 22-month-old child at 29 pounds?

A 7-year-old little girl, Dr. Kendall Crowns, that should weigh 71 pounds, 51 to 71 pounds,