SICK & TWISTED: Morbidly Obese Family Starves & Tortures Child Nearly to Death
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What shocking condition was the 14-year-old girl found in?
This is the case of a 14 year old girl, weighing just 35 pounds, comatose and barely clinging to life. Her own family spun a tale of this out of control child with behavioral issues who just refused to eat as a result of her autism diagnosis. But as the truth began to unravel, a far more sinister reality emerged. Not only was every word they spoke a carefully constructed lie, but the very adults who condemned a child to a life of starvation were themselves extremely obese to the point of being almost immobilized. It's just disgusting to watch this family, who are no strangers themselves to extreme overindulgence, to berate and abuse a child for asking for the most basic nutrition. Today we are diving into the disturbing case of MG, the horrific abuse she faced and exposing the web of lies that hid beneath it all.
This case surrounds the abuse and neglect of a 14 year old girl who has not been named publicly
How did the family justify the starvation of MG?
only identified by her initials M.G. It takes place in Oneida, Wisconsin, a small town located on the outskirts of Green Bay. For the first years of her life, M.G. lived with her mother until the spring of 2020 When she moved in with her dad, 47-year-old Walter Goodman, stepmom, 50-year-old Melissa Goodman, her adult stepsister, 29-year-old Savannah Lefevre, and stepbrother, 15-year-old N.M. They also had two dogs, Lily and Sassy. A year after MG moved in in August of 2021, her stepsister Savannah's partner Kayla Stemmler also moved into the trailer. Not a lot is known about MG's life prior to moving in with her father. From what we know, she didn't have much contact with Walter since she was a little girl and had only met Melissa a few times before moving in.
according to walter mg's mother went to jail in may of 2020 so cps asked if he could take custody of her and he agreed that seems to be why she ended up with him though we don't know why she ended up in jail or if she's still in jail or what issues she was facing either way after moving in this was the setup of the trailer melissa and walter shared the main bedroom Savannah had her own room and MG joined NM in his bedroom. The room had bunk beds so MG slept on the top bunk while NM slept on the bottom bunk. By the time Kayla moved in though, NM moved out of the room he shared and started sleeping on the couch. And of course, Kayla joined Savannah in her room. It should be noted that both Walter and Melissa
were extremely obese to the point of being almost bedbound. Neither of them left the home very often and it's unclear whether either of them ever worked. Kayla was really the only one who actually worked outside the home. She had studied early childhood education and was working as a teacher's aide in a three-year-old room at the Head Start program. At one point, NM was actually diagnosed with cancer, so really the only times Walter or Melissa would leave the home was when they took him to get his treatment. As for the kids, when MG lived with her mother, she attended public school in Oneida until COVID hit when she was in the third grade. She ended up finishing out the 2019-2020 school year online before she moved in with her dad.
While living with Walter, she continued the fourth grade virtually before she was then homeschooled for the next three years. So with that being said... pretty much no one in that trailer ever left. MG had little to no contact with her mother, grandmother, or other siblings. She didn't go to the doctor. She didn't interact with teachers or friends. She was stuck inside the trailer with four adults and one other teenager. No one ever heard anything about MG until the evening of August 21st, 2025, when Walter called 911 to report that his daughter was acting lethargic and was comatose. The call started with Walter saying, I have a 14-year-old daughter that she don't barely eat, so she looks really skinny.
She is also autistic, so if she don't want to eat, she don't eat. So the last four or five days, she'd been sick, thrown up. and I've been giving her liquid IVs and all that kind of stuff.
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