Mother Who Injected 8-Year-Old Girl With Botox Now Under Investigation
- Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:47pm by
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco authorities are investigating a mother who said on a national television program that she gives her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections.
Trent Rohrer with the city’s Human Services Agency tells KGO-TV that officials need to sit down and talk with Kerry Campbell and her daughter, Britney.
Rohrer says it was unusual for a mother to inject a child with the anti-wrinkle shot.
Campbell appeared with her daughter Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” She enrolls Britney in beauty pageants and says she got the idea to give her daughter Botox from other pageant mothers.
Rohrer says his office received numerous calls from people concerned about Britney’s well-being after the TV appearance.
Botox injections can be painful and are not recommended for anyone under the age of 18.
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lynnissmart
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:37pmshame on her!
Report Post »Veritas
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:30pmWhere is the father?? I think a lot of nonsense like this would be averted if both parents were involved. I don’t like getting the government involved with families, but we have created a society that expects it in these cases. I think the mother is in need of a good spanking and rough talking to! She should be barred from putting her child in these “beauty” contests forever.
Report Post »ilonggani
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:29pmIs she licensed to inject Botox?…this is an example of a blatant child abuse…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:55pmYour post forced me to respond. I totally agree that this is over the line; however what about young children in gymnastics (broken bones), 5 year olds that ride motorcycles, or kids learning to hunt with weapons. Where does it end? Is the government going to control your every move? It’s all over folks. Giving your child an aspirin is considered practicing medicine without a doctors licence. Everyone is going to jail at the descretion of government.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:28pmIs her mother Nancy Pelosi?!?
Report Post »Malcom0983
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:27pmChild pageants should be outlawed. Who is this for? Certainly not for the children. It’s akin to child pornography. Disgusting.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:25pmWhy, as a society, do we feel the need to make our children grow up faster than normal?!? What ever happened to allowing children to be children?!? We are violently reducing the age of innocence…
I guess by the age of 10, the mother will be getting her daughter breast implants…
Report Post »HippieRepublican
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:24pmThis happened in California? I don’t believe that for a minute….
Report Post »anutter
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:21pmThrough prescriptions you can. Diabetics need them for insulin shots.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:19pmThis is like one of those pageant moms, who try to perk up their daughters to satisfy their own lack of self-esteem. Sad.
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:19pmEVERYTHING in me says YES! RUIN this woman! I couldn’t agree MORE but… botox is a legally available product, purchased legally, used (we presumed) by a legally licensed doctor, right? I know NOTHING about botox, except that it is derived from the toxin botulin (right?) so that ain’t great, but if the whole chain of custody of events here was legal, aren’t we being little Nazis about this? I mean, is the remedy here LEGAL or MORAL? Seems to me this is not a case for the “state” but for her neighbors, her friends, her town, her relatives, her kid’s school, etc. to SHUN her. Handle it SOCIALLY, right? Damn. This is a hard one. Because like I say, I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS STORY. ALL OF IT. The vanity, the message it sends to this poor kid, the way it will f* up her thinking about herself and her looks… I mean the WHOLE THING is AWFUL, but it is LEGALLY ACTIONABLE or, like I say, a SOCIAL matter? I worry about the slippery slope here. What if you let your kids tattoo a crucifix on their arm or something and the state comes for your kid? I mean, I HATE it, but it if that‘s your thing and it’s legal…
http://www.anniefields.com/blog
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:30pmAnd that is the $64,000 question… When is the line crossed concerning child abuse?!?
Report Post »Jennidj
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:02pmI watched this story on abc last night so I did not rewatch the clip here. The mother of this child is the one injecting her, she insinuates that she is getting the botox illegally. On the program that I watched they go on to explain how giving botox to a child so young could cause permanent facial paralysis. My point is I don’t think she was doing this legally and she knows it but simply does not care.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:18pmChild abuse, and after this woman serves time for what she’s doing to her daughter…. she should be banned for life from participating in any of the ridiculous pageants.
Report Post »Lee Butchee
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:16pmNot the cause of our sick society, but a definite symptom. This idea that beauty resides on the outside AND ONLY on the outside is all at once stupid and sick! This mother is likely so ugly on the inside she can‘t stand to look at herself in the mirror and she’s passing on that ugliness to her own daughter and neither one realizes it. The child will likely (likely, nothing is carved in stone yet) grow into one of those spoilt teenagers who believe they are entitled to whatever they want. When these kids don’t get their way they try murdering their friends/enemies or their own parents (a la Menendez brothers) or holding up stores or whatever. It’s sad, and it will all be her mom’s fault in a round about way.
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:16pmGrey
Syringes are legal and can be used legally for medical purposes. My husband gives me a monthly shot, prescribed by my doctor. It saves office visits and money for everyone (me, doctor, insurance agency). Before we jump in with regulations about who can and can not have/ use syringes, we should consider medicating self or family members is already disallowed in the medical community.
The problem is not the syringe or the use of it; the problem is the mother incorrectly medicating her child, willfully.
Report Post »Mahakala
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:15pmThat child is doomed by having a mother like that.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:12pmChild abuse – plain and simple. This child must be rescued from this abusive environment and the mother arrested, without delay.
Report Post »spotster
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:09pmthe mom is a fat increment of excrament
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:03pmGood ole Cali. Nancy is the poster girl for this. Just another normal day in the cesspool.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:34pmThere has got to be something in the air in CA………….!!!!
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:57pmI cannot relate, on any level, to a mother who puts her child through these pageants.
My strongest advice to my girls when they were young was to enjoy being the age that they were – be happy playing with Barbies, riding bikes and hide and seek. You WILL get older and do ‘big girl’ things, but you can never go back and be younger.
So what are these moms trying to say to their girls? Again, I cannot relate whatsoever.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:56pmWhat a dimwit this mom is, obviously the child has no clue why and the mom is using this interview for publicity.
Report Post »mermaid7
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:54pmThis woman needs some pyshciatric help. Forcing an 8 year old to do this is very troubling. Where is the father in this? The fact that this woman thinks her child needs wrinkle medicine is just perplexing. The harm that this woman is doing to her child just makes me want to scream. I feel so sorry for the child! Social services needs to step in NOW! The child needs medical attention immediately for fear of bad reactions.
Report Post »nhseacoast
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:54pmNow this is where government should get involved. This is criminal! The person doing the Botox on the little girl should be brought up on charges and her mother needs to be mentally evaluated.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 4:35pmI see these type Mom’s pushing their daughters into this sickening lifestyle are trying to live through their daughters. But adding Botox to the mix is unbelievable and harmful for a young child and should be disallowed in these type contests. The mom’s are sicker than the kid who probably grows up thinking she is the Queen of Sheba with a nasty temper or a sorry loser because she never won.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 3:13amThe mother is a loon , it’s also caused by these stupid reality shows .
Report Post »JumpOut266
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:54pmAnd some of you folks were worried about a kid playing with a dead squirrel.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:19pmlol!
Report Post »stoptheliesbho
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:51pmi want to inject Botox into that mom’s heart.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:50pmSide effects of too much television.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:56pmStupid parents should have their cable disconnected.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:05pmLiberalism is a mental disorder. Many are infected by content manufactured by television programs that lack intellectual value.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:49pmWhat a pathetic excuse for a mother!
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:53pmi’d hate to have her daughter grow up without a mom by putting her in jail (even though she might deserve it), but a judge needs to order psychiatric care immediately. this woman is sick in the head. oh, yeah, and while we’re at it, we might want to give due critisism to holloweird for glamourizing this nonsense.
Report Post »DogWithA_Bone
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:54pmThat is disgusting! Who would put their child through that…
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:57pmVain, self-centered bi***.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:13pmHey Blaze…how about some REAL news that matters…like…
“The acting solicitor general for the United States today claimed in a federal appeals court hearing that Congress has the absolute power to order citizens to purchase consumer goods if lawmakers believe there is a national problem the purchases would address.”
or
“In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.”
NOW THIS IS NEWS!!!
Report Post »Mr.Nick
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:17pmYeah… I would call that child abuse..
You’d have to be crazy to inject an 8 year old with botox.
I rarely support parenting intervention – but this is a good case for the mother to have her kid taken from her. If the mother believes its ok to inject an 8 year old with botox, what other crazy ideas does she believe??
Report Post »lcam67
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:17pmsilence………….. my jaw wide open. WOW !!
Report Post »anutter
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:23pmWait, this in San Francisco…That just makes it totally normal. No story here…carry on.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:31pmWhile they are at it, she said she got the idea from other mothers – making a list and checking it twice, they need to find out who the other pathetic mothers are and investigate them too.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:37pmCALIFORNIA–No need to elaborate, California sez it all…Just sayin’
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:52pmThey were asking on the site about the little girl with the dead squirrel was a good parent, well this is absolutely shows a bad and incompetent parent that doesn’t deserve having a child. They also need to make rules in these pageants that anyone who has botox used on these children are automatically disqualified and either banned from pageants for a limited amount of time or even banned for good from these pageants!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:52pmDogWithA_Bone WROTE:
“That is disgusting! Who would put their child through that”…
A dumbocrat maybe?
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:54pmAn indication of the break down of the God based culture.
I want it
I want it now
I want it because I deverve it
It’s mine
That is what we are told by Madison Avenue each day – and we buy into it. PLUS we (you and I) perpetuate it buy buying their crap. We buy stuff we don’t need… we buy stuff out of plain vanity…
One of the things that killed the Roman Empire was the lack of a moral foundation and everyone went off on a hedonist quest for self satisfaction.
Wise up people…. Stop consuming crap!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:55pmOh – Sorry – San Francisco –
Nevermind
Report Post »VaModMember
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:56pmParent who put their (under 16) kids in pagents need mental help FOR CHILD ABUSE. No way do the kids have any idea what they are getting into and no way can they understand how all the PERVS love to wtch them. BAN ALL KIDDIE PAGENTS NOW
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:06pmWhat a stupid, idiot cow that woman is, just incredible the ignorance in our country, sheer stupidity!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:30pmi could not even get half-way through the video w/o feeling the need the throw up – that is one stupid cow….
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:34pm…
Report Post »We can’t waste this valuable product on an 8 yr. old.
Nancy Pelosi has a standing order.
bikerr
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 4:03pmBan a Happy Meal but allow botox for kids?. Is this backwards or what?
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 4:14pmI admit the little girl is kinda cute, but in this world she would never win a beauty contest with or without botox injected in every part of her body. It’s the mother who is sick. Just remember the little Jon Bonet Ramsey incident. Poor little thing didn’t have a life with her making her into a “Beauty Queen”
Report Post »instead of letting the child have a normal childhood. Little girls need to play with dolls and play hop-scotch & not try to look like a baby ******. Too many sicko’s out there who like this look.
LibertyThinker
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 4:48pm@Susan Harkins
I’m with you on this, The Blaze seems to be turning into another tabloid rag.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:11pm@susan — There’s a “Have a tip?” form at the bottom right of every page on this site. If you can copy and paste links and include brief descriptions, perhaps the editors would appreciate the information.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:13pmNote that most of the mothers of the “beauty” pageants for little girls are big COWS; fat, ugly, overbearing and trying to use their kids to make up for their losses as a human.
my question is this: WHERE IS THE DAD? WHERE ARE THE DADS? IF IT WERE MY GRAND DAUGHTER I WOULD TURN IN THE MOTHER MYSELF….even if it were my own.
THIS represents the SICKNESS that we have come to and I think that anyone even thinking that this pageant idea is a good one needs some self-examination. AND
ANY DR. giving BOTOX to a person under 30 needs to have their license revoked. GROW UP AMERICANS.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:08pmMy boys grew up with a real nut case for a mother, but I would not have shot them with botox. (Maybe a .22?)
Report Post »LEGOMAN1444
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:57ambad mom!!!! but what kind of doctor would do that to a child?
Report Post »LEGOMAN1444
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:01ami agree but what doctor would do that to a child
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:54amSickening on so many levels. Not just the physical dangers and unknowns, but she is totally messing her child up psychologically.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 6:34amTypical stage parent living their life through the kids…One thing says it all though…SAN FRANCISCO
Report Post »truthwinz
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:17pmThis is just sick on so many levels. That child will be taken away from this deranged woman who believes and has convinced her daughter that botox will help her win a beauty pagent. 1st of all – it won’t. 2nd – how does this or any mother aquire the drug. 3rd- botox is a poison & not something you want to mess with without some serious medical training.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 6:58pmI’m glad they posted this story. I heard that some lady gave her 8 year old Botox, and I was wondering if there was a good reason. My 8 year old daughter recently had plastic surgery, so I was wondering if there was a reason for it (my daughter’s surgery was in the middle of an umbilical hernia repair operation… the surgery gave my dd an innie belly button as opposed to the outie that she was born with).
It looks like this was not a case of medical necessity, or even involved anything that was medically recommended. But you never know when you only hear half of the story.
Report Post »ParishionerUSA
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:13pmI bet that one thing a kid might prefer to being in foster care might be botox injections. Not that it’s good to give your kid botox, but if it is not legal then let the punishment fit the crime. Human Services Agency is a bigger problem then stupid parents.
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