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Originally posted by BabyBlue91
Mother held in toddler's fatal starving
14-month-old weighed 10 pounds but DYFS was told he was 'small'
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Asbury Park Man Is Arrested in His Son's Starvation Death
By JASON GEORGE
Published: November 27, 2004
An Asbury Park man wanted in the starvation death of his 14-month-old son was arrested yesterday on charges of manslaughter and child endangerment.
Police officers had been looking for the man, Wesley White, 26, since Monday, when the mother of the boy was arrested on the same charges. Mr. White and the mother, Tahija Handberry, 22, have two other children, now in foster care. The parents are each being held in the Monmouth County Jail in $200,000 bail.
Mr. White was apprehended about 8:30 a.m. yesterday at a house in Freehold, 20 miles west of Asbury Park, Sgt. Mark Wodell of the Freehold Borough Police Department said. An anonymous 911 call led the Freehold police to the house, where Mr. White was arrested in the kitchen without a struggle, Sergeant Wodell said.
The boy, Jmeir White, who was the middle of the couple's three children, weighed 10.4 pounds when he died of chronic malnutrition at Ms. Handberry's Asbury Park apartment on Aug. 22, according to John Kaye, the county prosecutor. A caseworker from the state's child welfare agency had visited the home in June and noted Jmeir's small size but accepted the mother's explanation that all her children were small because she is a dwarf.
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I posted the mother's arrest last week. The Star-Ledger issued a
damning editorial on this case in today's issue.