So, apparently, the mom is not who she says she is..
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=89053
SFGate (SF Chronicle)
Turns out the mom who says she gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox beauty treatments doesn't actually live in San Francisco.
Nor, for that matter, is her real name Kerry Campbell.
San Francisco officials were deluged with inquiries last week after the woman went on ABC's "Good Morning America" and said she was administering Botox injections to her 8-year-old daughter to give her a better chance of winning child beauty contests. She said she was a trained esthetician and that the girl's name was Britney. The city said it would look into it all.
Reporters were unable to track down a San Francisco address or phone number for the woman. Our sources tell us that's because she doesn't live here and isn't Kerry Campbell.
San Francisco Human Services Director Trent Rhorer declined to comment on the matter Monday, citing confidentiality laws in juvenile cases. But he did say that "we have completed our investigation, and we are no longer involved in the case."
In California, county welfare agencies have jurisdiction only over families that reside in their counties.
As for the woman's true identity and where she actually lives, that remains unclear -- but apparently, she isn't a Bay Area resident. How much of the rest of her story was on the level -- the Botox, the child beauty contests -- also is not known.
ABC News, citing unnamed sources, said child welfare officials where the family lives removed the girl from her home over the weekend.
"Good Morning America" picked up the original story from the British tabloid The Sun, which reported back in March that Kerry Campbell was a 34-year-old former beautician from Birmingham, England, who had moved to San Francisco. The paper quoted the mom as saying, "What I am doing for Britney now will help her become a star."
When the story ran on "Good Morning America," the mom's age was given as 38. She was shown injecting what she said was Botox into the face of her daughter. The daughter said the shots "hurt sometimes, but I get used to it."
As for how child protective services officials finally located mom and daughter? We're told they were certainly recognizable to the locals from their TV appearances.
Posted By: Matier and Ross (Email) | May 16 2011 at 01:22 PM
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