Sons defend mother who faces child cruelty charge over teen son who weighs 49 pounds

Two young men are defending their mother who’s charged with child cruelty for not taking her youngest son to the hospital. Police said the 14-year-old boy weighed only 49 pounds, and a doctor said he was in critical condition.

Hashabah Yehudah, 44, was arrested July 25 at her Oakwood apartment after a doctor’s office called police to do a welfare check on the child.

The Division of Family and Children Services also came to the apartment and paramedics took the boy to Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital…

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