"MOUNTAIN DEW BABY BOTTLES" MADE BY MOM KILLS DIABETIC TOT
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Karmity Hoeb becomes lethargic. The normally busy 4-year-old is not active at all. After four days, her symptoms getting worse each day, Karmity turns blue and stops breathing. Her mother finally calls 911 for help. First responders are able to revive the little girl and she is taken to Children's Hospital. Karmity Hoeb seems malnourished, and her teeth appear to be rotted out
Doctors order a brain scan and determine that the little girl with a big personality is brain dead. An autopsy is done and reveals Karmity died from a diabetes-related brain injury. Investigators determine that Karmity has never been formally diagnosed with Diabetes.
Investigators discover her mother, Tamara Banks, has been feeding the 4-year-old a mixture of Mountain Dew and baby formula through a bottle, long after she should have been weaned off the bottle, causing her teeth to rot. Her teeth are almost all rotted, but no record can be found of her parents taking her to a dentist
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- Irv Brandt - Former US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch, Author: "FLYING SOLO: Top of the World" available on Amazon- irvbrandt.com Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
- Dr. Michelle DuPre - Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Author: “Money, Mischief, and Murder…the Murdaugh Saga. The rest of the story” available now on Amazon. “Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Forensic Consultant, DMichelleDupreMD.com
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:05.0 | Breaking news tonight, a Mountain Dew Bottle Baby, |
| 0:10.0 | four-year-old little girl Carmody dead of acute diabetes after mommy feeds her baby |
| 0:18.7 | nothing but Mountain Dew baby bottles. The baby's teeth rotted out. What, nobody saw that? All I can say tonight |
| 0:29.7 | is there is a very special car to hell for mommy and daddy you're riding shotgun. |
| 0:37.0 | Good evening I'm Nancy Grace this is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:42.0 | For overall care, it was so poor that resulted in her death. |
| 0:45.0 | Her diet was actually terrible. |
| 0:48.0 | And she has what's called baby bottle care is. |
| 0:51.0 | It's sort of tooth decay that's caused by drinking a sugary liquid usually |
| 0:56.2 | added on a delivery system sort of like a bottle. What turns out, this four-year-old |
| 1:00.1 | child was drinking, Mountain Dew out of a bottle every day, so much so that it |
| 1:04.6 | brought all of her teeth away. |
| 1:06.2 | That's of our friends at Local 12, WKRC TV, and you are hearing the |
| 1:11.9 | description of what was done to a four-year-old little girl |
| 1:18.6 | comedy aka Mountain Dew baby- Baby Bottle Baby. |
| 1:25.8 | Mountain Dew Baby Bottle Baby. |
| 1:31.2 | With me an all-star panel to make sense of what we are hearing right now. |
| 1:37.0 | But first, what happened when this little baby girl was rushed to the hospital. |
| 1:44.3 | Toward the end of January, Carmody Hope becomes lethargic. |
| 1:48.5 | The normally busy four-year-old is not active at all. After four days of her symptoms getting worse each day, |
| 1:56.4 | Carmody turns blue and stops breathing. Her mother finally calls 911 for help. |
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