Parents of Obese Teenager who Died During Lockdown Jailed for Gross Negligence Manslaughter

Parents of Obese Teenager who Died During Lockdown Jailed for Gross Negligence Manslaughter
Undated image of Kaylea Titford, 16, who died, after becoming morbidly obese, in Newtown, Wales, in October 2020. Family/CPS
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The parents of a 16-year-old girl who weighed 22 stone 13 pound (321 pounds) and died as a result of medical complications from her obesity have been jailed for manslaughter owing to gross negligence.

Kaylea Titford, who had spina bifida and hydrocephalus and had been in a wheelchair since she was a young child, died at her home in Newtown in Wales in October 2020 after suffering inflammation and infection from ulcers, which were blamed on her obesity and immobility.

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