My daughter’s teeth are black and green.
Fortunately, her hideous appearance comes courtesy of leftover Easter jelly beans that she playfully used as caps for her pearly whites.
In Pennsylvania, the black and green teeth belonging to a couple of young kids are not the result of child’s play. Unlike my 6-year-old, the Bethlehem kids didn’t pierce jelly beans with their incisors as a joke; rather, police say their rotten teeth are the real deal and the direct result of negligent parents.
Having black and green teeth is disturbing enough without becoming the center of a media storm that focuses on the arrest of your parents, who are now facing criminal charges for allowing your teeth to rot. Unfortunately, that is exactly what is happening to John and Donna Grobelny’s two innocent young children.
According to news reports, the Grobelny’s are facing two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children. The sad case suggests both adults were overwhelmed by the special needs of one of their kids.
In court documents Donna Grobelny claimed that her nine-year-old is severely autistic and she feared what would happen if he was forced to go to a dentist. In the past the mom says her son became agitated whenever he saw a doctor.
In regards to her children’s rotting teeth, Grobelny reportedly told police that she “didn’t feel that their teeth were that bad.”
Officers say that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, police reports show the nine-year-old and his seven-year-old brother had several teeth missing and holes in their mouth. Police say the older child also had a foul smell coming from his mouth and his lower teeth were black and green.
For the record, the parents had dental insurance through state assistance, but the kids’ mom, who claims she suffers from depression and bi-polar disorder, says she refused dental care for her boys because she was concerned that if her older son were sedated for treatment, he might die.
By the way, as of last week, the parents were still in jail while the boys were in protective custody.
Who knew you could be thrown in the slammer for neglecting to have your kids brush their teeth?
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