"I didn’t know grandson would starve" — grandma

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1226189.html


Jeffrey, who weighed just 21 pounds when he died in November 2002, was treated like a dog. He ate out of a bowl with his fingers and often drank from a toilet when he was thirsty, her trial heard.


I felt that this was a really interesting article in the Chronicle Herald. A grandmother unknowingly starved her 5 year old grandson to death. In the article it says he was semi-comatose for several weeks and died weighing 21 lbs. Later on in the article, it says that the grandmother's IQ is only about 69, which borders on "mental retardation" and makes her less intelligent than around 98% of the Canadian population. 


This raised a lot of questions that weren't answered in the article. How did this grandmother get in charge of her child if this was the case? If she wasn't capable of raising her grandson then how did she ever raise her children and why did they give her their son? At the end they mention that the child was abused by his birth parents but what made the grandmother a better choice? Especially since he was apparently treated like a dog and she unknowingly starved him? 


Very strange indeed.