Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Fresh start is best medicine for young cancer patient - Newsday
An 8-year-old girl whose birth parents failed to treat her advancing cancer and kept her in a filthy home was too sick to go to court Tuesday for her adoption ceremony.
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Krista was diagnosed in 2003 with a malignant teratoma, a type of cancerous tumor. She underwent surgery, but her birth parents, Ursula and Frank Loscalzo of Mastic Beach, refused to allow Krista to receive chemotherapy and did not follow up on her care, according to a Family Court decision.
When Ursula Loscalzo called an ambulance for Krista in August 2004, the child's belly had swollen to the size of a basketball and she was near death, according to court papers. An emergency-medical technician who went to the Loscalzo home said that it was filthy. Krista had dirt in her skin folds and a milk bottle encrusted with green fungus, the papers said.The tumor, which was left untreated, had spread to Krista's lungs, liver and abdomen.
Ursula Loscalzo was sentenced last year to three years of probation for endangering the welfare of a child. Her other five children were placed with a different foster family. ...
An 8-year-old girl whose birth parents failed to treat her advancing cancer and kept her in a filthy home was too sick to go to court Tuesday for her adoption ceremony.
...
Krista was diagnosed in 2003 with a malignant teratoma, a type of cancerous tumor. She underwent surgery, but her birth parents, Ursula and Frank Loscalzo of Mastic Beach, refused to allow Krista to receive chemotherapy and did not follow up on her care, according to a Family Court decision.
When Ursula Loscalzo called an ambulance for Krista in August 2004, the child's belly had swollen to the size of a basketball and she was near death, according to court papers. An emergency-medical technician who went to the Loscalzo home said that it was filthy. Krista had dirt in her skin folds and a milk bottle encrusted with green fungus, the papers said.The tumor, which was left untreated, had spread to Krista's lungs, liver and abdomen.
Ursula Loscalzo was sentenced last year to three years of probation for endangering the welfare of a child. Her other five children were placed with a different foster family. ...
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