Ohio mother sentenced for Mountain Dew killing of diabetic daughter

A 41-year-old mother in Ohio who most commonly fed her daughter Mountain Dew via a child bottle till her enamel rotted was once sentenced to nine- to 13-and-a-half years in jail for involuntary manslaughter on Friday. 

Tamara Banks confronted fees of homicide, involuntary manslaughter and endangering kids, however the homicide and endangering kids fees had been dropped when she pleaded responsible to involuntary manslaughter, in step with FOX 19. 

The woman’s father, Christopher Hoeb, 53, confronted the similar fees and has additionally pleaded responsible to involuntary manslaughter. He’s going to be sentenced subsequent month. 

“This is without doubt one of the maximum tragic instances I’ve ever encountered,” Clermont County Assistant Prosecuting Lawyer Clay Tharp instructed The Cincinnati Enquirer.

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The 4-year-old, whose diabetes went undiagnosed for years, was once discovered unresponsive in January 2022, Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekulve mentioned in a information liberate on the time. 

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The woman was once taken to a sanatorium the place she was once pronounced brain-dead and ultimately taken off lifestyles reinforce, FOX 19 reported. 

Her explanation for demise was once dominated to be diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication of diabetes through which acid ranges in an individual’s blood grow to be life-threatening, in step with the Mayo Sanatorium. 

The woman’s vitamin principally consisted of Mountain Dew, prosecutors mentioned.  (Rey Lopez for The Washington Publish by way of Getty Photographs)

“Because of the forget and abuse via her folks, Ok.H. suffered for a majority of her quick lifestyles,” Tekulve mentioned, including that her diabetes was once “left undiagnosed and untreated over an extended time frame.” 

Banks oldest son Jerry instructed FOX 19 in March that he by no means met his little sister as a result of she was once avoided him, however he recollects his more youthful brother going into Diabetic ketoacidosis years ahead of and needed to pressure his mother, who he mentioned was once handed out, to take him to the sanatorium.

Banks remained within the Clermont County Prison as of Saturday evening, in step with the prison’s website online. Clermont County is east of Cincinnati.   (Clermont County Sheriff’s Place of business)

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“Sooner or later, he simply went torpid and wouldn’t transfer and the one factor he would reply to was once sugar and for 36 hours, she [Tamara Banks] handed out within the again room,” Jerry Banks instructed the station. “I needed to wake her up and pressure her to take him to the sanatorium and that’s when he was once discovered to be in DKA; The similar factor that came about to [K.H.]. The medical doctors simply so came about to catch it in time to avoid wasting him.”

Banks remained within the Clermont County Prison as of Saturday evening, in step with the prison’s website online. Clermont County is east of Cincinnati.