Mom Jailed for Son's Bad Teeth

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Mom Jailed for Son's Bad Teeth

Afternoon Update with Monica Malpass
WPVI By Monica Malpass

A mother in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is behind bars today for not taking her young son to the dentist.

Police arrested 43-year-old Eneida Resto and charged her with child endangerment. She's behind bars on $25,000 bail. Her 5-year-old foster son had to have 12 teeth pulled, including all his molars after complaining of pains and headaches for a year. The child's dentist called police. He says 2-3 years of neglect led to the rotten teeth. And that if no action had been taken, the child would have been hospitalized for up to 6 months from abscesses.


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