Grandmother faces child endangerment charge after violating restraining order
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Updated · Bored Panda · May 5
Grandmother faces child endangerment charge after violating restraining order
6 articles · Updated · Bored Panda · May 5
The case followed a three-year-old girl's emergency-room treatment after her grandmother allegedly fed her peanut butter and banana cookies despite severe allergies to peanuts, eggs, dairy and bananas.
Hospital staff reported the incident, and the parents later sought a restraining order as the grandmother allegedly kept calling, threatening and trying to contact the family.
After the order was breached, the family moved to another state and cut contact; the child recovered, while she and her father reportedly entered therapy.
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