{"id":296126,"date":"2026-09-29T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296126\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:20:51","slug":"parents-get-state-prison-after-daughters-left-severely-malnourished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296126\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents get state prison after daughters left severely malnourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 29, 2026, 5:12 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Union City mother and father said they loved their two young daughters even as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2024\/10\/08\/endangering-welfare-charge-union-city-couple-accused-failing-to-properly-feed-young-children\/75567176007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">their neglect left the children severely malnourished<\/a>, a crime that has sent both parents to prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The condition of the girls, then 5 and 4, became so dire that they did not know how to eat solid food and needed surgically implanted feeding tubes to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 29, 2026, 5:12 a.m. ET A Union City mother and father said they loved their two young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[532,136,138,137,539,82371,2315,2316,36615,650,1844,1745,17411,1176,3089,651,3021,88513,648,1140,649,535],"class_list":["post-296126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accesspremium","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsnewscrime","tag-sstsncrime","tag-tagchild-neglect","tag-tagcrime-justice","tag-tagerie-county","tag-tagerie-county-court-of-common-pleas","tag-tagfamily","tag-taglegal","tag-taglegal-sentencing","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagn4n-news","tag-tagopioids","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tagviolence-abuse","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}