Mom, Brother, Grandfather, and Caregivers Charged With Starving 7-Year-Old Disabled Boy to Death

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A mother, grandfather, adult brother, and two caregivers in Florida have been charged with the starvation death of a 7-year-old disabled boy who weighed 7 pounds and had bones poking through his skin when he was found dead on Christmas, officials announced Wednesday. Deonte Atwell had spina bifida, a birth defect of the spinal cord, and hydrocephalus, a build up of fluid on the brain. He had both breathing and feeding tubes and required around-the-clock medical care, which Broward County prosecutors say he wasn’t receiving. According to police and prosecutors, Fort Lauderdale officers and paramedics were called to the family home last year on Christmas night and found Deonte. They took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead an hour later, but doctors said he had likely been dead for some time....