A woman from Indiana, United Stated was detained and faces charges after her four-year-old child nearly died from a severe head lice infestation.
As per reports, the girl was admitted to a US hospital last month due to the infection. The girl’s condition was serious as she could barely walk. Her 26-year-old mother Shyanna Nicole Singh claimed that she “didn’t notice the lice”.
The girl needed four blood transfusions and the child’s blood had very low hemoglobin levels, with only 1.7 hemoglobin instead of the normal 12.
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Meanwhile, the girl’s six-year-old sister was also infested with lice. While her haemoglobin levels were still low at 8.7 grams, it was not as serious as her younger sister’s.
Staff at her school told that the elder sister had had lice for three days straight in March before she was absent for 31 days.
The sisters have since been removed from their mother with child services placing them in the care and custody of their grandparents’.
The girls’ grandmother told police she asked Singh how the lice got so bad, and the mum responded that “she didn’t notice, and that (she) was just in a fog,” according to an affidavit.
