Two Alabama women were accused of murder on Wednesday for allegedly killing a young girl by forcing her to run for three hours without stopping, authorities said.
The running was apparently a punishment for Savannah Hardin, 9, who died on Monday at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham from dehydration and low sodium, a condition common in marathon runners, according to Natalie Barton, Etowah County, Alabama Public Information Officer.
The child was apparently forced to run in the family’s yard for eating a forbidden candy bar and lying about it, she said.
This is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. As Amber put so eloquently in her latest post, “[t]his is what fear does. It paralyzes people and makes them act irrationally. And while people are so convinced that obesity kills, these terrifying ways that they’re trying to prevent fat are, in a number of ways, even worse.”
This has got to stop. Fat shaming - and any other type of body shaming - is never OK.
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