5-Year-Old Dies From Excessive Dehydration and Neglect
In May 2015, a 25-year-old woman named Hilery Maison called 911 saying her stepdaughter Mackenzie was refusing to eat, or as she put it, rebelling against food. It didn’t take long for Hilery to mention her real reason for calling.
Mackenzie was unresponsive. Hilery claimed she was bathing Mackenzie and suddenly she became incoherent and stopped breathing. Hilery told the dispatcher that her husband, Andrew Maison was doing CPR, but it wasn’t working.
Paramedics rushed to the Maisons’ home in Port Huron, Michigan. Mackenzie was still unresponsive, but they took her to the hospital where nurses and doctors attempted to revive her for over minutes. Defeated and heartbroken, they had to call it. Mackenzie was pronounced lifeless.
The first responders and medical professionals were shocked at how bad Mackenzie looked. She was severely malnourished and dehydrated, weighing 25 pounds at five years old.
The average weight for a healthy five-year-old is 34 to 50 pounds. Mackenzie didn’t look like a kid who just rebelled from food for a few days. She looked like a child who’d been deprived of food and water for a very long time.
