Dead schoolgirl 'refused to eat because of dentists'

[Gumleaf]

Thursday Mar 27 16:00 AEDT
By ninemsn staff


A British schoolgirl discovered dead in her bed had a phobia of dentists that left her too terrified to open her mouth to eat.

Sophie Waller, 8, was so scared she had to be put under general anaesthetic to have her baby teeth removed, the Daily Mail reports.

When she left the Royal Cornwall Hospital in November 2005 doctors were sure she would recover but her mother Janet said she wouldn't eat anything at home but watermelon, and Sophie was found dead from acute kidney failure one month later.

Mrs Waller said it was obvious her daughter was extremely unwell when she left hospital, saying her eyes had become "sunken" and that she couldn't walk.

"Then one day I went to her room and found her cold," she was quoted as saying.

"We called an ambulance but she was already dead."

A spokesman for Cornwall coroner Dr Emma Carlyon said an inquest would be held into the tragedy "at the earliest opportunity".

A Cornwall Hospital representative said the hospital couldn't comment ahead of the inquest.

[Zephyr]

Wow O_o
That's what I call pure fear.

Shouldn't the mother have monitered the nutrition that her daughter was getting if she knew that her child was already unwell?

[japanman]

DAM idiots pure idiots shes afraidd of dentista you could waited till shes older and mabye helped her but now its too late shes gone the mother was iggnorent. This will forever be in my memory.:(

[sabin22]

Wow O_o
That's what I call pure fear.

Shouldn't the mother have monitered the nutrition that her daughter was getting if she knew that her child was already unwell?

Agreed

[JoshDude]

Yeah well the parents are idiots. Shouldnt have taken her that early if she had an extreme fear, and why not take her to a psychiartrist about not opening her mouth.

[Techno Monster]

omg what has this world come to