Princess Lee White was 31 when she died on February 25, 2018, in Dallas, Texas. She had been convicted in the 2014 starvation death of her seven-month-old son, Kary Sharpe, after pleading guilty to injury to a child and receiving a life sentence for his death.

Court and hospital records describe the infant’s condition as catastrophic: he weighed about seven pounds at death, only slightly more than his birth weight, had no muscle tone and every bone visible through his skin. The child’s biological grandmother found him unconscious; he later died at the hospital. Records show the child missed his six-month checkup, White lost WIC benefits after not taking him for examination, and an emergency room visit in July 2014 noted vomiting and refusal of a bottle. White acknowledged struggling to raise three children and not using available family support or CPS services, and the judge criticized relatives in the home for not intervening.

What information do readers have about the family network or services that were offered before the child’s death?