This can happen without any criminal acts involved in childcare.   To many people's surprise, if your children are obese to such a degree that the social workers could not bear seeing your children's obesity, you are at a real risk of losing custody of your child.

That may be likely to happen tomorrow to a UK mother named Nicola McKeown who has an eight year old son, Connor McCreaddie, with his body weight of more than 80 kilo.   He is so obese that he could not be able to walk, bath and dress himself without difficulty.

Because of his excessive weight, Connor has often to miss school.   News media reports that he unintentionally broke four beds and two bicycles.

Ms McKeown was summoned to a child protection conference tomorrow in front of a company of authorities including medical authorities (administrative medical workers), social authorities (social workers) and law enforcement authorities (police officers).

Experts believe that the only way to prevent the kid from acquiring life threatening diabetes, or heart disease is taking him away from his mother.   And authorities are ready to take the child into care at any time on the basis of alleged child abuse.

Based on authorities' judgment, 80 plus kilo body weight for an eight year old kid is a sure sign of child abuse which is serious enough to justify the state intervention.

The mother accused the local authorities in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne of failing to help her and her son and complained that those who are ready to take her son into social care are exactly those who have never come to help her.   Ms. McKeown said she should have been helped earlier.

McKeown told a TV channel that it is not easy to deal with a child who keeps asking for food. Her son happened to have a very good appetite and "eats "chips with everything", loves curry and snacks on sausage sandwiches, burgers, chocolate biscuits and "junk food all day long while sitting at the computer," Guardian.co.uk reports.

The woman has already felt depressed because of the intervention from the government.   The mother’s mother Barbara Bake said if her grandson is ever taken into care,  that would be the finish of her seriously.

Dr Colin Waine, chairman of the National Obesity Forum was quoted as saying "He has great risk of diabetes and coronary illness. His life expectancy is severely prejudiced. So action is required if his health is to be safeguarded."

"As far as I'm concerned this is a form of child abuse. Not done intentionally, but the result is child abuse," Dr Michael Markiewicz, a consultant pediatrician was quoted as saying.

But "I don't see how they can say we are not doing enough," Ms. McKeown was quoted as saying. "I was given a diet sheet when he was five-years-old, stuck to it for a whole year. There was supposed to be a follow-up appointment, nothing. ”

A health observer who does not want to be named comments on the incident saying that the doctors can be more dangerous than an illness or condition in many cases as it is they who define the risk of various diseases and decide who should receive what medical treatments, which not only takes aways your right to making medical decisions, but also subjects you to some risk you would otherwise be able to avoid.