Mother charged with child abuse

A Brooksville woman was charged with child abuse this morning following complaints that she didn't properly take care of her son's dental health needs.

Vanessa Wright, 30, was transported to the Hernando County Jail after authorities claim that on four separate occasions she didn't follow through with dental treatment for her 5-6 year-old son, resulting in a hospital trip in July to All Children's Hospital in Tampa to treat infection. The Florida Department of Children and Families is also investigating the matter.

According to sheriff's reports, Wright originally took the child to the Hernando County Health Department in October 2008 to treat his teeth. After not following through with treatment, she took him for treatment in February 2009 to Cobbe Dental & Orthodontics in Spring Hill where the boy was given the same diagnosis. Again, treatment allegedly wasn't followed through.

Following the July hospital visit, the boy was again referred to Cobbe Dental in August, however Wright again allegedly didn't follow through with treatment.

Wright reportedly had Medicaid that would've covered the cost for the dental treatment at no cost to her.

Bond was set for Wright at $10,000.

So here we have a mother with medicaid (free) where she could have prevented her son from going to a hospital with an infection that could have spread throughout his body and possibly killed him, what the heck is wrong with the mother? Too lazy......I've taken my kids to Dr. Cobbe and he is a wonderful, caring person, who I know would have worked with this lady and her son to get him feeling better, and if he couldn't deal with the situation he would have referred her to someone who would have helped. Seems that this mother was just too darn lazy, and look where it got her, I'm sure that she didn't have the bond money.

Another one on the dole without a worry in the world. Now it will just cost the taxpayers more and more. The kid off to foster care, mommy in jail, the kid will get the dental care, finally, at our cost. Then we have her in jail, getting 3 squares a day for who knows how long, a public defender, all covered by THE TAXPAYERS.

They got it all figured out. Never work a day in their lives, have it all handed to them. Yet they still cant live civilzed.