Teaching girls to live for what's worst in boys, this also is a form of child abuse not likely to garner community-wide condemnation, as other fors do...makes it more insidious in a way. r.

This is absolute lunacy as far as I am concerned. I am curious why the mother would publicize this at all. It seems very odd all the way around.

little girl beauty pageants are travesty enough... recall Jen Benet ramsey...

She has been on the news here nonstop and that poor kid.. So brainwashed..:(
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I saw that! What are people thinking????
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In my opinion, this is child abuse! This woman is sick....

I was just curious about how someone would be able to buy Botox. I had no idea that it could be bought over the internet. Yuck!

I swear, when I saw the title, I thought it was a post by Con Chapman, I thought it surely must be a joke. The kind of parent -- and the person who administered the injection -- who subjects her child to pain, inflammation, possibly worse side effects, for the sake of some fashion, should be punished.

Lunacy. And the mother isn't ashamed to publicize. She is one of those "HEY, OVER HERE!!! LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!!". All of it turns my stomach and I feel so sorry for the little girl. Destined for a life of misery.

I've heard of botox being used in young teenagers for migraines, but never thought that some crazy "Toddlers and Tiaras"-type mom would go that far. That's nuts! Rated.

I watched the news report online last night. I was shocked, then saddened. The poor girl's face is frozen in time. She has adorable dimples; I wonder if her mother (biologically speaking, she isn't a mommy) will try to get rid of those, as well, lest they become future wrinkles.

I found the subtle coaching her mom was giving her on her responses to be both interesting and frightening.

Yikes.

Patricia K. said exactly what I was going to say. Child abuse. ~r

I'm a teacher. I think this is under our guidelines of a reportable incident. It's ridiculous to do this to a young child. What next? Breast implants before high school?

It seems as if this mother is using her child to gain notoriety and attention for herself. Perhaps similar to Munchausen by proxy syndrome? Very sad. Thanks for bring this story to OS.
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My mother once told me that my brother was an only child and then....she gave me a baloney sandwich and coolaid

What the hell??

Last I checked, a "part time" aestheticism is not trained to administer Botox. This is BS straight up, I'm no fan of CPS but this is one case when they need to step in.

@Eric: Yeah, you can get practically everything online. :)

-R-

Agreed Poppi. What the heck is going on? Here, let me just give my son steroids for Little League Football, and my girls don't have wrinkles, but I'll just tattoo a little eyeliner on their eyelids so that I don't have to do it myself whenever we go out... SERIOUSLY?

I was stunned by how really stupid and thoughtless the mother was. I mean ... she's eight years old. So many ideas that were wrong here. She's eight so no wrinkles. Bad teaching of self esteem, which is now wrapped up in looks, at EIGHT. Also, you know, the possibility that she could paralyze the child's face while it's still growing, that she was obtaining it illegally ... I really honestly hope the child is taken away from her and that the mother and her child receive counseling. It was horrible. How could she do that to her child? How could she?

Unconscionable. The mother should be locked up and denied Botox so all can see her withered, evil soul. Good report, Catherine, thank you.

Someone should inject this "mother" with an ounce of brains.

As my music teacher used to cry....'vomitous!!'

Deep breath, deep cleansing breath.... Beauty pageants for kids are already one of my pet peeves.

8 year olds already worrying about wrinkes????? AAAGH!

MOTHER WILLINGLY INJECTING A TOXIN INTO HER CHILD FOR REASONS OF PERSONAL VANITY???????

QUADRUPLE AAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!

This one just sends me round the bend!
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Such a disturbing story.

Do children at the age of eight years old really have wrinkles or is this Mother insane?