Monday, May 16, 2011

Bonnie Says: Sharon Evans, The Mom Injecting Her 8-year-Old With Botox & Lip Fillers Is A Child Abuser!

Poor little Bree Evans needs to be protected from her deluded single mother who is abusing her both physically and emotionally. Don't YOU agree?
Sharon Evans, 33, may not be beating her eight-year-old daughter but she is battering her nonethless. The San Francisco Dept. of Child Protective Services has launched an investigation into this frightening situation and I hope they move swiftly to end this abuse.
Poor Bree is being injected every two months with BOTOX in the creases of her forehead and every three months with fillers in her lips. Her misguided mother thinks these so-called "beauty procedures" will help her become a bigger star than Will Smith's songstress daughter, Willow, 10.
Right now, she's entering Bree in beauty pageants for little girls and thinks the beauty procedures she's subjected her daughter to, will give her an edge on the competition. Oh, and she's also tattooed eyebrows on the little girl and plans to soon tattoo the eight-year-old's lips with lip liner.
It's absolutely dangerous according to plastic surgeon Dr. Adam Schaffner, Director of JUVA Plastic Surgery in NYC. "There's a risk of cosmetic deformity in which the girl would not have normal movement of her facial muscles,"he explains. "The lip fillers could cause an infection or even tissue death - called necrosis. In my opinion, the authorities should consider bringing charges against this mother."
Schaffner points out that on bottles of BOTOX is says: "Federal law restricts this device for sale by or on the order of a physician or licensed practioner."
Sharon Evans is a beautician, which she says qualifies her to use BOTOX or fillers, but Dr. Schaffner tells Hollybaby.com that beauticians are nOT "licensed healthcare practitioners who are authorized to inject BOTOX Cosmetic or filler materials."
Physical risks aside, this appearance-mad mother is inflicting enormous emotional damage on her daughter, say family therapists! And I couldn't be more in agreement! This woman is nuts and her daughter will pay the price!
"I question the motivation and even the sanity of doing something like this to a child, "says psychiatrist Dr. Jeff Gardere, a contributor to healthguru.com. Bree could be addicted to having these cosmetic procedures. She may feel she's not pretty without BOTOX injections. And when she's odler she could graduate to more severe cosmetic procedures. A social worker should look into this as a child abuse case."
Listen, this child is at the very least being subjected to unnecessary and physically dangerous procedures that could harm her. She has no say over what is being done to her. Her own mother is playing Russian roulette with her health. It's a little like Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy which is abuse, typically of a child, by an adult - often a mother - in order to seek attention or sympathy for the abuser.
But in this case, Bree's mother is seeking attention by trying to turn her daughter into a beauty pageant star! And she's given not an iota of thought to the consequences of her idiotic actions.
First of all, she's teaching her daughter that her outer appearance is all-important versus her intellect.
Secondly, she's making it extremely likely that Bree will develop an eating disorder, believes a family therapist Dr. Jenn Berman, author of The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy Confident Kids. "She is being taught that her worth and value are based on how many wrinkles she has. She will likely suffer from low self-esteem. In fact, it's pretty much a guarantee that a child in this situation could have a severe mid-life crisis when she's older."
I know that the San Francisco Human Services Agency is investigating the Evans case after receiving a large number of calls to the city's child abuse hotline, but I hope they investigate quickly.
This mother has to be told that she must stop injecting her daughter now and for good or she will lose custody of little Bree.
Bree needs to be protected from her abuser, her mother!

The above was written and mentioned by Bonnie Fuller (hollywoodlife.com)