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Title: Report: Freed Sisters Too Obese For Kidney Transplant
Post by: okarol on January 29, 2011, 11:44:37 PM

Report: Freed Sisters Too Obese For Kidney Transplant


Thursday, January 27 2011
   (Pensacola, FL)  --  The Mississippi sisters freed from prison on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other are too obese for the operation.
   "The Clarion-Ledger" is reporting that doctors have said that Jamie Scott must lose 120 pounds and Gladys Scott must lose at least 50 pounds before a transplant can happen.
   The two reportedly face too many health risks otherwise.
   Three weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspended their life sentences for a 1993 armed robbery.
   One of the factors cited in their release was the 200-thousand-dollar a year cost to taxpayers for Jamie Scott's dialysis.
   Both sisters are considering lap-band surgery to restrict their food intake.

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Title: Re: Report: Freed Sisters Too Obese For Kidney Transplant
Post by: jbeany on January 30, 2011, 09:35:23 AM

Funny - I agree they should have been released, given what I know of the trial and sentence, but part of their reasoning was to get the taxpayers a price break, which just cracks me up.  Who do they think pays for it when they are out of jail?  Duh!