A young boy seized from his Johns Island home during a 2017 abuse investigation is back with his parents after a medical expert convinced a Charleston County judge the child’s multiple broken bones resulted from a case of rickets, according to attorneys for the family.
Rickets results from an extreme deficiency of vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium. It causes children to have soft, weak or deformed bones. And that’s what led to more than a dozen fractures throughout the boy’s infant body that sparked authorities’ suspicions and tore the family apart for nearly two years, their attorneys said.
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