“I don't have a choice but to deal with it as best I can,” the 9-year-old boy's father wrote to The Associated Press, “It sucks and my heart is broken.”
FILE - This 2022 photo provided by Richard Blodgett shows his son, Jakob. Blodgett was arrested in December, and Jakob was placed in a foster home under the Arizona Department of Child Safety where he developed complications from diabetes and died. According to an autopsy report released in April 2023, the 9-year-old boy had been hospitalized twice for a life-threatening diabetes complication in the weeks leading up to his death.
Blodgett, 47, has said his son was diagnosed with diabetes as a toddler, meaning his body couldn’t produce enough insulin to survive. The report states that Jakob’s medical history included “poorly controlled” diabetes, although the doctor who performed the boy’s autopsy didn’t specify how far back that history goes. The report largely focuses on the weeks he was in the state’s care.
Jared Greenholz, a California-based emergency medicine physician whose specialties include treating diabetic ketoacidosis, said early symptoms include excessive thirst and urination, while more severe symptoms include nausea and vomiting. The state agency declined comment Monday on the medical examiner’s findings, citing confidentiality laws.
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