MARLENE CORRIGAN SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA AFTER VERDICT, 1998-01-09 (photo)

Marlene Corrigan, escorted by a bailiff, tells the press she has no comment after hearing the verdict on child abuse charges, January 9. Corrigan, a California woman whose 13-year-old daughter weighed 680 pounds (308 kg) when she died of congestive heart failure in 1996, was found guilty of misdemeanor child abuse. Marlene Corrigan had faced felony misconduct charges in connection with the death of her daughter Christina, but a California judge found Corrigan guilty of the less severe misdemeanor offense on the grounds that passive rather than active misconduct helped trigger Christina's death. CRIME OBESE