Obese stepmom who 'starved teen daughter to 35lbs' bulges out of wheelchair as she appears in prison cell to enter plea

A Wisconsin stepmother accused of starving and imprisoning her 14-year-old autistic stepdaughter until she weighed just 35 pounds entered a no contest plea to multiple felony charges in the shocking child abuse case. Melissa Goodman, 52, appeared by video from jail in a wheelchair and pleaded no contest to chronic neglect causing great bodily harm, chronic neglect causing emotional damage and false imprisonment. She faces up to 46 years in prison when she is sentenced on July 1. According to a criminal complaint, the teenager was found in critical condition on August 21, 2025, after her father, Walter Goodman, called...