Kerry Campbell, mom who injected 8-year-old daughter with Botox, loses custody of child

The California mom who demonstrated injecting her 8-year-old daughter with Botox on a morning talk show has lost custody of her daughter, ABC News reported.

After Kerry Campbell appeared on "Good Morning America" last week talking about giving her young daughter Britney the wrinkle-erasing injectible, San Francisco's Human Services Agency announced they were launching an investigation after receiving numerous calls from horrified viewers.

"There was a pretty big community response," Trent Rhorer, the director of human services told the San Francisco Chronicle last week.

The investigation doesn't necessarily mean that Campbell will lose custody of her child for a long period of time. Child welfare experts said she may be able to regain custody through meeting a variety of conditions that could include parenting class, counseling and supervised visits.

But the Chronicle, citing sources, reports that Kerry Campbell is a false name – and the woman does not even live in the Bay Area.

The newspaper also reports that child-welfare officials say the case is already closed.

If the 8-year-old was indeed taken away from her mom, it was not immediately clear where she was staying while Kerry was being investigated, but a source told ABC the girl is doing well.

Campbell said on the show she thought that she was doing her daughter a favor, and that she was licensed to perform the procedure.

"I do the Botox myself," she said. "It's safe."

(Published by NY Daily News - May 17, 2011)