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Kerry Campbell, the pageant mom who injected her 8-year-old daughter with Botox, has lost custody of the child and is currently under investigation.

According to ABC’s Good Morning America, the San Francisco Human Services Agency has launched an investigation after Campbell admitted that she injected her daughter Britney with Botox to help her in beauty pageants.

Although Campbell says the drug is becoming common in children’s beauty pageants, pageant officials deny those claims.

Campbell, a beautician from Birmingham, England who lives in San Francisco, says she gets the drug from a “trusted source” but has declined to name that source.

The drug has not been approved for use on children for cosmetic purposes and the story has caused a public outcry.

“As a doctor, if I’d seen this mother, I would be required to report her to protective services because it’s maltreatment… Any doctor who would give a parent botox to administer to their children should lose their license…there’s not a state where you don’t need to be a licensed doctor or under direct supervision of a doctor to inject this,” says ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser.

Besser said that Botox is used to correct children who are cross-eyed or suffering from some neurological disorders, but not typically for cosmetic reasons.

“If you inject it in the face and it drifts to your throat, it can prevent you from swallowing. If it drifts to your breathing muscles..you can stop breathing. In a young child, if you’re chronically using it on the face, it may actually change the shape of your face because your muscles interact with your bones to form what your face eventually looks like,” Besser said.

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