Honey Boo Boo, 15, demands justice for Georgia child neglect victim

Honey Boo Boo celebrated her 15th birthday last month with birthday cake and a slice of activism. 

The reality show star, real name Alana Thompson, was seen attending a protest/vigil near Gordon, Georgia for Kaitlyn Yozviak, a local 12-year-old girl who died from ‘excessive physical pain due to medical negligence’, according to local officials. 

Alana was seen in photos on August 28 holding a lit candlestick and standing next to her sisters Pumpkin and Jessica who held signs that read ‘Justice 4 Kaitlyn’ and ‘#Lock him up!’.

Kaitlyn’s mother Mary Horton and her father John Yozviak have since been arrested and charged with second-degree cruelty to a child and second-degree murder, as investigators said Kaitlyn’s condition was ‘one of the worst we’ve ever seen’.  

That morning Alana got a fresh haircut, chopping off seven inches of hair and ended her day with cake and a sweet serenade from Pumpkin and Pumpkin’s two-year-old daughter Ella Grace. 

The teen also received a birthday shout out from her mother Mama June, who she is currently estranged from following the 41-year-old’s battle with drug addiction and spending up to $2,500 on meth and crack cocaine.   

Last month, DailyMail.com revealed Mama June and her boyfriend Geno Doak were treating themselves to makeovers after declaring they were seven months sober. 

The couple traveled to Beverly Hills for some cosmetic surgery next week, with the mother-of-four getting liposuction on her torso, a tummy tuck and new veneers.

Geno, 44, who weighs 307lbs, was scheduled to have gastric sleeve surgery by Dr Samuel Kashani in Beverly Hills and his top and bottom teeth done by Dr Tom Kalili.  

The couple happily posed for photos before their operation. 

In early August, Mama June announced the milestone in her sobriety, saying in a video posted on Instagram: ‘Hey guys, real quick I just wanted to jump on here.

‘I know my birthday isn’t until Monday, but I want to share this six-month blinged out chip that my manager sent me for my birthday.’

‘It’s probably the thing I’m proud of the most, because now me and Geno are over six months clean,’ she said. ‘This is amazing, y’all, I’m so proud of this.’ 

The McIntyre, Georgia native’s post came after past problems linked to drugs and brushes with the law.

Mama June and Doak are more than a year removed from their March 2019 arrest in Alabama in connection with crack cocaine possession. 

Doak was also charged with domestic violence and harassment in the incident.

Both pleaded not guilty to felony drug possession last fall.

On her We TV series Mama June: Family Crisis, Mama June said that her battle with drug addiction led her to liquidate their finances.

‘The only reason I sold the house, we was dead f***ing broke,’ said the reality star, who noted that her addiction to methamphetamine cost as much as $2,500 daily, in addition to taking prescription medications.

‘Because you know at that point, we was doing quite a bit – I mean, it was a couple ounces a day,’ June said. ‘I lost who I was for a while, I do believe that. I do believe that the person I wanted to kill is in the past. I hated that person I was.’

Still, she has been having troubles with her family, having a tense relationship with her children following her arrest with Geno.

Her daughters said that ever since that scandal, June has all but exited their lives.

‘She doesn’t even answer our phone calls. It goes to voicemail,’ her daughter Pumpkin said in the family’s reality TV show Mama June: Family Crisis.

She has also tried to contact Geno, but he doesn’t answer his phone either. She said: ‘Geno’s phone goes to voicemail.’