FILE PHOTO OF CHRISTINA CORRIGAN

+++©FLT-PICA/Reuters code 72000+++ WAS05:CRIME-OBESE:MARTINEZ,CALIFORNIA,27FEB98 - UNDATED FILE PHOTO - Christina Corrigan appears in a school picture taken before her obesity made her unwillling to leave home. Marlene Corrigan, her mother, was sentenced February 27 to three years probation and 240 hours of community service after being convicted of misdemeanour child abuse. Prosecutors, who originally sought to convict her of more serious felony misconduct in the November 1996 death of her daughter Christina, had asked for 1,000 hours of community service. Christina, who weighed 680 pounds (308 kg) when she died of heart failure at the age of 13, was found dead in her home in El Cerrito near San Francisco covered in bedsores and lying amid feces, urine and empty food containers. cm/HO REUTERS