The family handed THREE death sentences: Parents are told their twin boys have the same genetic brain disease that’s slowly killing their daughter – Daily Mail

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A couple have been left utterly heartbroken after all three of their children were diagnosed with a rare and deadly brain condition they unwittingly passed on through their genes.

Leah and Shaun Scott, 27 and 30, were curious as to why their daughter Paige, three, was slow to learn to walk, and took her to the doctors.

To their horror, she was diagnosed with the incurable genetic disease Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD), which has a life expectancy of just five years once the symptoms start.

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