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Parents of ill vegan girl may face police - Times Online
June 8, 2008
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl in Scotland brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman.
Last year, an American vegan couple were given a life sentence for starving their six-week-old baby to death. In 2001 two vegans from west London were sentenced to three years’ community rehabilitation after they admitted starving their baby to death.
French vegans face trial after death of baby fed only on breast milk | World news | The Guardian
The couple did not follow the doctor's advice to take the baby to hospital when they went for her nine-month checkup and found she was suffering from bronchitis and was losing weight, Instead they treated her with cabbage poultices, mustard and camphor and washed her with earth and clay instead of giving her baths, the court heard.
She was also suffering from deficiency of vitamins A and B12, which may have left her susceptible to infection. She died of a pneumonia-related illness.
Medical experts told the court in Amiens that the vitamin deficiency could have been caused by an unbalanced diet. While anxious not to call into question the couple's lifestyle, Anne-Laure Sandretto, the deputy prosecutor, admitted: "The problem with a vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother's eating habits."
"anxious not to call into question the couple's lifestyle" - why not?
Comments
Something tells me your bottom dollar would be safe enough if you were to wager the parents never had anxiety about questioning the lifestyles of meat-eaters.
Posted by: Tom Paine | March 31, 2011 8:34 AM
Jesus, it's the stories like this that confirm the lunatics have taken over the asylum. "The problem with a vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother's eating habits." FFS I doubt Anne-Laure or Shortarse Sarkozy would feed their kids nothing but breast milk at 9 months and wash them in dirt so there is no "could" about it.
Posted by: Steve B | March 31, 2011 11:00 AM
Jesus, it's the stories like this that confirm the lunatics have taken over the asylum. "The problem with a vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother's eating habits." FFS I doubt Anne-Laure or Shortarse Sarkozy would feed their kids nothing but breast milk at 9 months and wash them in dirt so there is no "could" about it.
Posted by: Steve B | March 31, 2011 11:02 AM
I bet if they were Christians it would have been questioned.
Posted by: tolkein | March 31, 2011 5:58 PM
Good to see the nanny state not interfering with parents' rights.
Posted by: ict558 | April 2, 2011 2:38 PM