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Florida vegan couple charged with murder after 18-month-old son dies of malnutrition: cops
Fox News ^ | 12/21/2019 | Danielle Wallace

Posted on 12/21/2019 8:03:27 AM PST by Olog-hai

A Florida couple who told police they fed their children a vegan diet of only raw fruit and vegetables was charged with murder Wednesday months after their 18-month old son allegedly starved to death in their home.

Ryan Patrick O’Leary, 30, and Sheila O’Leary, 35, of Cape Coral, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of first-degree murder and other charges, State Attorney Amira Fox said.

The mother called police on Sept. 27 when police said she said she noticed her 18-month-old son had gone cold and stopped breathing. The father tried to resuscitate him, police said. Paramedics pronounced the boy dead at the home in Lee County when they arrived, Fort Myers News-Press reported.

He weighed 17 pounds, the average weight of a seven-month-old, according to the police report. Sheila O’Leary allegedly told officers the family eats a vegan diet and she fed her children raw fruits and vegetables — mostly mangoes, bananas, avocados, and rambutans. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: capecoral; florida; floridaman; malnutrition; murder; oleary; vegans
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1 posted on 12/21/2019 8:03:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Vegans are mentally ill.
 
2 posted on 12/21/2019 8:06:36 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Olog-hai

Poor little muffin.

These leftist movements are killing young people. Apparently there are many suicides because of the lack of hope that is instilled with buying into this climate change catastrophe garbage. Even if they don’t kill themselves, they don’t plan for the future and have hope for next generations, as they should.

I hope their jail diet consists of only meat, cheese and eggs.


3 posted on 12/21/2019 8:07:54 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Olog-hai

Murder...absolutely! Death penalty...both of them!


4 posted on 12/21/2019 8:09:28 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Olog-hai

Dumbass mother should have breast fed the child. It’s natural and better.

I am not a fan at all of vegans.
I knew a vegan once who only fed her dog vegan dogfood (I didn’t even know that existed). The dog was very unhealthy.


5 posted on 12/21/2019 8:12:11 AM PST by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: Olog-hai

Check out the Mug Shot.

The Mom has “The Light” in her eyes.

Whenever you see that, go the other way.


6 posted on 12/21/2019 8:13:45 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Macoozie
Whenever I see that wide-eyed stare, I suspect demon possession.


7 posted on 12/21/2019 8:16:49 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: JudyinCanada

“I hope their jail diet consists of only meat, cheese and eggs.”

actually, a 100% vegan diet until they starved to death would be way more fitting ...


8 posted on 12/21/2019 8:17:41 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

It’s the way the laws are set up You can’t do anything to them until the kid’s dead.


9 posted on 12/21/2019 8:19:01 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And, as such, vegans will ignore this just as climate alarmists ignore the nose on their faces.


10 posted on 12/21/2019 8:26:38 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Three other kids, aged, 3, 5, and 11, who remain alive by the skin of their teeth. Someone must have noticed something.


11 posted on 12/21/2019 8:27:06 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: catnipman

Lol you know I thought about that as well, but I went with the diet that would cause them the most pain to eat and make them the most hypocritical when they did eat it.

The perfect scene would be nothing but meat for a month, then switch them over to raw veggies and fruit, until they feel what their poor little child felt. Slow starvation.


12 posted on 12/21/2019 8:29:44 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Olog-hai

Vegans are always radical leftists in their politics. They are nothing more than hippies, which disgusted me in 60’s and disgust me now. Every time I see some old white guy with long grey hair in their various anti-America demonstrations, I just want them to keel over. We all die, so what?


13 posted on 12/21/2019 8:32:23 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
As heartbreaking and atrocious as this case is, it illustrates our dilemma.

As parents and human beings we weep over the death of this child just as we mourn every aborted baby. On the other side, we see our freedom as parents steadily whittled away as the law seeks to compensate for individual parental malfeasance by broad laws applying to all.

An analogy to the restriction of gun rights fits.

If we have nearly 90% of the children born in our ghetto to be fatherless, we must broaden the law to protect these children before they become aggressive and violent teenagers. But we cannot apply the law only to parents in the ghetto, it must be applied equally to us in the suburbs as well. And so it is that we lose the power to discipline our own children. We lose options of homeschooling. We lose the power to spank children. We find that our children are being "socialized" in a school system which they are virtually required to attend in ways contrary to our values.

The root of the problem is a moral decay in society which we are trying to solve with broad legislation which inevitably steals everyone's liberty a little.


14 posted on 12/21/2019 8:33:06 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: Olog-hai

What? Babies can’t survive on bean sprouts and Almond milk?

Who knew?


15 posted on 12/21/2019 8:37:46 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“It’s the way the laws are set up You can’t do anything to them until the kid’s dead.”

in most states, IF alerted, child welfare authorities can investigate and remove children from abusive situations ...


16 posted on 12/21/2019 8:40:40 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rfreedom4u

Article said she tried to feed him breast milk, so assume she was breast-feeding.


17 posted on 12/21/2019 8:40:58 AM PST by Help!
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To: Olog-hai
"lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes..."


18 posted on 12/21/2019 8:42:05 AM PST by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: A Navy Vet

How can you tell if someone is a Vegan?

Give them 15 seconds, and they’ll tell you

Oh yes, they’ll tell you


19 posted on 12/21/2019 8:45:02 AM PST by digger48
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How can you tell if someone is a Vegan? Give them 15 seconds, and they’ll tell you

LOL. That is so true.

20 posted on 12/21/2019 8:47:42 AM PST by Kipp
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