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Vegans starved 18-month-old boy to death
Toronto Sun ^ | Nov. 18, 2019 | Brad Hunter

Posted on 11/18/2019 5:04:02 PM PST by rickmichaels

Vegan fanatics in Florida starved their toddler to death by feeding him a diet of just raw fruits and veggies.

Cops say that Sheila O’Leary, 35, and Ryan O’Leary, 30, face charges of manslaughter and child neglect in the Sept. 27 death of their 18-month-old son.

According to the Fort Myers News-Press, the baby weighed just 17 pounds when he died on Sept. 27.

Sheila O’Leary called 911 reporting that her boy was cold and not breathing. Her hubby reportedly made efforts to resuscitate the boy but became desperate when those efforts failed.

The malnourished boy was pronounced dead at the couple’s Cape Coral home on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Sheila O’Leary told cops the family was vegan and that she fed her four children a raw food diet that included mangoes, rambutans, bananas and avocados.

She reportedly added that the boy had not eaten solid food in more than a week but said he was being breastfed. The family believed the tot wasn’t eating because he was teething.

On Nov. 6, a medical examiner deemed the cause of death as malnutrition and both parents surrendered to police.

They are currently in the Lee County jail, with bond set at $250,000.

The couple is slated to be arraigned Dec. 9.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: baby; childabuse; florida; foolishness; ryanoleary; sheilaoleary; starvation; vegans; vegetarian; vegetarianism; vegetarians
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To: Gil4

Those are words of denial and will become words of regret.


41 posted on 11/19/2019 8:55:03 AM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: rickmichaels

Makes you want to think removing gonads and ovaries from these offenders would be a good thing. At least they couldn’t reproduce any more. Not saying that whole heartedly, but it’s just how it makes you feel.


42 posted on 11/19/2019 10:57:09 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Zhang Fei

While I have embraced the Keto lifestyle, there is no way I’d recommend it for young people who are still growing, outside of advising them to stay away from highly-processed foods.


43 posted on 11/19/2019 10:59:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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