Posted on 08/30/2022 9:08:34 AM PDT by Signalman
A vegan mother in Florida was sentenced to life in prison following a first-degree murder conviction for the death of her 18-month-old son.
Sheila O'Leary, 38, was convicted in June after her son Ezra died from what prosecutors said were "complications from severe malnutrition and dehydration."
"This child did not eat. He was starved to death over 18 months," Francine Donnorummo, the special victims unit chief at the Lee County State Attorney’s Office, said at the trial.
Her husband, Ryan Patrick O’Leary, awaits trial on the same charges. Sheila and Ryan were both indicted by a grand jury in Lee County, Florida, on Dec. 18. 2019.
Sheila O'Leary said her family adheres to a strict diet of raw fruits and vegetables, although she and her husband told investigators that Ezra also received breast milk.
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Lost in the Information Desert.
I do not think she will be able to keep that diet in prison.
What? no bugs were available?........................
Imposing such an extreme diet on a child is cruel.
But BatShiite Crazy Karens can still chop off their kids parts, and wreck their young minds with all the Prog nonsense in schools.
Hope this wingnut gets the justice she deserves from the other guests in The Big House.
I understand them wih-mins dont like folk that treat kids badly.
Adults are nowadays encouraging children to cut off their reproductive organs...
Child killers and pedophiles usually don’t last long in the GP.
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Even the mother’s breast milk was probably lacking important nutrients from her poor diet.
Most of the women in there are dealing with the leftover trauma from their own awful parents. Someone that abused another kid makes a decent therapy doll to vent anger upon...
Too lazy to cook. I wonder if she sent the kids to school. Did no one notice that the other children were malnourished? What about grandparents?
Srednik offers observation on this appalling and senseless crime.
Should it not also appall us as a people when tiny babies are destroyed in the womb?
Lee County?
Southwest Florida?
Definitely not shocked to read this.
Imposing such an extreme diet on a child is cruel.
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There are are people who impose it on their carnivorous pets too.
I wonder what the life span is for such pets?
Child killers and pedophiles usually don’t last long in the GP.
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That’s why more and more prisons are segregating them.
Sentence him to life in prison, put them both in the same cell and only give them enough food for one person.
Even the mother’s breast milk was probably lacking important nutrients from her poor diet.
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Over 40 years ago my wife’s grand mother told us the story of her baby that starved to death during the great depression. Then I asked her the stupidest question anybody ever asked anybody else.
I asked her, “did you try breast feeding him?”
With tears in her eyes she simply said, “I was starving too.”
I felt like crawling in a hole and pulling the dirt in after me.
Sorry to hear that.
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I don’t doubt that the parents were criminally negligent, but a first degree murder conviction and life sentence seems extreme to me. Of course I didn’t hear the evidence, and the jury and judge did.
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