Posted on 09/06/2022 6:46:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Sheila O'Leary, 38, whose family followed a strict vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges — first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect — in the death of Ezra O'Leary. Her sentencing in Lee County, Florida, had previously been postponed four times.
Her husband, Ryan Patrick O'Leary, remains in jail while awaiting trial on the same charges. Investigators said the couple told them the family ate only raw fruits and vegetables, although the toddler also was fed breast milk. The 18-month-old boy weighed 17 pounds (8 kilograms) and was the size of a 7-month-old baby when he died in September 2019, a police report said.
The Cape Coral couple had two other children, ages 3 and 5, who also were malnourished, investigators said. A fourth child had been returned to her biological father during an earlier malnutrition case in Virginia, court records show.
Gee thats not suppose to happen
Maybe the toddler wasnt a true believer ...
Does the Gray Bar Hotel serve vegan meals?
Do they serve Vegan in prison? Asking for a friend.
I’m not vegan or vegetarian. I don’t currently know any or have any in my family. Yes, I think vegans sometimes tend to be obnoxious.
This woman? She wasn’t vegan, she was bs crazy and so was her husband.
I don’t usually comment on people’s looks, but she looks like she could be the vegetarian Hitler’s evil step-sister.
Gee, is starving a baby at that age not considered ABORTION? She should not be in jail. After all to a dem a child is not worthy of life if the mother wants it dead.
I’ve never met a vegan who wasn’t crazy. I’ve got a couple in my family. Reality has no hold on them. They imagine that veganism is morally superior, so that’s what they go with.
>> I’ve never met a vegan who wasn’t crazy.
I knew one — years ago. She was a vegan animal lover but not the least bit “in your face” about it. It was just her principle and she stuck by it.
She had twin daughters when I knew her. She included meat in their diet because she didn’t think a vegan diet was healthy for young children.
One time we were discussing that book about the airplane that crashed in the Andes and some of the survivors ate other dead passengers. She said if she was one of the survivors, she’d do exactly the same thing to stay alive. Now THAT was a surprise!
In my family, we have vegetarians and then there is one person who has a sensitivity to tomatoes, peppers, etc., and due to the pain caused by eating them, avoids them.
Guess who gets the most flack?
I find it very annoying that vegetarians and vegans are considered these great people, no questions asked, and people with *actual problems* are questioned over what they are doing.
They serve anything as long as it’s starchy and cheap...................😁😉
She and hubby are what we in the normal world call......STUPID!.................. 🤷♂️
She was closer to reality than most. Vegans always say they’re animal lovers but usually think the extinction of domestic animals is a good thing.
But when it came down to it, I’m glad she did right by her kids. As this article demonstrates, a vegan diet is harmful to deadly to children.
Vegetarians can be totally sane. I think they’re completely different than vegans. However as you say they all want to attach a sanctimony to their diet.
The baby failed to thrive and the other kids were malnourished, and it didn’t occur to them that they were doing something wrong? Or didn’t they care? I wonder if she breastfed the baby, or maybe that isn’t vegan either?
She wasn’t vegan, she was bs crazy and so was her husband.
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She might have been a lazy uninformed vegan. You have to make up for that lack of protein somewhere.
I have some in my family. Their whole life revolves around food. They have to take food everywhere they go, because they seem to have to eat every couple of hours. They also have to calculate the correct amount of daily protein.
My mother used to say, they are either thinking about food, preparing food, or eating food.
The truth is, that is what you need to do to be a healthy vegan.
Just call it the "abortion bullpen" phase of pregnancy, where mom can call you to the mound at any time in the game no matter how many extra innings.
These damned fanatics don’t just make themselves the victims of their insane fixations. They force other people to conform. Life in prison is good for her. But I wonder if she will get special meals, like specially-prepared vegan meals.
ONLY if it’s a religious requirement........................
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