Florida Mom Found Guilty Of Killing 18-Month-Old Baby With Raw Vegan Diet
02.07.2022 - 02:39
/ perezhilton.com
A mother in Florida has been found guilty in the case of her son’s death from malnutrition — after admitting to feeding her children an all-raw vegetable and fruit diet.
In September 2019 police were called to the family home of Sheila and Ryan O’Leary after reports that their toddler was not breathing. The mother had fed her son earlier that morning for a minute and noticed he was having trouble breathing — but instead of contacting 911 immediately, she and her husband went back to sleep. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, paramedics were summoned to the home hours later where they pronounced 18-month-old Ezra Sage O’Leary dead at the scene.
An autopsy revealed the deceased toddler succumbed to starvation-related conditions. The child was malnourished, dehydrated, had a liver condition, and had major swelling of the hands and feet. He weighed only 17 lbs at the time of his death — as opposed to a healthy child of his age which would weigh about 25 lbs. Instead at a year and a half, he weighed in line with what a 7-month-old baby should weigh… just awful…
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Sheila’s other children reportedly had some medical issues as well. Her 3- and 5-year-old children were reported to be “malnourished and small for their age”. They appeared very pale, had yellowish skin, and one child even had blackened teeth from tooth decay — from which they had teeth previously pulled. An older sibling who was revealed to be from a previous relationship of O’Leary’s looked much healthier than the others. It was cited in a court document that the 11-year-old visits their father in Virginia every two months. Police believe this is why the oldest child was in
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