This might end up in the D & D so mods please move if you feel it belongs there. Vegan couple child starves to death. From the AP. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18574603/?GT1=9951 Vegan couple sentenced to life over baby's death Malnourished baby was fed soy milk and apple juice, weighed 3 1/2 pounds ATLANTA - A vegan couple were sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice. Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the mandatory sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004. The couple were found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts. Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans, who typically use no animal products. They said Sanders and Thomas did not realize the baby, who was born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died. But prosecutors said the couple intentionally neglected their child and refused to take him to the doctor even as the baby’s body wasted away. “No matter how many times they want to say, ‘We’re vegans, we’re vegetarians,’ that’s not the issue in this case,” said prosecutor Chuck Boring. “The child died because he was not fed. Period.” Although the life sentences were automatic, Sanders and Thomas begged for leniency before sentencing. Sanders urged the judge to look past his “perception” of the couple. “I loved my son — and I did not starve him,” she said. When the judge told the defendants they could ask for a new trial, Thomas hung his head low. “I’m dying every day in there,” he said, “and that could take three years.”
The baby dying has nothing to do with the parents being vegans. It has everything to do with the parents being idiots.
zactly. i know a bunch of vegans and vegetarians. the two i knew that got preggers started craving meat and gave in. your first priority is what's best for the baby, not your damn principles. your body will tell you what you need to eat. listen to it. but yeah, doesn't look like there was much hope for those idiots.
Hard to say. If they refused to listen to a doctor, or didn't bother bringing the child in, one could argue it.
I'd say watching a baby starve to death qualifies as both. If you know something is going to happen and don't do anything to stop it, you've basically intended for that action to happen.
How do you (or they) take "vegan" and make it "religious"? The Bible says nothing against eating meat - only against eating "unclean meat." Even Jesus ate fish.
I kinda agree with this. on another note, I thought that vegans ate nuts or even took special pills to supplement the nutrients once normallyt gets from meat. just thought of something, my 6 month old niece only recently started eating something other than milk. can someone connect the scientific dots for me here?
Well said. The baby doesn't have a choice of what it wants to eat, so the vegan line won't cut it. I don't know if life in prison is too harsh, but they definitely should both be locked up for quite a while, and then forced to take parenting classes. Pure idiocy.
There is more than one religion. The thought of the son of God eating animals is kind of surreal imo.
