Parents On Trial For Starving Baby With Raw Food Diet
Here’s a Fun Fact: Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn are from Homestead, Florida - the town where I was born. Unlike the Andressohns, however, my parents didn’t try to raise me on a diet of peanut shells and lawn clippings. And unlike their little girl, I didn’t starve to death.
The Andressohns have been charged with neglect and manslaughter following the death of their child, who died after subsisting on coconut water, wheat grass, and some sort of beverage made from almonds. The little girl weighed only 7 pounds at 6 months of age. Defense lawyers are contending that the child’s death was due to a rare genetic condition; prosectuors are countering that claim with evidence supporting abuse and malnutrition. The Andressohns themselves face an uphill battle against what their lawyer Ellis Rubin refers to as “prejudice”. Yes, there does seem to be prejudice against parents who force their kids to eat stuff that’s only suitable for “Survivor” contestants and blame some imaginary genetic defect when the kid dies. It’s a tough old world, Mr. Rubin.
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23 opinions for Parents On Trial For Starving Baby With Raw Food Diet
koko krisps
Oct 19, 2005 at 2:34 pm
I think you should have all the facts surrounding this case before you start blasting the parents. I also feel that you are being very one-sided and have already found the parents “guilty before proven innocent”. That’s not right.
Jason
Oct 19, 2005 at 2:57 pm
“Woyah weighed less than 7 pounds when she died, which is about average for a newborn but half that of most infants her age who are fed with breast milk or formula. The girl’s body was described as “emaciated” in a medical examiner’s report, with ribs clearly visible through her stretched skin.”
THAT, Koko, is what’s not right.