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The two first-time parents, who lived in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, rushed the infant to the hospital after he began to have trouble breathing and doctors declared him dead on arrival after failing to resuscitate him. They found his death was due to extreme malnourishment or starvation, and police then searched the couple's apartment.
They found a soy milk bottle, an apple juice bottle and a rancid-smelling baby bottle caked with debris. Prosecutors said an investigation revealed the two only fed their baby soy milk and apple juice, and contended at the 2007 trial that the couple intentionally neglected their child and refused to take him to the doctor even as the baby's body wasted away.
Defense attorneys countered that 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 was in danger until they rushed his emaciated body to the hospital.
"I loved my son _ and I did not starve him," Jade Sanders said at her May 2007 sentencing hearing.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20110912/APA/309129873
What the heck else were they suppose to have fed a 5 week old. color me confused. Also,trouble breathing is not the first sign of starvation.:crazy:
They found a soy milk bottle, an apple juice bottle and a rancid-smelling baby bottle caked with debris. Prosecutors said an investigation revealed the two only fed their baby soy milk and apple juice, and contended at the 2007 trial that the couple intentionally neglected their child and refused to take him to the doctor even as the baby's body wasted away.
Defense attorneys countered that 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 was in danger until they rushed his emaciated body to the hospital.
"I loved my son _ and I did not starve him," Jade Sanders said at her May 2007 sentencing hearing.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20110912/APA/309129873
What the heck else were they suppose to have fed a 5 week old. color me confused. Also,trouble breathing is not the first sign of starvation.:crazy: