Sheila O'Leary, a 39-year-old American woman, comes from Florida.
Sheila and her current husband Ryan have three children.
She is a vegetarian and has strict requirements for her children's diet.
Because she only eats vegetarian food, all the food she prepares for her three children is vegetarian.
On weekdays, Sheila mainly feeds the children mangoes, bananas, avocados and rambutans.
Among them, the youngest son Ezra also drinks breast milk.
operated like this for a long time, and eventually, tragedy happened.
In September 2019, the couple called the emergency phone after discovering that their baby Ezra had stopped breathing.
After medical personnel arrived at the scene, they pronounced Ezra dead.
An autopsy confirmed that baby Ezra died of complications from malnutrition.
When he was one and a half years old at the time, he weighed only 7.7 kilograms, about 3.2 kilograms less than the normal average weight for his age.
Faced with the police investigation,
the couple admitted that their family followed a very strict vegan diet and only ate raw fruits and vegetables.
Baby Ezra was born at home and never went to the hospital.
In the week or so before his death, he had eaten little and often had trouble sleeping.
Faced with the baby's crying, the couple turned a blind eye and still went their own way.
Even if the baby had difficulty breathing,
the couple did not think about sending the baby to the hospital for emergency treatment, but went to sleep alone.
When they woke up,
they discovered that their son had completely stopped breathing.
The doctor examined two other children aged 3 and 5 years old.
found that they also had severe malnutrition and had yellow skin.
One of the children had black teeth.
The 12-year-old daughter Sheila gave birth to with her ex-husband is in much better health than other children.
Police believe this is because the girl often travels to another state to visit her biological father, giving her the opportunity to improve her diet.
only fed vegetables, fruits and breast milk, which led to the death of his one-and-a-half-year-old son from complications of malnutrition.
The prosecutor alleged that Sheila always chose to ignore her son's cries:
"She didn't need a scale to see his skinny appearance.
She didn't need a scale to hear his cry."
Today, the 39-year-old mother Sheila was found guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse by a jury and will face life imprisonment .
The 33-year-old father, Ryan, was also indicted on similar charges and is still awaiting trial and also faces life imprisonment.
Regarding this case, foreign netizens commented:
"Poor children..."
"What a terrible way to die. This is preventable. Crazy mother."
"Lock her up. Don't give her food."
"Both parents should starve to death."
"Adults can choose vegetarianism for themselves .
But if adults force children or animals to eat vegetarian food, it is cruelty."
"It's not just about the vegan diet, they Stopped feeding my son!!
Then when my son couldn’t breathe
these parents are monsters.
