It's interesting to see how these things get reported by the press. I followed the trial in our local paper. Certainly the appropriateness of a vegan diet for an infant was questioned during the trial but the key points in the conviction were that the child was underfed and the parents never sought medical attention.


Here's a snip from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

"The infant was born in the bathtub of a Buckhead apartment but never taken to a doctor while alive. He was dead when his parents took him to Piedmont Hospital, across the street from their apartment, April 25, 2004. At six weeks old he weighed just 3 1/2 pounds and was so emaciated, doctors could count his bones through his skin.

Fulton prosecutor Chuck Boring said the verdict isn't a condemnation of veganism, a strict form of vegetarianism that doesn't allow the consumption or use of animal products. Instead, jurors believed prosecutors' assertions that the couple intentionally neglected and underfed the child and then tried to use the lifestyle as a shield."

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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...3metvegan.html