CRIME Vegan Mother Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder After Toddler Starved to Death on Raw Food Diet

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Vegan Mother Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder After Toddler Starved to Death on Raw Food Diet
Cristina Laila
2 - 3 minutes

Florida – A Cape Coral mother this week was found guilty of starving her 18-month old son to death after she fed him only raw fruits and vegetables.

Sheila O’Leary was indicted in 2019 after her toddler son Ezra died of malnutrition and dehydration. He weighed only 17 pounds when he died.

O’Leary also starved her other three children, according to state prosecutors.

“According to the State Attorney’s Office, O’Leary’s other three children, a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old boy, and an 11-year-old girl were also suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration.” NBC 2 reported.


Sheila O’Leary’s husband Ryan was also charged with murder is being tried separately.

The couple told police they are raw vegans and only eat fruits and vegetables.

“The three children were fed a diet that consisted mostly of mangoes, bananas, avocados and rambutans.” the Daily Mail reported.

Sheila O’Leary is facing life in prison and will be sentenced on July 25.

The Daily Mail reported:

A vegan mother has been found guilty of murder for the death of her 18-month-old son who weighed just 17lbs when he died in 2019 after a short life being fed only fruit, vegetables and breastmilk.

Doctors found he hadn’t been fed for a week by the time he died in September 2019.

Sheila and her husband, who has also been charged with murder and is waiting trial, called 911 after Ezra stopped breathing.

Paramedics pronounced the toddler dead at the scene. They also examined the couple’s older three children.

The couple also had a three-year-old and a five-year-old who were severely malnourished.

Their skin was yellow and one suffered such poor dental hygiene that their teeth were black.

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Kathy in FL

Administrator
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While an adult might ... big might ... be able to live on that diet, the fact remains that a growing child needs much more than fruits and veggies along can provide. Raw Food Diet folks have a lot of problems getting sufficient fats, etc. into their bodies.

And infant/toddler simply cannot survive on such a diet. Was the child even breastfed? Even if it was, if the mother was also on such a diet it is highly unlikely that there would have been sufficient nutrition in the breast milk.
 

anna43

Veteran Member
Disgusting. I can only hope and pray the other children do not suffer lifelong consequences due to the malnutrition.

People get cult like fixations on diets of all kinds, but the truth is all things in moderation for adults. For children they need good balanced diets to grow their bodies and brains throughout infancy, childhood and teen years.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Disgusting. I can only hope and pray the other children do not suffer lifelong consequences due to the malnutrition.

People get cult like fixations on diets of all kinds, but the truth is all things in moderation for adults. For children they need good balanced diets to grow their bodies and brains throughout infancy, childhood and teen years.

Unfortunately the other kids have experienced extreme malnutrition which means mental illness, etc.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Never met a healthy vegan, either physically or mentally.

same. every one I've met has had some sort of eating disorder and I'm not counting those with alfa gal or other extreme food disorders. I have a friend, she and her husband are full quiver people and their son has a severe as in deadly dairy allergy. And I know that this was really hard for both of them to accept.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
Those people are really even "vegans" not that I advocate a vegan diet. But a real vegan diet would include complex carbs like oats and other whole grains, some cooked (easy to digest) foods, nuts (which are vital when not eating meat, eggs, or dairy), and legumes.

That diet still isn't perfect for small children but The Farm and other places have raised several generations of children on similar diets - especially with the long nursing period so there is breast milk as well.

But when you take away the grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes (plus a vitamin pill if a person is smart), the situation can turn deadly as happened to this little boy. Plenty of kids starved to death or suffered malnourishment during WWII while eating nothing but garden vegetables, often mostly potatoes on both sides of the war. Some people had gardens and not much else.
 

flying screwdriver

Veteran Member
Us folks w/ Alfa Gal still eat feathery and scaly critters.
Even slimy critters. And crunchy critters too yuk.
Jus‘ not da furry ones.

Unless someone has an ape, gorilla, chimpanzee, or orangutan on da barbie....well done plz....
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
Even most great apes will eat meat on occasion, that is a discovery made by people like Jane Goodall and those that followed her observing our cousins in the wild. Gorillas seem to eat the least meat and chimps possibly the most, including sometimes cannibalism. But almost all of them will eat and even seek out both bugs and small animals like mice, to chomp on when they can.
 

sssarawolf

Has No Life - Lives on TB
We need to bring back mental institutions. The left is full of mentally ill people.

I have been saying this for years now. We went from one extreme to the other. With so many things. To many mentally ill people running around and nothing is done about it. How man time now have we read, they stopped taking their meds. Or they did that because they are mentally ill and still walking the streets. I could go on and on.
 

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
I have been saying this for years now. We went from one extreme to the other. With so many things. To many mentally ill people running around and nothing is done about it. How man time now have we read, they stopped taking their meds. Or they did that because they are mentally ill and still walking the streets. I could go on and on.
I still remember when they opened the insane asylums up and turned them all loose. I was very young.
 

mistaken1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Nutbags plain and simple.
Now we will pay for the proper care and feeding of these nutbags for the rest of their pathetic lives.
 

willowlady

Veteran Member
While an adult might ... big might ... be able to live on that diet, the fact remains that a growing child needs much more than fruits and veggies along can provide. Raw Food Diet folks have a lot of problems getting sufficient fats, etc. into their bodies.

And infant/toddler simply cannot survive on such a diet. Was the child even breastfed? Even if it was, if the mother was also on such a diet it is highly unlikely that there would have been sufficient nutrition in the breast milk.
Yes, the infant was breastfed, but, as you say, it's likely the child did not get enough nutrition from her milk.
To make it worse, the woman has an older daughter from a different relationship who is fine, but she spends time with her father frequently. It it surmised she gets plenty of food when with her father.
 

Bad Hand

Veteran Member
There was a couple and their of the raw food idiots at a primitive gathering in Canada they ate everything raw including road kill. They all got worms and other intestinal parasites and if that wasn't bad enough they had a class on wild edible plants. They said the plants would tell the students if their were edible, the plants were lying that day everyone in the class got poisoned. They were from France and that was the last time I ever saw them at a gathering.
 

BUBBAHOTEPT

Veteran Member
Once again stupid people are the most dangerous people of all…. They can be dumb, smart, evil, but always stupid dangerous… :kaid:
 

TKO

Veteran Member


Vegan Mother Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder After Toddler Starved to Death on Raw Food Diet
Cristina Laila
2 - 3 minutes

Florida – A Cape Coral mother this week was found guilty of starving her 18-month old son to death after she fed him only raw fruits and vegetables.

Sheila O’Leary was indicted in 2019 after her toddler son Ezra died of malnutrition and dehydration. He weighed only 17 pounds when he died.

O’Leary also starved her other three children, according to state prosecutors.

“According to the State Attorney’s Office, O’Leary’s other three children, a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old boy, and an 11-year-old girl were also suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration.” NBC 2 reported.


Sheila O’Leary’s husband Ryan was also charged with murder is being tried separately.

The couple told police they are raw vegans and only eat fruits and vegetables.

“The three children were fed a diet that consisted mostly of mangoes, bananas, avocados and rambutans.” the Daily Mail reported.

Sheila O’Leary is facing life in prison and will be sentenced on July 25.

The Daily Mail reported:

A vegan mother has been found guilty of murder for the death of her 18-month-old son who weighed just 17lbs when he died in 2019 after a short life being fed only fruit, vegetables and breastmilk.

Doctors found he hadn’t been fed for a week by the time he died in September 2019.

Sheila and her husband, who has also been charged with murder and is waiting trial, called 911 after Ezra stopped breathing.

Paramedics pronounced the toddler dead at the scene. They also examined the couple’s older three children.

The couple also had a three-year-old and a five-year-old who were severely malnourished.

Their skin was yellow and one suffered such poor dental hygiene that their teeth were black.

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