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Vegan Parents Whose Daughter Was Malnourished Due To Vegan Diet Won’t Go To Jail

Ashe Schow
Vegan Parents Whose Daughter Was Malnourished Due To Vegan Diet Won’t Go To Jail
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An Australian couple who fed their toddler a strict vegan diet that resulted in the child becoming so malnourished that she had no teeth will avoid jail time after a judge ruled that imprisoning them would deprive their children of an “important bond.”

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that New South Wales District Court Judge Sarah Huggett sentenced the couple to 18 months of “intensive corrections orders” rather than send them to jail. The Daily Wire previously reported that the child had not been vaccinated or even taken to a doctor since her birth and suffered from rickets.

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