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Assault Verdict Upheld Against Vegans in Near-Starvation of Daughter
Interesting criminal implications for lifestyle choices...
An appeals court in Brooklyn has affirmed the first-degree assault conviction of two vegan parents who were accused of nearly starving their daughter to death.
One member of the four-judge panel of the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, however, cast doubt on whether the parents were aware of the risks that a vegan diet posed to a baby. The judge, Justice Sondra Miller, said the assault conviction should be vacated.
"The defendants may have been naïve, and misguided, and even unfit to serve as the custodians of their child," Miller wrote in People v. Swinton, 2003-04653. "What they did not do, however, is evince criminal recklessness."
Interesting criminal implications for lifestyle choices...