Vegan Mother of malnourished kids gets 30 years

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The 11 year old would have had to have his hepatitis B vaccinations to stay in school. I'm surprised the doctors didn't pick up on it then.

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I love meat!!!

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Vegan mom may have 30-year sentence reduced

Margaret Harding

The Arizona Republic

Aug. 3, 2007 04:58 PM

A Scottsdale mother who blamed her malnourished children's condition on their vegan diets might have her 30-year sentence reduced.

The judge who handed down the sentence to convicted child abuser Kimu Parker, said the penalty required by state sentencing guidelines was "clearly excessive."

"The court believes, based on what I heard this morning, that you have seen the error of your ways. You are capable of being a good parent," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Thomas O'Toole told Parker at her sentencing Thursday.

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O'Toole told Parker's attorney, Jaime Hindmarch, to submit a letter requesting clemency within 30 days. According to a court transcript, O'Toole said he would "do what is necessary" on his end.

Hindmarch did not return calls seeking comment.

O'Toole said that Parker was "misguided," but not criminal.

"The evidence at the trial showed that you acted in good faith in your belief that you were properly raising these children," O'Toole said before delivering the sentence. "You did not act with criminal intent. However, you did act recklessly in your grossly misguided sense of how to raise and properly nurture your children."

The couple was taken into custody in April 2005 after their youngest child, Zion, went to the hospital for malnutrition, hypoglycemia, dehydration and possible seizures.

"There's no doubt you love your children," O'Toole said. "There's no doubt your children are happy in their own little world, being raised by you and your husband. Unfortunately, they were at the mercy of your bizarre philosophy of diet and so forth. And Zion nearly died as a result of that."

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsd...gan0804-ON.html

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The three children, ages 3, 9 and 11 at the time of the arrest in April 2005, weighed 12, 29 and 36 pounds, respectively.

3 years ~ 12 lbs? Our 10 month old - developing normally - weighs twice that.

Unbelievable.