ATLANTA - A Superior Court jury convicted a vegan couple of murder and cruelty to children Wednesday in the death of their 6-week-old, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.

Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, will receive automatic life sentences for starving the boy, who weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died.

Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans, who typically use no animal products. They said Sanders and Thomas did not realize the baby, who was born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died.
But prosecutor Mike Carlson told the jury Tuesday during closing arguments: "They're not vegans. They're baby killers!" The jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.

Frankly it doesn't matter what the parents culinary preferences and the joke was directed at the insinuation that the baby only died coz the parents were vegan

But, I maintain, survival of the fittest.

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they should be forced to eat processed food in prison...malnourishment is just bad.

was breast feeding not allowed? 6 weeks old.. jeez.

People like this don't deserve children.