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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18574603/?GT1=9951



Updated: 2:55 p.m. ET May 9, 2007
ATLANTA - A vegan couple were sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.

Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the mandatory sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004.

The couple were found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.



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 prosecutors said the couple intentionally neglected their child and refused to take him to the doctor even as the baby�s body wasted away.

�No matter how many times they want to say, �We�re vegans, we�re vegetarians,� that�s not the issue in this case,� said prosecutor Chuck Boring. �The child died because he was not fed. Period.�




Although the life sentences were automatic, Sanders and Thomas begged for leniency before sentencing. Sanders urged the judge to look past his �perception� of the couple.

�I loved my son � and I did not starve him,� she said.

When the judge told the defendants they could ask for a new trial, Thomas hung his head low.

�I�m dying every day in there,� he said, �and that could take three years.�

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[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

I have just decided that I will be dining on juicy red meat and giving money to fast food chains for the rest of my life.

Alternative lifestyle my @$$.

[khyber]

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[ED209]

Does prison offer a vegan menu?
And if someone spits in it, is it still vegan?

[caniff]

These people need to be slapped with raw steaks until they're dead. Or frozen steaks. Doesn't matter.

Edit: My friend came here for a month. I hadn't seen him for a few years. He is hardcore vegan now, and was completely insufferable to live with. Everyday life had to revolve around his extremely rigid dietary requirements. Shopping for him was a fucking nightmare.

Similar to a mental disorder.

[ChimpumCallao]

I can smell the smugness of that horrible couple all the way from here...or maybe it's pechuli.

I'm glad these morons got what they deserved. Poor child- to suffer for no reason other than a very stupid unnatural stance on food his parents had.

[jinju]

Typical of vegans. Not only do they feel the need to force their messed up agenda on other adults they now force it on newborns. Evil people, the lot of them.

[jinju]

[Rteacher]

To the extent that vegans make propaganda against drinking cows milk (aside from focusing on dairy industry abuses) they're in ignorance...

By nature's arrangement, cows milk is intended to nourish humans - especially kids - and the cow has always been considered like a mother in Vedic culture.

Meateaters who gloat over something like this are even more ignorant...

(And those who butcher the spelling of patchouli may not be as bright as they think they are, either ...)

[Hater Depot]

I know a vegan couple who've been raising a healthy baby girl for about a year now.. many do it every year as well. The issue here is obviously that these so-called parents were criminally incapable of raising a kid, not that they were vegans.

[khyber]

[quote]Typical of vegans. Not only do they feel the need to force their messed up agenda on other adults they now force it on newborns. Evil people, the lot of them.......[quote]Typical of idiots. You blame a tragedy on something that is completely unrelated point.