5-month-old found emaciated, 'close to death' after vegan parents fed him mashed potatoes instead of baby formula
Robert Ronald Buskey, 31, and Julia Austin French, 20, were arrested and charged this past Wednesday with felony child abuse after their child was found extremely malnourished
A vegan Florida couple was arrested this past week after the authorities found their five-month-old son to be extremely malnourished and close to death. It has been revealed that they had stopped feeding the infant a doctor-recommended formula "consistent with their vegan lifestyle" and fed him a potato-mash vegan compound they discovered online.
31-year-old Robert Ronald Buskey and 20-year-old Julia Austin French were charged with felony child abuse causing great bodily harm. Police have not ruled out the possibility of bringing further charges against the pair, who are not married to one another — French described herself as Buskey's concubine as part of their Nazarite Hebrew religion.