A lifestyle blogger father has admitted to starving his newborn son to death in an attempt to prove the infant could survive on nothing but sunlight.
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According to Mail Online, Maxim Lyutyi, 44, and partner Oxana Mironova, 34, lost their infant Kosmos to ‘pneumonia and emaciation’ after failing to properly feed the boy, who was less than one month old.
The Russian father may face up to eight years in prison and a fine for ‘intentional infliction of grievous bodily damage’.
He admitted his guilt in a final court hearing.
Lyutyi had previously told the court that she intended to nurture the infant on prana-eating, a diet in which people go without food and water for extended periods of time and ‘feed on the sun’.
He was accused of preventing Mironova from breastfeeding her infant and described as a ‘radical raw food fanatic’.
‘He intended to experiment on the youngster, feed him only with sunlight, and then advertise to others that this is how you may eat,’ stated one insider.
Oxana’s mother, Galina, accused the dangerous Lyutyi of leading a’sect’.
I was against my daughter being in this sect,’ she said.
‘I felt everything, and told her that Maxim was crazy, but she didn’t listen to me.
‘Oxana lived there like a guinea pig. Each time she became colder to me… She was his slave.’
Another relative of Mironiva said: ‘Oxana told me that she was afraid of him. She wanted to leave him many times, but he held her back…
‘He wanted to raise [his son into] a man who only eats the sun
Oxana’s cousin Olesya Nikolayeva said: ‘He forced her not to feed the baby. Her boyfriend believed that the sun was feeding the baby.
‘Oxana was secretly trying to breastfeed the baby, but she was very afraid of Maxim. How is it possible to feed the baby with sunlight?
‘A baby needs his mother’s milk.’
Lyutyi had delivered his child at home, refusing to let Oxana go to a maternity hospital.
They eventually decided to take the emaciated child to doctors, but medical staff could do nothing to save the horrendously malnourished baby.
Oxana’s mother earlier said how she sent her daughter money to help her in any way she could, but that she could not get the child enough food under the watchful eye of her partner.
‘(Lyutyi) forbade her to feed the child.
‘Oxana told me that she secretly fed the baby, but she didn’t have enough money, because he didn’t give her any.
‘I sent Oxana money for food from my pension. She secretly bought baby food.’