Parents who 2020 Brought his unripe newborn to the Orange County Hospital, was convicted of violence against children against children, for the accusations they had made high heat and cold, and failed to provide the feeding he needed, causing major brain damage that caused the child to leave four -legged and could not speak or see.
John Andres Gonzalez (38) and 45 -year -old Joqueline Navarro were convicted of crime against children and dangers by improving a major bodily injury to a child under 5 years of age. They are subject to a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison in each of them.
Prosecutors said the couple considered themselves “vegan mucus without fruit”, which seem to mean a faith in a diet seeking to remove mucus from the body. Prosecutors said they were also followers of naturalopathy, which usually means prevention and treatment of a holistic approach to disease in solving the main causes.
However, Gonzalez and Navarro seemed to use false and extreme opinions related to this practice, including the fact that the body could cure itself and that breast milk was toxic, prosecutors and lawsuits say. Prosecutors said they would only feed the baby soy formula, fruits and vegetables. In the court’s lawsuit, his father’s grandmother said the couple had tried to keep the baby in a herbal diet, and first fed it with bananas and dating with honey.
Medical professionals, including Naturopath, recommend breastfeeding in the first six months of life for optimal nutrition or the formula to be used almost exclusively.
Prosecutors said the couple also began to include it in high temperature saunas and ice baths within a few weeks after the birth of their son.
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The Orange District Authority became involved in the case when the couple brought their slender, unripe son to the Hoags Hospital Emergency Department on Newport Beach, where they were on vacation. The couple lived in Lindsay, Tulare in County.
“The baby was gray, exhausted and catatonic,” the prosecutors state. “The ambulance doctors learned that the boy had extremely low blood sugar levels and suffered from hypoxia and persistent seizures.”
Other tests confirmed that he was not properly nourished, prosecutors said. However, even during the hospital stay, Gonzalez contradicted many ways of rescue and said “believe that starvation will encourage healing,” prosecutors said in a statement.
The brain experienced by a boy is a permanent, so doctors reported, so he is a quadrilateral, blind and unable to speak, walk or eat independently. The boy is now 5 years old and is supervised by his father’s grandmother.
The grandmother was worried about her granddaughter shortly after her birth and repeatedly called the Tula County Children’s Welfare Services Department to report potential abuse or negligence.
She filed a lawsuit against the county welfare agency, claiming that the agency had failed to protect its granddaughter, so the child’s permanent brain damage was caused. This case was resolved in 2023. For $ 32 million, which was believed to be the largest settlement from the Children’s Security Services Agency in California at the time.
“This innocent child suffered from his first breath, which he took because of his parents’ beliefs that starvation would heal him,” Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in his report. “Instead of healing him, they robbed him from his vision, his ability to take his first steps, say their first words and the opportunity to see the world.
Gonzalez and Navarro are currently kept without deposit and will be sentenced to 25 July.
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This story initially appeared at the Los Angeles Times.