Thursday, November 14, 2024 -A lifestyle blogging father who starved his newborn son to death by demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food and milk has had his jail sentence increased.
Maxim Lyutyi, 44, and his partner Oxana Mironova, 34, failed to properly
feed their baby Cosmos, who died from 'pneumonia and emaciation' when he
was less than one month old.
The Russian father, who is serving his sentence in a high-security penal
colony, had his sentence increased from eight to 10 years.
He took the baby away from his mother for a day at a time 'dousing him
with cold water to harden him', reported Mash news outlet.
‘The little body could not withstand the abuse: exhaustion developed and
breathing problems appeared. But even in this condition, the child was not
shown to doctors.’
Lyutyi caused 'intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm' to Cosmos
by insisting the baby be nourished mainly on sunlight, the court in Sochi
heard.
He admitted his guilt in a court appearance last week after previously
trying to pin the blame on Mironova who has already received a non-custodial
sentence of two years 'correctional labour'.
He had claimed she had an iron deficiency which caused the death of the
baby weighing three-and-a-half pounds.
Lyutyi told the court he was guilty of 'negligence'. 'I admit my
guilt,' he said. 'If I knew that my son was born prematurely, that his mother
had contraindications for pregnancy, then at the first symptoms of the child's
illness.
'I would immediately contact a hospital, regardless of the wishes and
beliefs of the mother…'
On video he said: 'Your Honour, distinguished court, I still insist [I
did not deliberately kill my child…].
'This is purely a crime of negligence…without such intent. I emphasise
once again that I loved my son, cared for him.'
The court was earlier told Lyutyi wanted to raise the newborn on
prana-eating - a diet in which people go without food and water for a long time
and 'feed on the sun'.
He was accused of barring Mironova from breastfeeding the child, and was
described as a 'radical raw food fanatic'.
'He wanted to experiment on the child, feed him purely with the sun, and
then advertise it to others that this is how you can eat,' said one source.
A court official said Lyutyi was also fined £860.
Oxana's mother Galina accused the sinister Lyutyi of running 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.
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