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Well belated Merry Christmas to all. I see our people are in more prekeh up north. Well it going on same way down here. Why wi must be into the red of every egg I do not know:
COURTS | CHILD WELFARE
Judge sets limits on raw food parents.
A Homestead couple, whose baby daughter died while on a raw foods diet, were convicted of neglecting their other four children, but avoided a jail sentence.
BY SUSANNAH A. NESMITH
snesmith@MiamiHerald.com
The parents who fed their baby a diet of raw foods until she died were each sentenced Thursday to 15 years' probation for the neglect of their four older children. Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn were acquitted in the malnutrition death of baby Woyah, but convicted of neglecting the four older kids.
In sentencing the couple, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stanford Blake's order included a host of conditions to ensure the safety of the children if and when the Andressohn's regain custody. Among the requirements: the children must go to public school (they are currently home schooled), be regularly vaccinated, see a doctor every three months and be fed a nutritionist-recommended diet. ''Whatever diet you want to be on, I don't care,'' Blake told the couple. ``I care about the diet your children are on.''
Blake ordered the Andressohns receive a five-year suspended sentence that can be imposed if they violate any of the conditions of their probation. He also ordered probation officials give him monthly reports on the children for the next 15 years -- until the youngest of the four is an adult. The Andressohns also have an infant who was born after Woyah died.
''Should it come to the court's attention that anything is being done by you that is detrimental to the children, not only will the children most likely be taken away by another court, but you will go to prison,'' he warned the Andressohns. Lamoy wept after the judge announced the sentence and hugged supporters who have attended most of the trial and sentencing hearings. ''I'm just glad to get another chance with my babies,'' she said, choking back tears.
(Joe and Lamoy married in March 1995. He was 26. She was 19. He was born and raised in Miami by Puerto Rican parents.
Lamoy was born in Jamaica and came to the United States with her family.
Joe has been paying child support for a 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
Life was a financial struggle from the beginning. Both had entry-level retail jobs, often in health-food stores and markets. Their first son, Yahshwa, was born Sept. 21, 1996. Within a year, the couple were living in the backyard apartment of a longtime friend of Joe's parents, Emilio Abreu. ''They showed up one day with nowhere to go,'' Abreu recalled. ``I've known his father since we were knee high, back in Puerto Rico. Joe was always a good boy, so I let him stay.''
The Andressohns left in 2000. They now had three children. For a time, according to employees of Wild Oats, the family lived out of their van. Joe lost his job at the Miami Beach branch of Wild Oats because of chronic tardiness. By then, the family was into the natural-foods lifestyle full tilt. The deeper they delved into eating only uncooked and vegetarian foods, the better they felt, friends said. The Andressohns also adopted a religion that supported their choice, friends said. They became Hebrew Israelites, a faith that preaches blacks are God's chosen people and espouses natural eating.
Neighbors reported the Andressohns to the child welfare agency more than once. Complaints about the children's eating habits came in February and March. During a March visit to the home, when a DCF investigator asked what Woyah was fed, Lamoy produced a baby bottle with wheat-grass juice, according to DCF records. Despite this, the investigator concluded there were no signs of neglect. The administrator who ran the DCF's Miami district at the time called this ``a critical lapse.''
On May 11, the DCF got another call. They are very thin and their stomachs look bloated,'' the report said about the children. The next day, a DCF investigator told Lamoy to take the children to a doctor. The investigator said she needed to see Woyah, who at the time was out of the home with her father. But no one from the DCF saw the baby from then on. Woyah died three days later. That day, her siblings were taken by the DCF and put into foster care, where they have stayed on a vegetarian diet but have begun to eat cooked and processed food. They are slowly gaining weight, authorities say.)
2005 MiamiHerald.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
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