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A lifestyle blogging father has been jailed for eight years for causing the death of his newborn son by demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food and milk.
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 will serve his sentence in a high-security penal colony.
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.'
Blogger Maxim Lyutyi, 44, pleads guilty to torturing his son by insisting the child survived on sun-rays instead of food
The Russian father will serve his sentence of eight years in a high-security penal colony
Blogger Maxim Lyutyi, 44, pleads guilty to torturing his son by insisting the child survived on sun-rays instead of food
Mironova (right), 34, admitted her guilt and repented over the death of her son. Lyutyi (left) faces a separate trial accused of torturing his newborn baby
Lyutyi has long campaigned for highly restrictive diets consisting of raw ingredients
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…'
He urged would-be partners to care for their health before conception and pay more attention to the baby than he had done.
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