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A woman detained for 'feeding her baby on sunlight' before the boy died of 'prolonged starvation' was a 'slave' to her lifestyle trainer boyfriend, say her relatives.

Oxana Mironova, 33, from Russia, was forbidden from giving food to her tragic son Kosmos, they have claimed.

Her partner Maxim Lyutyi, 43, 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', say relatives.

A video shows him in court being detained for two months under suspicion of child torture.

'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 Oxana's mother Galina who accuses him of running a 'sect'.

'I was against my daughter being in this sect. 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.'

He barred her from breastfeeding the baby, though she did so when he was away.

She alleged: 'He 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.'

Both parents have been detained, with Oxana under house arrest accused by the Russian authorities of negligence.