Infant's Autopsy Results Blame Baby's Diet For Death
POSTED: 12:10 p.m. EDT July 17, 2003
UPDATED: 6:10 a.m. EDT July 18, 2003
MIAMI -- An autopsy report detailing the cause of a 6-month old girl's death was released Thursday, and investigators are very interested in what it says since the infant's parents are accused of causing her death.
Joseph and Lamoya Andressohn remain in jail, charged with Woyah Andressohn's death. They also face charges of neglect for Woyah's four older brothers and sisters who are now in foster homes. Police say the family believed in a raw foods diet, which they called a "living food diet." That diet has been blamed for the infant's death.
The 50-plus page autopsy report describes a baby so malnourished she could not lift her head.
The following details are among the findings:
- At the time of her death, Woyah could not lift her head or sit without help.
- In the last three days of her life, her eyes would roll back in her head.
- Her mother, Lamoya, believing Woyah was "toxic," stopped breastfeeding her at 3 months of age.
- Woyah would be given wheat grass enemas to de-toxify her body.
- Two of the older children have rickets, a disease usually associated with starvation.
- A statement from the couple's 6 year-old son claims he would be "punished for eating cooked food and stealing food." Punishment was said to be an enema.
The autopsy reports concludes the parents did not feed an adequate diet to their children but classified the death as an "accident." Prosecutors are calling it manslaughter and child neglect.
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