Young California Boy Now Blind and Quadriplegic — Authorities Blame His Parents’ Extreme Health Views
- On Monday, an Orange County Superior Court jury found John Andres Gonzalez, 38, and Jaqueline Navarro, 45, guilty of felony child abuse with a great bodily injury enhancement involving a child under five.
- Prosecutors found Gonzalez and Navarro embraced extreme health beliefs, including following a vegan mucus-free fruitarian diet and naturopathy, believing breast milk was toxic and the body could self-heal.
- On August 1, 2020, in Newport Beach, doctors found the baby gray, emaciated, and suffering from hypoxia, seizures, and low blood sugar, indicating severe malnutrition.
- Gonzalez and Navarro are scheduled for sentencing on July 25 at Central Justice Center, Santa Ana, each facing up to 12 years in prison and held without bail.
- Tulare County's Department of Child Welfare Services paid a $32 million settlement after failing to protect the boy, who remains quadriplegic and blind from permanent malnutrition damage.
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Young California boy now blind and quadriplegic — authorities blame his parents’ extreme health views
LOS ANGELES — Parents who brought their unresponsive newborn to an Orange County hospital in 2020 were convicted of felony child abuse this week, on charges they exposed the baby to extreme heat and cold and failed to provide him…
Young boy now blind and quadriplegic — authorities blame his parents' extreme health views
The parents were convicted of exposing the infant to extreme heat and cold and witholding needed nourishment, which caused severe brain damage that left him a quadriplegic, and unable to talk or see.
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