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Parents who forced ‘extreme’ vegan diet on toddler and buried his body in garden jailed

Parents who forced ‘extreme’ vegan diet on toddler and buried his body in garden jailed

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A couple have been jailed for causing or allowing the death of their three-year-old son after forcing him to endure an “extreme” vegan diet. Abiyah Yasharahyalah died from a respiratory illness while suffering from fractures, severe malnutrition, rickets, anaemia, stunted growth and severe dental decay. Jurors heard Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah, 42 and 43, kept the boy’s body in their bed for eight days, embalmed him and then buried him in a shallow grave in their garden in early 2020. He wasn’t found for more than two years. The jury was told the couple shunned mainstream society in favour of their own “kingdom” in Handsworth, Birmingham, and pushed a restrictive vegan diet. Prosecutors said it would have been obvious Abiyah was in considerable pain and neither parent could explain why they didn’t get help. The trial was told instead of contacting NHS the couple tried to treat their son’s final illness with garlic and ginger. The couple’s diet largely consisted of nuts, raisins and soya milk and they were both “extremely thin” when they were …

Parents who forced ‘extreme’ vegan diet on toddler and buried his body in garden jailed | UK News

Parents who forced ‘extreme’ vegan diet on toddler and buried his body in garden jailed | UK News

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A couple have been jailed for causing or allowing the death of their three-year-old son after forcing him to endure an “extreme” vegan diet. Abiyah Yasharahyalah died from a respiratory illness while suffering from fractures, severe malnutrition, rickets, anaemia, stunted growth and severe dental decay. Jurors heard Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah, 42 and 43, kept the boy’s body in their bed for eight days, embalmed him and then buried him in a shallow grave in their garden in early 2020. He wasn’t found for more than two years. Image: Abiyah Yasharahyalah died in 2020 aged three. Pic: West Midlands Police The jury was told the couple shunned mainstream society in favour of their own “kingdom” in Handsworth, Birmingham, and pushed a restrictive vegan diet. Prosecutors said it would have been obvious Abiyah was in considerable pain and neither parent could explain why they didn’t get help. The trial was told instead of contacting NHS the couple tried to treat their son’s final illness with garlic and ginger. Image: Pics: West Midlands Police The couple’s diet …

Woman defended after refusing to pay for mother-in-law’s phone after toddler broke it

Woman defended after refusing to pay for mother-in-law’s phone after toddler broke it

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A mother has asked for opinions on whether or not she should have to pay for her mother-in-law’s phone after it was broken by her child. In a recent Reddit post shared to the popular “Am I The A**hole?” subreddit, the mother explains that her mother-in-law was babysitting her toddler when she decided to give the child her phone to watch YouTube videos. “Our LO decided she was done and threw the phone from her high chair, cracking the screen badly. Now, we absolutely do not do this. Our LO gets maybe two hours of screen time a week, and it’s always on the TV, never a phone,” the Reddit post read. The mother then clarified that her mother-in-law has more money than she …

Toddler who had eye removed due to rare cancer has prosthetic developed just for her | UK News

Toddler who had eye removed due to rare cancer has prosthetic developed just for her | UK News

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A toddler who had to have an eye removed after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer has “adapted so well” to a prosthetic designed by doctors who relied solely on scans of her face. Nuala Mulholland, now a 20-month-old toddler, was diagnosed when she was 10 months old, after her mother realised something was wrong as her eye appeared bloodshot. It was initially thought Nuala, from Liverpool, had subconjunctival haemorrhage, a usually harmless condition where a tiny blood vessel breaks underneath the clear surface of the eye. Read more on Sky News: ‘Very hot’ 30C days treble in UK, Met Office findsWhat is the two-child benefit cap? But her eye then started bulging out, prompting her mum, Megan, to take her to hospital. Days later the family was informed she had a rare form of cancer which affects an average of only six people in England every year. The condition is known as alveolar soft part sarcoma. “It was just horrendous,” Mrs Mulholland, 36, said. Image: Nuala was diagnosed with a rare soft …

UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial | Medical research

UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial | Medical research

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A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial, in a development that doctors say marks a new era in treating deafness. Opal Sandy was born unable to hear anything due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain and can be caused by a faulty gene. But after receiving an infusion containing a working copy of the gene during groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes, the 18-month-old can hear almost perfectly and enjoys playing with toy drums. Her parents were left “gobsmacked” when they realised she could hear for the first time after the treatment. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Opal’s mother, Jo Sandy, said. “It was … bonkers.” The girl, from Oxfordshire, was treated at Addenbrooke’s hospital, part of Cambridge university hospitals NHS foundation trust, which is running the Chord trial. More deaf children from the UK, Spain and the US are being recruited to the trial …

This Morning stars’ cute kids: Cat Deeley’s lookalike sons, Ben Shephard’s teens and Dermot O’Leary’s toddler

This Morning stars’ cute kids: Cat Deeley’s lookalike sons, Ben Shephard’s teens and Dermot O’Leary’s toddler

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This Morning has been staple telly viewing in British households since it first launched in 1988 with husband-and-wife team Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan at the helm. Since then, the popular magazine show has seen Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton take over the famous sofa, with Fern subsequently being replaced by Holly Willoughby. Now, once again, the ITV1 programme has a new set of hosts: Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard presenting Monday to Thursdays and Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary holding the fort on Fridays and school holidays. WATCH: Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley make This Morning debut Away from the limelight, each of the four current This Morning hosts have families, some with young children and others now parents to teens and over 18s.  Read on to see the This Morning stars’ children… Cat Deeley’s sons Cat, 47, shot to fame on SMTV Live in 1998, which she co-hosted with Ant and Dec, followed by Fame Academy and Stars In Their Eyes. At home, Cat is mum to two boys, Milo, eight, and James, five, with …

Not a Toddler, Not a Parent, but Still Love ‘Bluey’? You’re Not Alone

Not a Toddler, Not a Parent, but Still Love ‘Bluey’? You’re Not Alone

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PHOENIX (AP) — A small blue dog with an Australian accent has captured the hearts of people across the world. She’s the title character of “Bluey,” a kids’ program consisting of seven-minute episodes that have enraptured children and adults alike. This week’s release of its longest episode yet — at a whopping 28 minutes — prompted an outpouring of appreciation for the show, even from those who are neither toddler nor parent. “Bluey” follows an Australian blue heeler who, along with her sister (a red heeler named Bingo), navigates the days between home and school. It’s a favorite among children for its playful humor, but it also appeals to adults reminiscing about childhood. “My childhood experience wasn’t the greatest so I’ve always resonated with shows where life is good,” says Miriam Neel, who lives in Colorado. “The parents in ‘Bluey’ enable imagination and creativity and really get involved with their kids, and I wish I had those experiences.” Neel is 32 and has chosen not to have any children of her own. She says the …

Woman Sues Tesla After Toddler Starts Car, Runs Her Over While Pregnant

Woman Sues Tesla After Toddler Starts Car, Runs Her Over While Pregnant

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She’s now suing Tesla. Uno Reverse A woman is suing Tesla after her toddler ran her over in her Model X back in 2018 — while she was eight and a half months pregnant with her second child. According to court filings, Mallory Harcourt’s son, who was just two years old at the time, was able to start the car and hit her at her home in Santa Barbara after “escaping” from her side while she tried to change his diaper, the Miami Herald reports. The toddler reportedly touched the brake pedal in the footwell, causing the vehicle to start and the driver’s side door to automatically close. Her son “reached up and touched the gear shift lever on the stalk of the steering wheel, which shifted the car out of park and into drive,” the filing reads. “[He] then contacted the accelerator pedal, which caused the car to begin moving forward.” Drive By The collision was reportedly severe enough to break bones. Fortunately, Harcourt was quickly whisked off to a nearby hospital and eventually …

Diddy returns to Instagram with post about toddler after raids on his LA and Miami homes

Diddy returns to Instagram with post about toddler after raids on his LA and Miami homes

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted on Instagram for the first time since the raids on his homes in Miami and Los Angeles, carried out in connection with a federal sex trafficking investigation. On Monday 25 March, his mansions were raided by federal agents from US Homeland Security, with Combs describing the actions of agents as a “gross overuse of military-level force” and insisting he was innocent of any wrongdoing. On Sunday (31 March), the rapper shared a series of photos of his 17-month-old daughter, Love, wearing different pink and purple outfits. “HAPPY EASTER from Baby Love,” he captioned it. Comments on the post were disabled. Combs shares his daughter with Dana Tran. He has six other children ranging from the ages of 17 to 32 – Quincy, Justin, Christian, Chance, D’Lila and Jessie – by four different women. The musician wasn’t present himself at any of the raids, but his …

French police find ‘bones’ of toddler missing in the Alps

French police find ‘bones’ of toddler missing in the Alps

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This photograph taken on March 27, 2024, shows an entrance of the French southern Alps village of Le Vernet, near the Haut-Vernet where 2 years old Emile went missing while staying with his grandparents height months ago on a street of the tiny village of 25 inhabitants at an altitude of around 1,200 metres (4,000 feet). CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP French investigators have found the “bones” of a toddler who went missing last summer in a tiny Alpine village and are working to determine how he died, a prosecutor said on Sunday, March 31. The discovery is the first major breakthrough in the case of two-and-a-half-year-old Emile, who vanished on July 8 last year while staying with his grandparents. Two neighbors last saw him in the late afternoon walking alone on a street in Le Vernet, at an altitude of 4,000 feet in the French Alps. “On Saturday, the police was informed of the discovery of bones near the hamlet of Le Vernet,” prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said. Genetic testing allowed them “to conclude on Sunday …