Toddler Fed Vegan Diet Was ‘Malnourished’

The mother of a girl who was found severely malnourished leaves court in a file photograph. She and her husband avoided jail time after pleading guilty to failing to take care of the child. AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi

A toddler so neglected she looked like she was three months old when she was 19 months was “defenceless” from her parents’ crime, a Sydney court has heard.

A baby girl fed a vegan diet by her parents was so malnourished by the time she was 19 months old she didn’t have any teeth and looked like she was just three months old, a Sydney court has heard.