Maxim Lyutyi. The newborn died from 'pneumonia and emaciation' a few weeks after birthA lifestyle blogging father has been jailed for eight years for causing the death of his newborn son by demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food and milk.
Blogger Maxim Lyutyi, 44, pleads guilty to torturing his son by insisting the child survived on sun-rays instead of foodBlogger Maxim Lyutyi, 44, pleads guilty to torturing his son by insisting the child survived on sun-rays instead of food He had claimed she had an iron deficiency which caused the death of the baby weighing three-and-a-half pounds.
The court was earlier told Lyutyi 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'. Another relative of Mironiva said: 'Oxana told me that she was afraid of him. She wanted to leave him many times, but he held her back… He wanted to raise a man who only eats the sun.'