Judge rules Calgary mother criminally negligent in son’s death
CALGARY – A Calgary woman who treated her son with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing death.
But the judge issued a judicial stay on a second charge against Tamara Lovett of failing to provide the necessaries of life.
Lovett gave her seven-year-old son Ryan dandelion tea and oil of oregano when he developed the infection that kept him bedridden for 10 days in March 2013.
The judge said Lovett “gambled away” her son’s life and any reasonable parent would not wait until a child was near death to seek help.