CALGARY – A Calgary judge has found the parents of a diabetic boy who died of starvation and lack of treatment guilty of first-degree murder.
Justice Karen Horner says Emil and Rodica Radita were in gross denial of 15-year-old Alexandru’s disease.
Alexandru weighed less than 37 pounds when he died in 2013 of complications due to untreated diabetes and starvation.
The Raditas showed now emotion as the verdict was delivered. Alberta’s chief medical examiner testified that an autopsy showed the teen was severely underweight, covered in ulcers and nearly toothless.
There were several signs the boy had been subjected to neglect and starvation.
