Naturopath Faces Trial Over Alleged Raw Food Advice To Breastfeeding Mom

‘Demonstrating yet again how the Western world is the guiding light of democracy and freedom, Australian officials have charged Marilyn Bodnar, a 60-year-old naturopath, with “recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and aiding or abetting failure to provide necessities of life to a child.”
The prosecution for the Campbell town local court alleges that a 33-year-old maternity ward nurse went to the naturopath for advice regarding her baby’s eczema. It is alleged by the prosecution that Bodnar told the woman, who was still breastfeeding at the time, that eczema was caused by toxins which need to be eliminated and then devised a raw-food diet and instructed her to only consume water and watermelon for three days.’
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