Mom Treats Son’s Strep Throat With “Natural Remedies.” You Can Probably Guess How That Turned Out. (Hint: She’s Going To Jail.)

Stories like this infuriate me to no end.

See the darling 7-year old boy pictured above?

That’s Ryan. Ryan got himself a case of strep throat – not a terribly uncommon illness – and one that’s easy peasy to treat safely with antibiotics. Parents with common sense and a healthy appreciation for modern medicine deal with strep in their kids by taking them to a physician – even a doc-in-the-box type of establishment works – and getting appropriate treatment.

But not Tamara Lovett. Nope, Ryan’s mom, who’s obviously some hippie-dippie fruitloop, decided to treat her son with freaking dandelion tea and oil of oregano.

The result? His illness rapidly worsened. His lymph nodes swelled, his ears started to ooze, and his eyes yellowed. His entire body was infested with strep, causing his major organs to fail. His ultimate death was unnecessarily excruciating. And it’s all because his mother didn’t take him to a doctor for proper treatment.

Look – I’m a conservative parent, and I don’t believe in government interfering unnecessarily in our lives. But this? This is absolute insanity.

Thankfully, a judge in Calgary convicted Tamara Lovett of criminal negligence, and she faces 3 years in prison now.

According to the sourcelink:

Lovett admitted during the proceeding that what she did was wrong, and the court acknowledged her grief and suffering.

…The justice, however, remained skeptical that Lovett’s beliefs about the medical system had shifted.

Following the sentencing, prosecutor Jonathan Hak said that the ruling sent a clear message to the public.

‘If your child is not getting better, you are legally and morally bound to take that child to an actual doctor for actual medical care.’

I can’t believe that requires even saying out loud, but here we are.

Apparently, during the court proceedings, Tamara told the court that she thought Ryan just had a cold or the flu. Which doesn’t explain why, when his ears started oozing and he jaundiced and continued to deteriorate, she just kept plugging him with freaking DANDELION TEA

So she’s “grieving and suffering” now. Well, sorry to sound unsypathetic, but GOOD. She deserves to after allowing her young son to die an excruciating death for no reason at all.

UGH.