Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court December 4, 2007 (Commonwealth v. Robidoux)

Cordy, J.

Following a purported revelation from God in early March, 1999, the defendant, Jacques Robidoux, and his wife, Karen, restricted their ten month old son’s diet to breast milk and water, and deprived him of solid food. Samuel Robidoux died in late April, 1999, within days of his first birthday, from malnutrition caused by starvation.