CALGARY — As Crown prosecutor Susan Pepper made her closing arguments here Thursday in the starvation-related death of Alex Radita, the boy’s accused mother dozens of times shook her head, ever so slightly, back and forth. All that is what renders Rodica’s head-shaking stunt so telling of her strange egoism and entitlement. If she had a story to tell, as her nodding head would suggest, she could have taken the witness box in her own defence. Before it was invented, by Canadian Dr. Frederick Banting in 1922, such children usually died within a year of diagnosis. The only thing that could prolong death was a starvation diet, which may hold off diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA.

Source: National Post September 16, 2016 00:22 UTC