Mom's alleged medicine for dying son: tea

For 10 days, 7-year-old Ryan Alexander Lovett laid in bed while his mother fed him dandelion tea and oil of oregano. He died as a result, according to prosecutors.

In a trial that began Monday in Calgary, Alberta, prosecutors accuse Tamara Lovett, 47, of failing to provide the "necessaries of life," as well as criminal negligence causing the death of her son, who died of organ failure in 2013, reports Global News.

Prosecutors say Ryan first developed a streptococcus infection before coming down with meningitis and pneumonia, yet Lovett never sought medical advice or antibiotics. In fact, Ryan-who had no birth certificate or health card-had never visited a doctor in his life as his mother "did not believe in conventional medicine or doctors," a prosecutor says, per CBC News.

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