Influencer confesses to causing death of one-month-old son after demanding tot should live on sunlight instead of food

AN INFLUENCER has confessed to causing the death of his one-month-old son after demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food.

Lifestyle blogging father Maxim Lyutyi, 44, changed his court plea after his child, Kosmos, died from ‘pneumonia and emaciation’ after failing to feed him properly.

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Maxim Lyutyi, from the Krasnodar Region in Russia, has confessed to killing his child of starvation[/caption]

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The lifestyle blogger demanded his son should live on sunlight instead of food[/caption]

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Lyuti had previously sought to pin the blame on his partner Oxana Mironova, 34[/caption]

The Russian father faces up to eight years in jail and a fine for the “intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm”.

He admitted his guilt in a final court appearance ahead of sentencing this week in Sochi.

Previously, he had sought to pin the blame on his partner Oxana Mironova, 34, who has already received a non-custodial sentence of two years “correctional labour”.

He had claimed she had an iron deficiency which caused the death of the baby weighing three-and-a-half pounds.

Yet Lyutyi was found to be eating meat – pasta with stew, ignoring his own strictures – as he was held in a Russian detention jail for more than a year since the baby’s death.

The court was earlier told  Lyutyi wanted to raise the newborn on prana-eating — a diet in which people go without food and water for a long time and ‘feed on the sun’.

He was accused of barring Mironova from breastfeeding the child.

“He wanted to experiment on the child, feed him purely with the sun, and then advertise it to others that this is how you can eat,” said one source.
Oxana’s mother Galina accused the sinister Lyutyi of running a “sect”.

“I was against my daughter being in this sect,” she said.

“I felt everything, and told her that Maxim was crazy, but she didn’t listen to me.

“Oxana lived there like a guinea pig.

“Each time she became colder to me….

“She was his slave.”

Lyutyi is known as a “radical raw food fanatic”.

Another relative of Mironiva said: “Oxana told me that she was afraid of him.

“She wanted to leave him many times, but he held her back…

“He wanted to raise [his son into] a man who only eats the sun.”

Oxana’s cousin Olesya Nikolayeva said: “He forced her not to feed the baby.

“Her boyfriend believed that the sun was feeding the baby.

“Oxana was secretly trying to breastfeed the baby, but she was very afraid of Maxim.

“How is it possible to feed the baby with sunlight?

“A baby needs his mother’s milk.”

He had delivered the child at home, refusing to let Oxana go to a maternity hospital.

They eventually decided to take the emaciated child to doctors but it was too late and the baby died on the way.”