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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox and Matthew Cooper

Three-year-old boy starved and buried by parents was ‘invisible to child services’

Abiyah Yasharahyalah, who died in early 2020, with his father - (West Midlands Police)

A new review has found that a three-year-old boy who was starved by his parents became “invisible and lost” from the sight of child services in his early life.

Abiyah Yasharahyalah was buring in a garden by his mother and father after dying in early 2020 from a respiratory illness. This was worsened by a “restricted” vegan diet which caused severe malnourishment, rickets, anaemia and stunted growth.

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