The highest price that quackery can exact. (Gerhardt Hanswille's herbalist teachings and the death of Loreie Atikian)

On March 2, 1992, Sonja and Khachadour Atikian walked away from a Toronto courtroom free people. They had endured 5 weeks of a third criminal trial having been charged with failing to provide the "necessaries of life" for 17-month-old Loreie who died of bronchial pneumonia complicated by severe malnutrition in 1987. The judge had acquitted them because the prosecution had failed to provide important information which supported their contention that they had honestly believed that they were providing the necessaries of life when they placed their trust in the health information being provided by health food store herbalist Gerhardt Hanswille.

The Atikian's are just …