Did Mommy Blogger Lacey Spears Poison Her 5-Year-Old Son For Attention?

[Cali_Democrat]

The Huffington Post | by Andy Campbell
Posted: 05/07/2014 10:15 am ED

Police are investigating whether a mommy blogger who frequently wrote about her son's "courageous" battle with sickness was actually just poisoning him to get attention.

Lacey Spears, 26, of upstate New York, hasn't been charged with a crime. But she's at the center of a criminal probe after investigators found that her 5-year-old son, Garnett, had suspiciously high levels of sodium in his bloodstream before he died in January, according to CBS News. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Garnett had been in and out of the hospital his entire life for various illnesses. His mother documented his medical problems in a blog called "Garnett's Journey." Police expect their investigation to prove that Spears was feeding him life-threatening amounts of salt and then blogging about his declining health in a case of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric disorder in which a parent sickens a child for sympathy, according to The Journal News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/lacey-spears-mommy-blogger-garnett_n_5279944.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

[B2G]

1. Münchausen syndrome by proxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_proxy

[cbayer]

4. Exactly.

I've seen it in real life.

Munchausen's is bad enough, but by proxy is really tragic.

[Godhumor]

2. Jesus...n/t

[Stargazer09]

3. Oh no

That poor little guy.

[B2G]

5. Way more to this story here

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2014/03/24/lacey-spears-tells-two-different-tales-garnetts-father/6795121/

[Stargazer09]

6. Thank you for posting that

I just finished reading the whole story. Wow. It's not looking good for that mother.

[tammywammy]

7. Just finished reading the five articles.

Oh goodness. It sounds pretty bad for the mother.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. New York woman sentenced to 20 years to life for killing son with salt

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-york-woman-sentenced-to-20-years-to-life-for-killing-son-with-salt/ar-AAaAO9t

Thought I'd update this rather than making another thread.

NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - A suburban New York woman who wrote a blog about motherhood was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering her son through salt poisoning so she could use his illness to gain social media attention.

Lacey Spears, 27, who chronicled her son Garnett's illnesses on a personal blog called "Garnett's Journey" and other social media, was convicted by a jury in White Plains, New York, last month of second-degree murder in his 2014 death at Westchester Medical Center in Vahalla, New York.