Mommy blogger gets 20 years to life for salt-poisoning son

[Valin]

NY Post:

AP

4/8/15

 

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt got a break on her murder sentence Wednesday because she suffers from a mental illness she has refused to acknowledge, the judge said.

 

Lacey Spears, 27, of Scottsville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the 2014 death of Garnett-Paul Spears at a suburban New York hospital. Prosecutors said the mother force-fed high concentrations of sodium through the boy’s stomach tube because she craved the attention his illness brought her, especially through her heavy posting on social media.

 

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary said Spears’ crime was “unfathomable in its cruelty” and brought her son “five years of torment and pain.” But he said he was not imposing the maximum 25 years to life because “one does not have to be a psychiatrist to realize you suffer from Munchausen by proxy.”

 

He said he was offering “something you did not exhibit toward your son — mercy.”

 

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[RandyM]

Since she is only 27, she will likely be paroled in time to have another child to kill.

[Valin]

Since she is only 27, she will likely be paroled in time to have another child to kill.

 

 

Were it up to me, this would not be an issue...as she'd have her breathing privileges revoked.