The sick mother made her son's life hell
A young woman develops a severe mental disorder and no one notices something until it's too late. The tragic story of Lacey Spears ends with the death of her son Garnett.
There are stories that are so terrible that you can hardly write them down. This one is one of them. It is the story of the little boy Garnett Spears , who was killed by his mother. The American Lacey Spears gave her son over five years high amounts of table salt. The last dose was deadly. In January 2014, the boy died in a hospital in Westchester County. Doctors and friends once left him alone with his mother too much. Münchhausen Deputy Syndrome The young mother enjoyed the attention of doctors
"Garnett's Journey" is the name of the blog on which Lacey reported publicly about her son's life.
The doctors prescribed Garnett a gastric tube
Due to the many salt Garnett suffered from heavy weight fluctuations and indigestion. The doctors did not suspect, prescribed instead a gastric tube. But Lacey Spears did not give her child healthy food through the probe. She used the access to fill more salt in his stomach.
Too much salt in the body can lead to cardiac arrest
Even one gram of cooking salt per day and kilogram of body weight can lead to death. For an adult, that would be a lot of ten tablespoons in one day. If there is too much salt in a human body, the blood gets thicker and blood pressure rises. It comes to shock or epileptic seizures, in the worst case to a respiratory or cardiac arrest.
On Twitter, Lacey Spears reported Garnett's illnesses. She writes: "My sweet angel is in the hospital for the 23rd time, praying that he will come home soon ...!" At this time, the boy was just one year old.
Doctors do not realize how dangerous Garnett is
As the doctors become aware of the unusually high salt content in Garnett's body, Lacey explains, "I just wanted to make the food tasty for him." There remains an admonition to use less salt for seasoning in the future. Lacey continues, the sodium level in Garnett's blood rising to a deadly level.
At night, Lacey misses her son's lethal dose
In January 2014 he suffers an epileptic seizure. He is hospitalized. When a friend visits him at the bedside, Garnett whispers: "Please do not leave me alone ..." A few days later he falls into a coma. His skin shimmers gray, his eyes are prominent. Finally he dies. During the night, Lacey injected her son with the deadly salt overdose.
A friend should destroy incriminating evidence
In the process, Lacey Spears pleaded innocent. She denies ever harming her son. But the evidence is overwhelming. Prosecutor Doreen Lloyd has reported in the process that, according to her computer's search log, Lacey Spears has explicitly researched what effects salt would have on her son's body. One of Lacey's neighbors reported that the young mother called her from the hospital and asked her to destroy a bag she used to feed Garnett through the probe. The neighbor handed the bag to the police, who discovered large amounts of salt in the bag.
If Lacey Spears is found guilty, she faces 25 years imprisonment.
Part of the pleading with prosecutor Doreen Lloyd, the video reports how Garnett's health deteriorated in the hospital. "When Lacey Spears was informed that Garnet's brain was showing no activity, she called a friend in the community where she lived with Garnett and told her to make that bag disappear and not tell anyone."
More information about the Münchhausen Deputy Syndrome can be found here: When mothers torture their children
