So they admitted Garnett to the hospital and called DHR. Lacey was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her son, 5-year-old Garnett. "It is extremely unfortunate that a mere passerby in my client's life would take this opportunity to interject herself in this situation, while my client and her family are still in the early stages of grieving the very sudden and unexpected loss of Garnett. Part 2: Two fathers; one real, one imagined, Part 5: 'Garnett the Great journeyed onward', Listen: Hear Reporter Peter D. Kramer read the story, Chat live with the reporters behind 'Losing Garnett the Great'. Photos; Connections. "She wanted to give Garnett a brother," Hammack said. Please try again. Decatur Morgan Hospital (the new owner of Decatur General Hospital) declined to comment on the case, citing patient confidentiality under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Note to all criminals: what you post on line can and will be used against you. Police later seized the bag, which sources say contained a high concentration of sodium. Your search did not return any results. 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. The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News spent nine days in Alabama and Florida talking with people who know Spears, trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to Garnett. But when she trusted someone to hear her story, they'd often hear a tale that wouldn't bear scrutiny. We explore how a woman whose existence centered on her only child became the focus of a police probe into whether her son was poisoned. The last part of your Myspace URL. That boy is not her son. The email you used to create your account. I know you guys looked great on Facebook, like you were having a good time in New York. No worries, joining is easy. We based it off your Twitter details. I acknowledge that I have read and accept the Terms of Use It wasn't about feminism that's garbage she just didn't spend money on haircuts for him. Don't have a Myspace account yet? Lacey Spears, flanked by her attorneys David Sachs, left, and Stephen Riebling, Jr., right, looks toward the jury as her guilty verdict is read at the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains . Lacey Speer loudmouth1984. You may already know people on Myspace. If Lacey is charged, it would be one of the first such trials in the age of social media, a tool that gave Lacey a broad and eager audience for her parenting travails: She was a fixture on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Years later, Garnett would also suffer chronic ear infections, prompting some emergency room nurses to question whether Spears was causing them. A friend saw one MySpace photo and asked Autumn Hunt, JonJon's mother, if the boy in Lacey's photo was Hunt's son. Show more. Please enter the account owner's birth date here. The team rebutted tapes and evidence of feeding bags found in Spearss apartment that the prosecution put forward as invalid, saying the tapes could have been edited and the bags may have been tampered with as they were sitting in an unlocked apartment. "If you needed a ride, somebody to cover your shift, she'd do it for you.". She wrote a blog, "Garnett's Journey," subtitled "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." Select the types of content you would like to see. It's a strange way for a father to seek news about his son. "I was a single mom.". Several of the emergency-room visits went beyond feeding issues. At bathtime once in the Decatur apartment Lacey shared with her older sister, Dabbs-Anderson said she saw Lacey force her toddler son's head underwater. Ask your questions in advance by tweeting at us: @lohud. All rights reserved. "Lacey Spears is a calculating child killer who researched planned and executed the intentional poisoning of her son Garnett Spears with salt." . "To get him back, I would have to say, 'I have something to do,' or 'can I have my child back?' Garnett had been hospitalized many times throughout his young life. Someone should have got to this BEFORE it happened for over a year. Garnett didn't look like he was about to die. We loaded your account with your Twitter details. Doctors, she said, never made her feel repeated ear infections were all that unusual. It was the 17th of January 2014. The hard part is proving it. But she's at the center of a criminal probe after investigators found that her 5-year-old son, Garnett . "She would take him home with her from day care," Hunt said. Dabbs-Anderson said she jumped on Lacey, grabbed Garnett and briefly took him from the home. It was revoked for a year after Dabbs-Anderson said she made a serious mistake by helping a friend fill a falsified prescription for painkillers. Alex Case, 31, was groomed and sexually abused by Collingwood Magpies superfan Jeffrey 'Joffa' Corfe in his home in Coburg, in Melbourne's north, on January 29, 2005. Lacey Spears, the mother who was found guilty of poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday morning. Ginger Dabbs-Anderson, a former nurse at Decatur General Hospital who said she later befriended Lacey so she could help care for Garnett, saw Lacey's parenting inside the hospital and out. It would seem innocent and loving, as she'd offer her hand, trying to be like your friend. It got to the point of Lacey being jealous when Hammack became pregnant with another child. Learn more about how to retrieve an existing account. And it was a picture of Jonathon," Hunt said. She considered it a momentary loss of temper and didn't report the incident. The little boy's eyes looked haunted. We loaded your account with your Facebook details. She shared photos of Garnett up until his death. The little blond boy beams in dozens of photos on Lacey Spears' MySpace page: in the bath, at the park, sitting on the counter with a bright red pacifier in his mouth. And I'm not sure I think it was sadism. Just start typing to find music. Agreement and consent to the Privacy Policy and Video Privacy Policy. Please try again. This is your profile URL. Lacey Spears, it turns out, has a problem with the truth. This is how youll be known on Myspace. And Lacey replied, 'Yes, he is. Sachs, Lacey's lawyer, took issue with Dabbs-Anderson's account, and its timing. He died Jan. 23. Hitting > pauses the slideshow and goes forward. Twitter, and MySpace (which apparently still exists). "(DHR) got there, basically did a plan of care, tried to talk to her and teach her," she said. You may be prompted by your browser for permission. Her 5-year-old son's death . Let your followers know you're on Myspace with a Tweet. Drop music and videos into the areas below. Photos migrated from Classic Myspace on 2/23/2014 5:21:15 AM Comment Share. "She was almost like an isolated person who came in," he said, adding that he wouldn't remember who might be getting charity supplies such as diapers. Weird that only two posts are still up. He vaguely recalls Lacey Spears coming to the church on Sundays during that period with a baby, alone, which seemed odd to him because mothers rarely come without a husband or other family. Well the comment section is interesting. some people blame feminism for her murdering her son some blame gender dysmorphia (or rather that she made him look like a girl and her like a boy). But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Her online circle cried with her at news of another hospitalization, rejoiced with her as they saw the sickly boy grow, offered prayers and support. ", "In many respects your crime is unfathomable in its cruelty, it gives rise to many questions I quite frankly don't have answers for," acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Nearytold Spears, according to The Journal News. The email you used to create your account. Twitter, MySpace and a blog. I was like 17 years old with a baby, trying to be with the daddy, living at home with my mom. Lacey has denied doing anything to harm her son. Need help? Learn more about how to retrieve an existing account. If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. The former nurse is steadfast in her recollection of events and says the question of her license does not affect what she saw and heard, beginning with the first time she met Lacey and her 6-month-old son, in spring 2009. I think she was in live with the attention she . ", "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. The focus of the probe is Spears, who police suspect may have fed potentially life-threatening amounts of salt to her son in a case of Munchausen by proxy, a psychiatric disorder that leads a parent to sicken a child to seek sympathy or attention. This is your profile URL. Lacey Spears knew she wouldn't be able to keep up her charade, so she tried to keep her son from exposing her secret by making it look like he died of a medi. She'd often open the place at 5:30 a.m. and still be happy to fill in for others and close up around 6 p.m. Spears would spend weekdays with JonJon at day care and frequently take him home with her after work and keep him some weekends, putting him to bed in a crib that she had a neighbor assemble. A little blond boy beams in dozens of photos on Lacey Spears' MySpace page with captions like "My World My Everything" and "He Completes Me.". We based it off your Twitter details. Let your Facebook friends know youre on Myspace with an update. "If you needed help, you'd call on Lacey," Hunt said. It was a brief idyll for a happy child. According to reports, Lacey felt lonely in the state, so she moved in with her maternal grandmother in Florida for a brief while before relocating to a community called The Fellowship in Chestnut Ridge, New York . A baby is going to do that. After he turned 2, there was no longer any issue with ear problems.". To see past stories in the series, go to lohud.com. Lacey Sears laceydnee. Help us with just a few more questions. Don't have a Myspace account yet? Lacey Spears and her son Garnett settle in to life at the Fellowship, where Lacey spoke frequently about her sickly son's medical history. No money was exchanged.". In the last week of his life Lacey blogged of her son's decline as many as 28 times on . We've emailed you instructions on how to reset your password. ", When Hunt confronted Spears, she admitted it and apologized, saying: "I love JonJon, I would never do anything to hurt him. "She had like everything Camryn ever needed," Burnham recalled. "I don't know for sure whether she got assistance from the church," she said. With Jennifer Budinsky, Zoe Brown, John 'JR', Ross, Maxim Chouinard. "A lot of people thought we were sisters," Hunt said. She told Ramapo Detective Kirk Budnick her version of events as part of his investigation into Garnett's Jan. 23 death. Part 5: 'Garnett the Great journeyed onward'. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. This is your queue. It wasn't until after Garnett's death that Hunt heard that Spears years earlier took JonJon to Parkview Baptist Church, posing as his mom, and received charity baby supplies. The normal range is 140 for infants. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. 2023 www.lohud.com. When he did, she wrote, she ran the tub full of cold water with him in it and made him take a freezing bath. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Some saw her as a great mom, attentive and caring. Lacey Spears. Photos; Connections. I made her stop and got him out. Decatur's not that big of a town.". I heard this anonymous friend of hers being interviewed the woman wanted anonymity and her voice distorted because she admitted she had seen Lacy giving Garnet cold baths and then briefly drowning him, holding him underwater for a punishment and the woman said she just took Garnet away for several hours to help Lacy calm down rather than reporting her. But it is definitely a mental illness that needs to be treated before it gets to the point where children suffer. Your search did not return any results. Myspace, and a personal blog called 'Garnett's Journey', still . Help us with just a few more questions. 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She kept telling medical staff that the boy wouldn't eat, and asked them to surgically implant a feeding tube that would allow her to feed him without him having to swallow, she said. We based it off your Twitter details. Name. Police later seized the bag, which sources say contained a high concentration of sodium. "This was not a spontaneous or ill-conceived solitary act. "She had baby fever. Don't have a Myspace account yet? Hunt has a hard time thinking ill of her friend, and wondered aloud: "How do you cause an ear infection? A heartless Westchester mother was . Use this to log in to your account, receive notifications and get handy updates from us. This is your profile URL. Enter your email or username. "So she was giving me rides back and forth (to Calhoun) My momma loved her. "And then he'd come home and have ear infections," Burnham said, recalling Camryn's time with Spears. UPDATE: Lacey Spears convicted March 2, 2015, of second-degree murder in son Garnett's death. If they had been sisters, that would have made Spears Jonathon's aunt. "We were back and forth to the doctor. "She told me Garnett was born healthy, then went into surgery for acid reflux," Vaughn said. Kathy Hammack, who worked with Lacey at both centers, said she was great with children, routinely caring for five babies at a time. I was like, 'That's not Lacey's baby. Press ESC to exit. She also said that Lacy was always saying Garnet refused to eat and feeding him through a feeding tube only and that she never saw Lacey give him real food but that when she took Garnet to her house several times Garnet ate everything at the dinner table woman was a bit odd herself and seemed to only feed her family fastfood herself but said she fed Garnet KFC multiple times and that he happily ate it all up. "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. The trial lasted 14 days with emotions running high, with the prosecution arguingthat Spears forcefully injected lethal doses of salt into her sons body via feeding tube. On Jan. 19, 5-year-old Garnett was airlifted from Nyack Hospital to Westchester Medical Center, where doctors found extreme levels of sodium in the boy's system, even as Spears shared photos of him on life support. I acknowledge that I have read and accept the Terms of Use Please enter the account owner's birth date here. Senior Pastor Todd Evans presides at Parkview Baptist, where about 450 people attend services regularly. Lacey Spears continually brought her son into the hospital, claiming that he was sick. A Westchester County jury found the woman, Lacey Spears of Scottsville, Ky., guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett Spears. He didn't have a problem with throwing up," she said. A part of the People / Entertainment Weekly Network. ", The bathtub factored into another incident, one that Lacey herself reported online, last October, according to her Facebook friend Kathy Hunt, who read it on a now-closed account called "Happy Hippie Momma.". Getting in is easy. But when she trusted someone to hear her story, they'd often hear a tale that wouldn't bear scrutiny. Read it on lohud.com. Hitting > pauses the slideshow and goes forward. Most people use their real name. Burnham eventually had tubes put in Camryn's ears to help reduce the infections. Some people in Lacey Spears' life described her as a caring and nurturing mother but others saw darker signs. Garnett Spears had feeding tube most of his life, Spears case has red flags seen in Munchausen by proxy. Lacey has denied doing anything to harm her son, and her lawyer, David Sachs, has declined to comment. So I would try to sneak around. Garnett looked like he was doing great. In late January, Garnett was transported from Nyack Hospital to Westchester Medical Center. Using the child's 'illnesses' to self aggrandize herself, Lacey Spears' actions directly lead to her son's tortured death. Another shows toddler Garnett and JonJon, dressed identically on a wooden train at a park, titled "Brothers and Best Friends." Most people use their real name. No worries, joining is easy. Before long, Spears made herself indispensable, stepping in to help out with Camryn and never asking for pay or any of the things required to care for a baby. But he wasn't. If the call went to DHR, it didn't trigger an investigation. I couldn't pinpoint it.". "When Jonathon was born, people I didn't even know were coming to the hospital and to the house to see me. The last part of your Myspace URL. Young mother, Lacey Spears turns to the internet desperate for help and advice when her young son, Garnett mysteriously falls ill. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. 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