The internet is now a numbers game. It’s
been so ever since content became the new
way to make money online.
This mommy
blogger, Lacey Spears, 26, however took her
pursuit of traffic one step too high.
She has been deliberately and fatally
poisoning her young child in order to garner
sympathy and attention online.
For various reasons, ranging from ear
infections and high fevers to mysterious
spikes in sodium levels, five-year-old Garnett
Spears was in and out of hospitals ever since
he was born.
Although doctors were generally
at a loss as to why – the boy also had trouble
gaining weight and, as a result, had a feeding
tube put in place – police now believe they
know what was behind at least some of the
problems: his mother.
After an investigation that began even before
Garnett’s death on January 23, New York
police have accused mother Lacey Spears of
purposely poisoning her son with too much
salt. The 26-year-old Spears has been charged
with second-degree depraved murder and
first-degree manslaughter, charges to which
she pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.
"This mother was intentionally feeding her
son salt in toxic levels," said Assistant District
Attorney Doreen Lloyd in court, according to
the Journal News.
Officials also believe Spears suffers from a
psychiatric illness known as Munchausen by
proxy, which involves a parent deliberately
harming or making their child sick in order to
get attention.
In addition to gaining sympathy
from those around her, Spears regularly
blogged about Garnett’s worsening condition,
posted updates regarding her son on
Facebook and Twitter.
"Her behavior was just weird in the hospital,"
one friend told the Journal.
"It was not the
behavior of a grieving mother. She was more
concerned about what everyone else was
saying, or what investigators were asking
people, or what people were saying on
Facebook, than putting all that aside and
taking care of her child."
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