Lacey Spears She was a mother who loved her son in a blog where she shared her life and uploaded photos, but she had a secret no one could imagine. This case was described as “unfathomable cruelty” and aroused disbelief United States of America: How could a woman give her son so much salt for so many years until he died?
A jury in the suburbs of NY convicted of second-degree murder Lacey Spearsof Scottsville, Kentucky, on the death of her 5-year-old son.
The case of Lacey Spears, the woman who poisoned her son with salt
At just nine days old, the son of Lacey Spears he became so ill that he had to be hospitalized. He had a high fever, an ear infection, seizures, gastrointestinal issues, but the doctors couldn’t 100% diagnose what was going on
The minor was reinstated at the age of eight months. The mother said she lost weight and didn’t know what to do. The specialists inserted a feeding tube into the baby.
The boy kept returning to the hospital, his health continued to deteriorate, and he underwent a gastrostomy; This way the feeding would be 100% dependent spears.
At age 3, they moved to Florida, where Spears began working at a church in exchange for a home, food, and education for her son.
Years passed, the boy became more and more ill, now he had severe headaches, seizures, and his brain began to swell. The child was admitted to a specialized center to improve treatment. Doctors found high levels of sodium, which the body could not produce (the minor was 166, while the normal range for his age is 140). They became suspicious and decided to call the police.
Meanwhile, Spears took to Facebook to ask her contacts for prayers and good energy for her son. He published photos of the minor in serious health conditions, which caused discontent on social networks.
Two police teams occupied the hospital and found several bottles of medicine and salt cans. a woman named valerie contacted officials to say so spears He had called her to get rid of a bag of groceries (breast milk) hooked up to the child’s feeding machine and commented nothing, but she ignored him.
The food was in a lab for analysis when the minor was pronounced dead, his brain was swollen, he had two cardiac arrests and eventually died.
The bags contained a human-lethal amount of salt (about 69 packets). The mother was charged with murder and taken to court, where she was accused of poisoning him with table salt. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison and sent to Bedford Hills Correctional Center for Women in New York.
The judge in the case called the case “unfathomable cruelty” as he fed the minor high doses of salt for five years until he died.