Agreement and consent to the Privacy Policy and Video Privacy Policy. I couldn't pinpoint it.". This is your profile URL. 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. Please enter the account owner's birth date here. Fair point but Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is one of the very hardest psychiatric symptoms for people to empathize with when it hurts a poor little baby. "She held him down in the water because she was flustered with him, upset with him, because he was whining when she was washing his hair," Dabbs-Anderson recalled. Before he died, Westchester County police, the district attorney and Ramapo police began an investigation. "She had like everything Camryn ever needed," Burnham recalled. 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 Lacey shared photos of him on life support. Westchester County Police subsequently launched an investigation. If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. He died several days later. Enter your email or username. Connect me to Facebook friends and artists on Myspace ? If we find matches from your Facebook friends . 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. "When Jonathon was born, people I didn't even know were coming to the hospital and to the house to see me. That very well could have been the case with her and Jonathon, and her and G.". UPDATE: Friends share shocking new details about the final days Lacey Spears spent with her dying son. Using the child's 'illnesses' to self aggrandize herself, Lacey Spears' actions directly lead to her son's tortured death. Poor little boy. . Comment Share. (Audio: Ex-nurse recalls Lacey as "the biggest liar I ever met."). Garnett would spend overnights at the home Dabbs-Anderson shared with her mother. Doctors found extreme levels of sodium in the boy's system. CROTON MOMsentenced in 6-year-olddaughter's drug overdosedeath, MYSTERY: New clues emerge in slaying of socialite Lois Colley, ROBERT DURST: Tracking real estate scion, murder suspect across America, SHERRI OROFINO DEATH:Convicted cop and murder suspect works for state, PODCAST: Sex, murder, poison and prophets in Ossining. The latest music videos, short movies, tv shows, funny and extreme videos. So they admitted Garnett to the hospital and called DHR. 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. "This was not a spontaneous or ill-conceived solitary act. Lacey Spears. "And on weekends when she had him, if I decided to stay out of town Sunday night, she'd say, 'Fine, I can take him to work with me.' A friend saw one MySpace photo and asked Autumn Hunt, JonJon's mother, if the boy in Spears' photo was Hunt's son. Garnett Spears spent much of his in hospital beds. When he did, she wrote, she ran the tub full of cold water with him in it and made him take a freezing bath. Drop music and videos into the areas below. It's a strange way for a father to seek news about his son. You can always edit this or any other info in settings after joining. Something's wrong with her. Scroll down for the full story. C. MySpace. Riley Vaughn had a child a year or so older than Garnett, and was among a circle of friends who would hear Lacey's stories and want to help. There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. Use Facebook, Twitter or your email to sign in. "I took him to the nurses desk, with his IV and everything, and I fed him. Garnett was repeatedly admitted . . If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. She didn't learn the outcome, or any conclusions that were drawn from that overnight stay. It was a brief idyll for a happy child. Using the child's 'illnesses' to self-aggrandize herself, Lacey Spears' actions directly lead to her son's tortured death.". To see past stories in the series, go to lohud.com. She got him diapers, wipes, a car seat, outfits and a crib. Garnett waspronounced dead on Jan. 23, 2014, from high levels of sodium, which led to swelling in his brain. But it is definitely a mental illness that needs to be treated before it gets to the point where children suffer. Twitter, MySpace and a blog. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Eat Pray Love. She worshiped Garnett, wouldn't let him out of her sight. Kathy Hammack, who worked with Lacey at both centers, said she was great with children, routinely caring for five babies at a time. Learn more about how to retrieve an existing account. . Lacey Spears and her son Garnett settle in to life at the Fellowship, where Lacey spoke frequently about her sickly son's medical history. "A lot of people thought we were sisters," Hunt said. "And then he'd come home and have ear infections," Burnham said, recalling Camryn's time with Spears. They also have questioned Lacey Spears' friends and family and sought Garnett's past medical records. 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. People; Songs; Albums; Videos; Photos; Articles . Drop music and videos into the areas below. She was convicted in 2015 . Please try again. ". Hes going on my list to read up on and thank you for sharing that. When people told her how cute he was, and asked if he was her child, Lacey said yes. Part 3: Red flags, in and out of the hospital, Some people in Lacey Spears' life described her as a caring and nurturing mother but others saw darker signs. Just start typing to find music. Lacey Spears, 27, of Scottsville, Kentucky, is charged with depraved murder and manslaughter in the death last year of Garnett-Paul Spears. The last part of your Myspace URL. The youngest of three children born to Terry and Tina Spears, Lacey was born Oct. 16, 1987, and was raised in a single-story ranch home. We were both posting pictures of the same baby. "His ears would actually leak pus," Hunt said of Jonathon. Read our five-part series, "Losing Garnett the Great," a Journal News/lohud report that follows the life of Lacey Spears from Alabama to Florida to Rockland's Fellowship Community where her well-documented devotion to Garnett ends in his unexplained death. She said Garnett as a baby seemed healthy and that she never saw him have difficulty eating or holding food down. People who didn't know better assumed Jonathon, whom Spears called Jon Jon, was her son. Were the surgeries, IVs and feeding tube really necessary? Lacey Spears told anyone who would listen that her son suffered from Crohn's and Celiac disease, high fevers, seizures, as well as a slew of other conditions. She wouldn't tell me.". Lacey Spears' father and sister embrace after the guilty verdict was read in court on March 2, 2015, in White Plains, N.Y. (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880) . I think some recent cases in the news will draw more attention to this illness and that way more people will be aware of it if they see it. Glatt lays out the chilling picture of a troubled mother driven to kill her child." NY Daily News Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015 when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five . Hammack, while working alongside Lacey at day care, said Lacey had Garnett and was already talking about wanting a second child. . State -- she kept friends updated on her son's frequent hospitalizations with photos and musings on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and a blog. So when she brought me my child back, I was like, 'You're never going to watch him again. That's Camryn. "And he would eat with us. Garnett, Lacey Spears' 5-year-old son died in January and hospital workers found toxic levels of sodium in his blood. She had lived there since 2012. I jumped on her. He did not throw up.". "She would just call me, saying, 'Oh he has ear infections,' just brag to me about everything that she was doing. A heartless Westchester mother was . Lacey Spears enters courtroom2. This is how youll be known on Myspace. One time, he was hungry so I went to McDonald's and got him a Happy Meal. The email you used to create your account. We just thought they needed to be involved. Drop music and videos into the areas below. I saw the same thing, but she revealed she was a nurse who worked at the hospital that Lacey had been bringing her son too. The case we had was in California but the mom was from Nevada. "But it just didn't sink in or whatever, and she kept telling different nurses that he was throwing up. The Story Of . "When I seen him, he was always a sweet little baby, full of smiles, a happy baby," she said. '", "She was crying, telling me not to take Camryn away from her.". Garnett, with his mother Lacey . I see John Glatt has written a book on it. But 18-year-old Spears' attachment to the boy was extreme, his mother said. But when she trusted someone to hear her story, they'd often hear a tale that wouldn't bear scrutiny. You can always edit this or any other info in settings after joining. Lacey and Hunt spent plenty of time together, too. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. And Lacey replied, 'Yes, he is. When she moved out of her parents' home after high school, Lacey didn't go far; she and her sister rented a two-bedroom place a few hundred yards away, in the Cedar Key Apartments. Lacey Spears and son Garnett move to Florida, but the happier times didn't last. And I'm not sure I think it was sadism. Lacey Spears continually brought her son into the hospital, claiming that he was sick. You may already know people on Myspace. One of the mothers wanted to call the police when Spears disappeared with her son. I love the information I am learning here. Having a child made you the center of attention for a short period of time. . Your search did not return any results. MySpace and a blog and her . There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. It is implied in John Glatt's "My Sweet Angel" that there were only 2 posts ever on that particular blog. This is your profile URL. What becomes clear in these conversations is that Lacey's world centered entirely on the boy. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. Part 2: Two fathers; one real, one imagined. Ex: myspace.com/. Not to DHR. We hope that you liked the 2000s trivia quiz we provided you with. To be "Garnett the Great" as Lacey Spears called her son in Facebook posts, tweets and MySpace photos in a constant stream of social-media consciousness meant to be hooked up to IV tubes . Lacey was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her son, 5-year-old Garnett. People close to his mother, Lacey Spears, said she seemed to be a loving and caring mother. It's a strange way for a father to seek news about his son. "In a comment under the picture, someone wrote, 'He's so cute, is he yours?' 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. "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. You may already know people on Myspace. What happened?' There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. "He was getting ear infections a lot," said Dabbs-Anderson, who told police investigating Garnett's death about them. Lacey Spears, it seems, is a Mom Who Uses Social Media. In one, titled "A Mother's Love Is Unexplainable," she kisses the boy. "They went out to her house a few times. The songs where he mentions it in the lyrics are Cleaning Out My Closet, My Mom and Headlights (all the medicine you fed us and I just wanted you to taste your own.). READ MORE Amazon Launches Fire Phone. Shawna Lynch, 30, of Decatur, has known Lacey for seven years, both as a friend and as a fellow mother whose children would attend a day-care center where Lacey worked. A jury in the New York suburbs found Lacey Spears, of Scottsville, Kentucky, guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears. . If they had been sisters, that would have made Lacey Jonathon's aunt. When a Westchester County jury found her guilty of killing Garnett in April 2015, she was sentenced to twenty years to life in prison. ", "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. You may already know people on Myspace. . A friend saw one MySpace photo and asked Autumn Hunt, JonJon's mother, if the boy in Lacey's photo was Hunt's son. Garnett seemed like a normal, healthy boy to many in the Chestnut Ridge enclave. Dabbs-Anderson, 39, said she and other medical staff grew suspicious of Lacey's claim during repeated visits that the boy couldn't digest food, and one of them reported her to state social services, though no official report is on file. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. The focus of the probe is Lacey 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. Locals in Decatur, in north central Alabama in the heart of the Bible Belt, boast that the city of 55,000 used to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most churches per capita of any place on the globe. This is your profile URL. Enter your email or username. The youngest of three children born to Terry and Tina Spears, Lacey was born Oct. 16, 1987, and was raised in a single-story ranch home on Cedar Lake Road, just around the corner from Wal-Mart. We based it off your Facebook details. We based it off your Facebook details. . 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. We were both posting pictures of the same baby. Photos; Connections. The normal range is 140 for infants. I acknowledge that I have read and accept the Terms of Use 2023 www.lohud.com. Use Facebook, Twitter or your email to sign in. This helps us keep people, musicians and brands searchable on Myspace. "I'm a nurse, and I've been around Garnett," Dabbs-Anderson said. She was, like, very obsessed. If the call went to DHR, it didn't trigger an investigation. "I remember, I would leave the day care and I would see Jon Jon in the car, leaving day care with Lacey. Spears, an Alabama native, was living with her son in Chestnut Ridge, New York, when . ", 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.". Autumn Hunt, who trusted her son Jonathon to Lacey's care, also remembers Lacey frequently bringing Garnett to the hospital with ear infections and digestive problems. In 2010, she gave up her license, she said for medical reasons after she underwent brain surgery but records cite the voluntary surrender as being tied to a disciplinary action. B. In the last week of his life Lacey blogged of her son's decline as many as 28 times on . Please try again. Use this to log in to your account, receive notifications and get handy updates from us. And I thought that was weird.". Hunt said that knowing there's an investigation into Spears' parenting has caused her to re-examine things that she didn't give a second thought when JonJon was in her friend's care. Lacey Spears was drawn to children, surrounding herself with babies at the day care centers where she worked in Decatur, Alabama, and volunteering as a babysitter from an early age. . "Lacey wasn't trying to take Camryn from Christy," Patricia Burnham said. "When Jonathon was born, people I didn't even know were coming to the hospital and to the house to see me. The mother, 27, documented her son . Spears took a special liking to 10-month-old Camryn, whom she began to babysit. Hunt recalls Lacey being upset once when the hospital held Garnett overnight and wouldn't let her stay over. . Police are aware of both boys' medical conditions and are looking into it. But she's at the center of a criminal probe after investigators found that her 5-year-old son, Garnett . When she was in high school, Spears did what her brother, Daniel, sister, Rebecca, and mother had done: She worked at Jack's burger place, where she was a cashier alongside Autumn Hunt. It got to the point of Lacey being jealous when Hammack became pregnant with another child. This is your profile URL. She then said she felt terrible and asked for forgiveness. "I was a little shocked when I saw that because I thought she was the perfect mom," Hunt recalled. They followed on Facebook as Spears moved in 2010 from her hometown Decatur, Ala., to Clearwater, Fla., where she and "G" as he was known lived with Spears' grandmother for a brief, idyllic time. Lacey Spears was first and foremost a mom, doting to the point of obsession over her blond, blue-eyed son, Garnett, in sickness and in health. They reunited when both started attending classes at Calhoun Community College in late 2006. Please enter the account owner's birth date here. He died Jan. 23. Ex: myspace.com/. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. In late January, Garnett was transported from Nyack Hospital to Westchester Medical Center. He died Jan. 23. 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. Help us with just a few more questions. This is your profile URL. That boy is not her son. That's the love of my life. Another shows toddler Garnett and JonJon, dressed identically on a wooden train at a park, titled "Brothers and Best Friends." Help us with just a few more questions. (8 Apr 2015) POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY White Plains, new York - April 8, 20151. Found 2 people named Lacey Spears along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok profiles on PeekYou - true people search. And Lacey replied, 'Yes, he is. Twitter, MySpace and a blog. We loaded your account with your Twitter details. If you don't see it, don't forget to check your spam folder. Learn more about how to retrieve an existing account. Lacey Spears,the so-called mommy blogger who was found guilty last month of second-degree murder for poisoning her 5-year-old son with deadly doses of salt, was sentenced Tuesday to20 years to life in prison for an "orchestrated series of actions" the judge deemed "unfathomable. When they declined saying he ate well under their care and was able to keep food down Lacey took Garnett to another hospital where doctors implanted the tube, she said. I didn't understand how he was getting ear infections like that. She considered it a momentary loss of temper and didn't report the incident. Enter your email or username. We loaded your account with your Facebook details. Still another from the same day shows Lacey with both boys on her lap, titled "Me & My Babies.". ", Lacey shared her connection to Dabbs-Anderson on Twitter, on Nov. 13, 2009: "After Work I'm Going Shopping With My Loves, Garnett & Ginger. In the first year of his short life, Lacey told friends on social media, Garnett was in the hospital 23 times, once for five weeks. This is how youll be known on Myspace. Dabbs-Anderson said she jumped on Lacey, grabbed Garnett and briefly took him from the home. Stream music on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. Decatur's not that big of a town.". In 2012, she moved Garnett north, to Chestnut Ridge's secluded Fellowship Community, saying she hoped the close-to-the-earth living would be the answer to the boy's chronic health issues. . We just felt more comfortable knowing somebody else was watching, too.". convicted March 2, 2015, of second-degree murder, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. To be "Garnett the Great" as Lacey Spears called her son in Facebook posts, tweets and MySpace photos in a constant stream of social-media consciousness meant to be hooked up to IV tubes inserted into a tiny foot or arm, held fast with blue tape emblazoned with blue trucks. You can always edit this or any other info in settings after joining. That boy is not her son. This is your profile URL. He vaguely recalls 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. Please try again. Police claimed Lacey poisoned her son, Garnett, to death with lethal levels of salt, and got proof with recorded video of the heartbreaking murder. 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." Lacey Spears was first and foremost a mom, doting to the point of obsession over her blond, blue-eyed . You have to be very sly and if you don't have concrete proof these people will take their child and go somewhere else and Doctor shop there. PACT, which offers parenting classes, would neither confirm nor deny providing services to Lacey. 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. "I went to her momma's house, nobody was there. We based it off your Twitter details. 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 . The last part of your Myspace URL. "(DHR) got there, basically did a plan of care, tried to talk to her and teach her," she said. 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'. The Sick Boy: Directed by James Tovell. We'll email instructions on how to reset your password. The nurses showed Lacey how to feed Garnett, to go slowly, to hold him upright. Lacey Spears and her son Garnett settle in to life at the Fellowship, where Lacey spoke frequently about her sickly son's medical history. Years later, Garnett would also suffer chronic ear infections, prompting some emergency room nurses to question whether Spears was causing them. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. We based it off your Facebook details. Garnett Spears died at Westchester County Medical Center Jan. 23, 20 "They wanted to see if he had the same symptoms without Lacey," she recalled. Lego 41027 - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. If Spears is charged, it would be one of the first such trials in the age of social media, a tool that gave Spears a broad and eager audience for her parenting travails: She was a fixture on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Young mother, Lacey Spears turns to the internet desperate for help and advice when her young son, Garnett mysteriously falls ill.
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