Trevoooor
April 12th, 2011, 04:33 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-crime-cancer-idUSTRE73B54V20110412
A jury found Kristen LaBrie, 38, of Salem, Massachusetts guilty on all counts -- attempted murder, permitting serious bodily injury to a disabled person, permitting substantial injury to a child and reckless endangerment of a child, said Steve O'Connell, spokesman for the Essex District Attorney's Office. Her son, Jeremy Fraser, died at age 9 in March 2009. He was autistic and in 2006 was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. During her trial, LaBrie admitted she failed to fill the prescriptions or administer chemotherapy drugs to her son during at least five months but said she did so out of fear the medication would make him sicker.
Personally, I find this whole case to be nothing less than bizzare. Since when is giving medicine to a sick child a legal obligation? Sure, she may be somewhat careless, but, I'm having difficulty seeing her as a 'murderer'. I don't agree with this conviction at all.
Thoughts?
A jury found Kristen LaBrie, 38, of Salem, Massachusetts guilty on all counts -- attempted murder, permitting serious bodily injury to a disabled person, permitting substantial injury to a child and reckless endangerment of a child, said Steve O'Connell, spokesman for the Essex District Attorney's Office. Her son, Jeremy Fraser, died at age 9 in March 2009. He was autistic and in 2006 was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. During her trial, LaBrie admitted she failed to fill the prescriptions or administer chemotherapy drugs to her son during at least five months but said she did so out of fear the medication would make him sicker.
Personally, I find this whole case to be nothing less than bizzare. Since when is giving medicine to a sick child a legal obligation? Sure, she may be somewhat careless, but, I'm having difficulty seeing her as a 'murderer'. I don't agree with this conviction at all.
Thoughts?