GUILTY NY - Garnett Spears, 5, dies of salt poisoning, Chestnut Ridge, 23 Jan 2014

[seattlechiquita]

Ok, finished watching the show. My opinion, based on what I saw, has not changed. I believe she is guilty, and is in the right place.

 

[LinasK]

Ok, finished watching the show. My opinion, based on what I saw, has not changed. I believe she is guilty, and is in the right place.

Glad she wasn't able to sway you for sympathy with her lies!

 

[seattlechiquita]

Glad she wasn't able to sway you for sympathy with her lies!

Oh absolutely not. I am a recovering alcoholic = well versed in the ways of living a lie!

Her answers, Jesus! Me me me me me me I I I I I me me me....

 

[Madeleine74]

Most importantly, she wasn't able to sway the jury with her lies. There's no other explanation for the levels of sodium in Garnett's system but that he ingested it. And he was being fed through a tube based on his mother's refusal to allow that tube to be removed. It was well documented that Garnett would and could eat normal food. To believe the mother, you have to believe one or more several things:

1. The hospital for some reason gave Garnett massive amounts of salt (sodium) over many stays. Why? Ummm... no answer given for that.

2. A friend of the mother who lived in their commune 'planted' large amounts of salt in the feeding bag she was asked to throw out by the mother. How would she know to put salt in there in the first place?

3. Police 'planted' large amounts of salt in the feeding bag that they seized from the residence to railroad this innocent mother. Again, why?

4. The hospital labs falsified tests to make it look like Garnett was being poisoned with excess amounts of salt. Ummm why?


The excuses make no sense and the science simply doesn't lie. A human body cannot on its own produce sodium levels that high. The person who had unlimited and daily access to Garnett was his mother. The conclusion is inescapable.

 

[joypath]

Okay, deep breath over here!
As a few of you may know, I experienced MBP as the "lucky" recipient.....SO many points of the "typical practitioner" are evident in Lacey: interest/education in the healthcare field (she was a Short-term nursing student), over-whelming mission to "help/save" children (she was a "focused" as in assuming the role/title to others as the paternal caregiver/mother to a child she babysat), over-whelming interest in serving the underserved yet NOT pursuing the formal education to practice in general society (she "discovered" the NY isolated/self-governed community) and the "Savior syndrome" (SHE knew exactly what was wrong, SHE knew that Garnett "had presented" (healthcare lingo!) with elevated Na levels & same symptomology). She controlled his entire world...as my Mom would say, she was the "Chief cook & baby bottle washer", THE doer of all things Garnett needed, expecting & receiving the praise & pomp from outsiders kept on the periphery.
Was this death premeditated?....possibly NOT but IMVHO, unless she "replaced" Garnett, her attention seeking behavior was becoming riskier since Garnett's social skills were increasing and his personality was overshadowing HER. She was/is NOT a specialist in pediatric physiology, she got the "dosage of NaCl" so wrong this time! She did, IMHO, exhibit a huge disregard for the sanctity & continuation of Garnett's life and thus is EXACTLY where she should be!

 

[LinasK]

Ironically, I experienced the opposite- I was accused of Munchasen's by a pediatrician that saw upon Barium Swallow X-ray that my baby daughter had chronic GERD that over the counter meds like Zantac and Pepcid weren't helping because they are only acid-reducers, not blockers like Prilosec and Prevacid. All because I asked for a consult for a Pediatric G.I., and my daughter wasn't crying or refluxing for the 10 min. we were in her office!!!

 

[joypath]

Ironically, I experienced the opposite- I was accused of Munchasen's by a pediatrician that saw upon Barium Swallow X-ray that my baby daughter had chronic GERD that over the counter meds like Zantac and Pepcid weren't helping because they are only acid-reducers, not blockers like Prilosec and Prevacid. All because I asked for a consult for a Pediatric G.I., and my daughter wasn't crying or refluxing for the 10 min. we were in her office!!!

So sorry that you were maligned!

My Mother would have made DAMN sure that I was responding in a "textbook" manner! I remember many a strange tasting "food-health product" and more than a few painful hugs/cuddles (as pinching was going on!), having scabs ripped off so she could document my inability to heal (demonstrating my decreased thrombocyte count & dysfunctional coagulation process!). The physicians believed her, heck why not....she was married to a physician on staff (pathologist, no less), she was the clinical laboratory chief tech (yep, SHE had access to & reported my modified laboratory results), was trusted by ALL & had an amazing social personality! She also had a super advantage as she, after training/employment @ a national recognized hospital/medical center, was employed @ a community hospital with, by her description, "Podunk MDs from post/mid War diploma mill medical schools". Seeing the picture & MSP pattern? :drumroll:

 

[toetag]

Sounds like you think her attorneys and all the medical staff were incompetent. I find that shocking. Down the rabbit hole, things get curiouser and curiouser. Not to worry, Casey Anthony has her defenders also.

This child murderer should rot in prison. I hope her fellow inmates teach her a few lessons.

 

[EnemiesEverywhere]

I doubt WE know, but that doesn't mean they didn't. The fact that the possibility of diabetes wasn't raised in her defense indicates to me that it wasn't a viable possibility. An autopsy should show diabetes I expect. And I'm sure her attorney would have consulted medical experts. JMO

They did look into it when Garnett was younger. They showed some papers on screen during the show and one of them said there were no finding suggestive of diabetes insipidus. No evidence of renal impairment, either.

 

[EnemiesEverywhere]

So according to the book by John Glatt that came out this week, they actually managed to stabilize Garnett after that final time Lacey gave him salt, but then she finished him off by giving him water after being told not to. That is why the bottle of spring water was mentioned in the trial too, I guess. I wonder if even her lawyers believe she didn't do it.

 

[Hoosgirl]

Thanks for the info about the book, Enemies. This article has a good summary:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...-mother-fatal-cry-attention-article-1.2814113

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