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

[K_Z]

Our favorite LoHud reporter Lee Higgins is at the Lacey Spears sentencing.

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 3m 3 minutes ago
Detectives from Ramapo police and Westchester County police are here to watch #laceyspears sentencing. Five people outside courtroom.

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 16m 16 minutes ago
About an hour away from #laceyspears sentencing. 4 TV news trucks outside court. Spears was convicted of poisoning son to death with salt

https://twitter.com/LeeHiggins

 

[K_Z]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — An unsympathetic district attorney is seeking up to life in prison for a woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt.

Lacey Spears, 27, of Scottsville, Kentucky, is due in court Wednesday for sentencing. She was found guilty last month of second-degree murder in the 2014 death of Garnett-Paul Spears at a suburban New York hospital.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...e-in-mothers-salt-poisoning-of-son/ar-AAazEZD

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...to-be-sentenced-today-in-sons-death/25446521/

http://7online.com/news/da-seeking-life-sentence-in-mothers-salt-poisoning-of-son/521487/

"My office will be asking the court to sentence Miss Spears to the maximum sentence allowed under the law, which is a life sentence," DA Janet DiFiore said.

But Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore said after the verdict, “This was not a close case. … There was one conclusion to draw and that was that Lacey Spears murdered her child.”

 

[K_Z]

Read from the bottom up for proper time sequence.

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 25m 25 minutes ago
Prosecutors enter court in advance of #laceyspears sentencing

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 26m 26 minutes ago
Spears' lawyers here. #laceyspears sentencing

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 28m 28 minutes ago
Filling up outside court. More than 2 dozen people here. #laceyspears sentencing

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 32m 32 minutes ago
#laceyspears is looking at a minimum of 15 years. About 10 people outside court room, including a prosecutor

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[K_Z]

(Read from bottom up for proper sequence.)

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 50m 50 minutes ago
Mom gets 20 years to life for poisoning son with salt http://usat.ly/1yc5FYb via @usatoday

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 2h 2 hours ago
Grossenbacher simply tells her twin 7 yr old boys and twin 5 yr old daughters that Garnett "got sick" and doctors couldn't help him.

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 2h 2 hours ago
"It's sad that he is not with us right now," Grossenbacher said of Garnett. "My children often still talk about him and miss him."

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 2h 2 hours ago
Nellie Grossenbacher, 40, of Pearl River, whose four young children were friends with Garnett, attended the sentencing. #laceyspears

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 2h 2 hours ago
Spears maintains her innocence, her lawyer David Sachs said after the hearing. "Any sentence of prison or incarceration is unjust"

Lee Higgins @LeeHiggins
· 2h 2 hours ago
#laceyspears gets 20 years to life

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[K_Z]

New York woman gets 20 years to life for killing son with salt

"By not imposing the maximum, I'm exhibiting something you didn't show your son - namely mercy," said Judge Robert Neary in the Westchester County Courthouse in Valhalla.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...-to-life-for-killing-son-with-salt/ar-AAaAO9t

(Trying to embed video.)

[video]http://video.nydailynews.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90051&ndn.siteSection=nydailynews-news&ndn.videoId=28861800&freewheel=90051&sitesection=nydailynews-news&vid=28861800[/video]

 

[K_Z]

Short video of clips of the sentencing at this link:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...prison-salt-poisoning-son-5-article-1.2177434

 

[mom2six]

What the Judge said -- Wow!

I'm glad this is a good lengthy sentence, but a large part of me wishes he didn't show her such mercy.

 

[K_Z]

I agree. I think she deserved the max. But I'm glad she has 20 years to think about it before even applying for parole.

 

[K_Z]

Spears showed no emotion when she was sentenced.

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary said Spears' crime brought her son "five years of torment and pain." But he said he was not imposing the maximum 25 years to life because "one does not have to be a psychiatrist to realize you suffer from Munchausen by proxy."

After the sentencing, defense lawyer Stephen Riebling said it was odd for the judge to bring it up because Spears "hasn't been diagnosed with any mental illness."

The defense, which filed an appeal Wednesday of Spears' conviction, had asked the judge for an even lighter sentence, the minimum 15 years to life.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...acey-Spears-Salt-Poisoning-Son-299014351.html

BBM. Appeal of conviction filed, also.

 

[K_Z]

I wonder if her sister or father attended the sentencing? Haven't found any references to them being in the courtroom.

 

[K_Z]

http://www.lohud.com/picture-galler...pears-sentenced-to-20-years-to-life/25458897/

LoHud has a series of pics from sentencing. (Lacey has worn the same gray blazer and royal blue blouse for every day of trial, so it's hard to tell these are from today just by glancing at them.)

2 min video at this link, with brief remarks by Lacey's attorney.

http://7online.com/news/lacey-spears-gets-20-years-to-life-in-salt-poisoning-murder-of-son/521487/

 

[borndem]

Well, yes, it could (should) have been a tuffer sentence, and even though time flies, 20 years is a long time. Her son would be 25--26 years old, 20 years from now -- handsome, prolly a college graduate or post-grad, probably with a pretty girl on his arm. Who knoze what he might have become? We will never know because it will never happen. What a gift he was; what a treasure. I do think the human part of her loved him & was proud of him, but she let the inhuman part of her control her life -- and his.

When I ponder these children who are now in that ever-growing part of Heaven, I always pray that their good days far out-numbered their terrified, horribly painful, and wondering-why days when they were still on this earth. I never saw a tally, but I want to think that Garnett had more good days than bad. And I am hoping -- in a very un-Christian way that I regret, but there it is -- that her bad days are every day and that she will know that there is no escape from them as her son knew there was no escape from his hurt-all-over days.

Let me stop, and let her bad days begin.

 

[Queen Bee]

so in 20 years can she be granted parole.......and be a "mother" to more children......to torture to death? :furious:

what a travesty......

:rose: garnett

 

[LinasK]

so in 20 years can she be granted parole.......and be a "mother" to more children......to torture to death? :furious:

what a travesty......

:rose: garnett

How old will she be in 20 years? Maybe she will be too old to have biological children and never be allowed to adopt. Okay, found it. She's 27. No way will she be having kids at 47. I had my daughter at 40 by IVF with tons of fertility drugs. 40 is about the cutoff age for your fertility.

The 27-year-old mother convicted of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison Wednesday by a judge who said Lacey Spears suffered from a mental illness but still committed a crime "unfathomable in its cruelty." http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...acey-Spears-Salt-Poisoning-Son-299014351.html

 

[K_Z]

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is the only maximum security female prison in NY, so I think it's a good guess that's where Lacey will be going. She is lucky-- it appears to be a pretty good prison for women, as prisons go.

From the little bit I read, they have a model program for prison mothers, so they can stay involved with their young children. I hope that family-centered approach is a painful reminder every day to Lacey that she no longer has a child, and will not be a part of any of these programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Hills_Correctional_Facility_for_Women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Elaine_Roulet

There is a documentary, called "The Mothers of Bedford"-- here's a 3:45 trailer:

[video=youtube;SbrFOyzwKr0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbrFOyzwKr0[/video]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704170/

 

[LinasK]

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is the only maximum security female prison in NY, so I think it's a good guess that's where Lacey will be going. She is lucky-- it appears to be a pretty good prison for women, as prisons go.

From the little bit I read, they have a model program for prison mothers, so they can stay involved with their young children. I hope that family-centered approach is a painful reminder every day to Lacey that she no longer has a child, and will not be a part of any of these programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Hills_Correctional_Facility_for_Women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Elaine_Roulet

There is a documentary, called "The Mothers of Bedford"-- here's a 3:45 trailer:

[video=youtube;SbrFOyzwKr0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbrFOyzwKr0[/video]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704170/

Hope she's not allowed a job in the prison kitchen/dining room!! And I hope someone oversalts her food with Himalayan salt or any kind of salt!!

 

[toetag]

No way will Jodi walk with LWP!!! Here comes Perryville! And that is my opinion. I'm so sorry for the Alexander family. Stealth juror is to blame. Jodi is the one who loves to corrupt children. The convicted murderess is the domestic violence abuser- Travis Alexander was the victim of Domestic Violence.

Ain't it the truth!!!!!

If it wasn't so sad and so sick it would be laughable that this b itch claimed to be a victim of domestic violence.

Poor Travis, when he realized how crazy Jodi was, he broke it off with her. She planned her murder trip carefully, thinking she wouldn't get caught. The violence that woman inflicted on poor Travis is gut wrenching.

It's deplorable that she was allowed to live like she was at summer camp most of the time she was in jail. I hope some heads rolled over that fiasco.

Jodi is a criminal with a criminal's mindset. She thinks rules don't apply to her. She is the most dangerous kind of evil, evil without a conscience. May she rot in hell.

 

[kimi_SFC]

so in 20 years can she be granted parole.......and be a "mother" to more children......to torture to death? :furious:

what a travesty......

:rose: garnett

So true. Let's hope the parole board keeps her there forever. What she did to Baby Garnett and Garnett the Great is deserving of life behind bars (or at least beyond her ability to ever procreate again) :moo:

We :loveyou: ForeverAngel Garnett!
:heartluv:
:rose:


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[borndem]

So true. Let's hope the parole board keeps her there forever. What she did to Baby Garnett and Garnett the Great is deserving of life behind bars (or at least beyond her ability to ever procreate again) :moo:

We :loveyou: ForeverAngel Garnett!
:heartluv:
:rose:


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Will there be anybody who will attend the parole hearing(s) to speak for Garnett (assuming that such a thing is allowed in NY) -- and to plead that LS be denied parole? That's a long time from now. Are there caring family members? Garnett was so young, he may not have been able to meet and make impressions on many people. It's worrisome, IMO.

I think we have heard about members of Sharon Tate's family always being present at parole hearings for the convicts involved in the Tate/LaBianca murders. And they are still in the slammer.

Yes, a premature worry, but that's me all over, folks. Just wonderin' and SMH...

 

[mom2six]

Will there be anybody who will attend the parole hearing(s) to speak for Garnett (assuming that such a thing is allowed in NY) -- and to plead that LS be denied parole? That's a long time from now. Are there caring family members? Garnett was so young, he may not have been able to meet and make impressions on many people. It's worrisome, IMO.

I think we have heard about members of Sharon Tate's family always being present at parole hearings for the convicts involved in the Tate/LaBianca murders. And they are still in the slammer.

Yes, a premature worry, but that's me all over, folks. Just wonderin' and SMH...

Not premature. I had the same thought. I hope parole fails over and over for a long time.