Help us with just a few more questions. Please try again. Police in Westchester and Rockland counties are investigating whether Lacey fed Garnett life-threatening amounts of salt. Use one of your social networks or start fresh with an email address. She shared photos of Garnett up until his death. 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. Ex: myspace.com/. The Journal News spent nine days in Alabama and Florida talking with people who know Lacey Spears, trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to Garnett. Just realized Lacey Spears "mommy" blog is still Up And she's lying about being a widow on it too. People; Songs; Albums; Videos; Photos; Articles . You may be prompted by your browser for permission. He ate with us, whatever we had for dinner. Your search did not return any results. But Spears and JonJon spent so much time together that people believed Spears was his mother, a belief Spears did little to correct, and actively sought to promote, said friends. Answer: C. 10. We loaded your account with your Facebook details. One is that JonJon would routinely get severe ear infections during the year-plus period Lacey was his caretaker, and stopped getting them shortly after. Autumn Hunt has a hard time thinking ill of her friend, and wondered aloud: "How do you cause an ear infection?". In the years that followed, Lacey Spears told friends and even the slightest acquaintances that her "soul mate and Garnett's Daddy" was a police officer named Blake who died in a car accident. "My Sweet Angel Is In The Hospital For The 23rd Time :( Please Pray He Gets To Come Home Soon" she tweeted weeks before Garnett's first birthday. In later headlines, as the story traveled across the various news sites, . "And then he'd come home and have ear infections," Burnham said, recalling Camryn's time with Spears. "If you needed a ride, somebody to cover your shift, she'd do it for you.". The facts show that she injected her son a blond boy she'd previously dubbed "Garnett the Great" with excessive amounts of sodium through his stomach tube. Asked why Spears would care for JonJon without pay from the time he was an infant, Hunt who had her daughter, Leah, when she was just 15 surmised it may have been a young Spears' way of getting attention. Police have questionedat least one of those nurses. Those services would be offered by a third party, he said, citing one such group, Parents & Children Together. Classic - Cayden by Lacey Spears (136135770). "This was not a spontaneous or ill-conceived solitary act. 10 Teenagers Who Were Sentenced To Death. Getting in is easy. Lacey was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her son, 5-year-old Garnett. Burnham eventually had tubes put in Camryn's ears to help reduce the infections. Some saw her as a great mom, attentive and caring. "She had baby fever. I for one and most Mother's hate the doctor's office but there has to be a reckoning point in the country to stop criminalizing the mentally Ill because they're becoming more that are vs are not and we have to be better humans. cayden with his little cousins he's going to be such a good big brother!! The last part of your Myspace URL. "When I seen him, he was always a sweet little baby, full of smiles, a happy baby," she said. (Audio: Ex-nurse recalls Lacey as "the biggest liar I ever met."). C. In her shoes. ", "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. No worries, joining is easy. Getting off of the school bus on his first day. It's a strange way for a father to seek news about his son. Hunt said that knowing there's an investigation into Lacey's parenting has caused her to re-examine things that she didn't give a second thought when JonJon was in her friend's care. Ginger Dabbs-Anderson, a former nurse at Decatur General Hospital who said she later befriended Lacey so she could help care for Garnett, saw Lacey's parenting inside the hospital and out. He was born Feb. Facebook, twitter and MySpace. 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. Please try again. It wasn't until after Garnett's death that Hunt heard that Lacey years earlier took JonJon to Parkview Baptist Church, posing as his mom, and received charity baby supplies. "There were always pictures of him spending the night with her. Enter your email or username. She had lived there since 2012. Help us with just a few more questions. He died Jan. 23. But it is definitely a mental illness that needs to be treated before it gets to the point where children suffer. Enter your email or username. I love the information I am learning here. She worshiped Garnett, wouldn't let him out of her sight. Drop music and videos into the areas below. Need help? Please try again. We based it off your Facebook details. You can always edit this or any other info in settings after joining. Pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. By that time, Burnham was a single mother to Camryn. Well the comment section is interesting. some people blame feminism for her murdering her son some blame gender dysmorphia (or rather that she made him look like a girl and her like a boy). "I don't know for sure whether she got assistance from the church," she said. To Burnham, it seemed like Spears was trying to take her place in her son's life. All the medical experts who testified at the trial agreed that salt poisoning was the cause of death;Spears declined to testify. It was the 17th of January 2014. They followed on Facebook as Lacey moved in 2010 from her hometown Decatur, Ala., to Clearwater, Fla., where she and "G" as he was known lived with Lacey's grandmother for a brief, idyllic time. 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. This is how youll be known on Myspace. People close to his mother, Lacey Spears, said she seemed to be a loving and caring mother. Let your followers know you're on Myspace with a Tweet. A little blond boy beams in dozens of photos on Lacey Spears' MySpace page with captions like "My World My Everything" and "He Completes Me." Use this to log in to your account, receive notifications and get handy updates from us. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. The former nurse is steadfast in her recollection of events and says the question of her license does not affect what she saw and heard, beginning with the first time she met Lacey and her 6-month-old son, in spring 2009. She worked at Kid's Club day-care center until it closed in 2008, then moved on to Child Care Network in Decatur. You may already know people on Myspace. The little blond boy beams in dozens of photos on Lacey Spears' MySpace page: in the bath, at the park, sitting on the counter with a bright red pacifier in his mouth. "I'm a nurse, and I've been around Garnett," Dabbs-Anderson said. Lacey Spears was jailed for 20 years for putting toxic levels of sodium in her 5-year-old son's feeding bags. But 18-year-old Spears' attachment to the boy was extreme, his mother said. Hitting > pauses the slideshow and goes forward. This is your profile URL. That is so interesting. This is your profile URL. Help us with just a few more questions. "Chilling." People magazine " My Sweet Angel is the product of author John Glatt's 18 months researching Spears' life story in almost forensic detail. The latest music videos, short movies, tv shows, funny and extreme videos. Username. 14.' Lacey 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. Need help? Dabbs-Anderson said Spears "had a fit" when she saw him eating the Happy Meal, not approving of fast food. PACT, which offers parenting classes, would neither confirm nor deny providing services to Lacey. Don't have a Myspace account yet? But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Join Journal News/lohud reporters Shawn Cohen and Peter D. Kramer for a behind-the-scenes look at "Losing Garnett the Great." That's my baby.' ", "It was just a little off-putting to have her do that. He said that if a hospital calls without citing a specific instance of abuse or neglect, DHR might offer support services, not open an investigation and not have a record of services being offered. "Throughout his short life, Garnett Spears was forced to suffer through repeated hospitalizations, unneeded surgical procedures and ultimately poisoning with salt, all at the hands of the one person who should have been his ultimate protector: his mother. As Garnett lay dying in Westchester Medical Center, Spears phoned a friend at the Fellowship and asked her to get rid of one of the bags she used to feed Garnett through a tube in his abdomen. She wouldn't tell me.". "I didn't have a car," Burnham said. Please try again. When Chris Hill heard from a friend that Garnett was dying, he reached out to Lacey Spears in the only way he knew how: He sent her a Facebook friend request. Most people use their real name. Eat Pray Love. In late January, Garnett was transported from Nyack Hospital to Westchester Medical Center. In 2015, a young mom named Lacey Spears was convicted of killing her son Garnett. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. . And my mom was like, 'Just let it go, let it go.' You can throw in numbers, dots and dashes, too. He is, however, challenging Dabbs-Anderson's credibility. The Story Of . It was agonizing. friend of Lacey Spears: She tried to drown son. That's the love of my life. Twitter, and MySpace (which apparently still exists). Decatur's not that big of a town.". It was a brief idyll for a happy child. Lacey Spears. He had surgery at 1 month old to correct what Lacey told friends was acid reflux. Riley Vaughn, an on-air personality on the "Mojo Radio Show" in Athens, Ala., got to know Lacey in Decatur in the way people do in a small town. I agree with you that someone should have caught it, but I worked at a major medical center where we had a case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy and these women that do this are very very sharp and clever when it comes to Doctor shopping and covering their tracks. Spears took a special liking to 10-month-old Camryn, whom she began to babysit. Lacey Spears and her son Garnett settle in to life at the Fellowship, where Lacey spoke frequently about her sickly son's medical history. I acknowledge that I have read and accept the Terms of Use There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. I think she was in live with the attention she . "If you needed help, you'd call on Lacey," Hunt said. State -- she kept friends updated on her son's frequent hospitalizations with photos and musings on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and a blog. 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. UPDATE: Lacey Spears convicted March 2, 2015, of second-degree murder in son Garnett's death. We loaded your account with your Facebook details. Drop music and videos into the areas below. A little blond boy beams in dozens of photos on Lacey Spears' MySpace page with captions like "My World My Everything" and "He Completes Me." There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. Doctors, she said, never made her feel repeated ear infections were all that unusual. I just thought that she was just overwhelmed.". He was born Feb. She told Ramapo Detective Kirk Budnick her version of events as part of his investigation into Garnett's Jan. 23 death. Although the comments on that blog are a strange mix of people yelling at her that she is evil and TONS of fake spam messages telling her her blog was so helpful and amazing and then posting their spam. Help us with just a few more questions. In one, titled "A Mother's Love Is Unexplainable," she kisses the boy. I see John Glatt has written a book on it. Need help? "I took him to the nurses desk, with his IV and everything, and I fed him. No worries, joining is easy. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. Hunt said she trusted Lacey completely and "never suspected Lacey would do anything to intentionally harm my child." Dieser Artikel wurde entwickelt, um den Bedrfnissen unserer Kunden entsprechend zu werden und bietet eine Vielzahl von neuen Funktionen. If you don't see it, don't forget to check your spam folder. Don't have a Myspace account yet? "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. A baby is going to do that. Stream music on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. Just before Superstorm Sandy, mother and son moved north to Chestnut Ridge and the Sunbridge Institute, known as the Fellowship. Ex: myspace.com/. . ", While Lacey stopped babysitting for JonJon, their relationship continued, as did the MySpace photos. The couple, who have been dating for several months, shared a warm embrace and a . Let your Facebook friends know youre on Myspace with an update. Kathy Hammack, who worked with Lacey at both centers, said she was great with children, routinely caring for five babies at a time. She was just a friend that kept my child sometimes. You may already know people on Myspace. "I was still involved with the daddy She would let me use her car to go see the kid's father. It wasn't OK," said Hunt, who began making other arrangements for JonJon's care. Were the surgeries, IVs and feeding tube really necessary? Mommy blogger Lacey Spears guilty of second degree murder, Mommy blogger Lacey Spears trial comes to a close, Disturbing testimony at 'mommy blogger' Lacey Spears trial, Mommy blogger Lacey Spears trial begins: She's a 'calculating child killer'. ", The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News. Vaughn's son was born in 2007, a year before Garnett, while Lacey was caring for JonJon. It was a brief idyll for a happy child. Let your Facebook friends know youre on Myspace with an update. Drop music and videos into the areas below. Garnett seemed like a normal, healthy boy to many in the Chestnut Ridge enclave. Agreement and consent to the Privacy Policy and Video Privacy Policy. Let your followers know you're on Myspace with a Tweet. There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. "To Lacey, Christy ought to be home with her baby.". He didn't have a problem with throwing up," she said. If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. "She told me Garnett was born healthy, then went into surgery for acid reflux," Vaughn said. That very well could have been the case with her and Jonathon, and her and G.". Garnett waspronounced dead on Jan. 23, 2014, from high levels of sodium, which led to swelling in his brain. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. Spears took Garnett to the hospital . Garnett would spend overnights at the home Dabbs-Anderson shared with her mother. Name. A Friday. But you can pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. The photos are titled "My . I acknowledge that I have read and accept the Terms of Use Since Garnett was a baby, Spears took to social media sitesFacebook, Twitter, MySpace and a personal blog to share updates on his heath, which led tothe nicknamemommy blogger across the Internet. That's the love of my life. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. In the fall of 2009, a young mother with a very sick child logged onto Twitter and began to vent her anguish. Myspace, and a personal blog called 'Garnett's Journey', still . 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. Crime Watch Daily investigates the blockbuster case of Lacey Spears, a Kentucky mother who set off on a desperate journey to find a cure for son's unexplained illnesses. There's a movie documentary out now on HBO, "Mommy Dead And Dearest" about the girl who killed her mother because she was keeping her in a wheelchair because of Munchausen syndrome by proxy and they were even given a free house because her mom claimed she had so many things wrong with her and there was nothing wrong with her. She was in the hospital with her son for months before they could put together enough evidence to arrest her. This was a year or so before Lacey posted the MySpace photos claiming to be Jon Jon's mother, a development that prompted Autumn Hunt to . The nurses showed Lacey how to feed Garnett, to go slowly, to hold him upright. She said her daughter was partying all the time and needed the help. Part 1: Boy's death reveals mom's lies. Her online circle cried with her at news of another hospitalization, rejoiced with her as they saw the sickly boy grow, offered prayers and support. Comment Share. Classic - My Photos by Lacey Spears (136135770). This is your queue. That's where many of the photos with JonJon were taken. Garnett Spears spent much of his in hospital beds. I think it was anybody that needed help, she would offer. When he did, she wrote, she ran the tub full of cold water with him in it and made him take a freezing bath. 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. Lacey Spears, 26, of Scottsville, . And she'd say no.". We were both posting pictures of the same baby. 1:07. But when she trusted someone to hear her story, they'd often hear a tale that wouldn't bear scrutiny. I haven't read it. 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. He died Jan. 23. She kept telling medical staff that the boy wouldn't eat, and asked them to surgically implant a feeding tube that would allow her to feed him without him having to swallow, she said. Twitter, MySpace and a blog. Some in her life described Lacey as a caring and nurturing mother but Dabbs-Anderson and others saw darker signs. Lacey Spears, 27, at her sentencing on Wednesday in White Plains. They never did any more than that, coming to her house and coming to the hospital to see her, or monitoring when Garnett was in the hospital.". Lacey also said that the child often had a high fever, suffered from seizures and had digestive problems. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 0:05. The photos are titled "My World My Everything" and "He Completes Me." We loaded your account with your Twitter details. The Department of Human Resources handles child protective services cases. Just start typing to find music. Just happened on a documentary about all this on YouTube today. One is that JonJon would routinely get severe ear infections during the year-plus period Spears was his caretaker, and stopped getting them shortly after. It's frightening how people can do that. But he wasn't. Poor little boy. Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. Her 5-year-old son's death . Most people use their real name. Garnett Spears died at Westchester County Medical Center Jan. 23, 20 Let your Facebook friends know youre on Myspace with an update. Lacey Spears, flanked by her attorneys David Sachs, left, and Stephen Riebling, Jr., right, looks toward the jury as her guilty verdict is read at the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y., on March 2, 2015. 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