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Woman Convicted of Murder for Trying to Protect Her Autistic Son from Chemotherapy

April 14, 2011 | 558 views

Massachusetts mother Kristen LaBrie has been convicted of attempted murder for withholding at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son Jeremy. She says she was worried that the side effects of the treatment could kill him.

LaBrie was also found guilty of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son the medications. Jeremy died in 2009 at age 9.

According to the Daily Mail:

“Prosecutors portrayed her as a single mother seething with resentment because she had to care for Jeremy alone ... LaBrie, testifying in her own defense, told the jury that she followed the instructions from her son's doctors for the first four phases of treatment but stopped giving her son the medications during the final phase because she 'didn't want to make him any sicker.'”

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