The Kristen LaBrie Case
by The Hill-Man
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posted Oct 25 2011 3:57PM
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As you read this, a Lawrence jury is reviewing the facts in the case of Kristen LaBrie, a mother who made the decision to stop giving her 8 year old son the cancer treatments doctors told her he needed to fight the disease. He died in 2009.
She is charged with attempted murder, child endangerment, and assault and battery. There are some who think she has suffered enough. A prosecutor told the jury that she did not feel one bit of responsibility for the death of her son. She stopped the treatment because she felt the side effects would kill him. This is not the case of a 78 year old man whose wife told him she’d had enough and it was time to die in peace. This is a 9 year old kid, who looked to the adult in his life for the guidance and care he needed to fight an awful disease. And what does he get? A mother who disregards the advice of doctors and denies him his treatment.
There is every reason for this woman to be found guilty. He should have been given the treatment he needed so his body could fight. There was an 80-90 percent chance he would have survived if she didn’t take it upon herself to decide he could do without his medication. That is criminal.
No one knows what really motivated Ms. LaBrie. There was testimony about her resentment of the boy’s father and his lack of involvement in raising their son. We’ll never know unless she tells us what role, if any, that played in all of this. We do know, however, her son had a better than good chance of surviving and she denied him that opportunity. For that, she should go to jail for a long time.
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