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Mom convicted of withholding son’s medicine to change plea

She was convicted in 2011 of the same charge as well as assault and battery and reckless child endangerment, and spent five years behind bars.

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LaBrie, who had already served five years in lockup, was sentenced to time served following her guilty plea yesterday.

A Massahusetts woman who withheld cancer medications from her autistic son who later died was freed Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted murder.

LaBrie had custody of the boy from his diagnosis until February 2008 and was responsible for administering medications to him at her home.

In March, the State’s Supreme Judicial Court granted the new trial for LaBrie on the attempted murder charge and overturned the assault and battery charge. She said she didn’t give her son the chemotherapy drugs because of the awful side effects.

“She’s going to have to live with this for the rest of her life”, attorney John Morris said.

LaBrie argued that she withheld his cancer medication after she claimed the side effects became so intense that she feared the drugs would kill him. She began serving a five-year probation sentence on her conviction of reckless child endangerment in April, prosecutors said. “I think that putting anybody in her shoes, they may understand”.

The boy’s father, Eric Fraser, died in a motorcycle crash in 2009.

Jeremy Fraser was diagnosed with lymphoblastic lymphoma 10 years ago, a former of cancer doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital assured his mother, Kristen LaBrie, was highly treatable.

“This case was always about one thing and one thing only, and that was Jeremy”.

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“This sentence is fair, balanced, reasonable, and tempered with mercy”, District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said Wednesday. He was not a footnote. “It was our job to speak for him and be his voice”.

Mom convicted of withholding son's medicine to change plea