By Sophia Rosenbaum
The mother of a sickly 5-year-old boy, who was poisoned by a lethal dose of sodium in his feeding tube last January, is now a suspect in his murder, sources close to theinvestigation told FoxNews.com.
Lacey Spears, 26, created an online following around her son, known as “Garnett the Great,” just after he was born and started having a feeding tube. Spears, a single mother, blogged about his many hospital stays, fun moments and even posted pictures of Garnett’s final hours at Westchester County Medical Center.
Garnett died Jan. 23 after a brief hospitalization following a bout of seizures. The Westchester County medical examiner ruled his death a homicide on April 30, citing a toxic level of sodium in his body, sources told Fox.
“He [Garnett] died at the hands of somebody else,” a source, who was not authorized to disclose his name, told Fox News.
The source claims that during that final hospitalization, Spears called a neighbor, asking her to destroy any evidence of feeding tubes at her Chestnut Ridge home.
“She wanted the neighbor to dispose of incriminating evidence,” the source said. “The neighbor never did get rid of it and police seized it.”
The Journal News was the first to report that, as well as the first news organization to launch a full-fledged investigation into what killed Garnett.
David Sachs, Spears’ attorney, denies that his client had anything to do with her son’s death.
“Lacey is completely devastated by the loss of her son and absolutely denies harming her son in any way,” Sachs said in an email to FoxNews.com.
But friends of Spears told the Journal News that she is expecting to be charged with murder.
Investigators are looking into whether Spears suffers from “Munchausen syndrome by proxy,” a psychiatric disorder in which a parent harms a child to seek attention and sympathy.
“These are people who are desperate for attention and seek it through creating a sensational scenario,” said Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com.
Spears moved to Kentucky to be with family following her son’s death.
The story was first reported by The Journal News/lohud.com.
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