By Denise Lavoie
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought the side effects of the treatment could kill him.
Kristen LaBrie also was found guilty of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son, Jeremy Fraser, at least five months of cancer medications after the boy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006. He died in 2009 at age 9.
LaBrie, 38, told the jury she stopped giving him the medications because she couldn’t bear to see how sick the side effects made him.
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LAWRENCE, Massachusetts – A mom was sentenced to up to 10 years in say prison on Friday for withholding chemotherapy drugs that potentially could have saved her autistic son’s life. Kristen LaBrie, 38, of Salem, Massachusetts expresse……