I just got home from taking the Psychiatry NBME Subject Exam and logged onto MSNBC.com and saw this story. It’s a story of a mother, Kristen LaBrie who withheld chemotherapy medications from her autistic son for at least 5 months. He died at the age of 9 in 2009. A judge has sentenced her to 8-10 years.
I don’t know what she was thinking. A quote from the news story:
“If I could do it differently, I would, because I certainly miss my son, and I think about him every day and I wish he could be with me and my family,” she said.
Labrie, handcuffed in the courtroom, after receiving he sentence. Photo Credit: Cheryl Senter/AP
But for whatever reason, she stopped giving his medication.
Source: MSNBC.com – Mom who withheld son’s cancer meds gets 8-10 years
