Twitter, MySpace and a blog and her online research into the dangers of sodium in children. She worked at Kid's Club day-care center until it closed in 2008, then moved on to Child Care Network in Decatur. Probably left the two that made her look best like all those pictures of him and everything like she's a loving mother. "She said he almost died a couple times because of the surgery and that's why a feeding tube was required. Someone should have got to this BEFORE it happened for over a year. ", The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News. Asked why Spears would care for JonJon without pay from the time he was an infant, Hunt who had her daughter, Leah, when she was just 15 surmised it may have been a young Spears' way of getting attention. Use Facebook, Twitter or your email to sign in. "And on weekends when she had him, if I decided to stay out of town Sunday night, she'd say, 'Fine, I can take him to work with me.' SPACEBAR resumes the slideshow. . Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. Lacey would spend weekdays with JonJon at day care and frequently take him home with her after work and keep him some weekends, putting him to bed in a crib that she had a neighbor assemble. Photos migrated from Classic Myspace on 2/23/2014 5:21:15 AM. Lacey Spears's son, whom she called "Garnett the Great" and "my little prince . This woman was diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Dabbs-Anderson said she jumped on Lacey, grabbed Garnett and briefly took him from the home. Scroll down for the full story. Use this to log in to your account, receive notifications and get handy updates from us. "In many respects your crime is unfathomable in its cruelty," acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary told Spears. Police later seized the bag, which sources say contained a high concentration of sodium. Lacey Spears. Before long, Spears was taking Camryn every weekend, exposing a rift between Burnham and her mother. I jumped on her. Spear, of DHR, said Garnett Spears appears just once in department records: On June 20, 2009, DHR received a call from the Morgan County Health Department reporting that Garnett and Lacey Spears were en route from Decatur General Hospital to Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. "Child en route to hospital with bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth and ears," is how the call log reads. If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. But it is definitely a mental illness that needs to be treated before it gets to the point where children suffer. Read our five-part series, "Losing Garnett the Great," a Journal News/lohud report that follows the life of Lacey Spears from Alabama to Florida to Rockland's Fellowship Community where her well-documented devotion to Garnett ends in his unexplained death. The little boy's eyes looked haunted. Having a child made you the center of attention for a short period of time. Garnett Spears died at Westchester County Medical Center Jan. 23, 20 Just realized Lacey Spears "mommy" blog is still Up And she's lying about being a widow on it too. He died Jan. 23. Her takeaway, which she shared with investigators: Lacey herself sometimes put her child at risk. Lacey Sparks jayesmommy. PACT, which offers parenting classes, would neither confirm nor deny providing services to Lacey. He died Jan. 23. Young mother, Lacey Spears turns to the internet desperate for help and advice when her young son, Garnett mysteriously falls ill. UPDATE:Lacey Spears charged June 17, 2014, with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in the death of her son, Garnett. This is your profile URL. I couldn't pinpoint it.". There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. Just start typing to find music. You may already know people on Myspace. Hunt recalls Lacey being upset once when the hospital held Garnett overnight and wouldn't let her stay over. 14.' Ugg the fact that I'm a widow with kids made this even worse to read.The police tracked down the man whom she claimed was "daddy Blake" and not only was he still alive but he said he wasn't Garnet's father." Name. "I thought I could deal with it. Eat Pray Love. If we find matches from the people you follow on Twitter, we'll connect you to them right away. Most little boys spend their first years on swings or in sandboxes. Imprint Publisher. Please enter the account owner's birth date here. Lacey Spears and her son Garnett settle in to life at the Fellowship, where Lacey spoke frequently about her sickly son's medical history. Read our five-day series, "Losing Garnett the Great," a Journal News report that follows the life of Lacey Spears from Alabama to Florida to Rockland's Fellowship Community where her well-documented devotion to Garnett ends in his unexplained death. On one of dozens of hospital visits, Dabbs-Anderson said, Lacey tried to convince medical staff that Garnett had thrown up by pointing to a wet spot on the hospital sheets that turned out to be water. You may already know people on Myspace. It wasn't OK," Hunt said. According to reports, Lacey felt lonely in the state, so she moved in with her maternal grandmother in Florida for a brief while before relocating to a community called The Fellowship in Chestnut Ridge, New York . You may already know people on Myspace. In the years that followed, Lacey Spears told friends and even the slightest acquaintances that her "soul mate and Garnett's Daddy" was a police officer named Blake who died in a car accident. Just before Superstorm Sandy, mother and son moved north to Chestnut Ridge and the Sunbridge Institute, known as the Fellowship. 'If he's sick, I'll come get him,' I'd say. 14.' When Hunt needed a babysitter for newborn Jonathon, she turned to Spears, who had graduated from Decatur High School in 2006, left Jack's and started working in day care. Decatur's not that big of a town.". That's Camryn. Garnett, Lacey Spears' 5-year-old son died in January and hospital workers found toxic levels of sodium in his blood. As Garnett lay dying in Westchester Medical Center, Lacey phoned a friend at the Fellowship and asked her to get rid of one of the bags she used to feed Garnett through a tube in his abdomen. The last part of your Myspace URL. Spears, an Alabama native, was living with her son in Chestnut Ridge, New York, when . Although the sentence imposed today by the Court is lengthily, we will continue to ensure that his mother is held accountable and that justice for Garnett Spears will be served in his memory," said District Attorney Janet DiFiore. Twenty seven year old Lacey Spears lived with her five year old son, Garnett Spears, in the Fellowship, New York, United States. Burnham and Spears met in elementary school but went to different high schools. We based it off your Twitter details. So they admitted Garnett to the hospital and called DHR. 10 Teenagers Who Were Sentenced To Death. A. SPACEBAR resumes the slideshow. And then as soon as she had him, he would have ear infections again.". There's just one problem with this maternal picture: It isn't true. She'd often open the place at 5:30 a.m. and still be happy to fill in for others and close up around 6 p.m. Read it on lohud.com. And it was a picture of Jonathon," Hunt said. All rights reserved. It was a brief idyll for a happy child. . Found 2 people named Lacey Spears along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok profiles on PeekYou - true people search. She probably wouldn't have been caught if she wasn't so addicted to Facebook and Myspace. Just happened on a documentary about all this on YouTube today. Don't have a Myspace account yet? "I think she wanted a baby. This is your profile URL. We based it off your Twitter details. This is your profile URL. "She didn't know how to be a mother," she said. "Lacey wasn't trying to take Camryn from Christy," Patricia Burnham said. The first decade of the 2000s was one of the finest! If we find matches from your Facebook friends, we'll connect you to them right away. A jury in the New York suburbs found Lacey Spears, of Scottsville, Kentucky, guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears. Enter your email or username. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. Police are aware of both boys' medical conditions and are looking into it. The couple, who have been dating for several months, shared a warm embrace and a . Some saw her as a great mom, attentive and caring. ", "I wrote back, said 'I'm sorry if you think I was insensitive or anything like that. New Year's Eve 200? MySpace and a blog and her . Alabama mother: Lacey Spears was obsessed with toddler. Need help? Lacey Spears' father and sister embrace after the guilty verdict was read in court on March 2, 2015, in White Plains, N.Y. (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880) . Classic - My Photos Mix Photo. '", "She was crying, telling me not to take Camryn away from her.". B. He died Jan. 23. The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News spent nine days in Alabama and Florida talking with people who know Spears, trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to Garnett. "I didn't have a car," Burnham said. We explore how a woman whose existence centered on her only child became the focus of a police probe into whether her son was poisoned. Stream music on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. Spear said DHR fielded the call but did not follow up because neither hospital filed a report of suspected abuse or neglect. Help us with just a few more questions. When Chris Hill heard from a friend that Garnett was dying, he reached out to Lacey Spears in the only way he knew how: He sent her a Facebook friend request. She said her daughter was partying all the time and needed the help. Don't have a Myspace account yet? . Asked why Lacey would care for JonJon without pay from the time he was an infant, Hunt who had her daughter when she was just 15 surmised it may have been a young Lacey's way of getting attention. In 2010, she gave up her license, she said for medical reasons after she underwent brain surgery but records cite the voluntary surrender as being tied to a disciplinary action. Lacey Spears, 26, of upstate New York, hasn't been charged with a crime. That boy is not her son. 19. She'd say, 'No, it's OK, I'm going to put over-the-counter ear drops in his ears,' or 'I warmed up some oil to put oil in his ears,' or 'I bought him some Benadryl.' If the call went to DHR, it didn't trigger an investigation. When Chris Hill heard from a friend that Garnett was dying, he reached out to Lacey Spears in the only way he knew how: He sent her a Facebook friend request. Spears, who has hired an attorney, has not been charged and has denied . He vaguely recalls Lacey Spears coming to the church on Sundays during that period with a baby, alone, which seemed odd to him because mothers rarely come without a husband or other family. At 10 weeks old, doctors at a hospital in Alabama found his sodium levels to be unusually high at 180. "And then he'd come home and have ear infections," Burnham said, recalling Camryn's time with Spears. But then in the end, I don't know. "She had baby fever. One is that JonJon would routinely get severe ear infections during the year-plus period Lacey was his caretaker, and stopped getting them shortly after. A baby is going to do that. We just felt more comfortable knowing somebody else was watching, too.". Some people in Lacey Spears' life described her as a caring and nurturing mother but others saw darker signs. If we find matches from your Facebook friends, we'll connect you to them right away. This is your profile URL. "This was not a spontaneous or ill-conceived solitary act. Myspace. "He developed a hole in his ear drum. Please try again. Ginger Dabbs-Anderson, a former nurse at Decatur General Hospital who said she later befriended Lacey so she could help care for Garnett, saw Lacey's parenting inside the hospital and out. When Hunt needed a babysitter for newborn Jonathon, she turned to Lacey, who had graduated from Decatur High School in 2006, left Jack's and started working in day care. 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