Mommy blogger Lacey Spears made headlines when she was charged with the
murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that she
had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach
tube. How could a mother do such a thing to her own son? This is the
shocking true story.
To the outside world Lacey had seemed like a loving, concerned mother,
regularly posting updates on social media about her son's harrowing
medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a textbook case of
Munchausen syndrome by proxy. From the time he was an infant, Lacey
deliberately made Garnett sick to elicit sympathy from medical
professionals as well as her hundreds of followers on Facebook, Twitter,
and her own blog. When a Westchester County jury found her guilty of
killing Garnett in April 2015, she was sentenced to twenty years to life
in prison. My Sweet Angel is the definitive account--featuring
interviews with Lacey's family, the investigators who broke the case,
even Lacey herself--of an extraordinary case that shocked the world.