A young mother who documented her 5-year-old son's persistent illness on social media was arrested Tuesday, accused of fatally poisoning him with sodium, WABC-TV reported.Lacey Spears, 26, was indicted in White Plains on charges of depraved murder and manslaughter in the death of Garnett-Paul Spears, who died in January.Investigators said Lacey Spears was desperate for attention and used her son as a tool to make that happen by publicly documenting his condition.Spears brought her son to Nyack Hospital in Rockland County on Jan. 17, reporting he was having seizures. Two days later, with no medical explanation, Garnett-Paul's sodium levels rose to an extremely dangerous level.Spears was sharing her son's hospital room, and prosecutors said the mother administered sodium through the boy's stomach tube. The boy was then transferred to the Westchester Medical Center, where he died."During the afternoon, that child goes from moderate to severe cerebral dysfunction," prosecutor Doreen Lloyd said in court. "And as that is going on, this child's sodium level is going up. It coincides with the actions of this defendant."The Westchester County district attorney says doctors there suspected Spears was harming her son and called New York state children's services, which launched an investigation.Spears, who pleaded not guilty, documented her son's various health problems using a public blog.Spears was ordered held without bail.12967056

A young mother who documented her 5-year-old son's persistent illness on social media was arrested Tuesday, accused of fatally poisoning him with sodium, WABC-TV reported.

Lacey Spears, 26, was indicted in White Plains on charges of depraved murder and manslaughter in the death of Garnett-Paul Spears, who died in January.


Investigators said Lacey Spears was desperate for attention and used her son as a tool to make that happen by publicly documenting his condition.

Spears brought her son to Nyack Hospital in Rockland County on Jan. 17, reporting he was having seizures. Two days later, with no medical explanation, Garnett-Paul's sodium levels rose to an extremely dangerous level.

Spears was sharing her son's hospital room, and prosecutors said the mother administered sodium through the boy's stomach tube. The boy was then transferred to the Westchester Medical Center, where he died.

"During the afternoon, that child goes from moderate to severe cerebral dysfunction," prosecutor Doreen Lloyd said in court. "And as that is going on, this child's sodium level is going up. It coincides with the actions of this defendant."

The Westchester County district attorney says doctors there suspected Spears was harming her son and called New York state children's services, which launched an investigation.

Spears, who pleaded not guilty, documented her son's various health problems using a public blog.

Spears was ordered held without bail.