Mom Guilty in Death of Son with Autism

Such a troubling story. Just couldn't ignore it.

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- A Superior Court jury found Kristen A. LaBrie guilty of attempted murder Tuesday for withholding chemotherapy medications from her autistic son, who died of leukemia in 2009.
Prosecutors in the case argued that LaBrie committed murder by withholding potentially lifesaving medications for her 9-year-old son, Jeremy Fraser. The defense admitted that LaBrie knowingly withheld her son's medications, but said she did so only because of their painful side effects.
"It's been a long struggle for everybody including the defendant," Andrew Fraiser, Jeremy's paternal uncle, told reporters outside the courtroom. "It's never a good day to have to go through something like this."