Garnetts Journey is a blog created by Lacey Spears in which she documented the life of her five-year-old son Garnett Spears, whose life according to Spears had been tormentend by an unknown illness. Spears appeared to be a loving and caring mother– although she only portrayed herself like that. In reality, Spears was the one responsible for her son’s health issues and repeated hospitalizations. Born in 2008, Garnett Spears appeared to be healthy but soon became ill. Spears documented Garnett’s battle on her social media accounts for which she gained many supporters and attention online. On January 23, 2014, Garnett died at a hospital after Spears put toxic amounts of sodium into his feeding tube. Spears even posted about her sons passing on Facebook before she was arrested. When Spears was tried for the murder of her son, prosecutors revealed that Garnett’s death was planned and that her web history showed that she prior to his death searched “dangers of high sodium” online. The judge in Spears’ case stated that she suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric disorder wherein a caregiver harms those in their care in order to receive attention. However, Spears denies to have Munchausen syndrome by proxy and maintains her innocence. On April 8, 2015, Spears was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
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