Crime & Safety
New Trial Granted For Woman in Attempted Murder of Son
The Massachusetts woman was convicted of withholding at-home chemotherapy treatments from her son. She is housed at MCI Framingham.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a Salem mother, who was convicted of attempted murder for withholding chemotherapy treatment from her autistic son who had cancer.
Kristen LaBrie was convicted in 2011 for withholding at-home chemotherapy treatments for her son, Jeremy Glaser. The nine-year-old boy died in 2009.
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LaBrie was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.
She is currently at the the minimum security South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham.
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On Wednesday, the state's Supreme Judicial Court reversed a judge’s order denying LaBrie a motion for a new trial on an attempted murder charge.
The court also overturned assault and battery charges but upheld a charge of reckless endangerment of a child.
LaBrie stated that she stopped giving the chemotherapy to her son because the side effects made him extremely ill.
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