Trial Started for Mother Allegedly Killed Son With Salt and Documented Last Days Online

The trial has started for the mother who allegedly poisoned her son to death with salt. Lacey Spears of Scottsville, Kentucky, was charged in the death of her son a year ago with depraved murder and manslaughter. Five-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears was in the hospital when prosecutors say his mother forced salt into a feeding tube which was lodged in the boy’s stomach.

Lacey was living in Chestnut Ridge, NY at the time of her son’s death, but is originally from Decatur, Alabama. Before her arrest in June of last year Lacey moved to Kentucky where she lived until she was sent to prison. Supposedly, the man who is the boy’s father resides in Alabama.

This heartbreaking and puzzling murder case has confounded onlookers. Prosecutors allege Lacey forced salt into Garnett-Paul’s feeding tube while he was staying at Westchester Medical Center and documented  … click HERE to continue reading