Prosecutors told the jury that LaBrie had stopped giving the boy cancer medication for five months following his initial diagnosis with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006.
"He was a little boy, he was her little boy, and he had an opportunity for a miracle... and she took that from him, she stole that from him,'' Assistant District Attorney Kate MacDougall said, the Boston Globe reported.
"That was not a tragic mistake. That was not an accident. That was in every sense of the word criminal.''
The boy's oncologist, Dr Alison Friedmann, testified the type of cancer the boy had has a cure rate of 85% to 90% with treatment.
My Mother has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma for over a decade.
The medicines were adminstered via Doctors in one Huge dose that almost killed her and did put her in a coma for weeks.
We were told she wouldn't live another day during that time in a coma. She came to and refused anymore treatments.
The lymphoma was cured. Her memory is very poor now. She don't remember if she saw or talked with someone yesterday.
Why would they expect a parent to administer a drug that made their child sickly?
That is what these drugs do. I would refuse any chemo or radiation if I was diagnosed with cancer.
These drugs kills many cells and most often only makes a person suffer til death.
There are possibly better cancer cures.
