Rhino
07-03-2008, 01:11 PM
Mom Charged With Denying Son Cancer Meds
Officials: Woman Failed To Fill Prescriptions
POSTED: 8:34 am EDT July 2, 2008
SALEM, Mass. -- A Beverly woman faces charges that allege she withheld cancer medication from her 8-year-old son, Boston television station WCVB reported.
Jeremy Fraser, who is autistic, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006. He was treated and went into remission, but the cancer has returned. Fraser's doctors said that would not have happened if he were on his medications.
Prosecutors said his mother, Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, failed to fill more than half of those prescriptions. The boy's father, Eric Fraser, said that he is outraged....
...Now, instead of being in remission with a 90 percent chance of survival, he has leukemia with a 10 to 20 percent survival rate....http://www.nbc4.com/news/16767509/detail.html
Officials: Woman Failed To Fill Prescriptions
POSTED: 8:34 am EDT July 2, 2008
SALEM, Mass. -- A Beverly woman faces charges that allege she withheld cancer medication from her 8-year-old son, Boston television station WCVB reported.
Jeremy Fraser, who is autistic, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006. He was treated and went into remission, but the cancer has returned. Fraser's doctors said that would not have happened if he were on his medications.
Prosecutors said his mother, Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, failed to fill more than half of those prescriptions. The boy's father, Eric Fraser, said that he is outraged....
...Now, instead of being in remission with a 90 percent chance of survival, he has leukemia with a 10 to 20 percent survival rate....http://www.nbc4.com/news/16767509/detail.html