SALEM, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who withheld potentially life-saving medications from her cancer-stricken son has been set free after pleading guilty to attempted murder.
Kristen LaBrie was sentenced Wednesday to time already served at a change of plea hearing in Salem Superior Court.
The 44-year-old LaBrie spent five years behind bars after being convicted in 2011 of attempted murder, assault and battery and reckless child endangerment.
But the state's highest court in March ruled that her attorney at trial was ineffective and granted the new trial on the attempted murder charge. She was released from prison after that ruling.
She was also sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation.
Her son, Jeremy Fraser, was diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 7 and died at age 9 in 2009.