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  • My Sweet Angel

  • The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood
  • By: John Glatt
  • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
  • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (114 ratings)
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My Sweet Angel

By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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Summary

Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015, when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year-old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube.

To the outside world, Lacey had seemed like the perfect mother, regularly posting dramatic updates on her son's harrowing medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a textbook case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. From the time he was an infant, she deliberately made Garnett sick to elicit sympathy from medical professionals, as well as her hundreds of followers on Facebook and other social media. When a Westchester County jury found her guilty of killing Garnett in April 2015, she was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Using Lacey's own never-before-seen Facebook, Twitter, and blog posts, an exclusive prison interview with Lacey herself, as well as interviews with her family and the three police investigators who broke the case, My Sweet Angel gives the definitive account of this extraordinary case that shocked the world.

©2016 John Glatt (P)2016 Tantor

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Interesting and thorough

I listened to this in 3 days, I had never heard of the case before and I couldn't stop until I heard what happened to this poor little boy, I work with children in safeguarding and this was a fascinating insight into this mothers life and really interesting to hear people's accounts, and her blog and social media posts. Such a shame that we will never really know what that poor child went through, but a complex case the professionals can learn from

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Very sad

The reason why I give the story only 1 star ⭐️ is simply because this terrible incident shouldn't have happened. I really hope this evil woman never has a moments peace. But even in the epilogue she can't give remorse. This book, must teach others to realise how important, doctors, hospitals, social services all communicate with each other to make sure this never happens again. Not one day, or one child should suffer at the hands that should protect them. Thankfully the police did a full in depth, hard at times investigation. Especially now that social media has taken over this world. The solicitors summed it up perfectly, this unfortunately was never about this sweet boy. It was always about his disgusting attention seeking ill mother. A very hard moving account, presented in the best tasteful way you can tell such a truth. It's not a story, because it's not made up, and it has no happy ending for a beautiful boy.

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very hard book for any one to complete.

so sad that a mother could take the life of her own flesh and blood

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A very sad story but very well read.

This is such a sad story. I was interested in the social media aspects of it though. It seems to me as if the mum's addiction to social media drove her to do what she did. She needed the constant attention and adoration of her social media 'fan club'. The outcome was tragic.
Five star performance of a difficult topic.

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Gripping

A gripping story about a disturbed mother. Harrowing at times, but nonetheless an astonishing insight into the devious mind of a killer.

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Sad Story

I like true story's and this was good only thing is it did repeat the story towards the end worth reading

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excellent

great book with great narration . Very clear and easy to listen to although the content was not.

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Very good but…

I wasn’t aware of Lacey Spears story so stumbled upon this by accident. Very well told, an interesting account of munchausen by proxy. I found the account riveting but by chapter 3 I was incredibly bored by all the quotes from her social media posts. While I understand the need for them in the story they become very repetitive in a short space of time. Otherwise an enjoyable account of events.

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Wow

Gripping from start to finish , reaching into the mind of a person who killed her own don for medical attention.

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Well written

There is sooo much detail in the book, it was well written and the narrator has a great speaking voice.

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