SAUGUS - A 9-year-old Saugus boy whose mother is charged with reckless child endangerment for allegedly withholding her son's cancer medication has died.A spokesman for the Essex district attorney's office says Jeremy Fraser died Monday.
According to an obituary in The Item, Jeremy Fraser died Monday at the Kaplan Family Hospice house in Danvers.
Jeremy was diagnosed in 2006. Prosecutors say his mother, Kristen Anne LaBrie, canceled at least a dozen appointments for chemotherapy treatment and did not fill at least half of the prescriptions her son was given. She has pleaded innocent.
The parents are estranged.
District attorney's spokesman Steve O'Connell says prosecutors have not ruled out new charges against the mother.
In Jeremy Fraser’s obituary in The Item, it says he was born in Salem and that he was the son of Eric Fraser of Saugus. The obit also says that Jeremy Fraser leaves a brother, an aunt and an uncle. There is no mention of his mother.
In a January interview with The Item Eric Fraser says LaBrie delayed a November court hearing because she spent several days in Miami to watch a New England Patriots game against the Miami Dolphins, which she allegedly wrote about on MySpace.
“When Jeremy was dying in Mass. General Hospital she went to Bermuda for a week,” Fraser said during that January interview. “Who does that when you’re kid’s in the hospital?”
LaBrie was charged after doctors suspected she stopped giving her son medication and contacted authorities.
“She didn’t pick up more than half of the prescriptions,” Fraser said. “When she realized she was going to be in trouble she picked up all of his prescriptions again.”
Fraser said he and LaBrie, who purportedly lost custody of another son who is now a teenager, had been estranged for several months when Jeremy was in his mother’s care. Fraser alleges LaBrie took out a restraining order for a bogus reason at the time.
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