Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, of Beverly, Mass., was put on charge of reckless child endangerment on Monday, in Salem District Court. The authorities say that LaBrie failed to give her 8-year-old child the medications for his cancer, so the chances for the boy to live are now 10 percent.

Doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital say that after they had prescribed the boy’s medicine, he had high chances to live, but the mother failed to come with him to chemotherapy and buy him drugs. Jeremy Fraser had been in remission for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and had chances to recover if he had followed the treatment.

Jeremy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006 and he was prescribed a five-phase regimen for chemotherapy and drugs, a treatment which his mother didn’t fulfill.

LaBrie’s lawyer, Kevin James, said that she had taken her son to the hospital every time it had been required and that she “has been extensively involved in this child's care.” Authorities say that LaBrie canceled a lot of appointments with the boy’s doctor and that she didn’t buy al least half of the prescriptions her son was given.

Eric Fraser, the boy’s father, has full custody of his son now. He divorced LaBrie in 2005 and she received full physical custody. Fraser had visitations rights every other weekend. He paid child support, although he said he hadn’t seen his child from early 2007 to December 2007.