The woman dragged her daughter to hospitals for four years, and doctors obediently prescribed pills.
Perhaps the baby would have to continue taking medication for a disease that she did not have. But the mother attracted the attention of the police, and for a completely different reason. A 41-year-old woman came to the police and said that she received threatening letters. Her house was under surveillance and it was found out that she tossed envelopes to herself. It was then that the police took a closer look at her.
The facts turned out to be terrible. It turned out that the woman had been poisoning her own child for four years, took her to the doctors, and underwent numerous tomography scans with her. And all because the girl allegedly had seizures. No research has confirmed the mother’s words. But the child was diagnosed with epilepsy. Yes, based only on the complaints of my mother. The girl was regularly prescribed pills for all these four years.
“Initially, the daughter of the accused had some alarming symptoms that made the mother think it was epilepsy. The woman herself believed it. But over the years, she lied more and more to the doctors, falsified the seizures, assured that the baby was suffering from seizures and fainting, ”said state prosecutor Paul Brookwell at the trial.
The investigation contacted the school where the allegedly epileptic girl studied. It turned out that no one suspected her illness: she had neither seizures nor fainting. It turns out that the mother of the child was the only witness of the seizures. It was then that the child was taken away by the guardianship authorities. The doctors examined the child and firmly stated: she is absolutely healthy. The girl remained under the supervision of social services. And the mother went to court.
“You selfishly used your own daughter as a means to achieve your goals. You wanted attention and sympathy, which strengthened your self-esteem. You didn’t think at all how this would affect your daughter. It is impossible to believe that a mother would act so cruelly with her own child, “- quotes the words of the judge leading the process.
According to the lawyer, the woman repented
What is most surprising, the mother did not raise the child alone, the girl had a father.
“I can’t believe that this woman, whom I called my wife, was poisoning our child,” the man said pathetically after his wife went to prison, she was sentenced to 8 months in prison. The father also assured that the separation from the mother had the best effect on the child – the daughter really blossomed. But where he was looking all these four years remained a mystery.
By the way, this is not the only case when mothers ruin the lives of their children, using them as a means of gaining everyone’s attention. Doctors call it Munchausen syndrome. In 2016, the whole world was shaken by a story when a 23-year-old girl disappeared without a trace from her own home, and her mother was found dead. The girl spent her whole life in a wheelchair: her mother assured that she had the intelligence of a seven-year-old child, that she suffered from muscular dystrophy, severe asthma, epilepsy, and suffered leukemia in childhood. The girl was cut off from live communication.
But once the girl nevertheless met a young man on a social network, and then in reality. And soon she disappeared with him, realizing that she was the victim of a mental disorder of her own mother.