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Esme Stoller from Love You to Death: a fictional cosplay fan and victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy, told that she has cancer and developmental delays; Esme is loosely based on real-life victim Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. Pauline Whittier from Everything, Everything (film) treats her daughter Maddy for the immune disorder SCID. A doctor later ...
The county’s sheriff’s office described the investigation as a Munchausen by proxy case, a form of medical child abuse. ... ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
A Fort Worth woman was convicted of injury to a child last week in a suspected Munchausen syndrome by proxy case in Tarrant County. In August 2021, 22-year-old Sarah Melgar was charged with three ...
Olivia K. Gant (June 21, 2010 – August 20, 2017) [1] was a 7-year-old American girl who died after ongoing medical abuse by her mother, Kelly Renee Turner-Gant, in what was deemed to be a case of Munchausen by proxy. Turner-Gant had initially taken the girl to the hospital for a case of severe constipation; after this was treated successfully ...
The case of Lisa Hayden-Johnson has highlighted the severe implications of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It underscored the need for vigilance among healthcare professionals to detect signs of fabricated or induced illness and the importance of safeguarding vulnerable individuals from such abuse.
The term "Munchausen syndrome by proxy" was first coined in 1977, but the condition is now also called "factitious disorder imposed on another," and "fabricated or induced illness in a child ...
Lacey Spears, who was later diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, was born and raised in Decatur, Alabama.Lonely as a single mother and desperate for attention, Lacey constantly posted on social media about her son's health struggles, even going so far as to start a blog devoted to chronicling her search for a cure for whatever illnesses plagued him.
While growing up, Gypsy experienced mental and physical abuse for years at the hands of her mother, who is believed to have suffered from Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, a psychological disorder ...