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 Pavia,
Rome - An Italian mother stuffed her 14-year-old son with so many
unnecessary medicines that he ballooned to 310 pounds, could not walk
and eventually had to be taken to a hospital. A local court has severed
the mother's parental rights.  more
at Yahoo! News (May
2003)
| Lakeland,
FL - Mother sentenced for abusing sons. Teresa Dutton, convicted
last month of child abuse faces 10 years of probation and restricted
access to her two sons, even after they reach adulthood.
more
at The Ledger (May
2003) |
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AUGUSTA,
GA - Woman sentenced to 8
years in prison for poisoning her child. A woman who prosecutors
said injected her young daughter with bacteria over several years
pleaded no contest to child cruelty charges Thursday and was sentenced
to eight years in prison.
more
at OnlineAthens (April
2003)
BARTOW.
— Teresa Dutton, convicted of 2 counts of felony child abuse faces
10 years in prison. more
at The Ledger (April
2003)
Munchausen
Syndrome for the Digital Age? A new form of MSP is plaguing
online support groups as fakers take to the net to seek the sympathy and
attention of support groups. read
the article at the Baltimore Sun SunSpot.net (April
2003)
LEWISBURG
- Greenbrier County Circuit Judge Frank Jolliffe has denied a
request for a new trial for Marybeth Davis, the woman convicted in 1997
of the caffeine poisoning of her 3-year-old daughter Tegan and the
attempted poisoning of her infant son Seth.
more
at The Register Herald
(April
2003)
GALLATIN, Tenn. — Sharon
Hicks, charged with murder in the deaths of her 3-month-old girl and
7-month-old boy, has pleaded no contest to reckless homicide charges.
(July 2002)
more
at CourtTV.com
Washington DC - AsherMeadow is the #1 listed web site on Yahoo!®
for searches on "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy." This
demonstrates the years of hard work collecting and integrating
information and resources on Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.
(July 2002)
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Munchausen Syndrome by
Proxy At a Glance: The term "Munchausen
Syndrome by Proxy" (MSP) was coined in a 1976 report
describing four children who were so severely abused they were
dwarfed. In 1977, Dr. Meadow described a somewhat less extreme
form of child abuse in which mothers deliberately induced or
falsely reported illnesses in their children. He also referred
to this behavior as MSP.
Over the years, alternate
terms, such as "Polle's syndrome" and "Meadow's
syndrome," have been suggested; however, these terms never
gained popularity.
Tragically, MSP victims are
usually children, and the perpetrators are almost always parents
or parent substitutes. If and when victims are hospitalized,
they may be subjected to multiple, and at times, dangerous
diagnostic procedures that invariably produce negative or
confounding results. When the victim and abuser are separated,
however, the victim's symptoms cease. When confronted, the
abuser characteristically denies any knowledge of how the
child's illness occurred. |
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