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Mully
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Poor boy really believed he was actually ill. She was putting sugar in drinks etc.
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Report Big Charlie • January 23, 2010 9:53 PM GMT
Is this the tw@t who paraded him in a wheelchair to meet the Duchess of York ?
Report Mully • January 23, 2010 9:54 PM GMT
That's the awful cow, yes :-(
Report Big Charlie • January 23, 2010 9:58 PM GMT
Lock the daft cvnt up and put the boy into care.
Report BillKiller • January 23, 2010 10:01 PM GMT
The boy has gone to live with his dad which is where he should have been in the first place.
Report Big Charlie • January 23, 2010 10:09 PM GMT
Agreed Bill.
Report Hearts.no1 • January 23, 2010 10:11 PM GMT
was the dad paying maintenece though ?
Report tobermory • January 23, 2010 10:13 PM GMT
Was she not mentally ill then?

There is some sort of illness where people make their kids ill to seek attention, sounded like one of those to me.
Report The Priest • January 23, 2010 11:48 PM GMT
Mentally ill yawwwnnn

36 months i think she got for keeping her son in a wheelchair for 7 years.

Completly ruined the kids life, all for money.

Now shes been caught she ' suddenly ' has a condition youve never heard of, has it seemed been invented by quacks in the last few years and that gets her off with a light sentance.

A quick trip round the back - bang - unmarked grave - job done.
Report tobermory • January 23, 2010 11:49 PM GMT
she must be a loony though
Report The Priest • January 23, 2010 11:54 PM GMT
Why?

Why cant she just be EVIL

Why does there have to be a condition that makes them do it.

She is evil, just like Karen Mathews and all the rest.

exterminate these freaks for crying out loud!
Report Brodie • January 23, 2010 11:54 PM GMT
Münchausen syndrome by proxy

sort of attention seeking thru making ones kin ill.

Gotta be a mental illness, what sane person does it ?
Report Brodie • January 23, 2010 11:55 PM GMT
Anyone got a link, I've not read the story.
Report The Priest • January 24, 2010 12:02 AM GMT
Münchausen syndrome by proxy

sort of attention seeking thru making ones kin ill.

Gotta be a mental illness, what sane person does it ?


Ahh yes good ol Münchausen syndrome by proxy, another illness that never existed years ago but suddenly is used whenever anybody does something evil.

WHY does it have to be a mental illness?

WHY can she not just be evil?

One thing you are all forgetting, she wasn't making him ill to hurt him, she was making him ill so she could benefit in other ways very carefully planned, that took a lot of savvy and pulling off.

She gets found out and suddenly shes a barmpot.
Report Brodie • January 24, 2010 12:14 AM GMT
I believe that the brain is a complex organ and as such a lot of things can happen to it. Evil, i'm not sure exists, same as God.
Report Brodie • January 24, 2010 12:15 AM GMT
Can happen* meaning go wrong.
Report Brodie • January 24, 2010 12:17 AM GMT
Munchausens by proxy is the actual mental illness I thought this thread was about not just 'another illness'. I was answering tobermory's post. Can't be 100% sure though as I've not read the story.
Report Tevez is God • January 24, 2010 1:26 AM GMT
Now shes been caught she ' suddenly ' has a condition youve never heard of, has it seemed been invented by quacks in the last few years and that gets her off with a light sentance.

= "I've never heard of"

ignorant pillock
Report Tevez is God • January 24, 2010 1:30 AM GMT
Ahh yes good ol Münchausen syndrome by proxy, another illness that never existed years ago

Münchausen syndrome was first described in 1951... (wiki)

58 yrs not long enough for you priest? ignorant pr1ck
Report freeze_the_secret • January 24, 2010 9:54 AM GMT
Münchausen syndrome was first described in 1951 as when someone invents or exaggerates medical symptoms, sometimes engaging in self-harm, to gain attention or sympathy.

In 1977, pediatrician Roy Meadow, then professor of pediatrics at the University of Leeds, England, described the extraordinary behavior of two mothers. According to Meadow, one had poisoned her toddler with excessive quantities of salt. The other had introduced her own blood into her baby's urine sample. He referred to this behavior as Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP).[7]

The medical community was initially skeptical of MSbP's existence, but it gradually gained acceptance as a recognized condition.
Report danniellasmincepies • January 24, 2010 11:14 AM GMT
from BBC news site - re Beverley Allitt

Allitt, who suffered from the personality disorder Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, killed four children and injured nine others between 1991 and 1993.

She is serving 13 life sentences, and is being held at the top-security prison hospital Rampton in Nottinghamshire.

People with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy fake their own or others' illnesses in order to gain attention.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 24, 2010 11:25 AM GMT
Or to gain money
Report Big Charlie • January 24, 2010 12:13 PM GMT
Tevez is God 24 Jan 02:30
Ahh yes good ol Münchausen syndrome by proxy, another illness that never existed years ago

Münchausen syndrome was first described in 1951... (wiki)

58 yrs not long enough for you priest? ignorant pr1ck


ahem.............59 years, I fear.
Report tobermory • January 24, 2010 4:53 PM GMT
Well i think people can be Evil - in that they are rational, know what harm they do, but have no conscience - but others really just have mental problems leading to compulsive behaviour of this sort.

Yes ty Brodie and Tev , that was what i was thinking of. I haven't read much about this case but sounds bizarre .
Report BIG GURU • January 24, 2010 5:02 PM GMT
That Münchausen syndrome I must have it,I keep wanting to kill the wife
Report The Priest • January 24, 2010 5:37 PM GMT
Tevez is God

May i offer my sincere apologies, this has really wound you up i know, perhaps someone in your family is perhaps doing something they shouldn't have and you now realise what a fool youve been all this time and it is the munchasen affect after all.

If that is the case then i'm glad you are now enlightened.


Considering mankind and some of the greatest minds that have ever lived in both medical and normal science have been on this earth a lot longer than 59 years why is it only just been found? Surely doctors and sceintists were clever enough to have sussed this out well before 1951?
Report Mully • January 25, 2010 9:44 AM GMT
Cheese & Pickle Monster Münchausen? :0
Report Hoss • January 25, 2010 10:33 AM GMT
That's it, there's no point trying to do any more research into science. Anything worth discovering has already been found by the great minds years ago :)
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