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32 documents for munchausen syndrome by proxy cases
  • By his own account, attorney Thomas Ryan spent more than 200 hours of his time preparing and litigating a lawsuit to thwart recall candidate Olivia Cortes, whose bogus candidacy was launched with the sole intention of ruining the chances of a challenger who Ryan had never met. Technically, Ryan lost that court battle. Cortes was never removed from the ballot. But during the fight, he inflicted enough damage to her campaign, which he exposed as a plot launched by the supporters of his primary target: Recall target and Senate President Russell Pearce.

    ...He's made a national name for himself in cases involving Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a conditio...

  • ...Roska suffered from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy ("MSBP"). MSBP is a disorder in ... and emotional trauma of removal in cases where it is unnecessary. The dissent appears to di...

  • ...There is a syndrome called Mundiausen Syndrome by Proxy. In the actual...In Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy the harm is done to others, usuaally children. There are documented cases of mothers poisoning their children in order to at...

  • BY LINDA McNATT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

    ...16. Investigators say Towns has Munchausen syndrome by proxy, when a caregiver - in 75 percen...

  • A doctor has immunity under Section 2151.42.1(G)(1) of the Ohio Revised Code for child abuse allegations that he makes to Children Services in person or in writing and for the in-court testimony he offers in good faith.

    ...Steiner, who handles cases of suspected child abuse for the hospital.    {..., otherwise known as Munchausen Syndrome  by Proxy.”  He further opined tha...

  • Little effort to find a missing Black child is nothing new, but in this case, James charges, "the kidnapper's'' identity is notable. The Administration of Child Protective Services (ACS), the very agency charged with protecting the welfare of the city's children, took little [Amber] James from her parents last year and has since bounced her around to at least four different foster homes, they claim, adding that since being in the foster care system, Amber has developed asthma, contracted pneumonia, fainted, been subjected to psychiatric evaluations and has been hospitalized on more than one occasion. James even stated that her daughter was left unattended and later found wandering the streets alone in the middle of the night-all of this while in the care of ACS. We were referred to Dr....

    ...James suffered from Munchausen's by Proxy Syndrome-a rare mental disorder that ca... employees from discussing specific cases. Copyright New York Amsterdam News Mar 13-Mar 19, ...

  • In criminal proceedings claiming child abuse by reason of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, expert opinion testimony that the defendant caused the claimed injury to the child or poisoned him was inadmissible, beyond the scope of allowable expert opinion testimony, and an invasion of the jury province.

    ... testimony in battered child syndrome cases on the issue of the effects of child abuse in test...

  • ...Often, physicians encounter cases in which Munchausen's is not by proxy, but involve...

  • May is Mental Health Month. In recognition, I would like to discuss a mental health issue in parents that can adversely affect children to the point of death in some instances. Factitious disorder by proxy occurs when an adult caregiver induces or reports medical and/or psychological symptoms in order to gain attention. Factitious means not real, not true, not genuine or not natural. FDP is an umbrella covering a variety of situations. All involve an adult reporting medical and/or psychological symptoms in order to gain attention. In extreme cases, the adult actually may cause a medical condition, or the appearance of a medical condition, in order to gain attention.

    ...This form of FDP is sometimes called Munchausen syndrome, adult Munchausen or adult factitious dis...

  • LEWISBURG, W.Va. -- For the last 25 years, Marybeth Davis denied poisoning her children. She insisted something else, not caffeine diet pills, killed her 3-year-old daughter, Tegan Marie, on March, 11, 1982. She said something else, not an overdose of insulin, caused violent seizures that permanently disabled her son, 10-week-old Seth, on Sept. 30, 1981.

    ... a murder conviction in another of Detch's cases, and Hanson thought Castelle's petition carried so...'s theory that Davis exhibited signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric condition in whic...



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