One of the many witnesses who are summoned in the court in Herning, denmark, is fasteren to the little boy. She explained that her concern already in 2014 was so great, that she and her husband chose to make an anonymous notification to the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality. Here they said outright that they feared that the 36-year-old woman suffered from Münchausen by proxy.

Several things had been wondering fasteren under nevøens long illness.

– I thought it was very strange that each time that happened things – even terrible things – then there were the pictures taken in the moment, told fasteren among other things, in the right.

Fasteren live on Sealand, and when the 36-year-old woman and eksmanden a time should participate in a race, the family lived at fasteren. The weekend was playing the boy with her children, and fasteren saw him as a happy boy who would like to play.

It puzzled me, when I saw the images from there, as he sat in a wheelchair. I thought he was placed there for having to look ill, and it was something I had often seen.

Fasteren and her husband’s concern was also on the food, as the woman’s children.

– It I so, was, that the children do not got quite very common food, but really much sugar. We were really worried that it could be one of the reasons why his illness was not better.

– I had tried to write with her (the 36-year-old woman), but it was obvious that it was something I should not mix myself in.

Therefore, the ringing of the fasterens man to the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality with their concerns, and in the call, that he directly Münchausen by proxy sydrom.

– We said to the municipality that we were afraid that she (the 36-year-old woman) deliberately injured her child.

The 36-year-old defense attorney asked why fasteren had not spoken with the father of the child, whether the concern. Fasteren said in court that the father was in a place in life where he could not go against the mother.

In the summer of 2017 and there arose the suspicion of the doctors that the mother could be to blame for the boy’s severe anemia.

It led to Middle – and Vestjyllands Police established surveillance of the woman’s home, and she was arrested.

The accused have pleaded partially guilty to the charge. According to her defense attorney it took place under the influence of Münchhausen by proxy

In the following TV MIDTVEST can Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality does not recognize the family’s laying on, that they were warned three years earlier.

– We can not see in our system, that there are no notifications. And we have gone to both a few months back and compared to august of 2014, tells the energy, sustainability & indoor for Children and Young people in the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, Claus Friis Lange to TV MIDTVEST.