Clearly affected entered a 36-year-old woman in the day into the Court in Herning. The woman is accused of legemsangreb of the particularly serious nature in the form of ill-treatment by from 2012 and five years continuously to have the collected blood from his then one-year son.
The 36-year-old woman recognises himself guilty in two to three years to have tapped the blood from his son.
In the woman’s position on the indictment is worded as follows:
’the Accused admits guilty in over a period of two to three years to – in connection with the cleaning of an indwelling central venekateter – to have the collected blood to a greater extent than necessary with the result that the son had to receive blood transfusions in a greater number than what else was required. The accused acknowledges at the same time, to the donation of blood was without medical justification and under the influence of Münchhausen by proxy.’
the Notification, which led to the investigation came after a notification from the five doctors to the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality. The notification from the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality to the police occurred immediately after 14. July 2017.
During the proceedings today it emerged that the police before the arrest had cctv, the woman, and there was shown a clip from the video from the 36-year-old woman’s home. The video shows how the woman in the bedroom was drawing blood from his son by filling the nine 20 milliliters syringes with blood.
While the video was shown, looked the 36-year-old woman down in the table with the hands up to the ears. The clearly concerned mother looked from time to time map on the screen in the courtroom, but quickly, she clasped her eyes down again.
There are a total of made three politiovervågninger of the woman, the last of which the overvågningsdag also was the day police moved in and arrested the 36-year-old mother.
the FACTS: What is Münchhausen by proxy?
the Münchhausen by proxy is a disorder in which a caregiver – typically the mother – causing a child’s symptoms or injuries.
It is a variant of the Münchhausens syndrome, which you can read about here.
* Münchhausens syndrome is named after the German Baron von Münchhausen, who in the 1700s found in the wild-bull stories about his exploits.
* Doctors use the term for a person who simulates or creates symptoms in order to get in contact with the health care system.
* If any damage other than itself, it is called Münchhausen by proxy (Münchhausen per delegate, ed.).
* for example, It may be a child, caused symptoms or damage.
* Münchhausen by proxy is considered to be a personality disorder, which can be related to the practitioner’s needs for attention and recognition.
* There is an over-representation of women, especially women trained in the health sector.
* Münchhausen by proxy is also called medical child abuse.
* A british study estimates that two out of 100,000 children subjected to medical child abuse.
* It is rare for physicians to make the diagnosis. In recent times, there are particularly two cases, associated with the disorder:
* In 1985, got a nephew the woman judgment to have sprayed floral in to their hospitalized child’s væskedrop.
* In 1990, a 30-year-old mother at the Court in Kolding, denmark convicted of serious violence against his two sons. A video recording showed that she is a stay at Kolding Hospital pulled a plastic bag over one’s head. The child survived. His older brother was a year earlier died as a result of accompanied by feelings of suffocation induced by the mother.
Sources: Ritzau, B. T., Kristeligt Dagblad, Health.dk.
