November 2007 Headlines
A mother's battle to be believed After diagnosis, woman fights doctors and DSS for daughter
Published in The Boston Globe
The mother in this article was falsely accused by a hospital and the Massachusetts Dept of Social Services (now the Dept. of Children and Families) of Munchausen by Proxy. The agency then kidnapped her baby, only on suspicion, not evidence.
Munchausen by proxy is a syndrome where a mother actually tries to harm her child and then acts the hero by rescuing him or her. In lesser form, the perpetrator is a hyper-hypochondriac, and believes that the child is much sicker than she really is, always reporting medical problems.
In this case, all kinds of professionals verified that the child ACTUALLY had the ailment reported by the mother - constant vomiting and sleep-related breathing problems. Even then, the State child "protectors" would not relent and drop the case, nor would the terminally insipid Massachusetts Juvenile Court close it.
Finally, after a Harvard shrink and many others confirmed that the mother was sane, they eventually dropped the case, after months of ignoring the evidence. Child protectors indeed!
I note with alarm that the article states that the hospital in question, in Providence, RI, reports 700 people per year to the state criminal cabal known as child protective services. That institution evidently views its mission to be an arm of the police state, rather than a place of healing, and its loyalty to the state rather than to its patients.