Causes Of Munchausen Syndrome

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

One day she was observed struggling to breathe. The author discovered that Karen had a bottle of tablets when he removed the bed covers. She had taken an overdose in an attempt to commit suicide. She was taken to Deacon’s Hospital Intensive Care Unit to pump out the stomach contents and also to neutralise the effect of the overdose. Karen had declared that she never wanted to go to the hospital should her condition gets worse. When Karen was now aware where she was, she complained to the author who apologised and said he would not let her pass on when he can do something about it. From Intensive Care Unit she was transferred to a private ward for recuperating.

On April 7, 1934 Hazel gave birth to a baby that was normal weight and healthy but the doctor recommended that they do not take her outside since the air was not safe for babies to breath. The baby was named Ruth Nell. The doctor recommended that Hazel do not take the baby outside or move to another city where thas baby would be more safe and not endangered from breathing dust. Hazel and Charles decided to stay in No Man's Land o live their life with the newborn baby since they could not see themselves having a life in another place. During this time is was common for babies or children to be abandoned since their parents did not want to see them suffer from dust pneumonia, hunger, or even die. Old and young were dying of dust pneumonia in rapid rates. Ruth Nell started coughing and Hazel though it was an ordinary cough until the baby started coughing more and crying. There were days when the baby would wake up with her face covered with dirt and eyes red. The wet towel surrounding the crib of Ruth would be black from the dust that was collected during the night. Doctors diagnosed the baby with having the whooping cough which Hazel’s grandma also had at the

This story is not a typical one when it comes to the topic of child abuse. Most people would think that they would hear about starvation, or beatings, or sexual molestation. But child abuse is harming a child whether it be mentally or physically and forcing a child to live with something like this can be severely mentally damaging. (Hopper)

On July 3, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, Sam and Marilyn Sheppard were entertaining guests at their house.1-4 Sam had spent most of his day in surgery at the osteopathic medicine hospital his family owned.1 When Sam got off work he headed to the Ahern’s house, their neighbors, and picked up Marilyn and Chip, Sam’s son.1 The Adhern’s, including their children, followed Sam back to his home were they made dinner and then watched TV in the living room.1,2 After participating in the chit chat of the evening, Sam became tried and laid down on a couch in the living room and quickly fell asleep.1 He remembers Marilyn trying to arouse him to say she was going upstairs to go to bed.1 Several hours later, Sam was awoken to a scream, he jumped up from the couch, ran upstairs and entered the bedroom. Suddenly, Sam was struck from behind.1,2

Ronita’s grandmother, who has obesity, diabetes, and heart problems, support the family with her disability insurance, Ronita’s youngest brother, Donnell, has cerebral palsy and frequent seizures, and also receives disability. Her mother and older brother are unemployed, like most FEMA trailer park residents. Her father, a day laborer, was murdered 5 years earlier. The family’s phone was disconnected, so Ronita could not reach her family when she went into early labor.

During the summer of 1967, the area in San Francisco was a magnet for individuals looking for drugs. Joan hung out with runaways and acidheads. She met a different array of people such as, dealers to poets. One thing she did notice is that there were several children. They were as young a five years old taking acid. While at Haights she blended into the scene. The readers of the article that she is writing gave them the sense that she was putting herself at risk reporting this story. As she wrote what was happening there she was afraid that she might get sucked up into the Haight abyss and become a lost soul.

On October 27, 1984 John Lane brutally murdered his girlfriend’s four year old daughter, Angela Palmer. John had allegedly said that the child had turned green and ugly and tried to kill him while she identified herself as Lucifer. He had punched Angela giving her a scalp laceration and pushing her with force into the kitchen oven. While the young girl was in the oven Lane wedged a chair up against the door making it so the child could not escape, he then turned the oven on as high as the settings would allow. Angela screamed in agonizing pain and the neighbors heard but did not call the law enforcement until the yelling went silent, her body was left to burn. It was the smell and smoke that would bring local law enforcement to the apartment where as they opened the door smoke would pour out. After finding the source of smoke the officer opened the oven to find the small child deceased inside. John Lane and the girlfriend, Cynthia Palmer, were taken into custody where they were both charged with murder but Cynthia’s charge was later reduced to manslaughter and then acquitted of. As the trail would begin John would plead innocent as reason of insanity. His lawyer was smart to avoid the trial by jury. The trial went on in front of the judge and a psychiatrist had testified that Lane did know what he was doing at the time was wrong and that there would be consequences behind them.

On January 31, 2001 Logan Marr was found dead in an unfinished basement, yards of duct tape surrounding her, and a foster mother claiming that she just fell and hit her head. Sally Schofield, a respected caseworker at Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, had taken Logan in 2000. By 2001, 5 year old Logan would be dead. “I just want Sally Schofield out of my life forever,” Logan’s mother says, 16 years later, “She’s ruined my children’s lives and mine. She took an innocent child from this world for no reason.” Logan’s death was a tragedy that highlighted the problems in Maine's child welfare systems. The mistakes that were made were unforgivable, but a lesson learned from DHHS.

Munchausen syndrome and MSBP are included in the DSM-III R category of factitious disorders and therefore are elusive syndromes that are difficult to diagnose and recognize (2). "Because symptoms in factitious disorders are not connected with obvious gain, the absence of external gain suggests that factitious disorders like Munchausen syndrome serve some psychological need, but do so by maladaptive methods (2)." The syndrome is not recognized by the American Medical Association or the American Psychiatric Association (10). Lack of official recognition from the medical community has created an air of confusion around MSBP. Munchausen syndrome is decidedly a psychiatric disorder involving the patient assuming a role, but the reason for skepticism concerning MSBP is that is clearly a form of child abuse, as

This book was disturbing, unimaginable cruelty to any human being and indescribable for a defenseless child. I was perplexed and left with many unanswered questions about Dave’s perspective on the responses from the father, the siblings, the neighbors, the school system and the grandmother. How does a mentally sick individual, Dave’s mother, have the mental capacity to be able to hide her cruelty and manipulate so many people into believing Dave was properly cared for? According to Dave’s memoir, he was physically dirty, inappropriately dressed for the seasons, physically bruised and broken body, and visibly obvious starvation. All of which account for legal child neglect, why were the legally mandated reporters in Dave’s life not protecting

Mrs.Wehling had triplets and well there was a population policy she couldn’t keep all three of her babies so what the dad did he first begged if he could keep his babies and Dr,Hitz said no he couldn’t keep all three of them. Then what Mr.Wehling did was kill himself, Dr.Hitz , and the nurse just so his daughters can have a life.They may not have a father, but at least they have life now because there dad sacrificed himself for his daughters. Mrs.Wehling had no idea that her husband killed himself.

At 11 years old she saw her mother deceased in a casket. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 16 and had five more children to relieve issues of feeling empty and alone. As the pressures of teen pregnancy, poverty and motherhood mount Diane turns to crack cocaine and neglect her then young children. Her eldest daughter reports her drug use to her teachers which results in the removal of all six of Diane’s children into foster care for a period of 10 years. During that time Diane turns to her community drug rehabilitation center, Child welfare services, her religion and her therapist for help in recovering from her addictions and for help in reuniting with her children.

Two nine-year-old girls are abducted from a bus stop. Both are found dead in a drainage ditch the next day, disposed of less than 100 yards away. The press refers to the victims as “fallen little angels,” and the investigators do not conduct an investigation into the victims’ family histories, focusing instead on a possible serial

The case of Mary Bell is examined through a series of theories from a juvenile delinquency theories aspect. The overall case deals with an eleven years old girl by the name Mary Bell. Bell was well known throughout her town of Scotswood, a community located in the northern part of London in England. It was in 1968 when the body of four-year-old Martin Brown was discovered inside of an abandoned boarded up house. At first, the death of Martin was rolled out to be an accident. A couple weeks later, three-year-old Brain Howe’s lifeless body was found near a popular area where children play. Brain was strangled to death and received several wounds; such as puncture marks located on his thighs as well his genitals partially mutilated. The letter “M, the initial of Mary Bell was found engraved on the boy’s stomach as a signature mark. Bell did not act alone in the killing of Brain Howe; Norma Bell as well participated in the act.