Articles labeled: munchausen syndrome by proxy

A woman in Frederick, Maryland has been sentenced to 15 years after she was found guilty of poisoning her own daughter.

Thirty-three-year-old Wendi Scott pleaded guilty in March to first-degree child abuse for sickening her daughter to draw attention to herself, poisoning her with magnesium and using syringes to remove blood.

Prosecutors had alleged that Scott’s behavior was consistent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver fakes or induces illness in another to generate sympathy.