February 28, 2006 two women, Darcy Wall and Susan Owen walked into the Harris County Courthouse to report their friend Laurie Williamson for child abuse. Sgt. Mike Johnson of the Domestic Violence Unit listened to the two women’s story. Darcy and Susan believed that Laurie had Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) and that she was pretending to her children were sicker than they really were. It sounded like a problem for CPS to handle but they had already reported the matter to CPS with no avail. After researching MSBP on the internet, Johnson determined that it was indeed a form of child abuse that could result in permanent injury or death. The search turned up a news article about MSBP that recently been prosecuted, Johnson decided to contact the prosecutor who handled the case. The investigation began by issuing grand jury subpoenas to every health care entity that had seen the children. Johnson started taking statements and collecting letters from friends, family members. The information collected was disturbing. Laurie Williamson had three children: Tom, age 11, Roger, 9, and Chrissy, 6. They wore diapers because none of them were toilet trained, and Tom and Chrissy were confined to wheelchairs and had “g-buttons”(gastronomy tubes) through which liquid formula could be pumped directly into their stomachs.
The mother told everyone that the children had mitochondrial disease and a regressive neurological disorder, along with other ailments, and were not expected to live beyond their teens. The children were kept inside and rarely allowed to play outside. All three children were on numerous prescriptions meant to control different problems. Chrissy’s medicine had to be given through her g-button as she was never allowed to eat or drink anything by mouth. Her mother said she had a swallowing disorder and would choke. Sgt. Johnson obtained a pair of letters from the children’s pediatrician. The first listed all the problems with which the three children had supposedly been diagnosed. Tom, had mitrochondrial disorder, metabolic disorder, neurological regression syndrome, global developmental delay, seizure disorder, hypotonia, status post history of failure to thrive, gastrointestinal malabsorption, gastro-esophageal reflux, esophagitis, status post gastric- button placement, hypothyroidism, hypotension, urinary incontinence, stool incontinence, heat tolerance due to poor thermoregulation from the metabolic disease state, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, decreased acoustic reflexes in the right ear, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, pragmatic language disorder, decreasing IQ scores, sensory integration disorder, auditory processing disorder, and poor immune function.
The Homework on Deficit Disorder Child Attention Add
Attention Deficit Disorder Attention deficit disorder is a condition characterized by the attention span that is less than expected for the age of the person. There is often age hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Attention deficit disorder is broken down in three sub categories. Attention disorder deficit / disorder: combined type, predominate inattentive and predominantly hyperactive or impulsive. ...
Her assessment of Roger and Chrissy was similar. The second letter, a few weeks later, represented a 180-degree turn “ It has recently come to my attention that there are several extremely serious issues in regards to the health of the children and the possibility of Munchausen’s Syndrome as well as Munchhausen’s Syndrome by Proxy with this family. The pediatrician who had been fooled for eight years could finally see that things were not adding up. The children were in danger. The prosecutor told Sgt. Johnson to contact CPS and have the children removed from Laurie’s custody. CPS had investigated at least five previous referrals that Williamson was neglecting or abusing her children, but each time, she had been able to convince the caseworker that her children were actually ill and that she was doing her best to take care of them. To prove Munchhausen’s they had to see if the children got better when not in their mothers care, which is called Therapeutic separation. On March 20, 2006, CPS took custody of Tom, Roger and Chrissy. They were admitted to the hospital for observation. With MSBP as their diagnosis, the attending physicians weaned the children off a multitude of prescription drugs their mother had been giving them, ordered the removal of the g-buttons from Tom and Chrissy, and eventually discharged them all in excellent health, having ruled out almost all of the diagnoses their pediatrician had mentioned in her letters. “Munchhausen syndrome by proxy” and “medical child abuse” are not offenses.
The Essay on Abusive Parents Child Abuse Mother
Abusive Parents Child abuse is a relatively common problem in our society, and it falls into many different forms. It can include physical abuse (broken bones, brain injury, bites, and burns), sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and, most commonly, neglect. It is estimated that 4 million children a year are abused in some manner in the U. S. , although probably less than half of all cases that are ...
After reading the final discharge report proof that she had endangered her children according to the law was going to be difficult. The case was discussed with Dr. Reena Isaac, a pediatrician specializing in child abuse and a member of the Child Protection Team at Texas Children’s Hospital. She pointed out that the children had undergone numerous unnecessary tests and even surgeries under their mother’s care and with her consent. Dr. Isaac said any procedure involving general anesthesia created “ a substantial risk of death”, and the surgery itself could cause” serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ. But the doctors had performed the surgeries not the mother. Using a subsection of law, a person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if acting with the kind of culpability required for the offense, he causes or aids an innocent or nonresponsive person to engage in conduct prohibited by the definition of the offense. This case would mark a first in medical child abuse prosecution: attempting to a secure a conviction solely on unnecessary surgical procedures. Agreeing that CPS, represented by the Harris County Attorney’s Office, would serve as a central repository for all the records we obtained.
The records totaled over 40,000 pages. Going through the records to create a chronology of medical contacts in the form of a spreadsheet, entering the date, name of the patient, type of event(phone call, office visit, admission, and so on) provider, and complaint and diagnosis, if any. When finished documentation of nearly 600 doctor visits, hospitalizations, phone calls, and other contacts for Williamson and her children, not including the speech, occupational, and physical therapy the children received at home three times a week. To prove the case experts, specifically, pediatricians specializing in the recognition and treatment of child abuse, would have to review all of the records and form an opinion, if they were victims of medical child abuse and whether the surgeries in question were necessary. After reviewing the records we began tracking down the actual doctors who had recommended and preformed surgeries on the children. Targeting three procedures: a g-button placement/muscle biopsy and a vagal nerve stimulator implantation performed on Tom, and a g-button placement/nissen fundoplication performed on Chrissy. The history from the caretaker and any objective results or observations, are given equal weight and are considered indistinguishable to the pediatrician.
The Essay on Commonly Practiced Surgery Anesthetics Performed
Surgery is the branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of disease, deformities, or injuries by operations. Surgery has been around for thousands of years, dating all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. Throughout this time period many methods and operations were created and perfected to what is now commonly practiced in modern times. The elimination of pain, the prevention of ...
In the case of the Williamson children there were almost no test results or objective bases for the surgeries that their mother could not have somehow manipulated. The g-button surgeries had been performed because they were failing to thrive at home. Although the children had been losing weight and were not growing and developing properly, this problem could have been caused by simple malnutrition rather than some rare metabolic disorder. The vagal nerve stimulator had been implanted in Tom to help control persistent epileptic seizures. But, while a few EEG’s had been abnormal and suggestive of seizures, no actual seizure had ever been recorded, surgery had been performed due to Williamson’s reports that Tom was having up to 10 seizures a day despite taking powerful anti-seizure medications. Dr. Isaac and other physicians confirmed that none of the surgeries appeared to have been medically necessary and that Williamson appeared to have been pushing the doctors to perform them. In April 2007, the case was presented to a grand jury, which indicted Williamson for two cases of injury to a child with serious bodily injury and three cases of endangering a child. Sgt. Johnson tracked down Williamson, who had moved to into a shelter for battered women after losing her children, and arrested her—at a doctor’s office of all places. The jury returned a verdict of 15 years. Bibliography- Bing (Medical Abuse cases)
The Essay on Lower Case Child Timmy Game
Little Monsters Ticklish Timmy in Wonderfun Land. (Literacy ages 3-4) I used this software within a multi-class situation with junior & senior infants & first class. The ages of the children ranged from 4 to 7 years, and there were 2 children with special needs. The content reinforced what was already taught in class in relation to phonics, letter recognition and matching words to ...
