he took his son half a liter of blood a week

The mother would suffer from a psychiatric illness called Munchausen syndrome. She was sentenced to four years in prison.

That's happened last Thursday at Herning Court, Denmark A woman of 36 years nurse by profession, she was sentenced to four years in prison for aggravated abuse. The mother was found guilty of having extracted her minor child half a liter of blood a week for five years. It all started when the boy was only eleven months old.

The child was suffering from a rare intestinal disease diagnosed shortly after birth. But the doctors never understood because he was short of blood. The child received a total of 110 transfusions.

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"This is not a decision I made consciously, I do not know when I started doing what I did not have the right to do." arrived gradually, I poured the blood into the bathroom and put the syringes in the trash. " confessed the mother, who did not appeal the sentence. The court interpreted that the life of the child was in danger.

In the networks, the mother created the image of a single woman fighting for her son's illness. Psychiatric experts who badyzed the case believe that women are suffering from a variant by the power of the Munchausen syndrome, which usually affects mothers. This disease is the self-injury of the patient to badume the role of the patient. The child was placed under the care of his father.