In Britain, a mother sentenced for inflicting unnecessary medical treatment on her children

To obtain social assistance this British mother seemed ready for anything. Even to sacrifice the health of his children. This resident of Croydon, in the southern suburbs of London (England), was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by the city court. She claimed that her daughter and son suffered from health problems just to get social benefits.

What shocked the British media the most, which reported the case, was the mother’s modus operandi. This one did not hesitate to mistreat her children by subjecting them to invasive medical treatments to pocket money. For example, his son was forced to take drugs like steroids, to make it look like he had acute asthma. The boy also had to pretend to behaveautistic in order to get help.

The deception has gone a long way. The height of horror was reached when the mother gave her consent to the surgical placement of gastric tubes in the stomachs of her two children after pretending they were unable to eat normally.

Acts of “extraordinary cruelty”

This unhealthy scheme allowed this 49-year-old woman, whose identity has not been revealed, to claim 375,200 pounds (432,278 euros) on a Ten years before the sham was unveiled.

The mother was arrested in 2013 after three years of investigations. This judgment comes to close a gloomy affair of mistreatment of “extraordinary cruelty”, in the words of the British judge.

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