On October 11, the Nantes Criminal Court convicted a mother of three children, aged between 18 months and 6 years, of 'psychological violence and swindling', reveals Le Parisien. From October 2020 to the summer of 2021, the mother led her young daughter to believe that she was suffering from leukemia, and even collected money online for her cure.
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The girl actually fell ill
The kitty raised £2,815 thanks to donations from family and friends, as well as parents of the school where the young girl was then enrolled in first grade. The caption to the online fund-raiser even read, with deliberate spelling mistakes:
I'm starting to lose my hair, it's very complicated for me, because I have long hair and I want the same as Elsa in Frozen.
And to make the deception real, the mother of the family, a woman named Michèle F., even 'cut her hair' and 'forced her to wear a bandana for the whole school year'.
In the end, the 6-year-old really did fall ill, convinced that she had leukemia. Her school teacher explains:
Persuaded that she [might] die, she was very tired in class and had frequent headaches.
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'I had, quote unquote, a delirium'
The 29-year-old mother, a caregiver for the elderly, was initially suspected by investigators of suffering from Münchhausen syndrome by proxy. This disorder causes people to simulate or induce symptoms in a loved one. As in the series, The Act, which tells the true story of Gypsy Blanchard. In the end, doctors concluded that Michèle F. did not suffer from the disorder. She was only inclined to 'question the competence of the general practitioner' who had found no illness in her daughter.
During the hearing, the mother-of-three explained that she was being followed by a psychologist in order to get help.
I want to get treatment: it's been a complicated period and I've had, quote unquote, a delirium.
Although the public prosecutor had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence, the mother of the family was finally sentenced to a ten-month suspended prison sentence.
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This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag FR.
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