GLEN ROSE, Texas (KTVT) – A Texas mom accused of little one medical abuse is dealing with a number of prices.
In an 18-page arrest affidavit, Tarrant County investigators stated 31-year-old Kaitlyn Laura subjected her 3-year-old son to extreme and ongoing medical abuse.
Detectives stated for months, Laura claimed her son had severe situations, corresponding to abdomen points, hassle strolling and even cerebral palsy.
For years, he was fed by means of a tube and stored in a wheelchair, however docs by no means identified any of it.
Investigators stated, at one level, the kid was on 17 totally different drugs, consuming lower than 1,000 energy a day and consuming pet food.
“This narcissistic person, for their own pleasure of getting the sympathy for having a fragile child, is what we see playing out in front of us,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn stated.
Waybourn stated his personal adopted daughter was additionally a sufferer of Munchausen abuse.
“Very similar to this case, the starvation, the multiple meds that weren’t needed, the surgeries that weren’t needed,” Waybourn described.
Investigators stated Laura didn’t simply mislead docs. She constructed a whole story on-line. They discovered not less than three GoFundMe pages asking for cash, an Amazon want listing and a Facebook web page monitoring her son’s so-called medical journey.
In one fundraiser, Laura claimed her son could be in a wheelchair for all times. That is one thing docs stated was merely not true.
Authorities stated the overall quantity raised continues to be unclear, however there’s now a separate investigation into attainable Medicaid fraud tied to unnecessary treatments.
“To the people out there that gave money to it, I’m very, very sorry, but it wasn’t meant for good stuff,” Waybourn stated.
Laura now faces felony prices throughout Somervell, Dallas and Tarrant counties — together with damage to a toddler inflicting severe bodily damage and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon.
“There are scars on his body from those surgeries that weren’t necessary and that he’s going to have to be told why are they here. There could be trauma for many, many years to come,” Waybourn stated.
The little one was positioned in foster care in February. Child and Protective Services stated he’s now consuming usually and is being weaned off drugs.
As for Laura, she is at the moment out on bond.
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