![]() ![]() Many children have been killed or severely harmed by their parents Munchausen by Proxy, and the illness is still largely misunderstood. ![]() Sadly, Julie Gregory’s story is not the only one of its kind. I truly felt for this young woman as she told the horrific details of her childhood and her experience with Munchausen by Proxy. The defiance of Julie Gregory to grow up into a well balanced young woman and tell her story was brave and inspiring. I was angered at the mother of this young woman, not because she had a mental illness, but because she abused her children. This novel is the true story of a lost childhood, which then follows through to her life as a young woman trying to rebuild her confidence on her own. This child will not ruin her plans.įrom early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated and operated on in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind: Munchausen by Proxy, the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse. She’s about to suggest open heart surgery on her child to ‘get to the bottom of this.’ She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. ![]() Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny and weak. A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. ![]()
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