Why are so many Mothers of children with invisable medical conditions getting accused of Munchausens by Proxy/FII?

[BuildUpMyFence]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554867/The-schools-spy-Munchausen-Mums-Teachers-accuse-lying-childrens-autism-attention.html

What is going on in child protection training that so many Professionals are so obsessed with this type of witch hunt?

[CouthyMow]

Well, they never did! But then they closed the case in June and I didn't find out until I rang them in August for some support with DD...

I mean, I knew, I'd guessed, it wasn't a huge stretch of the imagination to know what they were thinking, given I know other EDS / HMS mums who had also been investigated for FII, and a couple of Autism mums too.

But 'knowing' and being told straight out are two different things.

And do you really expect MY LA to do anything by the book, Mrs Devere??!!

[CFSKate]

Here are some stories from America, I saw this on an ME/CFS forum, but it's not actually about ME patients, it's about mitochondrial disease.

^"The hospital refused to allow the girl, 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, to leave after her parents brought her in with a case of the flu. Justina had been diagnosed and treated by Tufts doctors for Mitochondrial Disorder, a rare genetic disease. On Feb. 10 her doctor was unavailable and sent her to Boston Children’s Hospital.

But the hospital told Justina’s parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier, that Mitochondrial Disease, which Justina’s 25-year-old sister is also being treated for, does not exist, Pelletier told the Daily Mail. Instead, hospital doctors diagnosed the teen with Somatoform Disorder, a mental illness characterized by pain and gastrointestinal symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause.

The hospital escorted the Pelletiers out of the hospital, according to a FOX CT report, took Justina off the medications prescribed by her doctors and took custody of her, refusing to let her parents take her for a second opinion or scheduled visit with her regular doctor.

The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families took custody of the girl and now limits the Pelletier’s contact with Justina to just one hour a week, with two 20-minute phone calls (which are monitored by hospital staff). Justina is also not allowed to be alone with her parents. Orders, pictured on the Daily Mail, were given to prohibit a second opinion being sought and to limit the number of doctors working on Justina’s case.

Now, 10 months later, Justina is locked in a psychiatric ward and unable to leave. When she entered, she was able to walk, ice skate for hours and hike with her dog. She loved school and pedicures with her sister, according to the Daily Mail article.

Now, Justina is too weak to stand, is listless and depressed and has been told by hospital staff that she will never leave, her older sister Jennifer said. Those symptoms, which the hospital is citing as proof of the Somatoform have been created by the hospital, she said.^

[0justice]

Yes, as someone with EDS and ASC and two ASC children I know this culture of false accusations against parents well. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feeling_depressed/903685-This-fear-that-social-services-will-come-and-take-your?pg=24#add_message

The trouble is not only ignorant professionals with frenzied training, it's that there are so many rotten apples in the barrel too. Social services is full of "little Hitler" types who lie through their teeth knowing that there is no comeback on them. Either they go into the job wide-eyed and bushy tailed and get dragged down by the system or they are people with personality deficits/disorders who get off on the utter control they think they have over others. When it's middle class families it likely gives them even more of a thrill. Because those are the families being targeted more and more now:

Parents Protecting Children wrote (in conjunction with several other organisations and campaigners) to the Government regarding this issue and they didn't even reply (multiple MPs and ministers mind you). They don't give a damn, they are likely aware of it. It needs more and more media, and as much as some people might like to knock the Daily Mail et al, at least they are brave enough to publish the stories, which social workers will say are untrue because it's the DM and you only get one side. I have experienced and read about the experience of enough other wrongly targeted families to know these stories are true.

[AnyoneForTardis]

I ve been accused of being neurotic by doctors trying to get the best/required medical help for my extremely autistic DC.

So, because IM not taken seriously, my poor DC doesn't receive the help shes SUPPOSED to be getting.