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...life. The court ruled that she had poisoned her now brain-damaged daughter with large doses of salt, prompting hospitalizations and doctors' visits over several years. Hamilton and her family say she was wrongly prosecuted. This kind of abuse was first given a name by British pediatrician Roy Meadow, who acted as a consultant in Watson's case...
Because of Meadow ... the presumption of innocence that has always been traditional in English justice is completely reversed - SUE STAPELY, lawyer...
...Meadow coined the term Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy (MSBP) in a 1977 Lancet article to describe the behavior of "parents who, by falsification, caused their children innumerable harmful hospital procedures." (Patients with Munchausen Syndrome, named for a fictional character known for tall tales, fake their own symptoms.) In the U.K. and elsewhere, MSBP has become an increasingly common diagnosis, as medical and law- enforcement professionals became familiar with the catalog of MSBP indicators. The FBI profile of the typical perpetrator, for example, warns that they "are most often biological mothers of the victims ... welcome medical tests that are painful...
...guilty pleasure of a juicy contention is only one reason to visit, however. Behind the south wall of the monastery is another: a beautiful path lined with prayer flags that leads to the stupa and a quiet meadow beyond. Some flags are printed with prayers to bless the dead, others with prayers to increase prosperity and happiness for all living things...
Jamie-Lynn Sigler, better known as Meadow on the HBO hit series “The Sopranos,” headlined a panel at the Gutman Conference Center yesterday that was the kickoff to a series of campus activities marking National Eating Disorders Awareness Week...