A TikTok user noticed a famous victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother and eventual murder victim Dee Dee Blanchard in the background of her photos from a Disney
protect it at all costs. reporter: today lacy is held without bail and faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison. authorities suspect the abuse may have been fueled by attention. a disorder called munchausen by proxy in which a parent actually sickens a child to garner sympathy. and sympathy did come for lacey, but that sympathy has waned since her friends learned of the investigation and massive web of lies she told about her son and his health. i never heard of munchausen by proxy. that s fascinating. did we know if the mother s parenting was looked into or investigated? it was. apparently, several calls were made to child welfare services. the doctor connected too little, too late at this point. garnett was never taken from her care. we should learn more july 2nd when she is back in court. a fascinating case. abc s molly hunter. thanks for being here. coming up, we have the skinny. stay with us. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations.
then interferes. and they get custody taken away from the parents. dcf basically deferred to boston childrens. they go in there, they don t have their own medical expert. they go to the judge and say the people at boston says they re abusing the girl. the judge says oh, that is bad, custody to dcf, but there is a whole team at tufts saying it is not abuse, it is based on a disease she has called mito. the folks at boston children s basically say mito is a crock. if it exists it doesn t exist in this case. and actually what happens is, it is not justina that has psychological issues, it is the parents. they used to call it munchausen by proxy, the child is not sick, but the parent is creating illnesses in the child and then getting unnecessary treatments and surgeries for the child. and here is the problem with
then interferes. and they get custody taken away from the parents. dcf basically deferred to boston childrens. they go in there, they don t have their own medical expert. they go to the judge and say the people at boston says they re abusing the girl. the judge says oh, that is bad, custody to dcf, but there is a whole team at tufts saying it is not abuse, it is based on a disease she has called mito. the folks at boston children s basically say mito is a crock. if it exists it doesn t exist in this case. and actually what happens is, it is not justina that has psychological issues, it is the parents. they used to call it munchausen by proxy, the child is not sick, but the parent is creating illnesses in the child and then getting unnecessary treatments and surgeries for the child. and here is the problem with
people think, my life is going down the toilet, i might as well take everybody out with me, they ach tack the school they go to or a place of business. to go to a place where kids are having fun and stab somebody, it s very unusual. thank god we don t have to worry about it too often but it s a horrific crime. here s what i find interesting. i think you said you can t predict them because the person obviously finds some sort of thrill in stabbing someone and catching them off-guard and just the really spectacle of it all. is there anything you call it? i notice there s munchausen by proxy and all sorts of things? obviously this man did plan this because he said he wanted to go kill somebody in a note. we know it s not purely a psychotic type of thing where he thought aliens were inside the child and had to get rid of them. he wanted to kill someone. he picked this child and he thinks it s the meanest thing to do to society, he hates society.