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Nelson court sentences mother to jail after deliberately infecting child in medical abuse case
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What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. RNZ is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 9 Nov 2026, 05:40 UTC. The headline in use is “Nelson court sentences mother to jail after deliberately infecting child in medical abuse case”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A pre-sentence report revealed the offending "may be consistent with" factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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