A Texas mother accused of subjecting her then-3-year-old daughter to multiple unnecessary medical procedures and surgeries, a condition previously called Munchausen by proxy and now formally known as “factitious disorder imposed on another,” has been “fully exonerated” and the woman’s daughter has been reunited with her parents, attorneys for the family confirmed to Law&Crime.
Felony charges of injury to a child and medical child abuse against Jessica Gasser were dismissed after a grand jury declined to indict her last month and a Child Protective Services case was dropped after doctors “independently and repeatedly” diagnosed Gasser’s child with “gastroparesis and hypoglycemia,” both of which she was accused of faking, according to a press release from the Houston-based law firm Connolly Schneider Shireman LLP.
The release claims that the charges against Gasser stemmed from a “so-called epidemic of Munchausen child abuse” that Gasser’s attorneys say was steadily “cultivated in Tarrant County for years.”…