A Texas mother once accused of fabricating her young daughter’s medical issues—allegedly subjecting the child to unnecessary procedures—has been “fully exonerated,” her attorneys say, following a grand jury’s decision not to indict and new findings suggesting key medical records had been manipulated.
Jessica Gasser, who was previously charged with felony injury to a child and medical child abuse, is now cleared of all allegations, and her daughter has been reunited with her and her husband, according to a statement from the Houston-based law firm Connolly Schneider Shireman LLP.
The accusations centered around claims that Gasser falsely convinced doctors her 3-year-old daughter suffered from conditions such as gastroparesis and hypoglycemia—a scenario that falls under what was once known as Munchausen by proxy, now formally termed factitious disorder imposed on another.…