He investigated parents who made children sick. He says prosecutors made the job harder.

When Detective Mike Weber retired from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office earlier this year, he walked away an expert in an unthinkable crime.

Over the last 15 years, he’s arrested more than a dozen women on charges of medical abuse.

The cases involve what’s known as Munchausen by Proxy, in which caregivers, usually mothers, intentionally make their children sick…

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