[lupusreal]

Seems like she (daughter) planned it or at least provided the weapon, but the person who actually did it was her boyfriend and is now serving life without possibility of parole. Kind of a crazy sentence considering the 'victim' truly had it coming (tortured her daughter for years, with unnecessary surgeries, feeding tube, etc)

[londons_explore]

> unnecessary surgeries

I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...

[OJFord]

The only example of surgery I saw was Botox for and then removal of the saliva gland, after the mother induced drooling by applying an anaesthetic prior to the doctor's examination.

So yes there's some suspicions not reported or not well followed through on by some doctors and police, but it's clearly not that cut and dry, it was quite a fraud.

[layer8]

The Wikipedia page also mentions that “Tubes were implanted in her ears to control her myriad purported ear infections”.

[OJFord]

I missed that one, but my point wasn't that there was only one - it was that the mother was lying about things, doing deliberate fraudulent things to get that medical attention and treatment for the daughter.

For the ear infection, maybe she just lied that the daughter kept complaining of hot itchy ears etc., or did something to them so that she did poke and scratch them (and the doctor could see that).

[s1artibartfast]

It turns out you can't just go and unilaterally decide to kill people.

There is a good reason people want government institutions to jealously guard this right.

The government is very fickle with giving out the death penalty.

[lupusreal]

Obviously prison time was warranted, I just think life without parole was excessive. 20 years would have been adaquate justice in this case.