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Marysville, Ohio-AP -- An Ohio woman sentenced to prison for faking her daughters' leukemia to gain thousands dollars in donations says she did it to keep her husband from leaving. Teresa Milbrandt shaved her daughter's head and gave her sleeping pills to make it look like she was undergoing chemotherapy. She also made the child wear a protective mask and put her in counseling to prepare for death. About 65 people and businesses gave her 31-thousand dollars for her daughter's treatment. Milbrandt tells The Columbus Dispatch her husband cared deeply for the child and that she thought he would stick...

Thousands of parents who had children taken away from them on the evidence of the controversial paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow will not have them returned. Ministers are to review as many as 5,000 civil cases of families affected over the past 15 years by Prof Meadow's now-discredited theory of Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy. This accused mothers of harming their children to draw attention to themselves. Many mothers say that they have been vindicated in their insistence that they were wrongly accused and now want their children back. However, Margaret Hodge, the minister for children, has ruled out any widespread...