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"The original Law & Order series also had an episode featuring a mother who had several children and killed each one, claiming that each child inherited and then died of a rare genetic disorder in order to gain sympathy. She also tried to harm a foster child."

The original L&O ripped this one from an Australian case where the mother was accused of killing her kids and sentenced to life in prison. However, in the last year it came to light that her kids apparently had calmodulinopathy (an actual genetic condition) and therefore might well have died from that instead of Munchausen by Proxy. The mother has been pardoned.

Could I ask what that has to do with Munchausen? Baron Munchausen is a teller of tall tales alright, but the whole point of his character is that he always comes out on top, surviving the most improbable mishaps with barely a scratch. Nothing to do with pretending to be unwell.

Why is this page on the Gender Dynamics index?

Moved this here. Not a good example, too many sinkholes and spelling errors. Will come back to it later [AC:Newspaper Comics]]

• Nine Chickweed Lane: The author, via Thorax via Sphinxter the Internet Comments Sock Puppet vs. Dr. Burber states that imbiciles who take advantage of the internet's anonmity to spew forth asinine comments must suffer from this disorder, implying that those who dared to leave such execrable scribblings must either be feigning their supreme idiocy or inventing their foolish complaints out of whole cloth, both out of an immature need for attention. Not that it matters since the author abolished that accursed box months ago, the better to ignore the unimportant braying of a few uncultured jackasses (and the sheeple who dared think their winsome words had any influence on the creator's art).