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Shak
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:51:06 PM
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I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2
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FRM2011
#2 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 12:29:16 AM
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Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from?


Wow ! We learn something new everyday. That case has really disturbed me. And this seems to be the most plausible explanation.

May I suggest you edit the title of the thread to include a reference to the Thika case.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 7:57:18 AM
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FRM2011 wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from?


Wow ! We learn something new everyday. That case has really disturbed me. And this seems to be the most plausible explanation.

May I suggest you edit the title of the thread to include a reference to the Thika case.

Done
What puzzled me was the way the mother had already diagnosed the child's illness as pneumonia. I wonder how many times she had taken her to hospital to be treated for anything else other than what was really ailing her
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FRM2011
#4 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 8:08:34 AM
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Shak wrote:
FRM2011 wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from?


Wow ! We learn something new everyday. That case has really disturbed me. And this seems to be the most plausible explanation.

May I suggest you edit the title of the thread to include a reference to the Thika case.

Done


You know after reading about this syndrome, I think the mother requires treatment and not punishment.

Mental health issues in this country have never been addressed.
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 8:19:42 AM
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FRM2011 wrote:
Shak wrote:
FRM2011 wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from?


Wow ! We learn something new everyday. That case has really disturbed me. And this seems to be the most plausible explanation.

May I suggest you edit the title of the thread to include a reference to the Thika case.

Done


You know after reading about this syndrome, I think the mother requires treatment and not punishment.

Mental health issues in this country have never been addressed.

Young mothers in Kenya really suffer there is also the post delivery depression where if not checked a mother may even smother the baby to death, it's a condition where a mother sees the baby as a hindrance to her life and with many absentee fathers, and relatives far away it's happening more often.
Zamani it was low because you would find the guys or the wife's mother came to stay with the new mother for the first few weeks at least, today even with husband maternity leave, the guys just use this time to side hustle or just stay at the mtaa.
To Each His Own
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 4:26:11 PM
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Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2


Ara!!....every day is a learning dayApplause ...very enlightening. Kudos Shak......and then, it;s so true. That mother should not be behind barsSad She clearly needs a lot of help.Pray
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#7 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 4:53:31 PM
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Njunge wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2


Ara!!....every day is a learning dayApplause ...very enlightening. Kudos Shak......and then, it;s so true. That mother should not be behind barsSad She clearly needs a lot of help.Pray


But how can this be it yet the baby indeed has needles in her body with no penetration scars?
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:28:21 PM
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murchr wrote:
Njunge wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2


Ara!!....every day is a learning dayApplause ...very enlightening. Kudos Shak......and then, it;s so true. That mother should not be behind barsSad She clearly needs a lot of help.Pray


But how can this be it yet the baby indeed has needles in her body with no penetration scars?

Were the needles in the stomach, or which part of the body??d'oh! d'oh!
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#9 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:41:27 PM
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ZZE123 wrote:
murchr wrote:
Njunge wrote:
Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2


Ara!!....every day is a learning dayApplause ...very enlightening. Kudos Shak......and then, it;s so true. That mother should not be behind barsSad She clearly needs a lot of help.Pray


But how can this be it yet the baby indeed has needles in her body with no penetration scars?

Were the needles in the stomach, or which part of the body??d'oh! d'oh!


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Nation wrote:
Ms Jacinta Ndung’e, was arrested at the hospital, while the baby and her three siblings were taken to Macheo Children’s Home where they will stay until police conclude investigations into how the needles found their way into the baby’s buttocks.

Thika children’s officer, Ms Rebecca Kariuki, said they suspect the mother could be holding vital information that would reveal what happened.


This is not the first case I have heard of, http://www.mirror.co.uk/...y-needles-found-5398037

https://timesofindia.ind...articleshow/59656057.cms
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#10 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:43:41 PM
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Shak wrote:
I came across this term while reading about the couple whose baby has multiple needles in her body. Could this be what the mother is suffering from? https://www.webmd.com/mental-hea.../munchausen-syndrome#1-2


Munchausen by proxy - in which case its not the individual drawing medical attention to themselves but to their kids. If that's the case then she needs psychiatric care and not jail.
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#11 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 7:05:13 PM
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I hope they removed the final needle Sad

Sad!
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#12 Posted : Wednesday, December 06, 2017 10:00:23 PM
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This case has really bothered my mind. I don't understand how this can happen... how much someone inflict so much pain on a baby...

I don't understand
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