Real Crime: A Deadly Secret Part 2

For six months, nine-year-old David Stocker had been in and out of hospital with a debilitating but mystery illness. His condition baffled doctors at Great Ormond Street and he was put on a drip - but what the medical staff didn't know was that David was being slowly and systematically poisoned by his attentive but deranged mother, Petrina, a long-term sufferer of Munchausen's Syndrome. After David's death, Petrina was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years.Scotland Debates.

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[ItsMrPumpkinhead2U]

Usually if Munchausen by Proxy is suspected, a camera system is installed. This little boy did not have to die. This situation is so infuriating. It was in his chart the medical staff suspected this syndrome was going on. Breaks my heart.

[judy4justice]

There are so many people who can share the blame in this case, fom her husband to the Drs. and Nurses, even the Church.They were all told, yet they allowed her access to this child anyway!So sad!

[sgal88]

They needed Dr. House. He would have figured it out long ago. ;)

[TheMrMarilyn]

So many things about this story are making me fukkin FURIOUS!!

[TheMrMarilyn]

What a beautiful little boy...that mother should burn for hurting him...fukkin sick bitch!!

[DurhamGooner]

He'd be 20 now, such a shame.

[roell29]

My mother is like this but on a psychological/spiritual level. She would rather see me destroyed than grow apart from her and have a successful life, and she made certain that I *was* destroyed. Notice it was just after her son's triumph in karate that she struck.

[hitokage4]

How much suffering that poor boy must have gone through just makes me so angry. How could they only give her five years for killing her own child through medical torture?

[frankiev1231]

Those doctor are very stupid ! now the kid is dead !!

[frankiev1231]

David was getting stocked by his own crazy ass mother "

[mikesomething]

@judy4justice yeah dont blame it on the mother or anything crazy like that. of course it was primarily her husbands fault