Twisted mum ‘forced her totally healthy son to eat through a feeding tube causing serious injuries’ – The Sun

Megan Gee was arrested last week and charged with faking medical conditions for her son – who is believed to have spent around a third of his life in medical facilities for no reason.

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Gee, from Wichita Falls, Texas, is thought to be suffering from Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological condition in that causes people to attribute false illnesses to those in their care.

Authorities say Gee made her son take approximately 77 different types of medicines.

The boy was taken to medical professionals at least 227 times in four years, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

In January 2016, Gee began taking the boy to emergency rooms in the Wichita Falls area for vomiting and diarrhoea, but doctors said the boy did not show any signs of illness.

Meanwhile, she was also taking her son to another hospital over 100 miles away in Fort Worth, Texas.

There she told doctors her son suffered seizures, vomiting, and constipation.

Again doctors ran tests on the boy, but found no major problems.

Over the course of three months, Gee called one doctor at the Fort Worth hospital 42 times claiming her son wasn’t eating.

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In January 2016, a physician in Witchita Falls filed a report with Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) after he said Gee seemed to be fabricating her son’s symptoms.

However, Gee eventually convinced Dr Lyn Hunt to insert the feeding tube into her son in March 2016, despite the investigation into her claims.

Dr Hunt later said that she was unaware CPS was investigating Gee, adding that she never would have put in the tube had she known.

Hunt said: “If a mother tells you, ‘My child is not eating, he does all these things,’ and you’ve exhausted all other possibilities, then a feeding tube is a way to get nutrition to a child that refuses to eat or can’t eat.”

Another doctor in Witchita Falls filed a report with CPS about the feeding tube inserted into the boy’s stomach – but the case was closed without a face-to-face interview with Gee.

Police further say that in 2017, Gee rushed her son to Cook Children’s hospital and said he had seizures and dilated pupils.

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Doctors saw no signs of the symptom’s Gee described and took the boy off four of the many drugs he was on.

After the he was released, the boy was put into foster care after a CPS investigator interviewed Gee, who reportedly “painted the victim as a very sick child.”

A foster mum looked after him for three months in 2017 and said he had no issues with vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, or seizures.

The boy eventually returned to Gee’s care.

In 2018 he was diagnosed with autism, but neither doctors nor the boy’s foster parents said they ever saw signs of the condition.

In response to the diagnosis, one CPS worker assigned to the case told police Gee “has transitioned from presenting false medical symptoms to presenting false developmental symptoms.”

Last week, Gee was charged with causing serious bodily injury to her child after a five-month investigation.

She was released from custody after posting £20,000 bail.

It is not known where, or with whom, the boy is now staying.

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