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MEADOWS SYNDROME

Meadows Syndrome is the popular name in the UK for Mucnhausen Syndrome by proxy, the theory invented by Sir Roy Meadows that mothers make their children or babies ill, or murder them, and pass the deaths off as natural causes in order to meet their own needs for attention and sympathy. Sir Roy Meadows is often called as an expert witness in cot death cases in the United Kingdom, and despite having no evidence to support his testimony, has secured murder convictions and abuse convictions against many women and families in the United Kingdom. Upon investigation, Sir Roy Meadows exhibits classic symptoms himself of being an abuser or torturer, and his evidence is often highly questionable, making the whole theory of Meadows Syndrome highly questionable at best.
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