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Mike Weber is the pre-eminent national law enforcement expert on Munchausen by Proxy in the United States, having investigated 50 reports of abuse. Mike is also a published academic and true crime author on the topic of medical child abuse.
The Poison of a Mother's Love: The Hope Ybarra Investigation
This presentation examines the proper investigative procedures for law enforcement and Child Services when investigating a case of Munchausen by Proxy. The Hope Ybarra investigation, one of Weber's earliest Munchausen by Proxy investigations, is used to illustrate both proper and improper investigative techniques for both law enforcement an Child Services. Hope Ybarra presented her daughter as ill for all 6 years of her young life. Hope falsified medical history in order to obtain a gastric feeding tube placement. Hope didn't stop there. Weber will take you down the winding evidentiary road that led to the discovery that Ybarra had faked cystic fibrosis in the victim, introduced pathogens she obtained from work into the victim, and used an unneeded central line to remove the victim's blood in order to present the victim as anemic. You will see parts of Weber's interview of Hope, which led to admissions. You will here from Hope in a prison interview after the conviction.
A Multi-Disciplined Approach to Medical Child Abuse
Mike Weber will discuss the roles of each discipline that will touch a case of Munchausen by Proxy (Medical Child Abuse). Weber will highlight the importance of a true multi-disciplined approach to these very unique and complicated investigations. These disciplines include child services, medical, police, forensic child interviewing, prosecution, civil removal of children from offenders, issues in family court, and victim counseling. All of these disciplines must have a plan and work together for an effective outcome on this abuse.
The All-American Girl: Medical Child Abuse Across State Lines
Mike Weber will examine the proper investigative procedures for law enforcement and Child Services when investigating a case of Munchausen by Proxy. Weber will use the case of Elisabeth Hunnicutt as a training tool. Hunnicutt, a military wife of 2 boys who starved the youngest until and feeding tube was placed and then used the powerful sedative clonidine to drug the youngest and then use those symptoms to present the youngest as having hydrocephalus, causing a intracranial pressure monitor to be needlessly placed inside the victim's skull. We will discuss the father's journey, which included pushing police for 6 months before a offense report was finally generated and having to spend $80,000 in family court, even after Elisabeth had been arrested and charged in two states for child abuse.
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