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Released in a particularly bizarre and dark criminal case in the US: A 32-year-old who was abused by her mother and eventually plotted to kill her has been released from prison.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard (32) left a prison in Missouri on Thursday on parole. Blanchard pleaded guilty in 2016 to plotting to kill her mother along with her then-boyfriend.
The friend who stabbed the mother to death in 2015 was sentenced to life in prison. Blanchard, on the other hand, got away with a relatively short prison sentence because she was previously tormented by her mother for years.
A life full of dark lies
The woman had pretended that her daughter suffered from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious diseases. Gypsy Rose Blanchard was confined to a wheelchair, artificially fed and had to undergo various procedures and treatments – all of which later turned out to be completely unnecessary.
She was malnourished, lived in complete isolation and largely uneducated. As a young woman, she met her boyfriend on the Internet, who she later convinced to kill her mother.
“The gypsy’s mother physically and medically abused her.”
One of Blanchard’s lawyers described the young woman’s upbringing in moving words in 2016: “The gypsy’s mother kept her like a prisoner,” he said. “The gypsy’s mother abused her physically and medically, giving her medication she did not need and making her undergo treatments she did not need.”
Investigators believe the mother suffered from the rare Munchausen syndrome by proxy and systematically built a network of lies about her daughter’s condition. Those affected by the syndrome deliberately cause harm to the health of others – usually children – to gain care from doctors and attention for themselves, presenting themselves as apparently self-sacrificing caregivers.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said in an interview shortly before her release that she regretted the crime. She would like to undo it if she could. “She was a sick woman and unfortunately I was not trained enough to recognize that. She deserved to be in jail.”
The unusual case attracted national attention in the US and several TV shows were made about it. (SDA/neo)
Source: Blick
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