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Melissa Williams-Brown forces kids to read CRAZY statements - blasts to MILLIONS on social media

  A Munchausen Mom in Australia forced her twin boys to read CRAZY statements about her ex-husband for a "revenge video". These disturbing videos were posted to a website belonging to Melissa Williams-Brown https://melissawilliamsbrown.com Melissa Williams-Brown is a 52 year-old, twice-divorced woman currently married to Glenn Jonathan Brown and living in Adelaide, South Australia. Google searches reveal she has previously lied about earning a degree from George Washington University and is the subject of multiple fraud investigations being conducted by the South Australian Police (SAPOL). The videos were embedded in a 20-page rant about 'drug addicted cyberstalkers' and were reposted widely across many social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), is a condition in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person, ...

Victim Playing and Munchausen Syndrome - A Deadly Mix

Victim playing (also known as playing the victim, victim card or self-victimization) is the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy or attention seeking . For abuse Victim playing by abusers is either: Dehumanization , diverting attention away from acts of abuse by claiming that the abuse was justified based on another person's bad behavior (typically the victim) grooming for abusive power and control by soliciting sympathy (See Melissa Williams-Brown Post) from others in order to gain their assistance in supporting or enabling the abuse of a victim (known as proxy abuse ). It is common for abusers to engage in victim playing. This serves two purposes: 1. Justification , to themselves, in Transactional analysis known as existential validation, as a way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance that results from inconsistencies between the way they treat others and what they believe abo...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy in twins

Munchausen by Proxy in Twins Overview A family is described in which twin infants had repeated admissions for apparent haemoptysis. It was proved that the mother was simulating these episodes and she eventually injured one of the children with a pin. The mother has subsequently shown some evidence of a Munchausen tendency in herself. Twins abused by Munchausen by a Munchausen Mum - Case Report Twins, a boy and a girl, weighing 2.5 kg and 1.9 kg respectively were born at 36 weeks' gestation by spontaneous vertex delivery. There were no immediate problems at birth. The boy was allowed home with his mother after 5 days. The girl was kept in the special care nursery for 3 weeks during which time parental visiting, although encouraged, was infrequent. Both parents, previously married, were known to the Social Services Department because each had children who were suspected, but not proved, to have been non-accidentally injured. These children are now in the custody of the other remarrie...