Internet can stoke rare child-abusing compulsion, experts say
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 10:00
in Psychology & Sociology
The case of a U.S. mother accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son to death appears be an example of how social media feeds into the psychiatric disorder known as Munchausen by proxy, in which caretakers purposely harm children and then bask in the attention and sympathy, experts say.