Families Destroyed by One Man's View

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MRS X had never heard of Professor Sir Roy Meadow, but it is a name she will not now forget.

It was his controversial child abuse theories which almost destroyed her family, put her children into care and left her battling to clear her name.

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Families Destroyed by One Man's View

The mother of four is one of dozens of mothers in Scotland who have been separated from their families after being linked with the now infamous condition, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, where parents are said to fabricate illness to draw attention to themselves.

Supporters of Sir Roy, 70, say that, after a lifetime of seeing the most horrific child abuse cases, he is a m...

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