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Even before the birth of their son, Ryan Crawford suspected that something was wrong with the boy’s mother.

A pregnant Kaylene Bowen would call Crawford in the middle of the night from random hospitals, reporting that she had been admitted for various reasons. Once, she claimed she’d had a fever of 110 degrees for seven consecutive days, Crawford said.

Crawford began to wonder if this woman he’d dated briefly and unexpectedly impregnated, was just trying to gain attention.

But it was nothing compared to the tales that Crawford says Bowen would tell after the premature birth of their son, Christopher, who was born after 33 weeks in April 2009.

“She was always saying Christopher was sick. Every single week. Every single month,” Crawford said. “She would always say, ‘Something’s wrong. He has this. He has that.’ ”

Between 2009 and 2016, medical records show Christopher was seen 323 times at hospitals and pediatric centers in Dallas and Houston and underwent 13 major surgeries, according to a Child Protective Services petition.

Throughout his young life, Christopher has been placed full time on oxygen and, at times, used a wheelchair. He’s endured invasive procedures and surgeries, including being fitted with a feeding tube that fed directly into his small intestine and led to multiple life-threatening blood infections.

His mother had even tried to get him on the lung transplant list and had previously had him in hospice care, court documents state.

For years, Crawford said he tried to convince Dallas County family court judges that his son was not sick but they believed Bowen, who would eventually claim that their son was dying, initially from a rare genetic disorder and later from cancer.

Crawford said a Dallas County judge even blocked him in late 2012 from visiting his son, who was then 3.

In the end, it would take Dallas hospital staff sounding the alarm with CPS — the second such report made by medical providers since 2015 — that prompted the removal of Christopher, now 8, and two of his half-siblings from Bowen’s care late last month.

Medical staff determined that Christopher does not have cancer or many of the symptoms that Bowen had alleged, and that he has no need for a lung transplant or hospice care.

Wednesday, Bowen, who now goes by the name Kaylene Bowen-Wright, was arrested on a warrant accusing her of injury to a child with serious bodily injury.

The 34-year-old woman is in Dallas County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bond. Her court-appointed attorney did not return a message seeking comment Friday but Bowen denied the allegations last month to CPS investigators.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article189037514.html
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If she had a medical background, or even just did extensive research, there are a lot of chemicals that could induce/mimic different symptoms. She probably got off on being an actress playing the role of worried mom, too. I hate her. Thankfully, he's alive and has a good father, at least.
 
Munchausen by proxy is one of the most disgusting things I can imagine as a mother. When my kids are sick, I feel immense pity and sometimes mild annoyance at the vomit and lack of sleep lol.
 
Shit poor kid how disturbing that it took so long for someone to realize that this twisted bitch was faking it. I mean come on people 14 surgeries on a healthy boy. She must have been going to some real quacks. Glad the hospital staff called the issue to attention.
 
One of the links above makes good reading. http://media.star-telegram.com/Munchausenmoms/
The article about Hope Ybarra especially, she's interviewed in prison and still playing her games like self-inducing diabetic comas and pretending she is deaf.
Her own mother won't send Ybarra commissary money because she thinks Ybarra uses the money to make herself ill on junk food for attention.
 
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http://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-mother-accused-of-faking-sons-cancer-diagnosis
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Bowen-Wright's mother, Twila Wright, testified that Bowen-Wright stopped working and started collecting disability when Christopher got sick as a baby. She testified that Bowen-Wright had set up multiple online fundraising accounts over the years, collecting thousands of dollars for Christopher's medical expenses.

Christopher's father is no longer in a relationship with Bowen-Wright and lost custody of his son. He now has an online fundraiser of his own to help him regain custody, posting that Christopher is "in good spirits.” However, police say, mentally, Christopher still believes he is ill and is not going to survive.

“He really believes he's dying,” Mayfield said. “He really believes he needs to be on oxygen and on a feeding tube.”

Christopher has two half-siblings. Each of them are now living with a foster family.

Bowen-Wright has been able to see her kids during supervised visits. But per conditions of her reduced bond, she can no longer have contact with them. Her mother is also fighting for custody.

Child Protective Services were at the grandmother's home Monday doing a study to see if that could be a suitable place for the children. It will be discussed at a CPS custody hearing Wednesday afternoon.
[doublepost=1513865252,1513780373][/doublepost]http://www.wfaa.com/news/boy-at-center-of-munchausen-case-will-be-home-by-christmas/501188398
DALLAS - Ryan Crawford was all smiles moments after finding out his 8-year-old son, Christopher, would be home in time to spend Christmas with him.

The agreement was reached at a Child Protective Services hearing Wednesday afternoon in Dallas.
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Bowen-Wright isn't allowed contact with Christopher or his two siblings. She was released from jail on a $25,000 bond and faces a charge of injury to a child. She didn't attend Wednesday’s hearing.

For now, CPS will continue to have temporary custody of Christopher, although he's being placed with his father. His older sister was also placed with her father. His younger brother will remain in foster care pending the outcome of a home study being conducted on Bowen-Wright’s mother.

Bowen-Wright was court ordered to attend parenting classes and counseling. Crawford was ordered to attend counseling as well. It was also ordered that pictures of the children can't be posted on social media by the parents, that no one involved in the case discuss the facts of the case and no media interviews be allowed with any of the children.

Ryan Crawford didn't comment after the hearing because of the orders. He wiped away tears and gave a thumbs up to express his emotion. He hugged his mother, father and other relatives.

“We've been praying for this baby for eight years,” said Nellie Crawford, Ryan's mother.

She called Wednesday’s decision an answer to prayer.

“We're so happy," she said. "This is the day that we will never forget."
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Ryan Crawford said in a prior interview that a family court district judge stripped him of his visitation rights in 2012 because he refused to accept that his son was dying. He hired an attorney in 2014 and tried to get the judge to reconsider. He said the judge refused to even look at the medical records that showed his son wasn't sick.

It'll be a special Christmas for the Crawfords but they know it'll be a long emotional healing process for a little boy whose been through so much.

“I know I'm going to grab him and hug him,” Christopher’s grandmother said.

She hasn't seen her grandson in five years.

Flora Crawford said she had bought Christopher a robot that she was looking forward to giving him.

“You should see our Christmas tree,” Nellie Crawford said. “It’s loaded with gifts.”
 
May 10, 2018

This bitch should never be allowed to see that precocious boy again....

A mother charged with injury to a child in Dallas County for allegedly exposing her 8-year-old son to a lifetime of medical procedures and surgeries through her lies to doctors will be allowed supervised visits with her children, a family court has ruled.

Kaylene Bowen-Wright, 34, is accused of medical child abuse, often known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a disorder in which a caregiver exaggerates or creates medical symptoms in another person, usually to gain attention.

Bowen-Wright was indicted in March on a first-degree felony charge of injury to a child resulting in serious bodily injury to her son, Christopher Bowen.

Tuesday, Associate Judge C. Andrew Ten Eyck of the 301st Family District Court ruled to allow Bowen-Wright to have supervised visits with her children, including once-a-week visits with Christopher.

Under the order, the visits will begin next month and must be “continuously supervised and facilitated by a licensed counselor at all times.”
Heath Hyde, Bowen-Wright’s criminal defense attorney, said the mother was only recently allowed to have supervised phone contact with her son.

“She’s very happy,” Hyde said of the family court’s recent ruling.

With supervised visits allowed, Hyde said he is focused on the criminal case, which remains in the discovery process.
"We're just going to fight the case and show that she’s not guilty of the criminal allegations,” Hyde said.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article210870929.html
 
Ms. Bowen is not going to be satisfied with half-assed supervised visitation. She will need to have another baby and try all over again.
 
Munchhausen by proxy isn't just about the attention. It's a mix of that and the "thrill" of one-upping the smart doctors and staff, getting sympathy, playing the martyr, etc.

That boy and his dad look too precious. I hope he is getting the mental help he needs after being with that nutcase for 8 horrible years.
 
Munchhausen by proxy isn't just about the attention. It's a mix of that and the "thrill" of one-upping the smart doctors and staff, getting sympathy, playing the martyr, etc.
Right, it's a classic con along with the sick need for attention and sympathy. Lots of bang for the buck.
 
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article220848790.html

5 Nov 2018
This time last year, Christopher Bowen was dying.

The 8-year-old boy was on oxygen, used a wheelchair off and on, had a feeding tube and an IV in his arm.

But today, gone is the feeding tube, the wheelchair, the need for a lung transplant, and the cancer, his father, Ryan Crawford said. He doesn’t even wear prescription glasses.

Since his removal from his mother’s care, Christopher Bowen only suffers from seasonal allergies and asthma, his father says.
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On Monday, the Child Protective Services case drew to a close with 301st Family District Court Judge Mary Brown’s approval of a mediated agreement reached between the parities.

Under the agreement, Crawford is now sole managing conservator of Christopher and gets to make all the decisions regarding where the now 9-year-old lives, attends school and the medical treatment he receives.

Christopher, who the judge ruled will now go by his father’s last name, will also be allowed visits with his two half-siblings, who both now reside with their own biological fathers.

But also under the agreement, Bowen will be allowed two-hour visits with her son every other weekend under the supervision of a licensed counselor. Beginning on Nov. 30, Bowen’s sister will be allowed to supervise one of the monthly visits.
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And Crawford will have to pay back more than $8,500 in child support and medical support that he owed before his son being removed from Bowen’s custody — an amount that his attorney, Shannon Pritchard, said was set well above state guidelines based on Bowen’s lies at previous family court hearings.
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In August, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Bowen on an additional charge — theft between $30,000 and $150,000. She is accused of unlawfully taking money from the Social Security Administration as part of her scheme. [I hope the $8500 goes directly to SSA!]
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Today, Christopher is a fourth-grader making mostly A’s and B’s. His father says his son is very athletic, continues to undergo counseling and loves playing Fortnite.
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Many more details at the link.
I think the best "counseling" the boy could have is his stable healthy life with his father/rescuer.
 
Good for them ... but I think the judge made a mistake in letting her have access to this child, his siblings or this man or any man really that she has children with. I see chaos ... I think she is going to make everyone's lives miserable. She should have gotten thirty years.
 
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