A white mother is accused of faking her six-year-old black daughter's illness and forcing the child to undergo more than 500 appointments and unnecessary surgery. Sophie Hartman, 31, claimed that the little girl suffered from a rare neurological disease, Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood, but doctors now say the child is perfectly healthy. According to court documents, Hartman has taken her adopted daughter to appointments since she was around two years old, and subjected her to what doctors called an 'unnecessary medical procedure' with a surgically implanted feeding tube. Reports note that a concern that 'this pattern has resulted in unnecessary medical testing, medication, procedures, surgeries and debility of this child.' A social media page and various fundraisers were set up for the child and she was granted a wish by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Source: Daily Mail May 30, 2021 21:28 UTC