Inconceivable

"They died at the hands of their mother." | Dr Janice Ophoven explains facetious illness’ and medical child abuse, previously called ‘Munchausen’s syndrome’. She tells #60Mins mothers with this syndrome can create serious illnesses for their children, and even end up killing them. What happened in these two cases?

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