Monday, 7 April 2008

Mother kept able-bodied son in a wheelchair for five years so 'he would never leave her'

Still think single mothers do a great job?

"A single mother kept her young son in a wheelchair for five years because she feared he would become independent and leave her, a court heard yesterday.

The 31-year-old tricked doctors into believing the child, now 11, was ill and could not walk as part of the bizarre child cruelty plot. "

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