The term “Munchausen syndrome” was coined in 1951 by Richard Asher, who named it after Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen (also known as Baron von Munchausen), an eighteenth ...

She was arrested on Dec. 31. The county’s sheriff’s office described the investigation as a Munchausen by proxy case, a form of medical child abuse. The sheriff’s office says they are ...