Lied about an incurable disease: a woman from Colorado was accused of dying her own daughter

41-year-old Colorado woman Kelly Rene Turner (also known as Kelly Gant), collecting donations for the treatment of her seven-year-old daughter Olivia, was accused of the death of a child. Writes about this Meduza.

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The 21 jury on October indicted her on 13 counts. Among the charges are child abuse, theft and fraud with the state Medicaid program in the amount of 538 thousand dollars.

The indictment alleges that Olivia died in August 2017 due to Turner’s actions, and not due to the many illnesses the girl’s mother told about. At the same time, the exact cause of the death of the child has not yet been established. It was initially assumed that the girl died of intestinal failure.

Olivia began to be treated after, in 2013, she and her mother moved to Colorado from Texas, where Turner’s husband remained. In 2015, the girl’s mother launched a page on the site of the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, where she collected more than 22 thousand dollars for her daughter’s medical care. Among other things, the woman claimed that her child had autism, hydrocephalus, and epileptiform seizures. Turner also said that Olivia was diagnosed with neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy - an incurable disease in which all body systems stop working.

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The media wrote a lot about Olivia because of her “dying wish list”: in particular, the girl wanted to drive a car with police and fire officials. The charity Make-A-Wish Foundation spent 11 thousand dollars on a costume party for Olivia.

In July 2017, Olivia was hospitalized at a children's clinic in Colorado. One of the doctors treating the girl claimed that Turner wanted to refuse any medical care and complete parenteral nutrition of the child, and also forbade resuscitation. The woman was given the opportunity to take her baby home and provide her care outside the hospital.

A few weeks after the girl was discharged from the clinic, she died. Several doctors said that Olivia did not have a terminal illness. In 2018, the child's body was exhumed. As a result of the autopsy, no evidence was found of those diseases or conditions that, according to the mother, were observed in the girl.

An investigation into Olivia’s death began after Turner brought her eldest daughter, who is now 2018, to the hospital in 11. The mother told the doctors that her daughter had “bone pain” and an oncological disease, but this diagnosis was not confirmed.

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In her testimony in 2018, Turner denied providing false information about her children’s health status. In a conversation with investigators, she said, in particular, that she was aware of the delegated Munchausen syndrome, but stated that this was not applicable to her. Turner later admitted that she invented the disease in her eldest daughter, but not in Olivia.

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