Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the famed victim of Munchausen by proxy who's set for early release from prison on Dec. 28, opens up to PEOPLE about what she's learned after eight years behind bars.
I’m happy that she’s getting released, but there are probably a lot of other people stuck in prison for crimes that they committed out of desperation. It’s like the Gabby Petito situation, where young white women get a lot of attention for things that happen to other people who get completely ignored.
While I agree for the most part, you don’t think that maybe in this case it’s because:
It involves Munchausen’s by proxy which is a pretty rare diagnosis,
She endured years of horrific medical, mental and physical abuse by the mother which brings up some serious moral questions in terms of what else she could have done to escape,
She didn’t actually commit the murder, it was the boyfriend she met online who is intellectually disabled and is now serving a life sentence.
Idk, that sounds like enough to make a headline without her gender or skin color brought into it.
Doesn’t necessarily need to be munchausen, plenty of people kill their abusers and get locked up for it. People get abducted and their bodies aren’t found in state parks, it doesn’t need to match the original story 100%
I’m happy that she’s getting released, but there are probably a lot of other people stuck in prison for crimes that they committed out of desperation. It’s like the Gabby Petito situation, where young white women get a lot of attention for things that happen to other people who get completely ignored.
While I agree for the most part, you don’t think that maybe in this case it’s because:
It involves Munchausen’s by proxy which is a pretty rare diagnosis,
She endured years of horrific medical, mental and physical abuse by the mother which brings up some serious moral questions in terms of what else she could have done to escape,
She didn’t actually commit the murder, it was the boyfriend she met online who is intellectually disabled and is now serving a life sentence.
Idk, that sounds like enough to make a headline without her gender or skin color brought into it.
Doesn’t necessarily need to be munchausen, plenty of people kill their abusers and get locked up for it. People get abducted and their bodies aren’t found in state parks, it doesn’t need to match the original story 100%