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As a teenager Fran Lyon was treated for a mild mental illness but now 22 years old she is fully recovered and pregnant. She should be looking forward to the birth of her first child due in January. But instead, she is fighting for the right to keep her baby after Social Services have told her her child will be taken from her. This is because they believe she is likely to suffer from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP) - a condition that causes mothers to harm their children to get attention. As a result, Fran is currently fighting for the right to keep her baby. At the age of 14 Fran was subjected to a sexual assault and within two months she had started self-harming. She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and was later treated for borderline personality disorder. Fran was transferred to a therapeutic unit and by the age of 16 she was discharged but continued to see a counsellor once a week for nine months. Fran explains: since then I have never needed any psychiatric help or medication - I have dealt with my childhood and moved on - I am fine." Her case has been taken up by Lib-Dem MP John Hemming who has been campaigning against the adoption of babies. John Hemming says: The whole family court system, because of the secrecy which surrounds it, is vulnerable to bad practice. Social workers are under pressure not to lose cases.
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