You are a horrible child

“You are a terrible child, you hear me?” She stuck out her tongue and bit on it, like she always did when she went mad. Nina grew up as a cheerful child full of zest for life, but was often kept at home by her mother, who claimed she was sick. Behind closed doors Nina was made horribly sick for years and years. Her parents even spoke about euthanasia. “If you were a dog we would have had you put down already”, her father once said. “A thriller based on true events about Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a dark and often incomprehensible form of child abuse.” – A.N. Bosschaart, paediatrician and forensic doctor