Overview
- The 27-year-old was detained by Policía Nacional after specialists at Hospital General Doctor Balmis ruled out disease and attributed the two-year-old’s keratoconjunctival damage to an externally applied irritant.
- The child, hospitalized from mid-August until recently, has been discharged and is under Generalitat Valenciana guardianship following judicial protective measures.
- Investigators with UFAM’s minors unit are considering factitious disorder imposed on another (Munchausen by proxy) as a working hypothesis based on medical reports.
- The woman’s seven-year-old daughter is blind and arrived from Algeria with similar vision problems, which police are reviewing without evidence so far of intentional harm.
- Medical staff reported the boy’s condition improved after separation from his mother, and warned he risked total blindness if the suspected exposure had continued.