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Don't regret sharing that. It's important that people know it happens. I've seen it happen to 3 children of the same family & although it wasn't as extreme as the awful things that happened to you, no one ever considered it. The eldest child sees it now but won't admit it happened. I think they...

If it's in the DSM V (or whatever number they're up to now), in the eyes of the law it's an 'illness' and can be used as a defence. In a complete contradiction to 'illness' being a 'defence' it wasn't that long ago that being gay could get you sectioned or imprisonment due to the crossover of...

She isn't clearly mentally ill, that's the 'mad vs bad' point that @Tom Hark Preston Park was alluding to. At not one point has a mental health issue been mentioned apart from speculation after, that she has Munchausen's by proxy which also would've been instantly used as a possible defence, if...

I don't think it can be introduced on appeal & I expect the 1st thing her defence tried to do was find grounds for diminished responsibility.

You can't plead diminished responsibility after trial and sentencing. It was probably one of the 1st things that her defence thought of & there is/was nothing to back that up. However I don't 'think' there is anything to say she can't be moved to a secure unit rather than a prison if she does...