BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio —

Jennifer Parker, a 43-year-old mother, is facing three counts of child endangerment, accused of medical child abuse involving her two-year-old son.

"Meaning that she engaged in a pattern of the overutilization of inappropriate medical care and the under utilization of appropriate medical care," said assistant Butler County prosecutor Lindsay Sheehan. Advertisement

Parker is accused of behaving in a way that's often associated with what's commonly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a disorder where a caregiver fabricates or induces medical conditions in a child.

Sheehan said, "Since birth, under Miss Parker's care, this child, now 2, has been hospitalized over 20 times," both in Florida, where Parker previously lived, and Ohio.

This past spring, Sheehan said

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