Take for example a case that came to light in Kaohsiung last October involving three brothers aged 12, 13, and 15. For more than a decade the mother had mistakenly treated the boys as chronically ill, going to countless hospitals, temples, and shrines, trying Western and Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and herbal medicine, and even giving overdoses of medication that caused the kids to wind up in the emergency room.
去年高雄發生一件兒虐案，三個分別為十二、十三、十五歲的兄弟，長期遭受母親不適當的對待，母親將三個孩子視為病人，十多年來不斷在各醫院、神壇、廟宇求診，試遍中西藥、針灸、草藥，甚至因此引發藥物中毒，送醫急診。