A mother in Texas, is facing multiple charges after allegedly subjecting her toddler to medical abuse. Kaitlyn Laura, has apparently spent the last year seeking a series of complex and invasive medical procedures for her son. She’s gone so far as to demand that doctors perform the procedures, even though her son didn’t show signs of needing them. When she faced any kind of resistance, she would simply remove him from their care and seek a new provider who would do what she wanted. However, her demands began to catch up with her, and now she’s lost her child and will likely be jailed.
This is a very detailed and complicated case.
Laura was taken into custody by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in late March 2026, CBS News reported. She was charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
According to the warrant, a Glen Rose police officer reached out to detectives in Tarrant County in February 2026, alleging that the mother was lying about her son’s medical history for the purpose of getting him a feeding tube. The boy had undergone surgery at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, but the case kept changing jurisdictions, and Laura wasn’t being properly investigated.
An investigator from Child Protective Services reached out to Tarrant County deputies in February, to report that Kaitlyn Laura had removed her son from Children’s Medical Center Dallas, against medical advice. She had been flagged by child abuse pediatricians for suspected medical child abuse.
Her son endured so much needless trauma.
At a March 2025 appointment, Laura told the physician that her son “always had difficulty gaining weight and meeting his BMI,” NBC News reported. She requested a gastrostomy tube, commonly known as a g-tube, and said it had been recommended by another provider. However, an investigation proved that claim to be false.
The tube was surgically placed in May 2025. Doctors claimed she was “very pushy for a g-tube from the beginning,” adding that she was “extremely resistant” to alternative treatment. When they returned to the hospital after alleged complications with the tube, doctors began suspecting medical abuse and moved the boy into a room with covert surveillance cameras to observe.
While the mother was claiming her son couldn’t eat solids, the footage told a different story. He was eating “French toast, pancakes, chicken, quesadillas, rice, fries, and pasta.”
Additionally, there were claims that he was unable to walk and needed a wheelchair to get around, NBC DFW 5 reported. While hospitalized, the mother claimed he needed a “posey bed,” which kept him enclosed and only opened from the outside.
She is also being investigated for Medicaid fraud.
Investigators found several GoFundMe campaigns where Laura was asking for money because of her son’s medical complexities, NBC News reported. According to the affidavit, the descriptions she put in the fundraisers were found to be inaccurate.
She claimed the boy had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and experienced “heart codes.” However, a child abuse pediatrician at Children’s Medical Center Dallas disputed those claims, the affidavit stated.
The sheriff’s office is asking that anyone who donated to one of Laura’s fundraisers, or had any conversations with her about her children’s health contact the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at 817-884-1305.
NBC DFW 5 reached out to GoFundMe about the fraudulent fundraisers, and a spokesperson said that those who donated had received refunds.
“GoFundMe has zero tolerance for the misuse of our platform and we cooperate with law enforcement investigations of those accused of wrongdoing. All donors have been refunded. Additionally, the organizer account has been banned from future fundraising on GoFundMe and any associated fundraisers have been removed from our platform. The GoFundMe Giving Guarantee protects donors by guaranteeing a full refund in the rare case something isn’t right,” the spokesperson said in an email.
The boy’s father allegedly had no idea.
According to the reports, the boy’s father relied on Kaitlyn Laura to tell him about their son’s medical care. He told investigators that Laura worked in home health care, and had specialized in caring for those with feeding tubes. Laura assumed full responsibility for the boy’s medical care, leaving the father shut out.
Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, called Laura’s action deliberate, CBS News reported.
“So this narcissistic person, for their own pleasure of getting the sympathy for having a fragile child, is what we see playing out in front of us. And in truth, the child is being tortured,” he said. “There are scars on his body from those surgeries that weren’t necessary, and he’s going to have to be told, ‘Why are they here?’ So there could be trauma for many, many years to come.”
He also expressed sympathy for those who were duped by Laura’s fraudulent claims. “And to the people out there that gave money to it, I’m very, very sorry, but it wasn’t meant for good stuff.”
