After being accused of planning to take her son from foster care alongside QAnon sympathizers, Cynthia Abcug, 50, was found guilty of second-degree abduction.
The Parker, Colorado, mother who exposed her son to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a kind of medical child abuse, was found guilty of planning to abduct her 7-year-old with the assistance of QAnon members.
Cynthia Lee Abcug, 53, was found guilty last week of second-degree kidnapping conspiracy and child abuse by a jury in Douglas County.
Youngster welfare officials withdrew the child from the mother’s house in 2019 after an investigation determined that she had put her son’s health in danger owing to Munchausen syndrome via proxy.
Munchausen syndrome is a kind of mental disease in which a parent or other caregiver intentionally makes a kid unwell or invents symptoms to make the child seem ill.
Despite several tests and medical exams by physicians who discovered nothing wrong with her baby, Abcug claimed that he suffered from seizures, heart issues, and other maladies.
At the trial, two physicians testified that the mother had made up the boy’s illness.
Chief Deputy DA Gary Dawson said, “While in the defendant’s care, her kid was reported as experiencing periodic seizures and periods where he would collapse on the ground.”
She said he had a brain tumor and was going to die away. When her kid was taken out of her care, every single one of those symptoms that had been documented vanished.
Abcug’s daughter, who was still living with her mother, reported to authorities that her mother had dated Ryan, who was “certainly a member of QAnon.”
Her son was removed by social workers from their home in Parker, just outside Denver, in January last year and placed into foster care after Abcug was suspected of lying about his health problems
Abcurg’s well-being reportedly went downhill after one of her two children was removed from her custody. She is pictured in a social media snap
50-year-old Cynthia Abcug was detained in Montana on Monday on suspicion of planning a second-degree abduction.
The arrest report states that when Ryan moved in, Abcug likewise became more and more reliant on him.
He was said to be armed and slept on the sofa in case anybody tried to break in.
The choice to testify against their mother about what they had seen and heard about the plot to kidnap their brother was made by Abcug’s daughter, who was 16 at the time, and her adult son, Dawson said.
The daughter informed the police that the mother had developed a conspiracy theory obsession and was “spiraling” when her second child was taken from the house.
The only times Abcug would leave her house were to attend QAnon meetings or the neighborhood gun range to practice target shooting. She had ceased attending psychiatric treatment.
Who is Q, and what is QAnon?
According to the QAnon conspiracy theory, a high-ranking government insider going by the moniker Q has been anonymously leaving mysterious ‘breadcrumbs’ on the 8chan message board.
There, tens of thousands of admirers who go by the moniker “anons” spend endless hours putting the pieces together.
According to the hypothesis, President Donald Trump is engaged in a covert conflict with the Democratic Party and the government’s dark forces and is ready to unseal tens of thousands of secret indictments at any time.
The hypothesis has an uncommon claim that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is secretly on Trump’s side and is using the Russia probe as a pretext to draft sealed charges against the president’s rivals.
The hypothesis is often seen as a continuation of PizzaGate. Similar to that hypothesis, the QAnon theory asserts that high-level Democratic Party insiders and members of the deep state are engaged in child sex trafficking.
Many QAnon believers think that the internet chatroom 4Chan was used to send members messages and prophecies about what will happen in the future.
The mother of two denied making up her son’s illness and claimed to be unaware of the paranoid far-rightwing network.
Abcug acknowledged having online conversations with “Children’s Crusade” members who she believed may assist in her son’s legal reunion with her.
She acknowledged that on the same day that her daughter reported her scheme to the police, her boyfriend had received instructions from the movement to kidnap her.
QAnon is a vast conspiracy theory that has mostly been circulated online. It is based on the erroneous idea that President Donald Trump is fighting a covert war against the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking network headed by demonic pedophiles and cannibals.
According to the Associated Press, Abcug’s attorney, Brian Hall, said throughout the trial that the daughter was not acquainted with the specifics of the scheme and was not aware of the location of the boy’s foster care placement.
She was located in Montana in December of 2019, and there she was taken into custody.
According to the prosecution, the youngster has not shown any symptoms of any major medical conditions since being taken from her custody.
District Attorney John Kellner said, “Ms. Abcug’s son was legitimately taken from her care in order to safeguard him from immediate danger. There is no knowing what may have happened to that young child if the abduction scheme had been successful.
On October 6, she will get a sentence that may last up to six years.