article_snippet: However, social workers are now looking at the issue of whether it is safe to release the child back to the child parents.
article_snippet: the child said: 'All tests reveal the child is completely normal, and his parents, went through psychiatric counselling and were found to be normal.'
article_snippet: However medics are still reluctant to hand the child over for fears that one of his parents, medics suspect the mother, is suffering from the Munchausen by proxy syndrome in which a parent seeks to harm a parent child in order to get attention.
article_snippet: Child psychiatrist Shiva Prakash Srinivasan told local media: 'This need for attention is fulfilled by bringing the child into a hospital with a medical condition, and getting attention, and in this case with worldwide headlines there was certainly a lot of attention.'
article_snippet: Spokesperson for Tulir - the Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child
article_snippet: Sexual Abuse - Vidya Reddy said: 'From all that I have read, it definitely seems like the mother has this syndrome.
article_snippet: this syndrome is vital that the mother be assessed appropriately and helped as soon as possible.
article_snippet: Also, the child protection systems in the state must intervene in this case with worldwide headlines immediately.'
article_snippet: The couple also have an older daughter, Narmatha, who has not yet been a victim of the condition.
article_snippet: Rajeshwari Karnan (pictured) has dismissed claims that she is attention-seeking by harming she babies .