. >> during the years her child was under treatment cathy bush was a media darling, and attracted the attention of then first lady hillary clinton. who highlighted the family's struggle to tackle jennifer's illnesses and pay mounting health care bills. the prosecutors found jessica's hospitalisation often coincided with her mother's fundraising events. >> you can see an unbelievable amount of time the child spent, when realistically there was no medical justification for her being in the hospital at all. >> jessica's abuse came to light when nurses in two hospitals stepped forward with suspicion about the mother's behaviour, and her interaction with jennifer. >> we documented 38 surgical procedures that had been performed on this child. some of them were very serious, such as removing parts of the intestine and the gall bladder and issues like that. >> they proved to the jury that cathy bush overdosed her child with a seizure medication. she was sentenced in 2000. >> jennifer, once removed from her mother's care, was found to be perfectly healthy. a star witness was a paediatrician. h

one of the most notorious cases was that of florida resident cathy bush. prosecutors were able to prove she had overdosed her daughter jennifer with a seizure medication. >> this is a chart where we see how many days each child was in hospital. >> during the years, cathy bush was a darl. first lady hillary clinton highlighted the struggles, but ultimately the mum went to gaol, and the daughter perfectly healthy. >> a cause in the spotlight is 15-year-old geena, taken from her parents more than a year ago, after doctors at the boston hospital suspected medical killed abuse. the family claims it has been wrongly accused. >> it's almost never black and white in a complex case. at a consequence, tragic errors occur. on both side. >> as for the hillier family, child protective services investigated them for medical child abuse, but found the allegations unsupported. there has to be a middle ground. where you were able to investigate suspicions that a child is being harmed without destroying the family. >> so far the middle ground has been hard to come by. >> ne