A Glen Rose girl is accused of abusing her younger son by forcing him to make use of a feeding tube and a wheelchair he didn’t want, and by giving him pointless remedy, in line with an arrest warrant reviewed by CBS News Texas.
The warrant says Kaitlyn Rose Laura, 30, was taken into custody by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in late March. She is charged with inflicting severe bodily damage to a baby and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon. If she posts bond, she is prohibited from contacting her son, any youngster below 17, or her kid’s quick household.
What the warrant reveals
The 18‑web page warrant says a Glen Rose police officer contacted Tarrant County detectives in mid‑February 2026, alleging Laura lied about her son’s medical historical past to acquire an pointless feeding tube in June 2025. The youngster underwent surgical procedure at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, which might usually place the case below Fort Worth police jurisdiction. However, Fort Worth police referred the case to Glen Rose police as a result of Laura lives throughout the metropolis limits.
According to the warrant, Glen Rose police then referred the case to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office, however no regulation enforcement motion was taken. The warrant notes the division has solely two officers and lacks the assets to analyze a case of this complexity.
Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office 
The warrant says a Child Protective Services investigator contacted Tarrant County deputies in February 2026, reporting that Laura and her son tried to depart Children’s Medical Center Dallas towards medical recommendation after she was flagged to youngster abuse pediatricians for suspected medical youngster abuse. The investigator stated Laura claimed her son couldn’t eat by mouth and saved him in a posey mattress, a tent‑like enclosure that may solely be opened from the surface.
After Laura was separated from her son, the investigator stated the boy was consuming pancakes and sausages and was cell. The investigator additionally supplied affidavits from youngster abuse pediatricians at Cook Children’s and from a gastroenterologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. According to the warrant, the affidavit from Children’s said that Laura compelled the boy to make use of a wheelchair.
A Tarrant County detective reviewed a number of of Laura’s social media and fundraising accounts, the place she reportedly documented her son’s supposed medical historical past. The detective requested that Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok protect her accounts.
Medical historical past researched
The warrant says affidavits from Cook Children’s youngster abuse pediatricians detailed discrepancies between Laura’s claims and her son’s precise medical historical past.
One pediatrician met with Laura in June 2025, when she reportedly claimed her son had a sophisticated start at Granbury Medical Center. She stated he was a breech start and that docs “maxed out the medication” to maintain her coronary heart pumping, and that he “flipped” earlier than a scheduled C‑part. But the affidavit says medical data confirmed he was born by way of a standard, pre‑scheduled C‑part with no issues. He was despatched dwelling after his start in August 2022, although Laura reportedly instructed a nurse she couldn’t get him to eat; the nurse was capable of feed him with out problem.
According to the warrant’s abstract of the pediatrician’s affidavit, Laura additionally stated her son had “stopped eating solid food” at age two and saved meals journals that led to the preliminary feeding tube placement. She claimed he stopped tolerating G‑tube feeds, however a Cook Children’s physician was capable of feed him with out problem. The affidavit additionally famous the kid ate usually when the preliminary youngster abuse report was shared with CPS. Laura claimed he may solely eat after being given gabapentin, an urge for food stimulant.
The warrant says Laura believed her son suffered two seizures regardless of a standard EEG at Cook Children’s. She additionally claimed in late May 2025 that he had cerebral palsy, a mitochondrial dysfunction, autism, and developmental delays. She requested a posey mattress, saying his “leg kicking” had damaged three cribs at dwelling, however Cook Children’s workers reported he didn’t want the enclosure as soon as separated from her.
Laura additionally requested respite look after nighttime tube feeds, however the warrant says a physician instructed her these can be discontinued as a result of her son was taking remedy by mouth with out problem. She claimed that whereas he may eat and take remedy within the hospital, she needed to maintain him down at dwelling to get him to take remedy.
A timeline develops
The warrant outlines an in depth timeline supplied by a Cook Children’s youngster abuse pediatrician, who stated Laura gave conflicting accounts of her son’s start to a number of medical professionals.
In October 2024, Laura reportedly instructed Early Childhood Development that her son had a traumatic start that took two hours and that her oxygen ranges saved dropping, requiring remedy. None of that was mirrored in his start data. During an preliminary analysis at Cook Children’s in April 2025, she reportedly claimed her son “needed oxygen at delivery,” which was additionally not supported by data.
The pediatrician’s assessment discovered that in February 2025, Laura took her son to Dell Children’s in Woodway, close to Waco. A physician there really useful additional testing, feeding remedy, and presumably remedy. The subsequent day, Laura referred to as a Cook Children’s neurology supplier and reportedly stated the Dell Children’s physician was “disregarding” and had attributed all of her son’s feeding points to neurological issues and autism. The pediatrician’s assessment discovered that declare to be unfaithful.
At a March 2025 appointment with Cook Children’s gastrointestinal group, Laura reportedly stated her son “always had difficulty gaining weight” and claimed his sheets “smell like acid,” main her to imagine he was vomiting in a single day. The assessment additionally discovered that starting in April 2025, she despatched messages to the GI group requesting a G‑tube placement, together with one message claiming her son’s bodily drugs and rehab supplier instructed her to ask about it. The pediatrician discovered no documentation supporting that suggestion, and the rehab supplier expressed concern that Laura had twisted their phrases.
According to the warrant, Laura continued messaging the GI group, saying her son’s “condition is deteriorating” and expressing concern about his weight. She introduced him to Cook Children’s in April 2025, reporting dehydration and a sudden meals aversion. The kid’s father instructed docs the boy had eaten half a bag of popcorn and a full bag of chips with out problem. The youngster was not dehydrated and was discharged.
Two days later, a GI research indicated gastroesophageal reflux illness and presumably eosinophilic esophagitis. Medication was really useful. In early May 2025, Laura referred to as to report that after just a few good days, her son was “screaming in pain” and “refusing all solids,” although he continued ingesting nicely, together with method.
The warrant says Laura remained in frequent contact with the GI group, pushing for a feeding tube. One supplier really useful a special method, however Laura responded that her son was burning energy by kicking in his mattress, crawling and wheeling round in his wheelchair. She additionally reportedly requested why she was not being listened to. A GI group member instructed investigators Laura had been “very pushy” for a G‑tube and proof against different therapies.
In May 2025, Laura was instructed one remedy had been denied by insurance coverage, however an alternate was really useful whereas approval was pursued. She grew to become upset and reportedly stated she was watching her son “deteriorate.”
A feeding tube was positioned later that month. Days afterward, Laura instructed a bedside nurse her son had a bowel motion containing bits of pet food. The nurse noticed this, and Laura stated he might have eaten pet food whereas unattended at a babysitter’s dwelling.
Toward the tip of May 2025, Laura introduced her son again to Cook Children’s for reported tube points and feeding intolerance. Staff didn’t observe these points; as an alternative, the kid ate a number of meals by mouth. Concerned about attainable medical abuse, workers moved him to a covertly video‑recorded room. In early June 2025, Laura reportedly instructed an evening nurse she had tried giving him tons of meals, however video footage didn’t present that. A bodily therapist additionally reported that the boy was crawling on the ground and making an attempt to face.
Once issues for medical abuse have been established, workers stopped tube feeds, although the tube was not eliminated earlier than discharge. The boy ate by mouth for 3 consecutive days, gained weight, and consumed meals together with French toast, pancakes, hen, quesadillas, rice, fries, and pasta.
The pediatrician additionally famous that in each hospitalizations, Laura pushed for her son to be positioned in a posey mattress and for extra medicines, regardless of no medical want. At one level, she reportedly requested a nurse to offer him remedy via an IV whereas he was calm, saying she didn’t “want him to start misbehaving.”
Moving to a different hospital
The warrant says issues raised at Cook Children’s have been forwarded to Fort Worth police, however the Tarrant County warrant notes the division didn’t examine and as an alternative referred the case to Glen Rose police, who then despatched it to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office. CPS additionally didn’t take away Laura’s son from her custody earlier than closing the case. According to the warrant, Laura and her son left Cook Children’s and started in search of extra pointless treatments at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
Laura was reportedly capable of get hold of a special feeding tube at Children’s in December 2025, the place docs noticed additional falsifications of her son’s medical historical past. After the surgical procedure, she was described as excited to have his clonidine dosage elevated via a psychiatric session. Clonidine is often used to deal with hypertension and ADHD.
The warrant says the boy was discharged in January 2026 however returned a month later for a tube substitute after Laura reported leaking. After that hospitalization, he was faraway from the custody of Laura and her husband and positioned in medical foster care.
During the February 2026 keep, Laura once more requested a posey mattress and requested for a psychiatric seek the advice of. She briefly met with a physician who provided to proceed remedy administration, however she requested for a special supplier. She additionally reportedly refused to alter her son’s moist diaper in a single day.
Laura later instructed a bodily therapist her son was in “excruciating pain” and had “not slept in a week.” Staff urged inserting a medical group member within the room to watch him, however Laura refused steady remark.
Later in February, Laura requested the Children’s group to cease all medicines besides these prescribed by psychiatry and to “start over” on his remedy plan. She additionally reportedly instructed a nurse her son seemingly wanted hospice care and intravenous vitamin, regardless of him not being terminally in poor health. That assertion prompted a session with the hospital’s youngster abuse pediatrician, who then filed a CPS report.
The youngster was faraway from his mother and father’ custody on Valentine’s Day. Afterward, he was capable of eat a spread of meals by mouth with out problem and drink fluids. Staff additionally reported he was far much less agitated and was being weaned off all psychiatric medicines.
An on-line path
The warrant says that later in February 2026, a Tarrant County detective shared screenshots of a web based fundraiser with the kid abuse pediatrician at Children’s Medical Center. After reviewing Laura’s statements on the platform, the pediatrician instructed the detective the claims have been unfaithful. Laura had written that her son acquired a special feeding tube as a result of of ulcers and hematomas, that he had genetic markers for coronary heart points, and that he had cerebral palsy.
The warrant additionally cites a Facebook publish linking to the fundraiser. The youngster abuse pediatrician stated the claims within the publish, which mirrored these on the fundraising web page, have been additionally untruthful.
Toward the tip of February 2026, a Tarrant County detective interviewed the boy’s father on the Somervell County Sheriff’s Office. The father, who had separated from Laura for a interval of time, stated he picked her up exterior a storage unit after she claimed she was pregnant and had nowhere to go. She additionally reportedly instructed him she didn’t know who her son’s father was.
The father instructed the detective that Laura beforehand labored for a house well being firm in Granbury that specialised in feeding‑tube care and that she was nicely‑versed in medical terminology. While Laura dealt with medical look after her son, he cared for 2 different youngsters who weren’t faraway from Laura’s custody by CPS.
He additionally stated he was unaware Laura had requested palliative care for his or her son at Cook Children’s in May 2025 or a hospice referral at Children’s Medical Center. The detective famous the daddy was shocked when instructed this. He supplied a thread of textual content messages from February 2026 concerning the boy’s well being, although he stated most conversations occurred over FaceTime. The texts included images of the kid within the hospital.
The warrant says Laura additionally texted a CPS investigator about her son’s well being, sending images and movies in what was described as an obvious try to persuade the investigator he was in poor health. She additionally reportedly requested the investigator to return a laptop computer left within the hospital room after she was eliminated. The CPS investigator forwarded the messages to the Tarrant County detective.
The detective additionally reviewed extra Facebook posts from Laura that included inconsistencies concerning the kid’s medical historical past. The warrant notes that no medical skilled has instructed Laura her son would require a wheelchair for all times, regardless of her claims on-line.
In March 2026, the detective contacted the boy’s medical foster caregivers, who reported he was capable of run and not using a wheelchair and eat with out problem.
Later that month, Tarrant County deputies searched Laura’s dwelling and seized her mobile phone, two tablets, two laptops, and medical provides and medicines prescribed to her son.
The warrant additionally particulars a medical youngster abuse report filed by a trainer in October 2025. The trainer reported discrepancies between Laura’s descriptions of her son’s situation and the behaviors noticed at college. Laura reportedly claimed her son had a life‑limiting sickness, although no documentation supported that. The trainer additionally stated Laura continuously used medical jargon that didn’t all the time make sense.
The warrant says Laura withdrew her son from faculty shortly after that report.
Investigation ongoing
Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn described the alleged abuse as deliberate.
“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 stated.
Waybourn stated the case hit notably near dwelling, noting that his adopted daughter was additionally a sufferer of Munchausen abuse.
“Very similar to this case, you know, the starvation, the multiple meds that were needed, the surgeries that weren’t needed,” he stated.
Investigators say Laura not solely misled docs but in addition constructed a complete story on-line. Authorities discovered a minimum of three GoFundMe pages soliciting cash, an Amazon want record, and a Facebook web page chronicling her son’s alleged medical journey. One fundraiser claimed he would “be in a wheelchair for life,” which docs say was not true.
Authorities are nonetheless figuring out how a lot cash was raised and have opened a separate investigation into attainable Medicaid fraud tied to pointless medical treatments.
“And to the people out there that gave money to it, I’m very, very sorry, but it wasn’t meant for good stuff,” Waybourn stated.
Laura faces felony expenses throughout Somervell, Dallas, and Tarrant counties, together with damage to a baby inflicting severe bodily damage and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon.
“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,” Waybourn stated.
Tarrant County deputies are asking anybody – together with organizations – who donated to Laura or communicated together with her about her son’s well being to contact them at (817) 884‑1305.
