Overview
- Kaitlyn Rose Laura, 31, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on a first-degree felony charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury and on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- Investigators say she subjected a child to unnecessary medical treatments, a form of abuse sometimes called caregiver‑fabricated illness.
- Detectives opened a Medicaid fraud inquiry and say she ran at least three GoFundMe campaigns for the child's supposed medical costs.
- The Sheriff's Office asked anyone who donated to those fundraisers or texted with her about her children's health to call the Criminal Investigation Division at 817-884-1305.
- Sheriff Bill Waybourn called medical child abuse a horrific crime and said these cases are complex to investigate, with the criminal and financial probes still active.