Jennifer Bush's attorney tells a judge her client is ready to move on and see her mother, while her mother's attorney says the elder Bush would also like to reunite with her daughter.
Jennifer Bush, 18, and her mother Kathy, 47, have only communicated through letters over the past few years and have not seen each other since 1999, when the elder Bush was convicted of aggravated child abuse and fraud. She was released in June after serving a three-year prison term.
Prosecutors say Jennifer was a victim of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, a form of child abuse in which a parent makes a child ill in order to gain attention and sympathy for themselves.
During the trial, it was said Kathy Bush gave her daughter excess doses of seizure medicine and tampered with her hospital feeding machine and medical charts.
Before the state investigation began in 1996, Jennifer Bush underwent 40 operations.
Before the criminal investigation began, Jennifer's illnesses and increasing medical bills received nationwide attention when both the girl and her mother visited the White House in 1994 to lobby for health insurance reform.
