Olivia Kelly Gant was born in Pasadena Texas on June 21st 2010 to parents Kelly and Jeff Gant Olivia had a special relationship with her grandfather lonni grro calling each other Livy and Papa he spoke lovingly of Olivia’s great imagination and joy in playing with her dolls some of Olivia’s favorite things were playing with her Sisters in family trips to Da Queen for ice cream cones she showed a special interest in the Lions and sharks at her locals Zo in addition her interest in dinosaurs led to trips to Dinosaur Ridge where she

was able to entertain her family with dinosaur facts she’s learned Kelly and Jeff had a difficult marriage which led to Kelly Olivia and her sisters moving to Colorado while Jeff stayed behind in Texas in Colorado Olivia who loves school and her friends was able to experience prek classes kindergarten in part of first grade at Coline Hills Elementary School in August of 2011 while the family was still living together in Texas Kelly began the blog which would play such an important role in Olivia’s life initially the blog

existed to detail the various ailments of the two youngest girls early claims attributed Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and a non-specific autoimmune disorder to Olivia’s older sister who would have been two at the time it’s been stated that at this time Olivia’s older sister was never diagnosed with anything more serious than ear infections other blog entries Olivia’s illnesses were listed as a misshapen head developmental delays seizures a tumor too much fluid in her brain and celiac disease Olivia was later found to be free of all these

concerns but may have been developmentally delayed Kelly took tons of photos of her daughter many of which were laid to were hospital stays while laye in bed or sitting in a wheelchair Olivia was dressed up as a Disney princess surrounded by stuffed animals now a true diagnosis for Olivia’s medical condition was impossible Kelly described many differing symptoms while Consulting with what appears to be doz of medical professionals she generally indicated that Olivia was diagnosed with autism seizures and other neurological

conditions terrible pain when eating in some form of intestinal failure Kelly told the GI doctors that Olivia had undergone tests for allergies and testing at a hospital known as National Jewish and reported that she had what she referred to as severe allergies specifically these allergies were reported as being to peanuts tree nuts chocolate milk protein and cats however reported that since Olivia was autistic they never really knew if she just didn’t like the color of something or if she was really allergic to it should be

noted that Olivia was never diagnosed with autism most of the information available regarding Olivia’s extensive medical history comes from the indictment of Kelly Turner over 5 years the little girl had at least 25 surgeries and revisions and she spent weeks in the hospital in total Olivia’s medical Journey began in 2012 when she was taken to the Children’s Hospital to seek help with a bout of constipation Dr caramat performed a successful procedure in which hardened fecal matter was removed from alivia’s intestines but Kelly was soon back in

the hospital seeking treatment for her daughter’s supposed inability to consume and digest food now around this time Kelly’s blog called prayers for Olivia began to detail the fictitious story that she was building around her little girl an autistic child with an inoperable Mal formation a tumor several of Olivia’s doctors were interviewed while building the case against Kelly and the retrospective is a chilling tale of compliant doctors and a mother with an incomprehensible and distinctly unmaternal agenda over the next handful of months

several ER visits build a history of a little girl who was in constant pain with persistent intestinal concerns she was hospitalized again but her next surgery was scheduled for November of 2014 Kelly described the procedure as a bellomy specifically when the doctors pull a part of the small intestine out of the body so waste can be passed in a more efficient fashion for the body this procedure is actually called an ostomy it was reported to help with Olivia’s constipation but Kelly continued to complain of issues with Edan resulting

in a feeding tube in her blog Kelly described Olivia’s intestines as protruding out it looks like a hot dog Kelly began to solicit money with the plea help this sweet little girl with all the hospital bills she is incurrent in July of 2015 she began to post to her blog about Olivia’s terminal illness despite the fact that there was never any form of diagnosis to that effect princess Olivia we need you to respond to a dumpster fire she is a ball of fire today her wish came true to become a firefighter she’s in um intestinal

failure and we don’t know how much longer she has and so we made a bucket list and one of her things was to become a firefighter see how far we can get it to go when we found out that she wanted to do this we were very thrilled to be able to help out I mean I don’t even have words to describe how I feel it’s just a bunch of ball of emotion we moved here from Texas a few years ago to um seek out treatment her intestines just shut down one at a time and we knew that Olivia lived in littleton’s fire district since

Littleton and South Metro train together and respond to emergencies together it only made sense that we could come together on this and both show her a great time so here’s my bucket list she wanted to do this I didn’t know that it would come true be a fireman and you got to do that so they have to check it off thanks for being a great boss awesome we I was resting for a while so I can feel good outpouring a support that our little Community has given you just can never repay that good job yeah there we go you just take it

one day at a time and we’re thankful for what we have at Kelly’s prompting Olivia had several surgeries over the course of four and a half years to assist her in gain the nutrition she needed in a more accessible form while recovering from her ostomy she had feeding tubes in her nose this is a short short-term solution which was quickly replaced by a GJ tube this tube was placed in January of 2015 a GJ tube is a soft narrow tube that enters the stomach in the upper part of the abdomen and is threaded into the

small intestine this tube has several ports for things like medicines patient comfort and nutrition this form of tube feeding presumably failed because in June of 2015 Olivia received a tpn tube tpn is the most extreme feeding option chosen when it’s clear that the tract is not functioning and unable to absorb nutrients the body needs if this is a long-term Choice It generally would require a care team to manage the various aspects of usage infections and adjustments are common Dr Jason sodin is a tpn specialist and was one of the

primary members of Olivia’s care team from 2017 onward Dr sodin spoke to police investigators regarding Kelly’s Behavior specifically a claim that Olivia was rejecting her tpn now now according to him this is not something that happens Dr sodin advocated for Olivia trying to have her dependency on intravenous nutrition reduced but Kelly pushed back on him claiming we’ve already tried that Olivia underwent occupational therapy with therapist Jackie camer in June of 2015 resulting in improved ability to eat this camerer

specialized in children who need to work on eating normally in discharge Olivia had graduated to age appropriate Foods had no problem swallowing or tolerating food by mouth unfortunately for Olivia normal eating habits wouldn’t get Kelly attention or donations so she didn’t continue practicing feeding her daughter normal Foods on March 24th 2017 Kelly Turner began her final assault on Olivia’s life given the high doses of potent narcotics that Olivia was on for pain relief she could have had an episode of breathing concerns or cardiac

distress this can be treated quickly and simply with a dose of Nar Cannon adjustments to the dosage of painkillers however Kelly requested that naren not be administered Kelly went one step further at this point talking to the doctor about a do not resuscitate or DNR order according to Dr sodin Kelly pressed the issue that a Livia’s quality of life was poor and it was impacted by her pain dependency in tpn and inability to sustain feeding as a result Dr sodin signed the DNR an interview with Olivia’s Pediatric surgeon Dr beer sheds

further light on Kelly’s personality and goals he was familiar with the family having been the one to perform Olivia’s gtube ostomy and central line surgeries as a specialist he received this referral from her primary care physician due to Olivia’s reported constipation problem dismotility and her status as a challenging diagnosis most tellingly he described Kelly to the investigators as a high maintenance mother and said that she was not afraid of surgery another interview was conducted with Dr Robert Kramer Olivia’s original pediatric

gastroenterologist he described Olivia’s outgoing personality and said that he was shocked by her death his observation was that Olivia was not a terminal patient further information was obtained from Dr Seth eisdorfer who is the director of The Chronic pain clinic at Children’s Hospital he was the treating physician for the pain Kelly reported Olivia was having he told investigators of the arguments that he made against putting Olivia in Hospice Care he said that Olivia was not a terminal patient Kelly was given options other than

withdrawing care but she insisted reasoning that Olivia had a life-limiting disease and her quality of life was poor Olivia’s grandfather talked about how heartbreaking it was to watch his beloved granddaughter die unaware of what was happening he said she didn’t know she was going to die she was happy to get out of that hospital and feel like a normal child once at the facility Olivia was only given small amounts of melted popsicles and juice just enough to moisten her mouth and lips Mr Gat said that Olivia opened her

eyes recognized me and said Papa I’m hungry she was hungry Olivia Kelly Gant passed away on August 20th 2017 she was only 7 years old Olivia did not have to die in hospice slowly starving to death some of the doctors quote in the indictment are more forceful than others but it becomes clearer and clearer that none of the doctors thought that hospice and withdrawal of care was appropriate still they all deferred to Kelly as Olivia’s mother assuming that she was advocating for the best care of her daughter Kelly’s role in Olivia’s short

and painful life was not immediately known it wasn’t until early of October 2018 that Kelly was investigated for CA related to her middle daughter this daughter was a minor at the time of Investigation thus all identifying details including her name were were Ed in investigation documents Olivia’s sister went to a new physician Dr Antonia Kessa after her primary care physician had retired when her history was examined by Dr Kessa there was a report that she was treated for bone cancer between the ages of 2 and five

doctors in Texas confirmed that there was no record that Olivia’s sister ever had cancer nor was she treated for cancer these discoveries led to Olivia’s body being exhumed in November of 2018 to investigate her true cause of death her autopsy found that Olivia had a lack of anatomical findings to account for intestinal failure as well Kelly’s other claims appeared to be unsubstantiated many people became familiar with munaz syndrome by proxy after the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case this is a mental disorder and often appears

as CA it is defined as when the caretaker of a child either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick no clear cause for this disorder has ever been discovered but simp or donations are often incentives for the caregiver in this scenario munchow and syndrome by proxy is hardly unknown to the medical world even if cases are rare a physician faced with the demands of Kelly Turner should have sought guidance from the hospital’s ethics board specifically a doctor won’t refer a child to hospice

unless the child has a life-limiting condition and won’t approve removing nutrition unless the feeding process is doing more harm than good one of the questions that pose a concern is whether there was a fail failure of medical ethics by the hospital and Olivia’s doctors some of whom definitively opposed the treatments Kelly was seeking early on an examining neurologist indicated that there was no evidence that seizures were occurring and Olivia did not need to be taking strong anti-seizure drugs however she stayed on

the medication for almost five more years when she asked for a DNR many of Olivia’s doctors didn’t agree with Kelly’s wishes um on hero doses of Narcotics heroic doses um though you sneak up on that right you know so although that none of us would survive I don’t think the doses that she was receiving for yeah um even if we split them okay between the three of us uh um but um but that was a a scenario where where where I was really taking back and I’m saying well all right well this girl stood up on the gurnie and gave me a hug

if I remember correctly in the ER at the time of the mission and and and I’m saying okay well where does the DNR come from and and who who does not have a quality of life and and all of this piece and and uh and I had FR conversations with Mom that went kind of shockingly well um I think pal of care was was there with this when I had to tell her that I’m I’m not comfortable with this I cannot sign this DNR and and I told her I can’t trust you to tell me has no quality of life all right and uh and I think I probably said uh it

doesn’t matter who you are you know I’m not going to trust you to be the only voice for uh and tell me that uh that doesn’t uh he doesn’t deserve everything that we would offer for another child here um and we also talked about well what do you do in this scenario okay and uh and there were some meetings and I called an Ethics uh consult um and uh um uh and and had meetings with uh P of care and then eventually with a colleague who um uh took over her care because I I I just wasn’t comfortable with that scenario and and in those

conversations we talked about well what do you do with this right you know where you don’t know and and and I was clear about all right I don’t know uh intestinal failure has dismotility or not um and there is no test I could do to do that other than to challenge this and we had conversations and I don’t even remember who who was involved in which ones but uh about well okay you hospitalize well if you hospitalize and and a parent Kelly or otherwise is in that room at all okay well that’s not going to be a very good test right so

what do home and do another placement um and uh and wow that’s an enormous step I think the last admission there was uh close to despite the many the many hours that day um the uh there really was no um substantial discussion about um about signs or symptoms there it was it was really all about okay we have a DNR this is a horrible situation in my mind and um I don’t think we should have a DNR and I can’t find anyone who tell who could tell me why we should have a DNR um and I sought out people who and that was the

focus of the last admission and and in the end uh you know I remember very very uncomfortable with situation care I mean I’ve never been in a situation where I refuse somebody’s care I’ve never heard of that before um yeah in October of 2019 Kelly Turner was indicted on 13 counts including first-degree murder CA and fraud Kelly began using GoFundMe site commonly used for individuals to help fund Medical treatments and Associated costs she made 100 updates between July of 2015 and August of 2017 and raised a total of $

22,27 from 161 donors she won our hearts is bat princess Olivia Gant living out her wish as a superhero on a make a wish Day in 2017 now her mother is fighting charges that she faked her daughter’s illness and murdered the girl when a living was 7 years old I’m Alan Jana that woman Kelly Turner was in court this morning where a judge reduced her bond but her attorneys came out firing say they have doctors ready to dispute the prosecution’s case r rck Salinger is covering Colorado First and joins us from the Douglas County Justice Center

and Rick this is a very emotional case good afternoon alen it certainly is given that it involves the death of a little girl but today’s hearing dealt strictly with Bond the prosecution asked for a $4 million Bond while the defense wanted $110,000 the judge settled at a quar million do Bond Kelly Turner has been held for 93 days without any bond at all now at least she has a chance to get out she is accused of falsely telling people that her daughter Olivia was terminally ill when she was not the mother raised

money for treatment with the help of the make a wish Foundation which through a bat princess party for Olivia police and fire departments granted her wishes Kelly Turner had a friend from Texas who came all the way from there and said that Turner was not truthful I don’t think she has I think she’s just mentally ill she you can’t believe anything she said everything that she has said to us is nothing what’s the truth we have found out since this has happened arraignment has now been set for February 28th at which time Turner will

enter a ple of guilty or not guilty the investigation into donor fraud led to information about make aish Foundation granting Olivia’s bat princess wish which was essentially a large party she had a limo ride a costume fancy decorations and props at a nice location Olivia dressed in a cave and a bat mask for an imaginary story in which she worked with Batman to save two princesses the cost for the adventure and party were over $1,000 further investigation showed that Jeff had been told to remove all three girls from his insurance despite a lack

of any claim denials or problems Kelly chose instead to enroll them in the Colorado’s Medicaid Program while signing up for this program she used an incorrect social security number and also applied for benefits for her husband who was not even present in Colorado at the time when supplied with accurate data Medicaid estimates that it was overpaid around $540,000 in addition Kelly solicited donations from several individuals to proactively assist with Olivia’s funeral expenses a local Colorado real estate industry

supported a foundation called professional Miracles Foundation specifically for families with extremely ill children Mike Dugen a local realtor personally gave Kelly a check for $3,000 which was deposited in her account in mid August the he Bower Funeral Home in sevenstone Cemetery both reported that they never received any payment from Kelly faced with 13 counts including first-degree murder CA and fraud Kelly decided to cut a deal with the prosecution as part of the arrangement Kelly pled guilty to negligent CA

causing death theft and charitable fraud in January of 2022 as a result she was sentenced to a total of just 16 years behind bars to this day Kelly Turner still maintains her innocence Olivia was buried at the sevenstone Chatfield Cemetery in Littleton Colorado her headstone which was essentially a large Rock Bears the simple inscription always be joyful as well as a reference to first Thessalonians 5:116 this verse reads Rejoice always pray continually give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus

descriptions of her despite her heavy burden show how appropriate this epap was she loved to wear princess dresses instead of hospital gowns and became a beloved figure around Children’s Hospital Colorado her grandfather spoke to the media referring to his little granddaughter as a joy to be around she was so energetic so loving and caring she loved life so much he’s understandably heartbroken by Olivia’s loss and advocated for mandatory reporting by hospitals to be revamped simply saying I want to know why nobody

reported a concern and that the policy the hospital had has to be changed to protect other children