In a statement to the court on Wednesday, Mr. Gautreau said he did not learn until after Olivia’s death that she may not have been sick.
“This truth about Olivia has caused such a deep pain that it continues to ravage me every day,” he said.
In August 2021, Mr. Gautreau settled a civil case with Children’s Hospital Colorado, where Olivia went for treatments, for an undisclosed amount, Ms. Hoskins said.
In 2018, a year after Olivia died, Ms. Turner had been bringing in another daughter for treatments that were not “medically necessary,” causing local doctors and welfare workers to be concerned, prosecutors said. They tipped off law enforcement officials once they found out that Olivia had died from a “mysterious, untreatable illness.”
The other daughter improved after she was “moved from Turner’s care,” prosecutors said.
Ms. Turner was arrested in 2019 after a yearlong investigation by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, which found that she had a long history of presenting doctors with false diagnoses while soliciting financial support from charities, individuals and the government.
While Olivia was in treatment, Ms. Turner sought donations to cover her daughter’s medical expenses, prosecutors said. She had raised $22,270 through GoFundMe and from 2014 to 2018 had received more than $500,000 from Medicaid, among other funds.
Olivia was also made to participate in heartwarming news media appearances. Six months before her death, her transformation into a superhero bat princess through the Make-a-Wish Foundation was captured on a local TV station. She drew national attention when she fulfilled her wish to be a police officer and a firefighter for a day.
