Chapter 5: "He's hurt my daughter"

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A family reckons with the consequences of long-kept secrets.

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0:00.0	A warning to listeners. This episode contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.
0:14.0	I'm Amy Britton and this is Canary, an investigative podcast from the Washington Post.
0:30.0	Chapter 5. He's Hurt My Daughter.
0:37.0	Hey, Carol. Can you hear me?
0:40.0	Amy?
0:41.0	Yeah. Hey, you there.
0:43.0	Yeah, I'm here. What's going on?
0:46.0	Yeah, I really have been having a hard time just over the past few weeks. You know, just kind of a feeling of feeling more and more overwhelmed.
0:51.0	And kind of tired and anxious.
0:56.0	I was standing in the middle of the newsroom when Carol called me. The tone of her voice was deeply concerning, so I quickly walked into a private room and shut the door.
1:05.0	She told me that she had just left a session with her therapist, Felix. They had spent years in the room.
1:12.0	Mostly about how Carol felt upset that they weren't willing to speak with me for this story.
1:17.0	I had tried to interview Janet and Jean, but they still weren't willing to talk about Carol's allegations.
1:22.0	I guess I really haven't felt very supportive by them, and that just brought up a lot of those old feelings that I had to say.
1:29.0	I was really excited to hear that. I was really excited to hear that.
1:34.0	I was really excited to hear that. I was really excited to hear that.
1:39.0	I had brought up a lot of those old feelings that I had about not feeling centered.
1:44.0	You know, at the time that he molested me, I don't want to hurt them, and it feels like I can't make it clear to them no matter how much I talk to them about it.
1:56.0	You know, this whole thing about the anniversary, taking place, and being in conflict with the story, kind of coming out.
2:08.0	And I was just haunted by my mother, kind of losing her cool when we were talking about her going on the record and her sort of crying out to me.
2:17.0	I just don't want my anniversary to be all about you, you know? And that hurt my feelings so bad, and I'm not saying that I'm not going to do the story or that I don't want to do the story.
2:30.0	But what would it look like if I went to Amy and said, you know, I've changed my mind, I don't want to do this.
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