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Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

EP 115 - Facilitated Communication (Kevin Plantan)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

At one point, Kevin Plantan thought facilitated communication would be the cure which enabled his non-verbal autistic daughter to communicate. But as he sat in an interrogation room, reading the accusations his daughter supposedly made, Plantan realized the widely debunked practice would soon land him in jail. Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. https://www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson https://www.amandaknox.com Bluesky: @amandaknox.com | @wisecracker.bsky.social IG: @amamaknox | @emceecarbon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The experience felt like being

0:37.6

like everything just goes into like slow motion right

0:43.7

but the worst part of it was

0:46.7

I sit down with the cop

0:49.6

and I give him my phone I give him my iTunes password I'm like

0:53.4

what's going on?

0:55.2

He's like, this is a letter your daughter wrote to you, you know, about she misses you

1:01.2

and, you know, she wants to move back.

1:04.0

You know, it was just one of the letters she had written to me.

1:06.4

She's like, I'm like, yeah.

1:08.2

She's, and he's like, so you know she, she can type, right? And I'm like, yeah. She's and he's like, so you know she she can type right and I'm like, yeah.

1:16.1

I'm like, I believe it. I choose to believe it. I said, but unfortunately I just found out that her teachers don't think so. You know, and then he says,

1:31.9

he shows me something else she's written. And he says, well, you've raped her. You're a rapist.

1:38.0

And she's writing about it and all this shit. And you know, the worst feeling at that point was,

1:45.0

I'm like, I'm just sitting there.

1:47.4

And all I could think was, oh my God, she really can't type.

1:51.5

I hated that.

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