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🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Vera hadn't had it easy; she was a vulnerable woman who had coped with ADHD, serious learning difficulties and sexual abuse all her life. At the age of 22 she began dating a 16 year old boy named Zachary Brooks. And while this may sound predatory, it wasn't Vera who was the dangerous one. It was the matriarch of the Brooks family - Cheri Brooks aka "Sugar Babe".
When Vera got pregnant, Cheri's determination to meet her grandchild created a horrifyingly dangerous situation for the young mother.
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0:58.0 | I'm Hannah, I'm Sarooty and welcome to Redhanded. Oh my god, I fucking, my brain is just, has given up. |
1:09.0 | It's because you know what's about to come, it's because you know what's about to come. And welcome to Redhanded. |
1:15.0 | We've got a listener request this week, so we are watching what you post in the group in case you think that we're not, I look at basically all of it. |
1:23.0 | But we'd actually never heard anything about this case until someone posted it in the Facebook group. |
1:30.0 | So before we get going, I am going to issue a warning, but like a sadness warning, a lot of vulnerable people get hurt this week. |
1:39.0 | If that's something you find particularly difficult, maybe this week is not for you. |
1:42.0 | Because this week we are dealing with incest, child abuse, torture, a miscarriage of justice, |
1:48.0 | piss poor child protection services, a pig living in a cupboard and a murder. |
1:54.0 | So you have been warned abandoned hope, or you who enter here, honestly, like it's going to get really bad. |
1:59.0 | And I really enjoyed when you were listing what's coming up in this episode where you really put the emphasis, a pig living in a cupboard. |
2:06.0 | The incest, the rape, the torture, but there's a pig living in a cupboard. |
2:11.0 | I think I'm developing quite an unhealthy obsession with pigs. |
2:14.0 | Like I've just been like reading all about pigs all day. |
2:17.0 | Good research, show research by a tour ticket. |
2:19.0 | And I watch loads of videos about Coco the Gorilla. |
2:22.0 | Whatever it takes, we've got to stay sane. |
2:25.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
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