Evil By Design Introduces | The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby

Evil By Design

CBC

True Crime

4.8 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kaitlyn Braun, a pregnant young woman in crisis, takes dozens of birth workers through an escalating series of disasters – rape, baby loss, and even a coma. One by one, the doulas struggle to support her and grieve with her, and even save her life as they’re led down a distressing path. And then the truth comes out.

In this six-part true crime series, Sarah Treleaven untangles a complex web of lies and deception to ask who Kaitlyn really is and why she did the things that she did. Cases like these puzzle legal experts and raise intricate moral and ethical questions. This is not your average con. Kaitlyn is not your usual scammer.

Kaitlyn's Baby is Season 2 of The Con — a podcast exposing the art of deception — from CBC and the BBC World Service. Season 1 - the critically acclaimed catfishing quest, Love, Janessa, launched in January 2023.

Content warning: The latest season of The Con contains references to medical emergencies, including baby loss. We also deal with sexual assault and there is some strong language.

More episodes are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/iTaJCR

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:08.1	Hi, I'm Sarah Treleven.
0:10.8	I'm a writer, producer, and host of the brand new podcast, The Con, Caitlin's Baby.
0:16.8	In a TikTok video uploaded in March of 2023, an Ontario doula shares a warning for her fellow birth workers.
0:25.9	A serial pregnancy faker is on the loose, pulling unsuspecting doulas into nightmarish scenarios.
0:33.1	This person is not and has never been pregnant.
0:37.3	By the time Caitlin Braun was arrested and charged with multiple counts of fraud, harassment,
0:43.0	and sexual assault, she had enlisted dozens of doulas in multiple countries.
0:50.2	Caitlin took these doulas through an escalating series of disasters.
0:55.1	Pregnancy loss, a hysterectomy, cancer diagnosis, rape, and even a coma,
1:00.6	as they struggled to help her, grieve with her, and even save her life.
1:06.1	This story takes the interest in women's health care experiences and turns it on its head, asking what happens when it's the patient who's the perpetrator?
1:16.2	Now, here's the first episode of The Con, Caitlin's Baby, The Barking Dog.
1:22.6	Have a listen.
1:26.7	A warning.
1:28.3	This story contains references to medical emergencies, including baby loss.
1:33.4	We also deal with sexual assault, and there is some strong language.
1:37.7	Please take care.
1:48.1	It's a Friday night in November 2022.
1:52.3	Amy Perry is at home, in a town just west of Toronto, Canada.
1:53.8	And she's sick.
1:57.4	It was fighting an RSV virus that was going around.
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