Kaitlyn's Baby | Episode 5: It gets worse

The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby

CBC + BBC World Service

True Crime

4.2 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We learn that Kaitlyn is a registered social worker and are told a story that breaks from her pattern of targeting caregivers. A mother tells Sarah that Kaitlyn used her position of trust and authority as a social worker to wrongly accuse a child. And Sarah speaks to a representative of the sector’s regulatory body about how they are handling her case. Meanwhile the justice system has been processing her charges and Kaitlyn enters her plea.

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0:00.0	1942, Europe.
0:03.4	Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods.
0:07.3	They make him a member of Hitler's army.
0:11.0	But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish.
0:16.0	Could a story so unbelievable be true?
0:20.7	I'm Dan Goberg and from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier.
0:26.0	Available now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	A BBC World Service and CBC podcast production.
0:34.6	A warning. This episode references sexual assault. Wilfred Laurier University, named after Canada's
0:46.2	7th Prime Minister, has a Latin motto, Veritas Omnia Vincent. Truth conquers all. Its faculty of social work has been educating and
0:56.3	mentoring prospective social workers since 1966, and every year new graduates enter the
1:02.5	workforce ready to help vulnerable people make their lives better. In 2020, one of
1:09.2	those graduates was Caitlin Braun.
1:14.4	That's right. Caitlin Braun was a licensed social worker at the time of her arrest.
1:21.8	If you scroll back through Caitlin's mother's Facebook page, there are pictures of her daughter
1:27.4	in her cap and gown.
1:29.6	And Caitlin has also posted to her own social media, standing proudly with her fellow
1:34.6	graduates in front of a massive sign on campus that reads, inspiring lives.
1:46.9	I don't know where it's stemmed from, but I feel like she really, she liked to be needed.
1:54.8	With her degree in hand, Caitlin worked with youth in crisis and women seeking shelter.
2:01.1	Asia, Caitlin's childhood friend, remembers Caitlin telling her harrowing stories,
2:06.4	stories that she now wonders if they were even true.
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