No One is Coming to Save Us

Nobody Should Believe Me

True Story Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In our season four finale, we talk about what justice looks like for survivors of abuse and how to recover from the loss of an abusive parent. We examine the importance of confronting the reality of what happened as a crucial first step in a survivor’s healing and ask what feels like an impossible question–when the systems fail, as they so often do–what do you do about someone like Jo’s mom Donna? *** Links/Resources: Preorder Andrea's new book The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy Click here to view our sponsors. Remember that using our codes helps advertisers know you’re listening and helps us keep making the show! Subscribe on YouTube where we have full episodes and lots of bonus content. Follow Andrea on Instagram for behind-the-scenes photos: @andreadunlop Buy Andrea's books here. To support the show, go to Patreon.com/NobodyShouldBelieveMe or subscribe on Apple Podcasts where you can get all episodes early and ad-free and access exclusive bonus content. For more information and resources on Munchausen by Proxy, please visit MunchausenSupport.com The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s MBP Practice Guidelines can be downloaded here. Learn more and follow therapist Carly Oster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we begin, a quick warning that in this show we discuss child abuse, and this content may be difficult for some listeners.
0:07.0	If you or anyone you know is a victim or survivor of medical child abuse, please go to munchausen support to connect with professionals who can help.
0:17.1	Like many of us, I have extremely complicated feelings
0:20.7	about the criminal justice system. I'm intrigued by and interested in
0:24.5	alternatives from restorative justice to the abolitionist movement. But in the world
0:29.6	as it is, the world that we do have, I think it's crucial to pursue criminal
0:34.0	investigations of people like Joe's mom Donna and of my sister. There was never a
0:39.4	criminal investigation into Donna for her abuse Joe, and there should have been.
0:44.0	There was one into my sister, a two-year-long police investigation, in fact, that was ultimately
0:49.6	referred to the prosecutor's office.
0:52.2	However, by that time, as often happens in these cases,
0:55.0	family court had already returned her children, so no charges were ever filed,
1:00.0	and that meant that my sister, like Donna, like most perpetrators, never suffered any consequences for her actions.
1:08.0	Megan wasn't even ever truly separated from her kids for any length of time because her children were placed with
1:14.1	her in-laws during the investigation and they let her be with them unsupervised pretty
1:18.6	much all day every day despite the court's orders. So this is just all to say that I'm not here
1:24.1	to defend the systems we do have.
1:26.1	Why would I when they failed my family so completely?
1:29.4	So I'm all in for conversations about change,
1:32.4	about restorative justice, about community building,
1:35.1	about looking for solutions outside
1:37.2	of the extraordinarily fraught child welfare
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