S05 Ep04: When the Cameras are On

Nobody Should Believe Me

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True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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From corporate sponsorships to fundraisers large and small, Sophie Hartman was an expert at raising money for C’s various medical devices, mobility aids, and specialized treatments. But were any of these things actually needed? We hear audio from the police interviews of Sophie’s next door neighbors and a school aide who note that they rarely saw C in her wheelchair. We also take a closer look at C’s diagnoses with friend-of -the-show (our not-so-secret Florida doctor) Dr. Bex, joins us briefly to explain the process that pediatricians go through to provide a clinical diagnosis to their patients. We take a closer look at the narrative Sophie weaves on Instagram, documenting her daughter C’s medical journey on both her personal account and where she posts relentlessly about C’s health and includes pictures of her G-Tube and Cecostomy Tube. We listen to reports from both Sophie’s mother and father stating that C had no trouble eating by mouth, and we’re joined by Dr. Jill Glick, a Child Abuse Pediatrician from the University of Chicago, who explains why a child who can eat normally but still has a G-Tube, as requested by a parent, is incredibly troubling. *** Links and Resources: More about Dr. Jill Glick: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/jill-c-glick Preorder Andrea and Mike’s new book The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy Catch Andrea and Mike at their Seattle Book Launch Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrea-dunlop-and-mike-weber-the-mother-next-door-tickets-1097661478029 Learn more about our featured non-profit and mutual aid organizations: https://www.nobodyshouldbelieveme.com/nsbm-supports/ Check out You Probably Think This Story's About You: https://brittaniard.com/podcast 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 ethical true crime 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 about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media. Before we begin, a quick warning that in this show, we discussed child abuse,
0:11.6	and this content may be difficult for some listeners. If you or anyone you know is a victim or survivor
0:17.0	of medical child abuse, please go to munchausensupport.com to connect with professionals
0:21.3	who can help.
0:23.9	On New Year's Eve 2009, three years to the day, when my sister dramatically lost the
0:30.9	twin pregnancy that never was, my very real nephew arrived significantly ahead of schedule.
0:37.6	Premature births are a nearly ubiquitous detail in these cases, and as in other cases I've seen,
0:43.3	this birth was followed by a cascade of problems around his eating and his development.
0:48.3	For months, my parents and I had this terrible feeling that something was off, but I remember it being so hard to nail
0:55.8	down. Megan is very smart, and she was a nurse for some period of time, so she would explain
1:01.3	everything about my nephew's health in a way that would be extremely hard to question. And her
1:06.6	version of things was usually the only version we had because she rarely let anyone else go to the
1:12.3	doctor with her. And then, for reasons I will never know, she finally did let my mother go to one of
1:18.6	my nephew's gastroenterologist's appointments with her. And it was during this appointment that a
1:23.9	thread came loose that ended up unraveling the whole thing. At this point, my nephew was
1:29.6	still in the first year of his life, and he'd been diagnosed as failure to thrive, meaning that
1:34.3	he wasn't gaining weight as he should have been. And because of this, he had a nasal gastric
1:39.0	feeding tube, i.e. a feeding tube that went in through his nose. Megan had been telling us that her son was
1:44.9	going to need a surgically implanted G-tube, but during this appointment, my mom was sitting in the
1:50.1	room when the doctor told Megan the opposite, that they should give my nephew more time with a less
1:55.6	invasive tube. They wanted to be judicious, for obvious reasons, about rushing an infant into a surgical
2:01.5	procedure.
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