Spotlight Series: Stalking Australia: She ain't no Mary Poppins

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Another instalment of our Spotlight series, where we showcase one of our favourite podcasts.

Stalking is prevalent in Australia. There are hundreds of cases reported every year. These people’s existence have been besieged by a stalker. Survivors often are voiceless and have no place to tell their stories. This podcast is giving a voice to these victims. A place to tell their stories. Hopefully we can help others who are in this terrible situation to fight back.

Bringing up children is a hard job any day of the week. But throw into the mix two young children with maladaptive behaviour, and a young mother who has just undergone spinal surgery, leaving her in a wheelchair during recuperation. Now, what was needed here was a nanny who could fly in like Mary Poppins and help Shannon with the children and chores. What flew in was a mother's worst nightmare.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	This podcast contains description of violence and a few F-forms are dropped normally by me. Therefore it's not suitable for children.
0:39.0	I'm criminologist Anne McMahon. Welcome to Stocking, Australia.
0:45.0	Bringing up children is a hard job any day of the week.
0:51.0	A throw into the mix two young children with maladaptive behavior and a
0:56.0	young mother who's just undergone spinal surgery leaving her in a wheelchair during
1:00.1	recuperation. Now what was needed here was a nanny who would fly in like Mary Poppins
1:05.9	and help Shannon with the children and chores. What flew in was a mother's worst nightmare. Hi Shannon, how are you?
1:19.0	Hi Shannon, how are you?
1:20.0	Thank you so much for joining me today. Hi, how are you? Thank you so much for joining me today.
1:23.0	Hi, how are you?
1:24.0	Yeah, I'm great, thank you.
1:26.0	Let's just get right into it Shannon.
1:28.0	Where were you in your life when you met your stalker?
1:32.0	I, it was, I met her on the 20th of April, 2018.
1:38.0	She, I had just had spinal surgery on the 8th of April and I needed help looking after my disabled
1:46.2	children. So I looked on the website we need a nanny.com and she came over I gave her the job and yeah it started on the 20th of April
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