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Do No Harm

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Do No Harm

Wondery | NBC News

News, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.77.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Melissa and Dillon believe if they just tell the truth, Child Protective Services will see they aren’t a danger to their children. But the state of Texas isn’t just going to take their word for it. Not after the horror story that unfolded in another family a year earlier.

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Inside a windowless conference room at Texas Children's Hospital, Melissa Bright set facing

0:21.7

Lovar Jones.

0:22.7

We went back and forth, and I think that they wanted to both hear the sides of story from

0:27.1

Dylan and myself and asked very questions.

0:30.1

Melissa's husband, Dylan, was down the hall with another child protective services investigator,

0:35.1

answering questions about what happened a day earlier to their infant son, Mason.

0:39.1

Make sure that we had the same story and similar answers and how we described who Mason

0:44.6

was as a child, how we described our marriage, how we described each other as a mom or a dad.

0:51.1

Melissa told Lovar the same story she told Dylan a day earlier.

0:55.2

While she left Mason on a lawn chair and turned away for just a moment before hearing his

1:00.4

scream, as she spoke, Lovar scribbled notes to be typed up later and added to the Bright's

1:06.4

official case file.

1:08.6

Worker spoke with Melissa Bright.

1:10.7

She states that while changing Charlotte, she heard Mason screaming to the top of his lungs.

1:15.5

She states that she would never do anything to harm her children.

1:19.4

After an hour of questioning, Lovar told both Melissa and Dylan this was just the beginning

1:24.0

of their investigation.

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