Andrea Dunlop
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She says to the paramedics, apparently, she said to the paramedics that she, you know, this happened really early in the morning at like 5.30 in the morning, she said that she heard screaming and crying and went into the room and found the baby on the floor.
In the version she tells in Serial, she said she was woken up by a thud when the baby fell to the floor.
I mean, those are two quite different stories.
You know, it's not a matter of like one sort of element.
Yeah, so she claims that she...
Was, I think, asleep on the couch.
And it's not totally clear from description where the bassinet was.
But, you know, it was a very young baby.
It was seven weeks old.
So the baby was in the bassinet.
And then says that she awoke to this noise and that the baby was on the floor next to the bassinet.
And then her two-year-old was in the bassinet.
And so she was saying, you know, she, I guess, is painting this picture.
And it made me very uncomfortable how much she...
took pains to blame this situation on the child throughout this episode and that's sort of a whole separate thing but like um you know that the two-year-old had i guess thrown the baby i mean it wasn't like that the bassinet tipped over with both of them in it like that the the two-year-old had sort of i guess chucked the seven-week-old out of the bassinet which again you know having having little kids in this time of my life being really relatively recent um
I don't know if that's impossible, but it's a strange story.
Just after my interview with Randy, we obtained a copy of Amanda Cernofsky's lawsuit.
And in reading Amanda's account of this incident, I caught yet another discrepancy, giving us a total of three versions of the story.
According to news reports from the time, Cernofsky told paramedics that she was out of the room when the fall happened and came in when she heard crying.
The story Amanda tells in the media is that she awoke to a thud and found the baby on the floor with its onesie undone, and that her toddler was sitting in the bassinet, which would indicate that the baby was pushed or tossed out.