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Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

She said, I wanna tell you about one more case from Florida because it's the clearest example I found of someone trying to challenge Dr. Jensen before a family was affected by a separation and attempted check on her power.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And so the case was from 2012, 2011.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Again, there is no details about who this family was, anything, any information about them, just this caseworker's recollections.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

But I could tell by the way this caseworker describes it that he has no idea what he's talking about.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Um, for instance, he says, uh, you know, I couldn't figure out why, uh, why she was calling this abuse.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And he said, where she saw abuse, I felt that abuse would have been medical neglect if she hadn't taken him to the hospital.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

I don't have a teenager, so I don't know what it's like to have a teenager.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

So he's saying this mom was taking her child to the hospital.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

So how could this be abuse?

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Um, can you just kind of help us address, address the misunderstandings that this case worker appears to have about what Munchausen by proxy abuse is?

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Well, it sounds like that happened and they took him off the case and he was mad about it.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And like, I just, as a journalist, I mean, as a journalist, this just wouldn't pass muster as an anecdote because you've got someone that can't remember any of the specifics of the case.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

They're not presenting you with documentation.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Yeah.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And then there was one other anecdote that she, you know, this is again, I'm sort of including these because this is all she found in two years of reporting on this case or all she found that suited this narrative.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

She certainly found many other things as we've had sort of evidence of, but.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

So she said, I spoke with David Abramowitz.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Is that a name you recognize?

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

I guess he was the regional director of Department of Children and Families at the time.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

She said he was responsible for all Northeast Florida, including Gainesville.