Andrea Dunlop

And I had a wonderful gal on the show, Chalice, who was very close friends with the perpetrator, Sophie Hartman, that we covered in season five, found the show while we were reporting on it, reached out to us, and she described kind of her process of coming around on it.

And she said she'd been in Sophie's life through this entire investigation and gone to court with her and defended her to everyone she knew.

She described it as when Sophie was her focus, when the perpetrator was her focus, she could believe all of it.

The doctors are out to get her.

She just says everyone's got her wrong.

You know, blah, blah, blah.

They just don't understand her kid's unique health issue.

And she said, but once the children came into focus...

then she couldn't believe any of it anymore.

And she actually looked at what the children were being put through.

And so I think that's what everyone in the situation needs to do.

Think about what the child is actually experiencing here.

Yeah, that is extremely common.

That's what happened in my family.

And this was during the second investigation into my sister for her second child.

And they were placed with family members who were not protective and did not believe that my sister was abusing her kids.

They told the police immediately.

The grandfather on that side told the police this is a witch hunt, just like last time.

So it really couldn't have been more clear that they were not going to protect the kids from Megan.

And indeed, what came out was they were letting Megan spend 11 hours a day at the house, even though she was supposed to be separated from them.