Andrea Dunlop

And I would say, like, if I'm a parent that brings my child in with an injury that might look suspicious and I'm innocent, I want a child abuse pediatrician to evaluate it.

They're the best person to make that evaluation.

Yeah.

I asked Randy about the Amanda Cernofsky case featured in Serial's third episode, which Neary positions as being, quote, obscured by a giant question mark, end quote.

There was a history of abuse in this household and positive abuse findings by doctors and child welfare services.

Not to mention that Dr. Jensen wasn't the one who even made this diagnosis, but rather the doctor who confirmed it.

Yeah, and the stories were markedly different.

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.