Myrriah Gossett
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Because it was one of the first seasons that, Andrea, as you mentioned, that we didn't have cooperation of either a survivor or a family member who was involved in a sort of wanting to tell this story. But we saw how it was important because it was talking about larger system failures, right?
And how this type of abuse is misunderstood specifically in the court systems, I think was like a big driver for this season. And so to have Chalice around to make sure, Not even to make sure, but just like in my mind, I kept being like, we're making the season for Chalice.
Like that was like a driving force was to be like, this is a person who has listened and has been had a revelation about a person who was so close to them and how hard that must have been for her to go through and to. Luckily, she does have a really lovely support system around her with her fiance and other mental health professionals in her sphere.
But I wanted to make sure she walked away listening to the season and was like, okay, I have made...
the correct decision because as we always say we literally go in and we're like what else could it be like through halfway through reporting i was like this kid might have ahc and there's all these other things on top of it that are kind of like you know abuse patterns munchausen by proxy behavior patterns but maybe they're you know it's always this like push pull and then there's eventually the like
big reveal aha moment that happens, unfortunately, because I would love to get to the bottom of a season and be like, you know what, this kid is really sick. Oh, my God. Like, let's talk about this. Like, that would be incredible, you know, but yeah.
a misunderstanding or, you know, failures of the medical system and trying to get that, you know, like I've been listening to a lot of Kate Downey's season of cramped. I don't know if y'all are listening to that show, but it's about her journey about period pain. And it's so fascinating.
And it is kind of delving into those like issues around the medical system, specifically around reproductive health. And so you're like, this is not, you know, these barrels are not that far apart from each other of the containers of what's happening in these broken ways that specifically United States healthcare system and the way that we investigate child abuse, right?
Like there's systemic failures across the board. But for Chalice, it was like a way for us to make sure in my mind that I had kind of a guiding North Star of like, I want to make sure Chalice feels by the end of this season
that her talking to us was not going to affect her life in a negative way moving forward, that she felt like she got to walk with us on this journey and have a sense of, I hate to use the word peace because it's not peace because it doesn't feel fully resolved, right? But at least has resources and tools to help her find other ways to help other people in her sphere or to
find ways to help the girls if at all possible, which, yeah, that was our hope at one point, which didn't quite come to fruition.
Yeah, I think I'm like a really micro level is being a safe adult for any kids that are in your orbit and in your community, because that is like step one of just like, if a kid feels like they can actually talk to you, that can be a really powerful tool for prevention of all kinds of
The second thing that I've been ruminating on a lot, especially going now working on season six is the importance of having child abuse pediatricians at local hospitals and having and really like if you have any.
Ways to volunteer at your hospital or you they have board meetings, anything like that to just really advocate to have a system in place at your local hospital and to make sure that there are people who are trained specifically to recognize this type of abuse, I think.
As Greta mentioned, there's an idea that is really rare, and I've said this multiple times when we interviewed Detective Michael from Texas. He gave us a stat that I, for my own mental health, had to immediately erase from my mind about how prevalent like child sexual abuse is now and how back in the 70s it was viewed as this thing that was very rare. It didn't happen. It was strangers.
And that is so not the case right now that we all are more aware of that. Right. And so he thinks where we were with the stats in the 70s around child sexual abuse is where We'll eventually get to when it comes to medical child abuse. And like when we talked to the child abuse pediatrician on the show this season, she mentioned, you know, it's her job to find that it's anything else.
Like that's her job as well. And she's like, and so often it's there's medical neglect, which is usually due to lack of resources, as Andrea mentioned. And then there's actual neglect. medical child abuse. And so you want someone who knows those differences and can discuss those nuances and say, hey, this isn't a parent that needs their kid taken away.
This is a parent that needs support and resources because they can't bring their kid to the doctor, right? Versus someone with factitious disorder who's using their kid as a part of their mental health disorder. So, yeah. So I think it's like you can advocate for better systems in place at your local hospitals to help recognize and flag this abuse when it's happening.
And then, yeah, be a safe adult for the kids in your community and around you.
Have you seen that meme that was like, why don't we ever get like, you know, there's a tradition of British television getting an American adaptation, but there's very rarely an American show that gets a British adaptation. And it was like the opening scene of Breaking Bad. And it was just them being like, yeah, here's your chemotherapy for your cancer. And then it was like full credits.
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