The Therapist

Carrie Jade Does Not Exist

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Carrie Jade Williams, Scandal, Scam, Tiktok, Documentary, Sue Perkins, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Who would you entrust your children with? How would you feel if you found out that the woman looking after your kids wasn't qualified to provide the therapy she claimed to be an expert in?

In this episode, Sue Perkins and Katherine Denkinson meet Lucy and Rebecca, mysterious child therapists who moved to small towns in Ireland claiming to be therapists for disabled children. But Lucy and Rebeca weren't who they said they were, and the story behind the 'therapy' they provided was much darker than anybody could have predicted.

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you
0:08.3	slide by on track to your
0:15.0	there,
0:20.0	the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.
0:21.0	This is how travels should feel and on our trains it does.
0:25.0	Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Finding good child care is hard. It's expensive. There aren't always spaces and it's even more difficult when your child has additional needs and requires
0:44.8	specialist care. One in ten children around the world are classed as disabled.
0:51.2	Most live at home and are cared for by their parents,
0:54.7	but that's not always possible due to work commitments and the needs of their other children.
1:00.0	I had a three-year-old little girl requiring 24-7 care around the clock.
1:04.3	These the words of Lynn who shared her story last year. In this episode
1:10.2	all of her comments will be read by an actress.
1:14.0	As a single parent with two young daughters, Lynn stayed at home to look after her youngest child.
1:19.0	At that stage, she was having multiple seizures on a daily basis.
1:23.0	Her medical needs required extra attention and Lynn wasn't sure about getting extra help
1:27.6	yet.
1:28.6	I was the type of parent who was still terrified every day of losing her,
1:33.0	unless it was a palliative or pediatric nurse, no-go.
1:38.0	Because there's something uniquely stressful about putting the well-being of your child
1:42.0	into the hands of, well a stranger.
1:45.0	Finding the right care of your child can be nerve-wracking and when getting it wrong
1:51.0	can be the difference between life and death.
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