She Wanted My Baby For Herself

Unfiltered Stories

On today's episode of Unfiltered Stories, our guest Angelique Robledo shares the story of her pregnancy with us. After she becomes friends with a new girl, she starts to see some of the suspicious behavior she shows. She keeps feeling so uneasy and unsafe around this friend. One day, Angelique's house catches fire, and police let her know her friend's real intentions. They tell Angelique she survived attempted fetal abduction and things could have gotten so much verse. She now shares her story to inspire others to let go of their fears and start healing.   #Survivor #Abduction #FetalAbduction   Follow Angelique here:  IG: https://www.instagram.com/angelique.monet92/  TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@angeliquemonet0   Thank you for watching Unfiltered Stories! We offer a platform for our guests to speak openly about their life stories and journeys, shedding light on the challenges they faced and the resilience they've shown.   Our mission is to raise awareness about survivors by delving into their stories, exploring the impact of their experiences, and how they've managed to heal and rebuild their lives.  By sharing these stories, we aim to break the silence surrounding those challenging memories and create a compassionate environment.   🌅 FOLLOW US 🌅  Facebook ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredFB  Tiktok ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredTT  Snapchat ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredSN

Transcript

00:00My name is Angelica Robledo and I am a survivor of attempted fetal abduction.

00:04When I was 17 years old, I got pregnant in a small town called Maricopa.

00:11I had a friend of mine, she introduced me to another girl and she said,

00:16I think that you guys would get along because you're pregnant, she's pregnant,

00:20she's new to our town, so let's go ahead and introduce you guys.

00:25Everything seemed normal, everything seemed fine, I got to meet her.

00:28It was like the week of Valentine's Day, so that week, I remember she kept asking me to come to

00:34her house.

00:34Very specifically, she wanted me to come to her.

00:38Is there any way that you can come to my house?

00:40I'll bake you food, I'll bake you cookies.

00:44She was trying to bribe me into coming over, which wasn't very hard because I was pregnant and food was

00:51great.

00:52My mom was like, why don't you just invite her here?

00:54I was like, that is a great idea.

00:56So a few days went by and it's now February 16th.

01:00So she came over in the morning, somebody dropped her off, I don't know who.

01:05And she came over specifically because she wanted to give me gifts.

01:08I wasn't going to be rude and be like, oh, did you bring my gifts?

01:11We kind of just left it.

01:12The gifts actually didn't get brought up until like a lot later.

01:15Things did start to get weird later on.

01:17From what I remember, we were watching 16 and Pregnant with my mom.

01:21Our water were to break.

01:22We were to go straight into labor.

01:24Like these were conversations that got brought up with my mom.

01:26And she brought up a C-section.

01:28She goes, oh my gosh, like what would happen if we had to have like a C-section?

01:32What would happen?

01:33And she started really going into the discussion of the C-section.

01:37She was like, well, what do they do when you have a C-section?

01:39My mom had had a C-section with my brother.

01:41So she was able to give like specific details.

01:44I was very much wanting that specific detail.

01:47She stood up and asked my mom to show her where they cut for a C-section.

01:52So in a way, my mom didn't know that she was actually feeding information to her without

01:58actually knowing that that was happening.

02:00She called me lazy and wanted me to go to the park with her.

02:05And I did not want to go to the park.

02:07But this was something that she kept on asking me to do over and over.

02:11It wasn't like she was like, oh, let's go to the park.

02:13She would just like every hour and a half or so, she'd be like, oh, it's so beautiful

02:16outside.

02:17Like we should go for a walk.

02:18Like, are you sure you don't want to go to the park?

02:20And I would tell her, no, I don't want to.

02:23Like I'm nine months pregnant.

02:24I don't want to go for a walk.

02:26It is hot outside.

02:27It had gotten later, probably like around like four or so.

02:30My brothers had football practice and my mom was going to take me or my mom was going

02:36to take them to football practice.

02:37And she asked if we wanted to come.

02:39And I thought about it and I was like, all right.

02:41So I told her, yeah, let's go.

02:42Like, let's just go.

02:43I know you wanted to go for a walk.

02:45Let's go do it.

02:46And she immediately was like, oh, no, no, no, no.

02:48Like, I'm not feeling good.

02:50Can you just stay here?

02:51And I was just like, well, you just like called me lazy.

02:54We were left alone.

02:55That's when everything started to change.

02:57Everything that we're about to go into happened within like an hour span.

03:01So that is when the gifts came out.

03:03She got like really excited and was like, I have your gifts.

03:06And I was like, oh my gosh, you're my gifts.

03:09Like, I forgot about my gifts.

03:10Thanks so much.

03:11And she was like, OK, so you know how a normal person would do it.

03:13They would give you the present.

03:14No, I had a different way of doing it.

03:17She took my kitchen chair and sat it in the middle of my kitchen.

03:20And she was like, sit in the chair, like turn around, close your eyes.

03:23Like, I'm going to come up behind you and drop the baby gifts in your lap.

03:26I sat in the chair and I'm sitting there.

03:28And I start having these weird thoughts happening, like just weird things like she would come up behind me and

03:34she would drop a baby, like a baby gift in my lap.

03:36So like she was actually doing it.

03:38She dropped like a receiving blanket into my lap and then she would walk back and then she'd come back

03:42over and drop another gift into my lap.

03:44She continuously kept doing it.

03:45And the one thing weird about these presents was that none of them were wrapped and they reeked like cologne.

03:52So it smelled like a man had like rubbed all over his shirt.

03:56And then there was a knock at my door and it ends up being my best friend Skylar and his

04:00mom.

04:01So he came over and brought me some gifts and then she came outside and she came outside and she

04:07was like very like, who is this?

04:10And I was like, this is my friend Skylar.

04:12She almost had like a problem with the fact that like I had people at my house.

04:16So they end up leaving.

04:18And after they leave, she goes, I want to show you this light that I got you.

04:22And I was like, oh, you can just give it to me.

04:23Like, I know what they look like.

04:24She's like, no, I had this one specifically made.

04:27Like, it's specially made for Ryland, which is my son.

04:30So she's like, it's specially made for Ryland.

04:32And I'm like, huh, OK, like I can dig that.

04:35Like, that's cool.

04:36So like we go into my room and it is dark and she turns the lights off and then she

04:41goes, OK, so stand over there, turn around and close your eyes.

04:44And I'm like, well, why do I have to close my eyes?

04:46I was like, it's already dark.

04:46And she's like, I just want it to be a surprise for you.

04:48I'm going to go into my bag and get it.

04:50Just turn around.

04:50So I'm standing there and I'm turned around.

04:54I feel like I was going to get stabbed.

04:55I'm standing up and I'm looking at the wall.

04:57My bed is right beside me.

04:59I immediately tell her my back is hurting.

05:01So I'm going to sit on my bed.

05:02So I turn around this way and I'm sitting on my bed so that I can see her.

05:06Even though it's dark, you can still see the shadow.

05:09So it made me feel better.

05:10And right when I did that, she immediately got up and got behind me on my bed.

05:14And I was like, what are you doing?

05:16She was like, I just want to put it over your head because like what I'm going to do is

05:20I'm going to put it over your head like I did with the gifts.

05:22And it's going to shine and it's going to look so pretty like on the on the closet door.

05:26This is all just happening within like 20 seconds.

05:28And I'm sitting there with the phone to my chest.

05:30I am having these thoughts in my head telling me you're going to get stabbed.

05:33You're going to get stabbed like you're going to die.

05:35So she puts her hand on my shoulder and she goes, are you ready?

05:38And I was like, yeah, show me the gift.

05:40She leans me forward and I'm nine months pregnant.

05:42So my stomach is like hurled over and I'm like hurled over my stomach.

05:46I'm like, what are you doing?

05:47And she goes, one, two.

05:51And right when she says three, I turn around and I'm like and I like I jump up and I

05:57run to the like I run to like my my light and I turn the light switch on right when

06:01that happens.

06:02Her phone rings.

06:03The coincidences of her phone ringing right when that happened was bizarre because it distracted me.

06:11So she's on the phone and she starts speaking to somebody in Spanish and I'm staring at her and I'm

06:16just like like trying to think about what the heck just happened.

06:20Like obviously I did not get stabbed when she had turned to the three and I told I turned around.

06:25I couldn't see anything.

06:26She was putting something back into her bag.

06:28And when I turned the light on, she had already been standing up.

06:32So within seconds, she was able to put something back into her bag and stand up immediately.

06:35So I wasn't able to ever see an item.

06:38I was never able to see anything.

06:40All of a sudden she starts telling me, I go, so who was that on the phone?

06:43She goes, oh, it was Edwin, which is her husband.

06:46She went into the bathroom.

06:47She came out and she acted like her water had broke.

06:51So she had like water all over her pant.

06:53She was like, I think my water broke.

06:54Like, I don't know what's going on.

06:56Like, will you please come to the hospital with me?

06:57And I was like, um, okay, let me call my mom and just let her know where I'm at.

07:02Like, I have to tell my mom like what's going on.

07:04And so she started calling somebody and she was like, can you pick us up?

07:07I think my water broke.

07:09Okay, I'll see you in a little bit.

07:10Hung up.

07:10Looking back at all of this, she hadn't given my address.

07:14She hadn't said where she was at.

07:15So whoever this was that she called, she said it was her brother that she called, knew where

07:19I lived and was supposed to come get her and supposed to come get us because she wanted

07:22me to come to the hospital with her.

07:24I let her know that I would come to the hospital, but that I would have to tell my mom.

07:28So I started to get my phone out and to call my mom.

07:30And she immediately like backtracked and was like, wait, why do you have to call your mom?

07:34And I was like, well, I've got to tell her where I'm going.

07:36And she was like, well, let me make sure that I just didn't pee myself.

07:39And so she went into the bathroom and she came out like moments later and was like, I think

07:43it was just a false alarm.

07:44And she called that person back and was like, hey, nevermind.

07:47You don't have to get me.

07:48Okay, bye.

07:49Now she went inside my room.

07:51I came out.

07:52I started doing my nails and she was trying dresses on.

07:55And then when she opened the door, I went into my room at that point and I had smelled

07:59something.

08:00It's not like something was burning.

08:01I looked around and the candle was out and I was like, the candle was out and all of the

08:08wax was gone from the candle.

08:09And in my head, all I kept thinking was, she's starting my house on fire.

08:14She's starting my house on fire.

08:15I immediately go into panic mode.

08:18So I end up running out to the kitchen and I grabbed two big pots.

08:22I filled them up with water.

08:23I tell her to go help me put the fire out.

08:25I don't know what's going on at this point.

08:27I am just concerned on getting the fire out.

08:29I pick my phone up.

08:30I call the last, instead of calling 9-1-1, which I know I should have called 9-1-1.

08:33I call the last person that called me.

08:35I just press send, send, send, send, send.

08:37And the send button called Skylar.

08:39So I'm like screaming, my house is on fire.

08:42Call 9-1-1.

08:42Like I'm just screaming at him, like call 9-1-1.

08:45He came over immediately.

08:46He already called 9-1-1.

08:47I don't think I called 9-1-1.

08:49I think I just trusted the fact that he was going to call 9-1-1 for me.

08:52So I'm just focused on putting the fire out.

08:54I put the fire out and at this point, our whole, my whole like bedroom is filled with

09:00smoke and I am like coughing and coughing and coughing and I don't know where she was

09:06at at this point, but I do remember that I grabbed her and I yanked her outside.

09:10Like I dragged her outside because we were both like, like bent over coughing.

09:15And so I grabbed her and I opened the garage door and smoke started rolling out of my house.

09:20At that point, Skylar and his mother had pulled up and I don't know where she went.

09:25She went like running down the street barefoot.

09:27But my friend Skylar came and talked to me and we were standing outside the house waiting

09:31for like the fire department to get there.

09:33And she's like running down the street and he's like, what, what is that?

09:37And I was like, I don't know.

09:38Let her go.

09:39Like, I don't know.

09:40Like, just let her leave.

09:41And he's like, what is going on, Angelique?

09:42And I'm like, he's like, how did this fire start?

09:44And I said, okay, I'm going to tell you something.

09:46And if I tell you, you cannot tell anybody.

09:49You have to pinky promise me.

09:50You cannot tell anybody.

09:51And he was like, okay, I promise.

09:52And I was like, I think she was going to kill me.

09:54I think she was going to stab me.

09:55I don't know why she would want to stab me.

09:57And I don't understand the reasoning as to why she would want to harm me.

10:01I think she started my house on fire.

10:04And I think, I think all of this, like it has to do with her.

10:08She is the reasoning for all of this.

10:09So he was looking at me of the fear that I thought everybody else would look at me like

10:13is like, you are crazy.

10:14Like, what is wrong with you?

10:16And I was like, I know this sounds crazy, Skylar.

10:19Like, I know it sounds nuts, but like, I don't know how else to explain it to you, except

10:22for whatever was happening.

10:24I felt all of these things were going to happen to me.

10:26So she came back and the paramedics came out.

10:29And I remember my dad going inside the house and the fire had restarted.

10:33Everybody was back in the house trying to get the fire out.

10:36I was outside still coughing.

10:38I was also having contractions.

10:39So the paramedics started to take care of me.

10:41Remember throughout this whole thing, she's also pregnant too.

10:44So she sits down and she's also being, she's also being like treated.

10:50And they're like, what is your name?

10:52She gives them her name.

10:53What's your date of birth?

10:54You know, all these different things.

10:55And my mom is standing there and some of the information that she's giving them is not

11:01the information that like we knew.

11:03She switched things up.

11:04Like things weren't correct.

11:05Like where her address was, was not the same place that she told us that she lived.

11:09Her phone number was different.

11:10Her due date was different.

11:11And my mom was catching on to all these little things that were happening as she was speaking

11:15to the paramedics.

11:16And she's also joking around.

11:18Like I'm over here having full on contractions.

11:20And she's like on the phone with somebody.

11:22And she's like, oh yeah, me and my friend Angelique, we're going to have our babies together.

11:26Angelique, what hospital are you going to?

11:27Can I go to the same hospital that she goes to?

11:30And I am just like, please don't send her with me.

11:32Like, please don't send her.

11:33If I have to go, like, please don't send me with her.

11:35And nobody knows what's going on at this point.

11:38Nobody has any idea of like, what is going on?

11:41Because I am relying on the cops and the fire department to tell me that like an explosion

11:48happened in my, like in my room or something that would make it seem more logical than what

11:53I have to tell them.

11:54I see my best friend Skylar, who Pinky promised me that he would not say anything.

11:58I see him talking to his mother and his mother is over there talking to my parents.

12:02And they're doing this little thing, like where they're talking and they're looking

12:05at me and giving me like this eye.

12:07And they're like looking at me and I'm just like, Skylar, what did you say?

12:11And he's like, I had to tell somebody, Angelique, like that girl is weird and something is happening.

12:15And I think you're right.

12:16Like, I think something happened and I had to tell somebody.

12:18And I just look at him and I'm like, thank you.

12:21Like, thank you.

12:21Like, I wasn't going to say anything.

12:22I was like, mom, I think she was going to kill me.

12:24I felt like she was going to stab me.

12:26Well, why would she want to stab you?

12:27I don't know why she would want to stab me.

12:29Why would anybody want to stab somebody?

12:31Like, I have no clue.

12:32And she was like, well, what made you think this?

12:34I said, a feeling.

12:35And she was like, did you see anything?

12:37And I was like, no, I saw nothing.

12:38It just felt like deep down in my gut, I thought I felt like there was a knife at me

12:42and I felt

12:42like I was going to die.

12:44The paramedics came out and said, hey, we're taking her to the hospital because she wants

12:48to go.

12:48Like, I declined from the hospital because I was feeling better, but she saw it as a way

12:51out.

12:52So she was like, I want to go to the hospital.

12:54So they were like, we have to grab our things to take her to the hospital.

12:56So they go to grab the bag.

12:58And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

12:59Like, please don't touch that bag.

13:00And I like tell them, I'm like, listen, mom, she had this light.

13:03She kept saying she had this light for me.

13:06And if this light is in the bag, then I'm crazy.

13:09Like, this proves that I am not.

13:10So I do it in front of everybody.

13:12I put it on top of the counter.

13:14I put my hand into the bag.

13:15And the first thing my hands touch are two metal objects.

13:19When I pull them out, they're two large butcher knives, a pair of scissors.

13:22And she had, um, like a newborn diaper.

13:26She had one of, and then all the stuff that she gave me, she gave me the, the, the receiving

13:32blanket.

13:32She gave me little booties.

13:34She gave me the baby carrier.

13:35She gave me a blanket.

13:37I want, like all the things that she had were all one of everything to take my son and leave

13:41with him.

13:42And I immediately dropped the butcher knives and I go into a straight panic mode.

13:47I am just freaking out at this point because I can't believe first off, like how right

13:54I was.

13:55I had not been physically stabbed.

13:56They ended up finding out later on through court documents and everything that the knife

14:00was to my back.

14:01So she had the knife to my back and she was just, you know, that half a second away from

14:05literally just stabbing me.

14:06Um, when that didn't work, her second plan was to hopefully that the smoke, the fire was

14:12not something that she had thought of at that point, but it was something to distract

14:16me and she was hoping that I would be overcome by smoke and I would pass out and she would

14:21be able to perform the C-section there, but that didn't work either.

14:24So like all of her plans just weren't working, which were like in all of like the documents

14:28of like her confession and everything.

14:30So after that all had happened, my street had been shut down.

14:34So from one corner to the next corner, my whole sheet, my whole street was shut down and

14:38nobody can get in and nobody can get out because at that point it was now attempt of murder

14:42and there was arson because they were able to, they found the candlelight, like the little

14:45candles, little candles that I told you, her fingerprints were on them.

14:49So they were able to dust them and find the fingerprints and she used two little candles

14:53to start a huge fire in my closet.

14:55I'm pretty sure the police officer, the detective was the one that told me like, this is something

15:00that sounds like fetal abduction.

15:02And that was like, whoa, like what?

15:05Like that, that's when I was like, oh my gosh, like this is a whole, this is a whole thing.

15:09And so that night I did not sleep.

15:11Like I stayed awake all night long and I obsessed over it and I became my own detective because

15:17I mean, the cops weren't like mean, but they very much were not treating me.

15:21They were like laughing and giggling with me, like on the, like when I have the CDs and

15:25I listen to them, they're like laughing and giggling me.

15:27And they're also like asking me questions.

15:29Like, I don't know.

15:31I don't, I don't like the way that every, I don't like the way I was treated.

15:34I didn't feel good about the way that I was treated.

15:36I felt like I was, they were questioning me almost like they didn't believe me.

15:40It was a really weird thing because I didn't feel that way until I listened to my own tapes.

15:45When I listened to like the tape or the CDs, I get a better understanding and I remember

15:49more things that happened that night that I don't remember.

15:52I didn't trust them.

15:53I didn't trust the cops.

15:53So I took it more into my own hands and I did like all the investigating and I found out

15:59that I knew her cousin from high school.

16:01Me and her, her cousin, we dated the same guy and that's how I knew her cousin.

16:06So I ended up calling her cousin and I was like, hey, I know we haven't talked for

16:10like four years, but do you know a girl named, you know, blank and how do you know her?

16:16And I explained, like, I think she was going to kill me.

16:18I think she was going to steal my baby.

16:19And then she goes, that's my cousin.

16:21And I was like, oh, I'm sorry.

16:24And she was like, no, I believe you.

16:26Like, I 100% believe that this is what happened.

16:28Like, my cousin is crazy.

16:30She's into bad, like she's into like gang life.

16:32She is, you know, not a good person.

16:35Like, she also has faked pregnancies before.

16:38So this was something that I was like, wait, is she pregnant?

16:41And she was like, no, like she is not pregnant.

16:43Like, if she's telling you guys that she is pregnant, that is false.

16:46And that brought up a whole nother thing because when she went to the hospital, they were able

16:50to get her, like, they were able to get like her medical records and she was not pregnant

16:54when she went to the hospital.

16:55They were able to show that she was not like pregnant at all.

16:59She was just a normal person.

17:00She was just sticking her stomach out, trying to act like she was pregnant.

17:04She was out, out after the hospital, just living a normal life.

17:08This is all the week of.

17:09And the cops are doing their investigation because they're trying to figure out and piece

17:13everything back together.

17:14And they also can't find her.

17:15So they bring me down to the precinct and I'm still pregnant at this point.

17:18They asked me if I would be willing to call her and act like I have no idea what's going

17:23on.

17:24They were like, first off, have you told anybody what happened?

17:26I was like, no, besides like my friend Skylar.

17:28They're like, no, I haven't told anybody because I sound crazy.

17:31Like I still sound, even though we found the butcher knives, even though all these things

17:34are happening, like I still, we don't like, you guys don't believe me.

17:37So how am I going to tell somebody?

17:39So I'm like, no, I've just been staying cooped up inside my house, fearing for my life.

17:42That's what I've been doing.

17:43And they're like, well, would you come down to the precinct?

17:45And would you let us record you, like do like a recording and have you call her and just

17:51act like nothing's happened?

17:52And I was like, no.

17:54And they were like, well, this is how we can get her to admit to things.

17:58And I was like, you want me to call her after she just tried to kill me?

18:01Like, no.

18:02And they pleaded and I ended up doing it.

18:05So I had to call her and they had me ask her certain questions.

18:08They wanted me to try to get her to admit first off that she was in the room by herself

18:11before the fire started.

18:12They wanted me to ask her, like they had a list of questions that they wanted me to

18:16ask her.

18:17And I got through a lot of the list until there was somebody in the background that was catching

18:21on to what I was asking.

18:23And they, it was a guy and he said, hang up the phone.

18:25And he clicked the phone.

18:27But we were able to get her to admit, which they were able to use in court, that she was

18:32alone in the room before the fire started, which did put her down for arson.

18:36So she was able to get put down for arson immediately.

18:39I ended up going into labor.

18:41I was preeclampic.

18:41I was in the hospital for about seven days trying to give birth.

18:45And then my afterbirth was really, really rough on my body.

18:48Nobody knew I was at the hospital giving birth because she's out and about and we have no

18:52idea what's going on.

18:54And they're just doing their investigation, but trying to keep it hush hush because we

18:57also don't want to scare her and make her run away.

19:00So if we just act like nothing's happening, maybe they can catch her.

19:04Ryland was born February 26th and March 6th or March 7th.

19:09I think it was March, like it was like 12 a.m.

19:11My mom woke me up in the middle of the night and said, Angelique, I have the detective on

19:16the phone.

19:16And so I get on the phone.

19:17I'm very much half asleep.

19:19And I'm like, hello.

19:20And she's like, Angelique, we got her.

19:21And I said, what do you mean?

19:22She's like, she confessed everything.

19:24We got her.

19:25Like she is arrested.

19:26She's being booked right now to Florence.

19:28She's in a police car, literally on her way to be booked.

19:33And I was like, what?

19:35I felt like such a relief because in those moments of becoming a mother, you're supposed

19:40to feel that happiness, that bonding moment.

19:43You're supposed to feel something.

19:45I didn't feel that.

19:47The only reasoning that they were even able to get her was because her sister, so she

19:52lived with her sister.

19:53Her sister was out of the country when all of this happened.

19:55Her sister made it back March 5th and the cousin that I had spoke to and told her what

20:00was going on.

20:01When you were out of the country, I want to let you know what she was, like what she was

20:05getting herself into at this point.

20:07And when the cousin told the sister, the sister didn't even blink or bat an eye before she called

20:12the cops and said, come get my sister now.

20:14She believed me.

20:15She hadn't even met me.

20:16She didn't even know me, but she believed me.

20:18So she had the cops come there and she said, she's at my house.

20:21Her sister, the person who is her blood-related relative, is the one that made it happen.

20:27And I can't be more thankful because I don't know what would have happened if we didn't

20:32get that confession or we wouldn't have gotten her to admit to what this crime was.

20:36After we found out that her sister was the one that helped and after everything came out

20:39of the news, you know, everybody was outside my house.

20:42I had news reporters like just waiting for me to come out just to get some kind of statement

20:47out of me.

20:48I literally locked myself in my house for like two weeks until they left me alone.

20:51The next thing I know, we're at sentencing.

20:53So I have no idea what has happened between now and then, but we are at sentencing and

20:58they stated that they did not read her, her Miranda right during the confession, which

21:03now meant that her confession was thrown out.

21:05So they told me, we have two options.

21:08We can go to trial, but you may lose and she may walk.

21:11And so to avoid that happening, we are going to offer a plea bargain.

21:15Now the plea bargain, we're going to let you choose if you would want her to serve her

21:19time in a mental institution in ASH, which is the Arizona State Hospital, or if you would

21:24like for her to go to prison.

21:26Me being who I am, even through everything that I went through, I knew that she was sick.

21:31She was schizophrenic, manic depressant, bipolar.

21:33And at this time it was called multi-personality syndrome.

21:38It is now called DID, but at that moment, that's what she was diagnosed with.

21:43And I felt bad for her because it just sucked that she was sick and it sucked that, you know,

21:50she had all these mental illnesses.

21:51And I obviously still felt a lot of rage and I wanted her to pay for what she did, but

21:56I

21:56knew that at some point in her life, she was going to get out.

22:01I decided that she's going to be out in this world one day and I don't want her to come

22:06out and do this again to somebody.

22:08So I put her in ASH, which is the Arizona State Hospital for seven and a half years.

22:13That trauma has affected my life.

22:16It affected my life a lot between my son first being born and he's now 12 years old.

22:22So I would say before 2020, I had felt like I was living my life in a fog.

22:27Like I don't recall a lot of things that have happened and I feel like I suppressed my trauma

22:35and I basically made it seem like it wasn't there.

22:37And I made it also seem like it wasn't a real thing.

22:39I started to go to therapy in 2020 and it's like a whole new world was opened up that I

22:45wasn't okay.

22:46And I finally started to feel and cry and understand that what had happened to me was a big deal.

22:52And that just because I wasn't physically stabbed, just because I wasn't burned, just

22:58because she didn't succeed in her plot didn't mean that I hadn't gone through something so

23:02traumatic that scarred me for the rest of my life.

23:05There's one lady, she is a survivor and then there's me.

23:09And you don't hear of other people talking about this because they pass away, their babies

23:14pass away and they just become a memory.

23:15And so I take this on as a role as not only to share my story to warn others, but

23:20to also

23:20be the voice for the ones that can't share their story because they didn't survive.

23:24And that is how tragic this crime is.

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