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5 min readIn 2019, Cindy and Kenny, two 40-somethings who had just gotten engaged, walked into a scorched-earth war they never saw coming. Days after their engagement, police arrived at their home. “The cops came into my house and threw me in jail. I'm like, what is going on here?” Kenny was charged with abusing one of Cindy’s children. Cindy was stunned. “Knowing what I know about Kenny, I was like no. I never once doubted Kenny. And I always doubted the accusation.” The person behind the accusation was someone Cindy knew very well. What followed was a decade-long battle that, according to the district attorney, left everyone asking why.
The accusation and its source
The accuser was not a stranger or a vindictive ex-partner in the usual sense. She was someone deeply embedded in Cindy’s life, and the accusation against Kenny was, in Cindy’s view, a deliberate act of destruction. “This was defamation. This was outrageous conduct. It was a civil conspiracy,” she says. The case struck the podcast’s host, Nancy Glass, as “parental alienation on steroids.” The accusation did not just threaten Kenny’s freedom—it threatened to tear apart the entire family unit. Cindy found herself in an impossible position: “I had to choose between the truth and my family, and I had to choose the truth.”
The unraveling of a family
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:01) **Introducing the Case: A Blindsided Engagement** - Cindy and Kenny, both in their 40s, get engaged in 2019, only to be plunged into a legal and personal war days later.
- 2 (00:48) **The Core Conflict: Parental Alienation on Steroids** - The accusation is characterized as defamation, outrageous conduct, and a civil conspiracy, escalating into a battle that tears the family apart.
- 3 (01:10) **Host Introduction and Season Premise** - Nancy Glass introduces season three of *Burden of Guilt*, setting up the story of a manipulative campaign.
- 4 (02:09) **Podcast Advertisements and Call to Listen** - The episode concludes with a call to listen to season three of *Burden of Guilt* on major podcast platforms.
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Show Notes
Just five days after her engagement to Kenny, Cindy learns that her fiancé was accused of abusing one of Cindy’s children. The facts behind the accusation didn’t add up to Cindy. As the allegation tore her family apart, Cindy faced an impossible choice: stand by her child or stand by what she believed to be the truth. New episodes of Burden of Guilt drop every Wednesday.
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