Sins of the Child

Interesting story. I liked the narration, didn’t like the male reporter interjecting randomly at times. I enjoyed hearing the courtroom tapes, but agree with everyone else about the story missing another perspective- from the school and the school’s negligence. Adding this would’ve been real reporting, not simply reporting what’s already been reported.

The majority of the length of the podcast is just recordings of the trials with little to no additional discussion, interviews, or too many additional voices, despite the landmark case; unfortunately the journalist Charlie Langton was a frequent voice in this series that rapidly became exceedingly uncomfortable to hear, a listener might often get the feeling he is discussing this tragedy as if it was a fictional action drama with his embellishing fervor and excitement that precludes the decency/sensitivity/gravity that's commonplace when talking about the harmed & murdered children who did and did not survive.

Sorry, Charlie Langton is too animated for this. Barely Got through the first episode. If I didn’t already know this case really well, this would have been confusing. Jumped from one unidentified recorded voice to another with no context.

I’m on the fourth episode and while I am interested in the story, the podcast itself is nothing more than a string of recorded comments from many unidentified people, strung together with minimal robotic narration, and there is certainly no investigation or compelling storytelling. The first couple of episodes are particularly all over the place. The podcast is basically just playing public record testimony and comments from other reporters. I also do not like the narrator because she sounds like she’s happy and smiling while she talks about this horrific story. And to jump on someone else’s comment, there is not a word said about the school’s negligence in this situation. This could’ve been a great podcast if it was done by someone else who is an actual journalist.