Kaitlyn Braun, pregnancy fraudster, 25, who lied about being raped and faked stillbirths, had a ‘fetish’ for tricking healthcare workers, BBC podcast reveals [Video]

Pregnancy doulas who were duped by a young woman who concocted a web of lies, including saying she’d been raped and given birth to stillborn babies – have been speaking about how the truth was finally uncovered. 

The story of Kaitlyn Braun, 24, from Brantford, Ontario, in Canada, who repeatedly lied to the birthing partners she hired, claiming she was in labor or carrying a child that had already died inside her, is the subject of a new BBC podcast, The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby.

The six-part series, a collaboration between BBC World Service and Canada’s CBC network, is released on BBC Sounds on January 14th and sees Canadian journalist Sarah Treleaven meeting some of the women who fell under the young woman’s spell – believing she needed their care.

The series looks at Braun’s motives, which have, Treleaven says, puzzled both psychiatrists and legal systems.  

Braun was sentenced in February 2024 to …