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To the emergency room doctor, Brenda was just a “profile.” To the racist caseworker, she was a statistic. To the court, she was “presumed” guilty. Each of these so called experts looked into her eyes, listened to her voice and heard her words, but they could not—or would not—see the woman in front of them. After Brenda brought her biracial baby into the emergency room because of a minor, accidental fall from bed, they concluded this black woman, with her blond haired, blue eyed fiancé, was a child abuser. They took her baby away. A Mother’s Nightmare tells the horrific tale of racism, injustice and conspiracy that followed, a tale that we all hope could no longer occur in this country. But it does. Brenda’s story is told to prevent it from happening to others.