Sandra Birchmore wanted Matthew Farwell in her baby's life, and after a federal jury convicted him of killing her and her unborn son, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps me understand why she held on. Sandra first knew him as an officer in the Stoughton police youth program.

Prosecutors said their relationship began when she was fifteen, weeks before he married his wife. In the last months of her life, Sandra told her boss the father would leave his relationship once the baby was born, and she told a friend she'd only asked him to visit on holidays.

Shavaun and I talk about how a man's attention can become everything to a girl of fifteen, what growing up with that does to a woman's sense of what's normal, and why a partner who blows hot and cold is so hard to walk away from. We talk about the moment of realizing she'd been used, and how to help a friend who says she loves him anyway.

A DNA test later showed Farwell was not the father of Sandra's baby. He'll be sentenced in February.

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