Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young mother of two with a baby on the way; the neighborhood soccer mom in a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkable happened. An infant died in her care at the same time the unknown science of Shaken Baby Syndrome hit the media.Swept up in a media frenzy,Edmunds was accused of killing the child through SBS. She was stripped from her children and husband and sent to prison where she would fight for freedom13 years before she was finally exonerated after updated science showed her innocence.Audrey was and is an all-American mother from Americas Heartland and shares her story of hope and redemption in the face of unrelenting odds.Built as the ideal readers clubbook,It Happened to Audrey includes book club questions that challenge all readers to think of the possibilities in todays ever-changing world.Edmunds is inspirationally released in the middle of a blizzard and reunited with her grown children.
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