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A fantasist who conned doulas into giving her naked massages by pretending she was pregnant has been arrested again just three months after telling a court she was a 'changed person'.
Kaitlyn Braun, 25, was sentenced to two years house arrest in February after causing 'immeasurable pain' to more than a dozen pregnancy support workers across Ontario with her stories of sexual assault and stillbirth.
The social worker went to extreme lengths to maintain her pretense, telling them she had a bleeding disorder and terminal cancer, and sending two of them a picture of a stillborn baby at the end of her treatment.
The news that she is facing multiple new charges has left her previous victims feeling doubly betrayed.
'There has been a lot of feelings within our group, a lot of conversations taking place,' said Amy Silva. 'Emotions are heated. Conversations are heated.
Kaitlyn Braun, 25, was sentenced to two years house arrest in February after causing 'immeasurable pain' to more than a dozen pregnancy support workers across Ontario with her stories of sexual assault and stillbirth
During the ordeal Braun convinced doulas that she had a bleeding disorder and kept them on the phone while she pretended to go under medical procedures and then said that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer
London-based doula Amy Silva said news of Braun's new charges had appalled her previous victims: 'Emotions are heated. Conversations are heated'
'It's a difficult place for all of us right now, and we're all at different places on our healing journey and growing from all of this, which makes being thrown back into this a little bit more difficult for everybody.'
Some of the doulas supported Braun in person at her home in Brantford, others through the phone or over video chat.
She told some her 'pregnancy' was the result of sexual assault.
But it was Braun herself who was the sexual offender, accused of coercing 19 victims into giving her massages while she was physically naked with the 'intent to insult or offend them'.
One victim, Amy Perry, said her experience with Braun left her traumatized, after she tried to support the pregnancy faker for eight days.
Perry told CTV News last year that she helped Braun virtually and for free, adding: 'The moans, the sounds she made were really realistic, even through the last stage of labor – through transition – she would even go as far as to vomit, which is the normal thing.
'We really felt that there was an individual who was alone in the
