âShe wasnât acting, she wanted to live itâ: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become
Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become a mother. Its director recounts their meetings in a Mexican prison The CCTV footage of the hospital corridor is grainy but you can make out a young woman carrying an oversized gift bag.
Nothing unusual there. Except that inside the bag is a newborn baby girl, just hours old. And the woman carrying the bag, walking out of the hospitalâs main entrance, past two security guards who are idly chatting, is not the babyâs mother.
Her name is Eleonor Alejandra MarĂn Mendoza, known to everyone as Alejandra. When film-maker Maite Alberdi met her in a low-security Mexican prison, Alejandra was in the final year
of a 13-year jail sentence for snatching the baby. Alberdi listened rapt as Alejandra told her story: âEverything she was telling me was extraordinary, stranger than fiction.â Continue reading...
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