This season on Nobody Should Believe Me, Andrea is covering the Sophie Hartman case. After years in and out of Zambia, Sophie Hartman adopted 2 young girls, who we’re referring to as M and C. In 2019, Sophie made her first appearance on a local news station, alleging that her youngest daughter, C, has a rare, one-in-a-million neurological disorder called Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC). This eventually spirals into an investigation for Second Degree Assault charges on her child in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This season on Nobody Should Believe Me.
We're covering a story that happened right in my own backyard.
There is a family in Renton that I want to introduce you to.
Mom.
Sophie went on an inspiring trip to Zambia in her college year.
She's since adopted two girls.
One of them has an incredibly rare disorder.
Doctors say it's a one in a million chance.
Sophie Hartman's family was in the spotlight in 2019 as she fundraised on behalf of her supposedly sick child.
But in the spring of 2021, it all came crashing down.
So this is Detective Werwerk with the Renson Police Department.
Can you just state your name for me?
Sophie Hartman.
In 2019, KING 5 first met Sophie Hartman after she adopted two sisters from Zambia.
She told us one has a rare neurological disorder called alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or ahc.
Today, she faces second degree assault charges against a child, her own daughter.
If she wasn't guilty of these allegations, how horrific.
I mean, she seems like a saint, supposedly has this very rare progressive disease, but from my observations, she's like the healthiest kid I've ever seen in my life.
Would it surprise you if I told you that AHC is not a terminal disease?