Editor’s note: Today’s episode includes discussion of a podcast that references teen pregnancy, sexual assault, coercive behavior and the complex emotions surrounding open and closed adoptions. Listener discretion is advised. 

A new podcast goes inside the Liberty Godparent Home in Lynchburg. Through interviews with women who stayed there, journalist T. J. Raphael details how the home reportedly pressured teen mothers to surrender their babies in exchange for scholarships to Liberty University.  

Features Editor Whittney Evans recently spoke to Rafael and Sarah P. — a former resident and case manager at the Godparent Home. 

Liberty Lost is a six-episode, limited series podcast produced by and available on Wondery as well as other podcast platforms. 

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