Jessica Dimmock did not want to give Taylor Parker a platform.

The director for the hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, which examines the 2020 murder of pregnant Reagan Simmons Hancock at the hands of Parker, recently shared why the production intentionally didn’t sit down with Parker.

“We decided not to interview Taylor,” Dimmock told Oxygen in an interview published June 18. “Obviously, Reagan and her family are the most severe and the biggest victims in this, but [there are] other people that she deceived, other people that she hurt along the way, coworkers, former friends.”

As the filmmaker put it, “It just felt like it really needed to be told from their perspective.”

Indeed, the documentary instead featured stitched-together pieces of Parker’s life—including text messages and videos as well as interviews with Hancock’s family members and Parker’s ex-boyfriend Wade Griffin—before her crime to tell her story without giving her agency over her victims.