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SHOCK ROADSIDE DISCOVERY: BOY LAST WITH 'DEPRAVED ILLEGAL' SOCCER COACH, DEAD · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A shocking roadside discovery. A
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Speaker 1: little boy last scene with a so called depraved illegal
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Speaker 1: youth soccer coach is dead. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Oscar Omar Hernandez is a thirteen year old student and
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Speaker 2: soccer player in Sun Valley, California.
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Speaker 3: Dedicated to his team and the sport.
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Speaker 2: Oscar eagerly agrees to help his coach make jerseys one
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Speaker 2: Friday night, but concerns grow when the thirteen year old
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Speaker 2: boy doesn't return home.
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Speaker 1: Thirteen years old, just turned thirteen. He hadn't even lived
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Speaker 1: thirteen years yet, he had only lived twelve years and
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Speaker 1: some days. Why is this little boy dead and callously
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Speaker 1: thrown on the side of the road. According to witnesses,
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Speaker 1: he was the last seen with his youth soccer coach Listen.
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Speaker 4: Mister Garcia a Keino was his soccer coach and on
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Speaker 4: that day Omar Hernandez went up to Lancaster to see
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Speaker 4: mister Garcia Alkeno. Two days later he was reported missing,
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Speaker 4: and on April second, twenty twenty five, last week, his
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Speaker 4: body was found in Oxnard, off the road near Leo
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Speaker 4: Correo State Beach.
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Speaker 1: Oscar Omar is the baby of the Hernandez family.
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Speaker 5: Thirteen, Oscar has settled into his life in North Hollywood,
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Speaker 5: known as Omar to his seventh grade classmates at the
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Speaker 5: Sun Valley Magnet School, he gets good grades and is
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Speaker 5: well liked, but above all, he's a standout soccer player.
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Speaker 5: If Oscar isn't helping out at home or in school,
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Speaker 5: you can find him at the Whitst soccer fields.
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Speaker 1: This little boy just turned thirteen, lived and breathed soccer
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Speaker 1: just like my son. He was always at the soccer field,
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Speaker 1: and we believe that is how he met. According to
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security, a depraved illegal alien who was a youth
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Speaker 1: soccer coach listen.
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Speaker 6: Oscar is out playing soccer. Garcia Akino approaches Oscar about
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Speaker 6: joining the walking Club. When garcia Akino offers him one
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Speaker 6: on one lessons without charge, Oscar jumps at the chance.
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Speaker 2: On a Friday afternoon, coach garcia Quino gives his star
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Speaker 2: student a call inviting Oscar to make some money doing
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Speaker 2: a few odd jobs at his Lancaster home. Oscar, a
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Speaker 2: hard worker who would love an addition to his allowance,
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Speaker 2: is immediately interested before the thirteen year old really gets
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Speaker 2: permission from his family, He grabs the next train to Lancaster,
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Speaker 2: a two hour trip oscar facetimes. His brother j sway
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Speaker 2: from the train, telling him coach will drop him back
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Speaker 2: at home tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 1: Joining me an all star panel to make sense of
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Speaker 1: what we are learning tonight. But I know this much.
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Speaker 1: The body of a thirteen year old little boy who
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Speaker 1: trusted his soccer coach implicitly was found thrown by the
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Speaker 1: side of the road like trash. But how did he
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Speaker 1: get there? What led up to that? Joining me as
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Speaker 1: I said, an All Star panel. But first let me
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Speaker 1: go to Sierra VanderBrug, crime safety reporter at La Daily News. Sierra,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Tell me about this
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Speaker 1: soccer field and how is it that this little boy
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Speaker 1: is out there playing when he is approached and befriended
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Speaker 1: by an illegal alien soccer coach.
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Speaker 7: We still have a lot of questions about the process
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Speaker 7: of Garcia Keno meeting Hernandez, but reports indicate that he
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Speaker 7: was his soccer coach on a travel boys team located
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Speaker 7: out here in the San Fernando Valley. Sheriff Robert Luna
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Speaker 7: here in Los Angeles told us that Garcia Keno worked
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Speaker 7: as a coach for a youth travel soccer team called
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Speaker 7: Urancan Valley Boys Soccer Club, where he coached varying age groups.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm very curious as to your take on this.
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Speaker 1: Most of Castillo joining me private investigator with the dor
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Speaker 1: Duelian Law Group, former supervisor detective with the LAPD. Mister Castillo,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. It sounds like a
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Speaker 1: textbook case. A text book case. The boy lives, breathes,
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Speaker 1: and AATs soccer when he's not in school, he's at
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Speaker 1: the soccer fields, and he is approached by this youth
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Speaker 1: soccer coach and now he's dead. Moses, Yes, horrible.
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Speaker 8: Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 9: Nancy.
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Speaker 8: First of all, I want to tell you that these
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Speaker 8: groomers are great at what they do. Not only do
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Speaker 8: they earn the trust of the victims that they're targeting,
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Speaker 8: but they also gained the trust of their parents, their family,
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Speaker 8: to the point where they let them get on the
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Speaker 8: train and travel all the way two hours to where
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Speaker 8: he lives and spend the night. Unbelievable that this even happened,
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Speaker 8: but that's the reality that these groomors are so good
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Speaker 8: that they can convince a family to do just that.
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Speaker 1: Another thing, Moses Castillo. They dangle in front of the
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Speaker 1: children and the family that the child has amazing soccer
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Speaker 1: skills or amazing fill in the blank skills, tennis skills,
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Speaker 1: football skills, basketball skills, and that they could get a
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Speaker 1: college scholarship maybe or maybe even play pro. And for
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Speaker 1: a lot of children, I mean, it would have been
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Speaker 1: a huge carrot if my family when we were growing up,
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody had ever been to college in our family.
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Speaker 1: If they thought, wow, she's so good at blank, we
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Speaker 1: can get her in college for free. She can get
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Speaker 1: tuition and a college education. I mean, that's the kind
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Speaker 1: of lure that makes parents believe these coaches. Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: They tell me Johnny's great player, he's going to be
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Speaker 8: a star, and so on and so forth. But I
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Speaker 8: gotta tell you, sources closer to the investigation have told
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Speaker 8: me that this was a self proclaimed coach. He wasn't certified,
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Speaker 8: He wasn't registered with any league as a coach whatsoever.
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Speaker 8: And when the authorities searched his residents, they did find
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Speaker 8: plato ID cards, They found registration forms, applications, which tells
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Speaker 8: me that some league gave them access to these children,
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Speaker 8: and they should never have done that.
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Speaker 1: Oh my stars, how did he do it. You're telling
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Speaker 1: me that adults believed his scam and let him have
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Speaker 1: access to these children. I mean, we know that he
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Speaker 1: approached the little boy oscar and said, wow, you're amazing
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Speaker 1: and offered him private soccer lessons coaching for free. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen. My son is a as a soccer player
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Speaker 1: and he gets goalie lessons. But through the school, the
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Speaker 1: school has a goalie coach that is helping the goalies.
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Speaker 1: This guy just walks out onto a soccer field, approaches
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Speaker 1: a little boy and says, hey, you're awesome. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to give you soccer coaching for free. That's what happened, Moses.
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Speaker 8: That is crazy. That's bizarre that it went unchecked and
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Speaker 8: nobody stepped in and said, hey, show me your credentials.
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Speaker 8: You're not certified. Parents need to be more vigilant and
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Speaker 8: confirmed these things. Are you going to be the coach?
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Speaker 8: Show me your credentials, Show me that you've been certified,
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Speaker 8: that you've been life scanned, that you went through a
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Speaker 8: background check, that you've been through the training.
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Speaker 1: All that was missed, But you know what. You know what?
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Speaker 1: Let me go to Karen Stark Guys. Karen is renownedd psychologists,
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Speaker 1: joining us out of Manhattan, TV radio trauma expert, and
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Speaker 1: you can find her at Karenstark dot com. Karen. Parents
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Speaker 1: that are uneducated, and I don't mean didn't go to college.
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Speaker 1: I don't mean that, I mean parents like my parents.
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Speaker 1: Why would they question that someone's not a soccer coach? Right? Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's easy first to say why didn't the parents know?
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Speaker 1: Why didn't the parents check him out? But I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: back when we were growing up, we were exposed to
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Speaker 1: all sorts of adults that didn't have a background check,
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Speaker 1: It didn't have credentials. So I don't really blame the
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Speaker 1: parents here.
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Speaker 10: This is somebody who's come across so charismatic outwardly, and
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Speaker 10: he was considered trusted by these children, these boys, they
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Speaker 10: thought he was fabulous.
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Speaker 1: How would they know anything else?
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Speaker 10: And the parents believed him. They are so skilled. This
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Speaker 10: kind of guy is so skilled at coming across that way.
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Speaker 10: But underneath this is a predator. This is what he wants.
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Speaker 10: He wants psycho sexual fulfillment, and so he does the
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Speaker 10: best job he can to convince them they should trust
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Speaker 10: him with their children.
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Speaker 1: You know, Sierra Vanderbrugg is joining us from Daily News.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at those photos, Sierra, take a
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Speaker 1: look at those photos we were just showing. It shows
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Speaker 1: the coach with a team. Now, explain to me he
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Speaker 1: was He approached a little oscar about joining the club.
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Speaker 1: What club?
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Speaker 7: So we had Sheriff Robert Luna here in Los Angeles
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Speaker 7: confirming that Garcia Kino worked as a coach for a
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Speaker 7: youth travel soccer league called the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer
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Speaker 7: Club and that as a part of this club, he
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Speaker 7: coached various age groups.
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Speaker 1: Oh, a travel League's that's a lot different. Okay, Sierra,
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Speaker 1: explain what is a travel league?
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Speaker 7: To my understanding, a travel league would be a competitive
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Speaker 7: team that I would travel around to multiple locations competing
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Speaker 7: in soccer games.
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Speaker 1: Okay, man, And they're not school affiliated. Moses Castillo, my
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Speaker 1: son played with a similar league and they don't travel far,
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Speaker 1: but they do travel say an hour two hours max
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Speaker 1: to play basketball. So it's not really affiliated with a
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Speaker 1: school like you were saying. But it's a travel league.
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Speaker 1: And I find that really interesting because this coach, this
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Speaker 1: coach would then have access to these boys, many of
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Speaker 1: them very young and very small, away from the parents. Moses, Yes,
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Speaker 1: his move.
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Speaker 8: Is very, very specific and targeted. He would like to
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Speaker 8: get these kids alcohol, get them drunk, have them over, sleepovers,
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Speaker 8: that kind of thing. And some of them would wake
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Speaker 8: up the next morning feelings like something went wrong, something
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Speaker 8: happened to them, but they were just too afraid. Who
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Speaker 8: was shamed to speak up? But this went on for
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Speaker 8: a long time.
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Speaker 1: And they may not have really understood what went wrong.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they wake up and their clothes may be misadjusted,
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Speaker 1: or they might feel queasy, but they don't really know
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Speaker 1: what happened. It's a nightmare scenario, especially for a little
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Speaker 1: boy like this who is just turned thirteen. So herera again,
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Speaker 1: how did this suspect meet little Oscar.
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Speaker 7: It's unclear the specifics of how he exactly met Oscar,
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Speaker 7: but we've been told that he was his soccer coach,
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Speaker 7: so previous relationship established as a coach to Oscar.
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Speaker 1: Moses Castillo joining me private investigator with the Dordellian Law Group. Moses,
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Speaker 1: have you seen the image of the Whitst Park facility.
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Speaker 8: It's huge, absolutely, That's why these predators they seek these
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Speaker 8: positions because that's a high victim target ridge environment. And
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Speaker 8: that's exactly it. I gotta tell you. On the fields
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Speaker 8: costs money. You have to give permits, you have to
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Speaker 8: pay for that. And he did this unnoticed, unchecked for years.
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Speaker 11: Once you see the photos of this individual, that if
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Speaker 11: you may have been a victim, please come forward. I
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Speaker 11: know it's not easy. I know it could be either embarrassing,
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Speaker 11: you don't want to tell somebody, but it's very important
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Speaker 11: that we bring justice not only to the family here
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Speaker 11: to my left, but any families that may have been
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Speaker 11: victimized by this.
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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
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Speaker 1: happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see what
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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Speaker 2: Thirteen year old Oscar Omar Hernandez eagerly takes the train
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Speaker 2: from his home in Sun Valley to Palmade California with
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Speaker 2: the hopes of helping out his coach make jerseys for
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Speaker 2: the team, But twenty four hours later, Oscar still hasn't
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Speaker 2: returned home, despite claims from his coach that he dropped
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Speaker 2: the team off.
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Speaker 1: This is what we know right now. According to Homeland Security,
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Speaker 1: the coach is actually a quote depraved illegal alien. Their words,
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Speaker 1: not mine. Why do they say that? And how did
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Speaker 1: this little boy end up hours away from home with
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Speaker 1: the soccer coach? Listen?
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Speaker 6: Later that night, Hossway tries to call Oscar again, but
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Speaker 6: it's not his little brother that answers. Garcia Akino picks up,
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Speaker 6: saying Oscar can't come to the phone because his hands
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Speaker 6: are dirty. Ho Suay tries to ask exactly what time
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Speaker 6: he can expect Oscar home, but the coach waves him
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Speaker 6: off once again, promising he'll bring Oscar home in a
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Speaker 6: reasonable time Saturday.
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Speaker 1: No, we were talking earlier, and I believe it was you,
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Speaker 1: Moses Castillo, And I understand why you said it that.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't the parents check this guy out? Why didn't
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Speaker 1: they ask for a background shit where he was certified? Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to remember the name,
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Speaker 1: Jerry said, Dusky that was ultimately accused of Oh, I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how many molestations, Listen, I.
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Speaker 9: Was kind of thinking that he was going to get
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Speaker 9: off scott free with this, and then I'm just going
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Speaker 9: to be another kid in the front page and the
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Speaker 9: newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his for him.
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Speaker 11: The amount the damage he did and the number of
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Speaker 11: people that he arms is something that I don't know.
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Speaker 12: I don't know that anybody.
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Speaker 1: From our friends at ABC and CBS. I mean, for
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Speaker 1: Pete's sake, Karen Stark, when Castillo rightfully is saying, well,
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Speaker 1: did the parents check him out? That would be an
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Speaker 1: obvious question. We parents trust the coach, We trust the school,
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Speaker 1: right they trusted the youth league as it is called.
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Speaker 1: Here you had Jerry Sandusky, the long time, renowned, venerable coach,
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Speaker 1: the winner, and all this time he had been raping
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Speaker 1: boys in his charge, and everybody was too afraid to
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Speaker 1: say anything about.
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Speaker 10: It, especially especially when you think about it, Nancy. The
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Speaker 10: boys it's not just they weren't sure of what happened
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Speaker 10: in this case when they stayed overnight. It's also that
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Speaker 10: children are afraid to report these predators. They're in a
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Speaker 10: position of a started. We're talking about a coach. We're
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Speaker 10: talking about some someone who was very well known. The
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Speaker 10: parents completely trust them. Why shouldn't they, I mean everyone, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, jumping off what you just said, Karen, coach Jerry Sandusky.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that he was just a Pennsylvania state assistant
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Speaker 1: football coach, but he gave summer training to Pennsylvania's underprivileged
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Speaker 1: and at risk youth. That is where he met most
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Speaker 1: of his victims, right and they were about the age
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Speaker 1: of Oscar, the little boy Oscar that we're talking about
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Speaker 1: right now, Dubay forty five counts of sex abuse. And
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Speaker 1: look who he targeted. He targeted at risk little boys,
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Speaker 1: boys that were underprivileged boys whose parents were probably both
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Speaker 1: working or had a one parent in the home who
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Speaker 1: was working and was just happy that their child had
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Speaker 1: been picked by Sandusky to go too. He is the
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Speaker 1: second mile sports camp for underprivileged use. They probably thought, debate,
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Speaker 1: they were so lucky to get their child in the
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Speaker 1: summer camp.
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Speaker 13: Sandusky had a knack for picking out unsophisticated, uncultured people,
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Speaker 13: and he would also garner him the sympathy, the respect,
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Speaker 13: and the admiration of their parents, so nobody had a
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Speaker 13: problem with him being a part of their lives. But
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Speaker 13: unbeknownst to everybody, in a dark sort of hinter grund,
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Speaker 13: as we say, he was actually laying hands on these kids.
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Speaker 13: He had abnormal sexual perversions, and nobody really knew it
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Speaker 13: was going on. And these kids had a work sense
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Speaker 13: of achievement and accomplishment and kind of went along with it,
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Speaker 13: to get along, if you will. And it wasn't until
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Speaker 13: one kid cried foul and said, no, take your hands
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Speaker 13: off me, that the story blew wide open. So it
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Speaker 13: takes one kid for this whole thing to really come
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Speaker 13: to a halt. Unfortunately, there was a kid that was
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Speaker 13: courageous enough to come forward. Now Sandusky will spend the
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Speaker 13: rest of his life in prison.
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Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down. He served in this capacity
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Speaker 1: twenty two years as the defensive coordinator twenty two years
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Speaker 1: assistant coach at Penn State. He received the Assistant Coach
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Speaker 1: of the Year twice. He authored multiple books related to
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Speaker 1: his football coaching experiences. He founded this nonprofit, The Second Mile,
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Speaker 1: for Pennsylvania's underprivileged children, and after he retired from Penn State,
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Speaker 1: he continued working with second Mile, on and on and on.
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Speaker 1: It took a grand jury, a secret grand jury, two
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Speaker 1: years to investigate him. He was charged with fifty two
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Speaker 1: counts of sex abuse over fifteen years that we know of.
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Speaker 1: The children were all afraid to come forward, much like this, listen.
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Speaker 9: I was kind of thinking that he was going to
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Speaker 9: get off scott free with this, and then I'm just
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Speaker 9: going to be another kid in the front page of
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Speaker 9: the newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his forehead.
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Speaker 1: Now from our friends at ABC twenty twenty and here
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Speaker 1: it seems as if history is repeating itself again. Two.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle Dupree joining me, a renowned forensic pathologists, medical examiner,
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Speaker 1: former detective at Lexington County Sheriff's Department, author of a
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Speaker 1: brand new book, Money, Mischief and Murder The Murdock Dynasty
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Speaker 1: the rest of the story, but from my purposes. She
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Speaker 1: is also the author of the Homicide Investigation Field Guide
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Speaker 1: and the Child Abuse Investigation Field Guide. I'm curious because
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Speaker 1: we see here doctor Dupree, according to investigative reports that
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Speaker 1: we've obtained, the coach and I'm saying that in quotes
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Speaker 1: the illegal alien co coach first of all be friend
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Speaker 1: of the little boy at the Whitsit Park complex, offering
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Speaker 1: free soccer lessons. But then the lure went further. He
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Speaker 1: lured the little boy by saying he had odd jobs
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Speaker 1: for him at his place and that he would pay him.
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Speaker 1: So I understanding he was going to work on making
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Speaker 1: jerseys or monogramming jerseys, or something to do with the
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Speaker 1: soccer jerseys. So now you've got a little boy just
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Speaker 1: turned thirteen, alone on transit, going two hours away from
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Speaker 1: home to be alone with the coach at his house.
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Speaker 1: Quote making jerseys. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, doctor Michelle Dupree,
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Speaker 1: You've sadly worked on so many child on the side cases.
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Speaker 1: And that is the mo the modus operandi, the method
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Speaker 1: of operation. You get the child alone, whether you like
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Speaker 1: I was talking to Sierra VanderBrug earlier, whether you get
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Speaker 1: them in your vehicle, your truck, your camper, whether you
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Speaker 1: lure them to your home. You get the child alone,
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Speaker 1: and that is where everything goes sideways. How many cases
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Speaker 1: have you seen homicide cases where the child is lured away?
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Speaker 14: Nancy, this is a common scenario. Is this is exactly
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Speaker 14: how they operate. They initially meet the child. They're very personable.
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Speaker 14: Most of these people are personable. They are liked by
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Speaker 14: the kids, they're liked by the families. They gain their trust,
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Speaker 14: and once they gain that trust, it's a little bit
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Speaker 14: out of time. They continue to befriend them, continue to
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Speaker 14: offer them a carot if you will, and a bigger
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Speaker 14: reward for something. And children are trusting, you know, children,
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Speaker 14: I don't think like adults. In most cases, they trust adults,
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Speaker 14: and oftentimes they won't tell if something is a little
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Speaker 14: bit suspicious because they don't know. And also this is
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Speaker 14: an adult. They wonder when anybody really believe me or not.
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Speaker 14: So this is not uncommon. This is their method of operation,
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Speaker 14: and unfortunately it works way too many times.
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Speaker 1: Don't do dupree. I never cried, I never got sick.
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Speaker 1: I never vomited nothing at the site of a dead
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Speaker 1: body or on a homicide scene ever. But there was
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Speaker 1: one time I thought I was going to throw up.
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Speaker 1: I didn't, and it was when a child was on
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Speaker 1: the autopsy table. When you see children on the autopsy
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Speaker 1: table over and over and over, it's like, I know
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Speaker 1: right now, I'm preaching to the choir, but parents don't
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Speaker 1: get it. I mean, my parents didn't get it. I
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Speaker 1: was left with adults and supervised that we really didn't know.
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Speaker 1: And through the grace of God, nothing happened to me
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Speaker 1: or my brother or sister. But parents are trusting, especially
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Speaker 1: when the molester is clothed with clothed with the indisha
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Speaker 1: of reliability. He's wearing a soccer uniform. You've got to
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Speaker 1: see pictures of him with teams like we're showing you.
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Speaker 1: But he was not with a school, he was not sanctioned,
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Speaker 1: nothing like that. And I mean, do you ever get weary,
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Speaker 1: doctor Duprees seeing one child on the autopsy table after.
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Speaker 14: The next all the time. Nancy. It's one of the
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Speaker 14: worst cases a medical examiner could ever have. Children and elderly.
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Speaker 14: You know, they're supposed to be protected, they're trusting, and
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Speaker 14: they should be, but it doesn't often work out well.
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Speaker 14: And this is one of the reasons why. And yes,
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Speaker 14: it gets to me and it gets to others every
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Speaker 14: single time. This should not be happening to our kids.
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Speaker 2: Oscar's family is worried, sick after more than a day
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Speaker 2: with no sign of their thirteen year old son.
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Speaker 3: And soccer student.
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Speaker 2: The boys soccer coach promises he dropped the teen off,
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Speaker 2: but Oscar is nowhere to be found. Then a mysterious
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Speaker 2: text from Oscar's phone claiming the thirteen year old is
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Speaker 2: at a party with friends joining me.
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Speaker 1: Now is Anna sonoda clinical social worker who focuses on
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Speaker 1: forensic issues like this, and she's the author of Duck
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Speaker 1: Duck Groom. Anna, this is the textbook the seminal example
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Speaker 1: of luring. You heard me lay out. First, he was
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Speaker 1: approached at a Whitst soccer complex which is huge, and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: free one on one coaching for soccer because you're so amazing.
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Speaker 1: Oscar just turned thirteen. Then he lures him to his house.
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Speaker 1: Then he won't respond appropriately to the family. Now we're
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Speaker 1: hearing about a text, a text from a little Oscar
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Speaker 1: that says he was going to a party with friends.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it would be a cold day in HG
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Speaker 1: double l that my children, who are now seventeen, would
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Speaker 1: just announce they were going to a party with friends.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. I mean, I've got to know where
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Speaker 1: are you going with, who, who's driving, when you're going
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Speaker 1: to be home, what's the location? Have fun? Right? So
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Speaker 1: you know, Anna, I strongly believe that the coach was
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Speaker 1: texting as if he was Oscar, the little boy.
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Speaker 15: Absolutely, we have several examples here of a grooming situation.
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Speaker 15: What does that mean? What does that word grooming mean?
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Speaker 15: We've said it a few times already. This show grooming
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Speaker 15: is a perverse form of courtship. It convinces not only children,
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Speaker 15: but it convinces their caregivers that they are trustworthy, that
25:55
Speaker 15: they're reliable, and that they're caring. This coach exploited his
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Speaker 15: role as a sports youth individual in order to show
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Speaker 15: the parents and the kids, hey, you can trust me.
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Speaker 15: I want what's best for you. And to single that
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Speaker 15: child out as special and unique is classics favoritism that
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Speaker 15: we see in the stages towards the grooming process for
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Speaker 15: sexual exploitation and in this horrific case, ultimately murder.
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Speaker 1: And of course, at this juncture, the family doesn't know
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Speaker 1: what to believe, even that they get this mystery text
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Speaker 1: of a little boy claiming, Hey, I'm going to a party?
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Speaker 1: What party? Mama heard anything about a party? Well, the
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Speaker 1: search is now on for little Oscar.
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Speaker 2: A desperate joint agency search for Oscar begins. Both the
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Speaker 2: LAPD and LA County Sheriff's Office scoured North Hollywood for
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Speaker 2: the boy. Their only lead was that he was last
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Speaker 2: seen on his way to Lancaster on the metrolink.
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Speaker 1: A massive search is on both LAPD and the La
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office looking for little Oscar. Listen.
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Speaker 2: On the fourth day of the investigation, a teen boy's
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Speaker 2: body is found over seventy miles away, dumped in a
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Speaker 2: wooded area off a road near Leo Carrillo State Beach.
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Speaker 2: The remains are confirmed to be those of thirteen year
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Speaker 2: old Oscar Omar Hernandez.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe my son is dead. That is from
27:20
Speaker 1: our friends at Katla five. And very quickly after the
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Speaker 1: body is discovered, the coach is tracked down.
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Speaker 12: Why couldn't at least do anything upout my case? And
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Speaker 12: they just left it open and then they have to
27:37
Speaker 12: get to a teenage boy getting killed.
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Speaker 5: The same day Oscar's body is discovered, his soccer coach,
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Speaker 5: forty three year old Mario Garcia Akino, is arrested, but
27:47
Speaker 5: not in connection to Oscar. Garcia Akino is accused of
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Speaker 5: attempting to molest a sixteen year old boy. The teen
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Speaker 5: also spent the night and felt extremely sleepy after drinking
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Speaker 5: an orange juice. Garcia Akino offered him old police. Garcia
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Speaker 5: Akino twice tried to pull down his pants, but he
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Speaker 5: fought garcia Akino off and called nine one one. The
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Speaker 5: incident occurred more than a year ago in February of
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Oscar's family hasn't seen the boy in over twenty four
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Speaker 2: hours after he was.
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Speaker 3: Expected home Saturday morning.
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Speaker 2: A text from his phone claims Oscar is at a
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Speaker 2: party with friends, but Oscar's friends don't have any knowledge.
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Speaker 3: Of a party.
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Speaker 2: The thirteen year old has reported missing, and an intense
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Speaker 2: search is launched for the boy.
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Speaker 1: Karen Stark, don't you see the significance of this mysterious
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Speaker 1: text from the little boys and I'm going to a party?
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Speaker 1: And then can't you just say the mom and the
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Speaker 1: brother calling hey what party?
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Speaker 5: Hey?
28:38
Speaker 1: What party? To all the friends and they know nothing
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Speaker 1: about it. This means I believe that the coach was
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Speaker 1: using the little boy's phone to text as if he's Oscar.
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Speaker 1: That's a whole nother level of premeditation, and we're familiar
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Speaker 1: with it.
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Speaker 10: Nancy, remember Brian Laundry, right, And he took the phone
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Speaker 10: and he made the mistake of calling the grand by
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Speaker 10: the name. People do that, Murderers do that. They take
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Speaker 10: advantage of whatever they can. I'm not the least bit
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Speaker 10: surprised because this guy needs to cover up. He's desperate
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Speaker 10: to make sure that nobody finds out what he did.
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Speaker 10: And I'm not surprised to happen because over time, in
29:21
Speaker 10: this kind of situation, the person gets bolder and bolder
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Speaker 10: and bolder.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened here. Now you hear Philip
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Speaker 1: Dubay claiming that, oh, it was just a delight, b
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Speaker 1: s a delay that cost Oscar his life. Listened to
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Speaker 1: one of the first alleged victims.
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Speaker 12: I go to sleep, I see him like trying to
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Speaker 12: pull down my shorts and I woke up. I proused
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Speaker 12: him and he told me it was all the Joe.
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Speaker 11: In February of twenty twenty four, Garcia Aquino befriended a
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Speaker 11: Silmar family who allowed their juvenile son to stay with
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Speaker 11: him at his residence in Palmdale. The family subsequently filed
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Speaker 11: a criminal report with the Palmdale Sheriff's Station alleging sexual
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Speaker 11: abuse of their child, Moses Christilla.
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Speaker 1: I think my head's gonna blow off. That originally was
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Speaker 1: from our friends at NBC LA. Now you heard, But
30:21
Speaker 1: I don't know what dog he's got in the fight
30:23
Speaker 1: with skin in the game because normally he is on
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Speaker 1: LA law enforcement like a cheap suit. But today, when
30:30
Speaker 1: it works in the defense's favor, it's like, oh, it
30:33
Speaker 1: was just a mistake. Did you hear the first boy? Well,
30:37
Speaker 1: probably not the first one of the prior molestation victims.
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Speaker 1: I go to sleep, I see him trying to pull
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Speaker 1: my down my shorts. I woke up. I punched him,
30:46
Speaker 1: and he told me it was a joke. Absolutely.
30:48
Speaker 8: As a sex crime detective I was for twenty years
30:51
Speaker 8: with LAPD, this breaks my heart. We did drop the
30:54
Speaker 8: ball on this poor victim. The case was submitted to
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Speaker 8: the d's office electronically and hist under queue, untouched for months.
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Speaker 8: That's what sources familiar with the investigation have told me.
31:06
Speaker 8: And when the investigators called the disease office to follow up,
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Speaker 8: they realized that nobody had looked at this case for
31:12
Speaker 8: a long time. And that's where we dropped the ball.
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I don't like what you just said,
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Speaker 1: Castillo drop the ball. That's like oops, I dropped the ball.
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Speaker 1: This is abandoned and malignant heart dropped the ball. Oscar
31:30
Speaker 1: is dead because somebody dropped the ball Ana Sonota. That's
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Speaker 1: not all listen.
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Speaker 11: Detectives learned that there was another unrelated child sexual abuse
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Speaker 11: case being handled by the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill
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Speaker 11: Division involving Garcia Aquino. On April second, twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 11: the new information from both the Sheriff's Department and the
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Speaker 11: Police Department cases, the District Attorney Office filed one felony
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Speaker 11: count of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense
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Speaker 11: on Mario Garcia. He was taken into custody in the
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Speaker 11: city of Los Angeles and he was then subsequently transferred
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Speaker 11: to the custody of the Sheriff's Department.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Teos here at Vanderbrook joining
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Speaker 1: us from the Los Angeles Daily News Sierra how many
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Speaker 1: at this juncture? How many young boy victims do we
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Speaker 1: know of? At this point?
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Speaker 7: We know that there were two charges filed against Garcia A.
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Speaker 7: Keno now in relation to previous sex abuse cases, one
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Speaker 7: from twenty twenty two and one from twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 7: But during this press conference, we did hear. Sheriff Robert
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Speaker 7: Luna emphasized that police and sheriff department believe that there
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Speaker 7: may be more victims. They are searching for more victims.
33:05
Speaker 7: Anyone with information or who believes they've been a victim
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Speaker 7: of Garciaqino. They asked contact them and that they were.
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Speaker 1: Looking at everything.
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Speaker 7: Authorities believe there may be more assault victims or missing
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Speaker 7: persons connected to Garciaqino. They are open, they are looking
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Speaker 7: for both.
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Speaker 1: Okay, everybody sitting down, You may need to lay down
33:21
Speaker 1: for this too. Listen to the La County Sheriff Robert Luna.
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Speaker 11: Garcia Quino was a youth travel soccer coach with the
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Speaker 11: Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club in the Silmar area, working
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Speaker 11: with different age divisions. He had no reported criminal history.
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Speaker 1: BS and you know, Sheriff Leuna, I like you, I
33:42
Speaker 1: do anything against you. But why did you just say
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Speaker 1: that he had no reported criminal history? Did you not
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Speaker 1: just hear the boy victim? That happened over a year
33:54
Speaker 1: ago and nothing was done. So while there's not a conviction,
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Speaker 1: there is un arrest, there is an allegation let me rephrase,
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Speaker 1: fell on the assault with intent to commit a lude
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Speaker 1: act twenty twenty two felon the assault with intent to
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Speaker 1: commit rape lud act on a child age fourteen or fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Those are the ones that we have been able to
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Speaker 1: dig up. How many more are out there? I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, Moses Castillo, isn't it true step statistically when
34:29
Speaker 1: a child molester is caught once that there are dozens
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Speaker 1: of prior undetected child molestations. Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: That's why the message here today is if you're out
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Speaker 8: there and you're a victim of this evil monster, please
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Speaker 8: come forward. It was never your fault, and I want
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Speaker 8: you to know that one hundred percent, and you have
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Speaker 8: the support of the victim services that are going to
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Speaker 8: be coming for you and available to you.
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Speaker 1: Nothing was done on prior claims of child molestation against
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Speaker 1: the so called traveling coach. Nothing was done, The files
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Speaker 1: gathered dust, and now a little boy is dead and
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Speaker 1: his body thrown on the side of the road. Listen,
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Speaker 1: we don't.
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Speaker 4: Have the actual details of how he was killed at
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Speaker 4: this exact moment, nor do we have all the reports
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Speaker 4: that will come in when the coroner.
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Speaker 2: Produces his They've already performed an autopsy and it turned
35:24
Speaker 2: out there was a lot of alcohol in his urine.
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Speaker 12: This is a stable.
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Speaker 3: That's the only thing left to investigate is whether he
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Speaker 3: was sexually imputed.
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Speaker 1: The things and my boys drink and I'm sure of
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Speaker 1: that why because he didn't resist, guys. That is from
35:39
Speaker 1: our friends at Univision thirty four LA. It's almost more
35:45
Speaker 1: than I can take in what we are hearing, Doctor
35:49
Speaker 1: Michelle Dupree. The boy found on the side of the
35:51
Speaker 1: road like his trash. I imagine days had passed. Are
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Speaker 1: we going to be able to get a CEOD cause
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Speaker 1: of death and we'll be able to Will we be
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Speaker 1: able to tell had the boy been molested?
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Speaker 14: Yes, Nancy, I think we will. We can often tell
36:05
Speaker 14: so much even though time has passed, and in this case,
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Speaker 14: it's likely that we did find alcohol in the blood.
36:13
Speaker 14: But we're also probably going to be able to tell
36:15
Speaker 14: that he may have been strangled or certainly if there
36:17
Speaker 14: was any type of blunt force trauma, which is typical
36:20
Speaker 14: in cases like this, especially the strangulation.
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Speaker 1: So how long will alcohol still be in the victim's system.
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Speaker 14: It can be in there for days, Nancy. If we
36:28
Speaker 14: can't get it in the blood, we can take it
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Speaker 14: from the vitreous, which is an excellent long term way
36:34
Speaker 14: to get this kind of toxicology report.
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Speaker 1: Vitreous is what.
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Speaker 14: Vitreous is, the fluid inside the eyeball. It's well protected.
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Speaker 14: It gives us a very good pre mortem indication of
36:45
Speaker 14: many things like electrolytes or alcohol content.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let me just warn the LA District Attorney, do
36:51
Speaker 1: not jump on the bandwagon. But apparently he is listen.
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Speaker 8: If he had been arrested on that earlier alleged defense,
36:59
Speaker 8: he wouldn't have been on the streets, and he certainly
37:01
Speaker 8: would not be working as a coach.
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Speaker 4: In order to develop the evidence for any particular offense,
37:07
Speaker 4: as we will be providing in court. It doesn't happen overnight.
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Speaker 4: So even though that original offense occurred back in February
37:14
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four, that investigated started approximately within I
37:21
Speaker 4: forgot within weeks of that particular investigation. But you have
37:25
Speaker 4: to actually go through all the different parts of an
37:28
Speaker 4: investigation before you ever get to it.
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Speaker 5: Why would the government, knowing he had such an accusation,
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Speaker 5: allow him to be free?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why would they? That's where our friends at KTLA five.
37:42
Speaker 1: You know, as much tap dancing as the DA's doing.
37:45
Speaker 1: He need to just admit the truth. There's no way
37:48
Speaker 1: to fix this now. They dropped the ball. As Castillo
37:52
Speaker 1: said earlier, why is it that we so willingly trust
37:57
Speaker 1: sports coaches named Larry Nasser? I wish I never heard it, sir.
38:02
Speaker 1: If what you did and touching these.
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Speaker 7: Victims in all of these accounts was ungloved.
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Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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Speaker 12: Yes, you fear that her.
38:11
Speaker 1: And it was not for any medical purpose? Is that correct?
38:16
Speaker 7: It was for your own purpose?
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Speaker 15: Is that correct?
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Speaker 9: Yes?
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Speaker 1: I don't want another young gymnast, Olympic athlete, or any
38:24
Speaker 1: individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of
38:27
Speaker 1: others have endured. One of my heroes right there, Simone Biles.
38:31
Speaker 1: That was from our friends at NBC. Just think about it.
38:35
Speaker 1: At that elite level, an Olympic coach molesting scores of
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Speaker 1: young girls, some as young as thirteen. I can hardly
38:47
Speaker 1: stand to look at him. He makes me sick just
38:50
Speaker 1: to look at him. Girls representing our country. This little
38:57
Speaker 1: boy is dead, his body thrown on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road and behind bars. The description by Homeland Security
39:09
Speaker 1: is a depraved illegal alien. There's no telling how many
39:21
Speaker 1: little boys were molested by him, and he had an
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Speaker 1: a sonoda unfattered access to them.
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Speaker 15: Absolutely, predators run on gas, grooming access, and space. Coaches,
39:36
Speaker 15: especially travel coaches, have an exceptional amount of gas. They
39:42
Speaker 15: get time away with the child, they built trust with
39:44
Speaker 15: the parents. In Nancy, parents are good, parents are doing
39:48
Speaker 15: what they can. This family had high hopes for what
39:52
Speaker 15: this sports coach was going to be able to do
39:54
Speaker 15: for their son. How many countless families are in the
39:57
Speaker 15: same position, and predators, by golly, they know it and
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Speaker 15: they exploit that every time.
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Speaker 1: You know, Karen Stark, I'm not sure if I told
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Speaker 1: you about this, but I remember a Methodist lay leader
40:09
Speaker 1: who was a college professor came and spoke at our
40:13
Speaker 1: church and promised to coach me free, because you know,
40:18
Speaker 1: we were broke Spanish private Spanish coaching, and my parents
40:25
Speaker 1: let me, along with my sister go to this guy's
40:30
Speaker 1: home with his family that was an hour away. And
40:35
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it. My parents were so happy that
40:40
Speaker 1: I could get this private coaching in Spanish. Was taking
40:46
Speaker 1: Spanish at school. It's just like that point. It was
40:49
Speaker 1: in the fifth grade and they thought, oh, something we
40:53
Speaker 1: can't afford that we can give her. So it's it's
40:57
Speaker 1: not the parent's fault, and I don't want to portray
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Speaker 1: that way.
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Speaker 10: It's not the parent's fault, Nancy. That's so correct, because
41:06
Speaker 10: we're talking about master manipulators. They are charming. Their exterior
41:12
Speaker 10: is trusting. They act like you can trust them with
41:16
Speaker 10: your children, and parents are looking for help. They're in
41:20
Speaker 10: a position of authority in that way, and you can't
41:23
Speaker 10: count on the children. Unfortunately. Parents believe that maybe their
41:28
Speaker 10: children would tell them that something was wrong, but the
41:30
Speaker 10: children are afraid. They don't understand, they don't know how
41:35
Speaker 10: to come forward, they don't even have the words for
41:37
Speaker 10: it developmentally. So it is a terrible problem, really a
41:42
Speaker 10: terrible problem that parents need to be aware of and
41:45
Speaker 10: investigate who's with your children beforehand.
41:49
Speaker 1: Guys, let me announce that there is a gofund me
41:52
Speaker 1: for Oscar Hernandez's family. They're just trying to get money
41:56
Speaker 1: to pay off the funeral. It's at go fund me
42:00
Speaker 1: dot com Oscar Omar Hernandez. Right now, the state is
42:05
Speaker 1: building its case, and when I say building its case,
42:10
Speaker 1: I mean looking for other child victims. I believe that
42:17
Speaker 1: these other child victims will testify in a court of
42:21
Speaker 1: law under the theory of similar transactions to bolster the state's
42:28
Speaker 1: case in the murder of Little Oscar. The state is
42:32
Speaker 1: also looking for these victims and looking for witnesses to
42:38
Speaker 1: possibly seeing the coach with Little Oscar. If you know
42:44
Speaker 1: or think you know anything about this case, please dial
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Speaker 1: eight one eight three seven four five to four one
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Speaker 1: five or toll free eight hundred two two two A
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Speaker 1: four to seven seven repeat eight hundred two two two
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Speaker 1: eight four seven seven. I believe that's the number I
43:07
Speaker 1: would use because the States already dropped the ball on
43:10
Speaker 1: the case already. I would go with crime Stoppers. And
43:15
Speaker 1: now we remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway,
43:20
Speaker 1: Lownes County Sheriff's Alabama, passed away in the line of duty,
43:25
Speaker 1: survived by his wife after twelve years serving LA law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: American hero Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway