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Child 'Protection' leaves bruised, beaten 3-year old tot girl TO DIE · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. How does a beautiful little
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Speaker 1: three year old girl named Trinity three years old end
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Speaker 1: up dead? She didn't have an asthma attack, she wasn't
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Speaker 1: hit by a car, she didn't have a congenital heart
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Speaker 1: problem that nobody knew about. So how does this beautiful
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Speaker 1: little three year old girl end up dead? I want
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Speaker 1: answers crime stories with Nancy Grace. While many of us
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Speaker 1: hide Christmas break New Year's Eve, were with our family,
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Speaker 1: loving every minute of being together. The harsh reality is
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Speaker 1: that deaths of children, children going missing goes on year round.
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Speaker 1: There is no we can break. There's no Christmas break,
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Speaker 1: no New Year's break. So as much as we want
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Speaker 1: to turn our gaze and focus on the Christmas tree
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Speaker 1: or happy New Year, Lady Justice never gets arrest. And
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons she never gets arrest is because
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Speaker 1: of children like Trinity. First of all, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to the three year old Trinity. Chandler's family had big
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Speaker 1: plans for Christmas, and this typical little girl was excited
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Speaker 1: for the holidays. She loves stuff, pillows, and characters in
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Speaker 1: the Frozen films. In fact, her presence from grandmother Christine
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Speaker 1: Cunningham reflect that the plan was to transform Trinity's bedroom
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Speaker 1: into a frozen wonderland. But while shopping for last minute
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Speaker 1: presents to round out the wish list, this grandmother receives
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Speaker 1: unimaginable news Trinity is dead. That has just brought up
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Speaker 1: so many memories. You may or may not know. My
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Speaker 1: children who are my world, John, David and Lucy have
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Speaker 1: just turned believe it or not, thirteen. I can't believe it,
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Speaker 1: but I remember the frozen phase. I thought my son
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Speaker 1: was going to jump out of the car if we
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Speaker 1: sang it in the car one more time, let it go.
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Speaker 1: And I also remember when you just heard our producer
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Speaker 1: Jackie Howard says she wanted loved stuffed pillows. I will
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Speaker 1: never forget when the Twins went through the pillow pet phase.
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Speaker 1: It was odd. They were those one eight hundred commercials
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Speaker 1: that come on TV and they are pillows in every
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Speaker 1: animal you can think of, penguin pillows, unicorn pillows, Teddy
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Speaker 1: Barry pillows, every animal is represented. That's all ladybug pillows.
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Speaker 1: I just thought of that that because that's what Lucy wanted,
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Speaker 1: and they were obsessed with getting stuffed pillows. And I'm
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Speaker 1: just imagining this three year old little girl, Trinity loving
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Speaker 1: these stuffed pillows and singing the Frozen Song and just
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Speaker 1: love and life at three years old with me and
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Speaker 1: all star our panel to break it down and put
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Speaker 1: it back together again. First of all, lead news anchor
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Speaker 1: for w DBO, Ray Kiputo, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
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Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star
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Speaker 1: of a brand new series on the True Crime Network,
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Speaker 1: Poisonous Liaisons. Founder and director of the Cold Case Research Institute.
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Speaker 1: Crime scene expert Cheryl McCullum. Joining us are now psychilogrists
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Speaker 1: out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Doctor Angela Arnold you can
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Speaker 1: find her at Angela Arnold MD dot com. North Carolina
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Speaker 1: veteran trial lawyer Kathleen Murphy you can find her at
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Speaker 1: NC Domestic Law dot com. Special guest is joining us,
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Speaker 1: the founder of Class Kids klaas Kids dot Org, Mark
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Speaker 1: Class and special Guests Joining us. Trinity's aunt, Diamond Chandler.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Ray Kaputo. We just heard that
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Speaker 1: three year old Trinity had big plans for Christmas. This
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Speaker 1: little girl super excited. The plan was to transform her
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Speaker 1: room into a frozen extravaganza. How does this little girl
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Speaker 1: end up while everybody's shopping? Dad? This little angel, I mean,
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Speaker 1: this little girl was like another three year old girls.
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Speaker 1: She said she loved, she loved it's frozen. She loved
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Speaker 1: her little stuff. Durenna Rompi actually playing on her boy ships.
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Speaker 1: She likes, you know, her mom and dad hanging out
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Speaker 1: with them. Your guess is as good as mine as
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Speaker 1: to how something like this could happen a week before Christmas.
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Speaker 1: But the long story shorter is the people who trust.
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Speaker 1: First of all, wait a minute, tell me this. Where
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Speaker 1: did this go down? What are we talking about? A city?
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Speaker 1: The country? An apartment complex, is shopping mall? Why can't
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Speaker 1: you tell me, right, Nancy? This this happened in a
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Speaker 1: place called a groveling township. It's in Michigan. And if
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Speaker 1: you know that, the territories between Flint in Detroit, um.
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Speaker 1: So it's really cool there. It's just a week before Christmas,
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Speaker 1: and you got a little girl with some snow on
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Speaker 1: the ground and just looking forward to all those presents
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Speaker 1: and Santa Claus and all the good things that come
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Speaker 1: with Christy, you know. To renowned psychiatrist doctor Angela Arnold,
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Speaker 1: joining us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Why is it?
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Speaker 1: Is it the stark dichotomy between what we imagine is
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Speaker 1: going to happen at Christmas? I mean, doctor Angie, ps,
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Speaker 1: please get well, doctor Angie suffering with COVID. We were
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Speaker 1: all wiped out with COVID. It seems like the Christmas
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Speaker 1: that that got lost because we were all really battling COVID.
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Speaker 1: And praise the Lord where we've all come through on
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Speaker 1: the light side of the tunnel. But we people expect
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Speaker 1: so much at Christmas. And the dichotomy of this little
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Speaker 1: girl dying at Christmas, why is that such a slap
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Speaker 1: in the face or cold water thrown on? Because Christmas
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be such a happy time and it's
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Speaker 1: such a it's a time that everyone looks forward to.
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Speaker 1: And you know, if they talked about decorating her bedroom,
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Speaker 1: people aren't thinking about people being sick or dying or
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Speaker 1: being killed around the holidays. The holidays are like a
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Speaker 1: sacred time when when we should not have to worry
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Speaker 1: about those types of things. And that's the way we
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Speaker 1: have it in our heads. Because I would say a
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Speaker 1: good sixty to seventy percent of Christmas nobody sends just
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Speaker 1: a regular Christmas card anymore. It's the family photo and
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Speaker 1: they're beautiful, and this family looked like they had a
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Speaker 1: beautiful family. To Diamond Chandler, this is Trinity's aunt, Miss Chandler.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. Tell me about Trinity,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Trinity was just this beautiful,
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Speaker 1: bright little girl, so intelligent. I was told a lot
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Speaker 1: about her from my brother Michael Chandler, who is her
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Speaker 1: biological father. With me is Trinity's aunt, Diamond Chandler, and
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Speaker 1: they news reverberating through the family and the community like
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Speaker 1: shot waves that this three year old little girl turns
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Speaker 1: up dead. I want you to take a listen to
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Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding the three year old little girl's death.
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Speaker 1: And I remember the twins at age three, precious, wonderful,
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Speaker 1: waking up with smiles on their faces every morning. I
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Speaker 1: remember Christmas with them at age three, at time of
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Speaker 1: just sheer wonderment. That was not to be for this
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Speaker 1: three year old little girl, absolutely gorgeous, Trinity Chandler. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our friend at wdiv This is Priya Man.
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Speaker 1: The family says the mom. Trinity's mom was at work.
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Speaker 1: She works overnight at a nursing home. When she started
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Speaker 1: her shift at seven pm on Friday night, Trinity was fine.
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Speaker 1: When her shift was over. Twelve hours later at seven
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Speaker 1: am Saturday morning, her little girl was gone. She lived
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Speaker 1: her Trinity. That's why she worked midnight, so that way
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Speaker 1: Trinity was sleeping at night. State police are investigating after
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Speaker 1: four year old Trinity Chandler died over the weekend. Trinity
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Speaker 1: was set. She loved everybody. She ain't got her new glasses.
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Speaker 1: She loved her glass and she had to take pictures
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Speaker 1: and show me here the picture time stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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Speaker 1: you were just hearing Nnity's grandmother, Christine Cunningham. We are
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Speaker 1: talking about the death of a three year old little
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Speaker 1: girl straight out to Joseph Scott, Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jackson
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Speaker 1: State University and death investigator. When you have the body
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Speaker 1: of a three year old little girl, that's got to
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Speaker 1: be something that follows you around for weeks and months
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Speaker 1: or longer. I still remember and actually have nightmares about
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Speaker 1: cases I prosecuted and investigated where children were the victims.
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott, Yeah, it does follow you forever. Nancy is
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Speaker 1: something that's haunting and what else is haunting about these
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Speaker 1: circumstances many times, or the way they died, I would
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Speaker 1: urge everybody in our audience to please visit crime on
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Speaker 1: Line and take a look at this precious angel. Our
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Speaker 1: friends league and wrote a wonderful article about this case.
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Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum, founder director of Cold Case Research Institute. She
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Speaker 1: may be the director of the Cold Case Research Institute now,
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Speaker 1: but I remember her showing up on crime scenes with
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Speaker 1: me in the middle of the night you started processing crimes, saying,
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Speaker 1: Cheryl to me, I mean, I never forget any of
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Speaker 1: my cases, but the ones involving children, for some reason,
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Speaker 1: they they're worse than the others. They are worse than
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Speaker 1: the other than Nancy. I can remember one You and
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Speaker 1: I worked in Thomasville Hights on Christmas Eve and it
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Speaker 1: was a child and I think what everybody said earlier
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Speaker 1: about it being Christmas time, and that is magical and
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Speaker 1: especially for children and watching children be so excited, and
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Speaker 1: especially you know this little baby being excited about her room,
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Speaker 1: and by three, her whole little personality is right there,
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Speaker 1: and you know her talking about frozen and wanting her
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Speaker 1: room to look a certain way, just tillis you because
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Speaker 1: you know so much about her, just from what she loved,
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Speaker 1: and she loved her Draft and she loved Frozen, So
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Speaker 1: it just tells you she was very loving, She was
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Speaker 1: very sweet, she was very kind, and you know the
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Speaker 1: fact that somebody would harm her around Christmas is just
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Speaker 1: unfathomable to Mark Class, founder of Class Kets Foundation, dedicated
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Speaker 1: to helping missing people, including children. Mark has devoted himself
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Speaker 1: to that endeavor since the disappearance and death of his
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Speaker 1: beautiful girl, Polly, Mark Class, I know you remember Polly
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Speaker 1: at age three, right, Yes? I do, of course I do. Yes,
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Speaker 1: And they're so innocent at that point. They trust whoever's
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Speaker 1: taking care of them because they don't know any different. Mark,
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Speaker 1: you know, personal miss Diamond. I I'm so sorry for
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Speaker 1: your loss. I'm seething, Nancy, I mean, I'm really seething,
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Speaker 1: because you know, we bring these precious little babies into
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Speaker 1: this world, and then it's our job to take care
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Speaker 1: of them until they're ready to start taking care of
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Speaker 1: their children. And in fact, we have institutions in place
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Speaker 1: to ensure that children don't fall through the cracks. But
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Speaker 1: something occurred here, something horrible occurred. You're right about that,
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Speaker 1: Mark class hole occurred and people averted their eyes until
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Speaker 1: it was too late. And for that there's no excuse.
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Speaker 1: It's a tragedy that we all share. Fact Ray Kaputo,
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Speaker 1: Lead news anchor w Dbo Ray. So the mom is
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Speaker 1: at work at a rest home on the night shift.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever told you my grandmother
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Speaker 1: that I named Lucy after my mother's mom worked at
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Speaker 1: a rest home in her late years, and she would
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Speaker 1: often have the night shift. And it keeps you busy.
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Speaker 1: You'd think everybody would be asleeping night. No, not in
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Speaker 1: the old folks home. They're all wandering around. Their aches
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Speaker 1: and pains are bothering them. You've got to give them
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Speaker 1: their medications. So mom is busy at work, and I
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Speaker 1: think it was a twelve hour shift. So what do
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Speaker 1: we know about the c O D this child? Three
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Speaker 1: year old little girl's death. Let me ask if she
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Speaker 1: had an internal bleeding, she suffered some injuries. Um, you
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Speaker 1: know kids are three years old, especially they're small or fragile,
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Speaker 1: injuries that adults may sustain them, which is le bruce
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Speaker 1: can literally be deadly. But this this little girl was
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Speaker 1: apparently she'd suffered some some type of trauma to her
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Speaker 1: body and she had internal bleeding. You know, it takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of trauma on the outer body to get
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Speaker 1: internal bleeding of this magnitude on the inside of your body.
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Speaker 1: To Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jackson State University, let's
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Speaker 1: go through the injuries this little girl sustained when she's
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Speaker 1: there and the medical examiners. What did the medical examiner
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Speaker 1: find Joe Scott, Well, she did in fact, and let
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Speaker 1: me let me preface this by saying, Nancy that the
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Speaker 1: term torture has been used in this particular case, just
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Speaker 1: to kind of frame this out, and that's not something
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Speaker 1: in our world that is commonly, uh commonly thrown about lightly. Okay,
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Speaker 1: just keep that in mind, and it's it's it's not
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Speaker 1: something that are trained forensics person. It's just going to
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Speaker 1: say off the cuff. So that goes to tell you
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Speaker 1: that the injuries, as Ray had mentioned, were internal. There
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Speaker 1: was internal bleeding. Uh. My suspicion is the primary source
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Speaker 1: of the bleeding is going to be in the abdominal region.
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Speaker 1: And many times which you'll have and abusers do this commonly, Uh,
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Speaker 1: they punch children in their stomachs many times because it's
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Speaker 1: they have a perception that people are not going to
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Speaker 1: see it because clothing covers these particular regions. But which
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Speaker 1: can't mask is that when you're standing over the body
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Speaker 1: of a small child, which I stood over hundreds in
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Speaker 1: the morgue, and you examine their body, you see that
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Speaker 1: the abdominal cavity is literally and I mean literally, Nancy
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Speaker 1: awash in blood. The organs are literally floating in blood,
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Speaker 1: and that's because they've slowly bled out. And to use
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Speaker 1: the term torture in this particular case indicates to us
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Speaker 1: that these that there is probably evidence that this was
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Speaker 1: an ongoing event. I want to talk to you about
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Speaker 1: what you're saying. They're bruising that would have resulted to
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Speaker 1: show the injuries on the outside of abdominal organs that
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Speaker 1: were literally floating in blood on the inside of this
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Speaker 1: three year old little girl. And I'm gonna go to
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Speaker 1: doctor Angela Arnold. You know, doctor Angie, I will never
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Speaker 1: forget Christmas photos we took with the twins and they
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Speaker 1: were three years old. They were just they just turned
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Speaker 1: three their birthdays in November, and these were pictures taken
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of December. Well, the first thing, Lucy
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Speaker 1: did not like her outfit, so I had a backup outfit.
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Speaker 1: Cause she's very particular, So she put on her backup outfit.
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Speaker 1: This is at three, all right. And as she was
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Speaker 1: walking into the photography place, we walked in. She was
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Speaker 1: right beside me. We walked on and looked down. She
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Speaker 1: didn't have a shirt on at all. She just had
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Speaker 1: on her Christmas pant. She's just looking at me. So
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Speaker 1: long story short, we finally got her in an outfit.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember what I had to do to get
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Speaker 1: her in an outfit. It reminds me of her ballet
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Speaker 1: outfit when those pictures were taken. That's a whole other
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Speaker 1: can of worms. But I wanted the picture to be perfect,
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Speaker 1: right for her to have as a memory. Now, a
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Speaker 1: picture that I'm looking at right now of Trinity. Look
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Speaker 1: at her face. The little girl's face is covered in bruises.
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Speaker 1: That's the perfect picture. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about this three year old little girl dead
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Speaker 1: leading up to Christmas while mom's at work. I mean,
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Speaker 1: doctor Angel Arnold, you want a perfect picture? This is
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Speaker 1: not it? No, I mean, don't they even see all
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Speaker 1: that on this child. And you can see on her
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Speaker 1: this is at crime online dot Com. Guys, you can
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Speaker 1: see on her lip that the lip has been busted.
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Speaker 1: There's there's the nose, all on both sides of the face.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so Angie shows that somebody was doing something
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Speaker 1: to her that they didn't even here that it could show.
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Speaker 1: I mean, your face. That's everybody's going to forever see
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Speaker 1: the little girl's face. That's not anything you can ever hide.
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Speaker 1: To Rakaputo, lead news anchor, Orlando Morning News BDBO. So
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Speaker 1: the mom's at work. I assume the little girl was
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Speaker 1: all right when mom goes to work. Who was the babysitter.
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Speaker 1: The babysitter was the mom's boyfriend, Nancy twenty nine year
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Speaker 1: old Samuel Samuel Lester Smart and he wasn't new. He
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Speaker 1: was around for a year and a half. Apparently there
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Speaker 1: was some you know, pretty good rapport between the child
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Speaker 1: and the mom and stuff. But it was the mom's boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't the biological father. So mom's lover is at
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Speaker 1: home with the baby when mom goes to work. Is
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Speaker 1: that correct? Yes, to our knowledge, was anyone else in
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Speaker 1: the home. No, it was just the two of them
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Speaker 1: to my knowledge, Nancy, I mean right there, you got
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Speaker 1: a lot of circumstantial evidence that this was the adult
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Speaker 1: in the home with the little girl. I want you
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Speaker 1: to take a listen to our friends at WXYZ. This
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Speaker 1: is Simon Chaquette. This is truly a sickening crime and
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Speaker 1: even more appalling, we've now learned Child Protective Services did
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Speaker 1: a welfare check on Trinity the very day before she died,
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Speaker 1: and they discovered injuries but still chose not to remove her.
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Speaker 1: To me, it looked like it was two. As mother
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Speaker 1: to a friend of three year old Trinity Chandler, Ashley
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Speaker 1: Brown is speaking out to expose facts she says she
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Speaker 1: reported to state police and Child Protective Services, including pictures
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Speaker 1: she gave us of multiple bruises on Trinity's face October's
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Speaker 1: when I made the report with Michigan State Police for
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Speaker 1: then today on the face it was a couple months
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Speaker 1: prior that I had seen her with Marx under her eyes.
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Speaker 1: It was obvious abuse. They could have at least taken
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Speaker 1: her and had her space somewhere safe until their investigation
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Speaker 1: was over. Straight out to Keth Murphy, North Carolina trial lawyer,
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Speaker 1: specialty domestic law. She's at nc domestic dot com. Kathleen Murphy.
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Speaker 1: It's to me very telling they didn't even they weren't
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Speaker 1: concerned at all that she's covered in bruises in a picture.
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Speaker 1: And I was about to light a fire under this
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Speaker 1: neighbor's rear end for seeing the bruises on the child
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Speaker 1: and doing nothing. But that's not true. The neighbor did
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Speaker 1: do something. She called police, CPS, Child Protective Services got involved.
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Speaker 1: So why is the baby dead? Kathleen? I see it
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Speaker 1: all the time. Social Services drops the ball. This neighbor
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Speaker 1: had photographs of this very picture, and Social Services should
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Speaker 1: have gone to a judge and take an emergency custody
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Speaker 1: immediately of this child and placed her in protective services.
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Speaker 1: The failure for them to do that, the failure of
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Speaker 1: them to do that, is clearly a failure on the
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Speaker 1: agency's part. Straight out to Diamond Chandler, this is three
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Speaker 1: year old Trinity's aunt, Miss Chandler. Did the family have
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Speaker 1: any idea what was happening? I mean, all the neighbors
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Speaker 1: seemingly knew. They were calling police. There were reports made
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Speaker 1: by Trinity's biological father in June to CPS. There were
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Speaker 1: reports made by neighbors and babysitters in August and the
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Speaker 1: report made to the police by Ashley Brown in October,
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Speaker 1: and we were aware that just seeing the Trinity's mother
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Speaker 1: had cut the biological father out of her life, out
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Speaker 1: of Trinity's life and most of the family as well,
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Speaker 1: so it was hard for us to get involved. He
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Speaker 1: the father had talked to Trinity's mother and told her,
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Speaker 1: I don't like your boyfriend. I don't feel that he
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Speaker 1: should be in my daughter's life. So it's just as horrifying.
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Speaker 1: So all of these family members, including bio dad, were
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Speaker 1: beside themselves at Trinity being with mommy's live in, but
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Speaker 1: Mommy did nothing. You know, Cheryl McCallum, you and I've
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Speaker 1: talked about this a million times outside of court. Do
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Speaker 1: you know how many times, Cheryl, when I would prosecute
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Speaker 1: a child abuse case where it was the dad, the stepdad,
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Speaker 1: the boyfriend to live in, the whatever man involved in
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Speaker 1: mommy's life would sex, abuse, beat, kill the child. I
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Speaker 1: never had a single case, Cheryl, not one in ten years,
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Speaker 1: one hundred new felonies a week to handle. Not once
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Speaker 1: did Mommy side with the children against the dead or
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Speaker 1: the boyfriend or the live in or like you said,
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Speaker 1: whatever he is, Nancy. This is the part to me
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Speaker 1: that is just flabbergasting. They're ain't a man that exists
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Speaker 1: that could harm my child and stay anywhere near me.
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Speaker 1: I cannot fathom this baby being abused in front of
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Speaker 1: her being abused when she ain't there, and she gets
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Speaker 1: home to see the results. A bruise's face, she's bathed her,
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Speaker 1: She's seen other marks on her, on her back and
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Speaker 1: on her tummy, on her legs. She knows this is
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Speaker 1: he did not harm her night one and that was it.
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Speaker 1: This has been an old going I don't get it.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, Cheryl, I'm thinking of one particular case.
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Speaker 1: You know it very well. This was a guy who
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Speaker 1: handled all of the livery horse drawn carriages and Limo
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Speaker 1: big Limo tourist service in the city of Atlanta, rolling
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Speaker 1: in money. His living girlfriend actually brought the children that
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Speaker 1: he had been having full on sex with. One was three,
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Speaker 1: I think the other one was five. She actually took
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Speaker 1: them to the defense office the weekend before I struck
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Speaker 1: the jury to get them to recant. Absolutely, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: a devil, the devil. I don't get it. Doctor Angela Arnold.
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Speaker 1: You know I'm just a trial lawyer. You're the shrink.
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Speaker 1: Why would any mother pick some good for nothing living
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Speaker 1: boyfriend over her child. It happens all the time, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: because people people, because these good for nothing living boyfriends
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Speaker 1: have certain kinds of personality disorders that attract these women
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Speaker 1: to them, and they tell them what they want to hear.
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Speaker 1: Have you looked at this guy? He ain't all that
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Speaker 1: and a bag of chips, I can tell you that much.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what hold he's got over anybody exactly,
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Speaker 1: but but we don't know what kinds of things he
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Speaker 1: said to her, what she wanted to hear from him,
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Speaker 1: and how he and then and people just overlook things.
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Speaker 1: She needed to go to walk, and so she left
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Speaker 1: the baby with him. She saw the bruises on that
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Speaker 1: baby's face. I mean, hold on, let me follow up
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Speaker 1: on that. To Diamond Chandler. This is three year old
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Speaker 1: Trinity's aunt on the father the bio dad's side, who
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Speaker 1: had been cut out of the life my mom. According
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Speaker 1: to the dad in lieu of this living lover, there
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Speaker 1: was nobody else that could babysit the little girl. Diamond,
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Speaker 1: she had a great babysitter in Ashley Brown. She had
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Speaker 1: great neighbors who would help her out whenever she needed.
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Speaker 1: She had her mother, of it, she could call to
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Speaker 1: watch Trinity. Any of the family would have driven hundreds
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Speaker 1: of miles to get Trinity. If she said, my boyfriend
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Speaker 1: is hurting Trinity, it's just a chilling me. Admit herself.
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Speaker 1: What was that? He did admit herself in writing. She
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Speaker 1: said he had hurt her before, but I never thought
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Speaker 1: in a million years he would do this. Oh God,
27:13
Speaker 1: you know what. My husband, who was six foot four,
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Speaker 1: when I would have to go to work at HLN
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Speaker 1: at night, of course, I had a nanny cam. Thank
27:23
Speaker 1: you hill In and CNN. They installed a nanny cam.
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Speaker 1: If you were watching, you saw me looking down. He
27:30
Speaker 1: thought I was reading the news. I was not. We
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Speaker 1: had a nanny cam under a glass desk. I could
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Speaker 1: see what was happening at home because I could not
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Speaker 1: concentrate while my children were without me, and I was
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Speaker 1: on the air, so that would call me Dan and
27:43
Speaker 1: I could keep going. And I'm just thinking anyway, what
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Speaker 1: I was saying was he's six foot four. I said,
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Speaker 1: if you spank her, do it on the arm with
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Speaker 1: two fingers. That was her big spank and she would scream,
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Speaker 1: you know, out of the humiliation. What mom would stand
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Speaker 1: by and let the child be brutalized like this Crime
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking about the death
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Speaker 1: a beautiful three year old girl. And I want to
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Speaker 1: give you a hot light number right now. It's for
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Speaker 1: child help child abuse. You can be anonymous eight hundred
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Speaker 1: four a child the number four or eight hundred four
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Speaker 1: two two four four five three, eight hundred four two
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Speaker 1: two four four five three. I think I heard Joe
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan or Mark Klass say, O MG, when you
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Speaker 1: heard Diamond Chandler state that the mother kneeds her baby
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Speaker 1: was being attacked? Who was that just got her? That
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Speaker 1: was mean? And j P and Mark Well listening. We
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Speaker 1: have a situation here and we've discovered over the last
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Speaker 1: few minutes a multiple calls were made to both the
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Speaker 1: Michigan State Police and Child Protection Services over a number
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Speaker 1: of months leading up to this horrible, torturous murder homicide,
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Speaker 1: and in each instance, the authorities turned aside. CPS didn't care.
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Speaker 1: Every opportunity was afforded because of good neighbors, because of BIODAD,
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Speaker 1: because of other people to ensure that this little girl
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Speaker 1: had a chance, and Bio mom turned aside, Bio Grandma,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that she was purchasing gifts for her,
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Speaker 1: she turned aside, and they allowed this man to torture
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Speaker 1: and murder this little girl. And I think there's a
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Speaker 1: special place in hell for people like that, not only
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Speaker 1: the person that did it, with the people the enablers
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Speaker 1: that allowed it to happen. Little Trinity never had a chance,
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Speaker 1: you know what. I'm also thinking about her life, Mark Lass,
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Speaker 1: what kind of life she led at just three, waking
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Speaker 1: up in the morning and being afraid to come out
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Speaker 1: of your bedroom, afraid you'll be beat by mommy's lover
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Speaker 1: and Mommy you'll just stand by and watch. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know. It reminds me of a case I had,
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Murphy, and it was actually a murder case, and
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Speaker 1: the sister of the murder victim and the whole family,
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Speaker 1: big huge family were like eight or nine children would
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Speaker 1: come to court every day, and I got very close
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Speaker 1: to one of the adult sisters and as it turned out,
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Speaker 1: her father had molested her since she was a child.
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Speaker 1: And the mother needs you and did nothing, and even
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Speaker 1: into her adult to Kathleen Murphy, her heart was broke
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Speaker 1: up because mother did nothing. I am that person that
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Speaker 1: does nothing. Because I go into the court system, I
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Speaker 1: show the court the problem. I explain, I yell, I scream,
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Speaker 1: I stomped, and still nothing gets done. And I try,
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Speaker 1: and I try, and I try. But you are faced
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Speaker 1: with a philosophy through the court system. It will take
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Speaker 1: seven million, three hundred and sixty five thousand pieces of
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Speaker 1: evidence to prove abuse, and it takes one person to
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Speaker 1: say I didn't do it, and the court says there's
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Speaker 1: no abuse and the child goes right back into the home.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to see w d I V. Family
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Speaker 1: members tell us little Trinity's mom was doing her overnight
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Speaker 1: workshift at a nursing home. They say Smart was home
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Speaker 1: with Trinity and reported the family that Trinity wasn't waking
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Speaker 1: up in the morning and took her to a nearby
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Speaker 1: fire station. The little girl was dead. There's been multiple
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Speaker 1: CPS investigations and reports between mister Smart and three year
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Speaker 1: old Trinity Chandler. That MSP investigator just telling the court
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Speaker 1: there is video of a little girl being abused in
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Speaker 1: their evidence, and just a day before CPS investigators did
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Speaker 1: a welfare check on Trinity. I just got know it
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Speaker 1: again also this morning that CPS actually showed up to
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Speaker 1: do a welfare check with Trinity Friday where they observed injuries.
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Speaker 1: Are a welfare check by CPS where injuries to the
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Speaker 1: girl were seen. Nothing was done. The next day, little
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Speaker 1: Trinity was dead. Mark Class, I can't. I just don't
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Speaker 1: think I can take it. Another child CPS ignores. Now
32:47
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they committed the murder. We already know
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Speaker 1: who committed the murder, but they did nothing. The child
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Speaker 1: has covered in bruises. They leave her there, Mark, they
32:58
Speaker 1: should be charged. They are an institution that exists solely
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Speaker 1: to protect children from these kinds of situations, and they
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Speaker 1: completely and totally failed in their duty to little Trinity.
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Speaker 1: And I agree, I think there needs to be accountability
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Speaker 1: for the individuals that were involved in her case and
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Speaker 1: again turned a blind eye to her. I just don't
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Speaker 1: understand how you can and leave that child there, jump
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Speaker 1: and go. I have to say, Mark is exactly right,
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Speaker 1: and somebody needs to hold Social services accountable. And they
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Speaker 1: hide behind confidentiality. To Diamond Channeler, this is three year
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Speaker 1: old Trinity's aunt on the biological father's side, Diamond. Did
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Speaker 1: the family know that Child Protective Services had been in
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Speaker 1: and out of the home and did nothing. Absolutely, But
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Speaker 1: we didn't have much faith in them because Trinity's mother
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Speaker 1: had other children terminated her parental rights by CPS in
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Speaker 1: the past. Who has those children Trinity's mother had, she
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Speaker 1: got her rights terminated, and those children were adopted from
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Speaker 1: within the system. So I will never see those nieces
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Speaker 1: and nephews again either. But from the very first CPS report,
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Speaker 1: if that mother has already had children removed from her care,
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Speaker 1: the very first CPS report should have had a little
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Speaker 1: more suspicion. You dart right, guys, take a listen to
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Speaker 1: Sergeant Jonathan Walden with Metro North Place. There's been multiple
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Speaker 1: CPS investigations and reports between mister smart in three year
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Speaker 1: old Trinity Chandler. There is an active open child abuse
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Speaker 1: investigation that's being investigated by troopers and detectives here at
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Speaker 1: the Metro North Post. CPS actually showed up to do
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Speaker 1: a welfare check with Trinity on Friday where they observed
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Speaker 1: injuries to her, but they didn't feel bad enough to
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Speaker 1: remove them. Yeah, she was covered in bruises, and they
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Speaker 1: drove away from that home and left this defense, this
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Speaker 1: three year old girl who was dead less than twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours later. This guy Samuel Smart pushing thirty. What
35:12
Speaker 1: can you tell me about him? Ray Kiputo wdbo. What
35:15
Speaker 1: do we know about Samuel Smart? Sounds like he's a
35:18
Speaker 1: pretty good liar given what he is accused of right
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Speaker 1: now in Nancy, because just ninety four, when mom was
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Speaker 1: at work, Smart sends a video to her of Trinity
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Speaker 1: playing with blocks. Looks like everything is all well, and
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Speaker 1: then the next morning, this little child rates up and
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Speaker 1: is unresponsive to me. It sounds like, also we can't
35:38
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know the relationship between the boyfriend
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Speaker 1: and the mom, but it sounds like he would spend
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Speaker 1: him some lives and giving her a false sense of comfort.
35:47
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, I mean he's listening, you know what. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate that, Ray Kaputo, But the child's carvin and bruises.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what video he sends me. That would
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Speaker 1: end day one? And what can you tell me, kaput
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Speaker 1: wdbo about this so called video showing the little girl
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Speaker 1: getting abused? And Child Protective Services still sits here with
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Speaker 1: their thumb up their rear end. What video, Danthy, I
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Speaker 1: haven't seen the video and I haven't been described the contents. Okay,
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Speaker 1: hold on, Diamond Chandler, do you know about a video
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Speaker 1: of her being ABS have heard about the video. I
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Speaker 1: have not seen it myself, and I have not seen
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Speaker 1: a report about it. I'd like to know what that is.
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Speaker 1: But apparently CPS had that as well. We now know
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Speaker 1: that Samuel Smarton has been taken into custody relating to
36:34
Speaker 1: the child's death. But what about mommy, Mark Klass, Why
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Speaker 1: is it the mom charged for leaving the child with
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Speaker 1: a known abuser. I think that's a great question. She's
36:47
Speaker 1: obviously complicit because she allowed this to happen over long
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Speaker 1: periods of time, and there's documented proof of that, through
36:56
Speaker 1: through through investigations, through reports, and through pictures and Chammer,
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Speaker 1: what is the mother saying? He is saying that she
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Speaker 1: never thought in a million years he would do this,
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Speaker 1: even though he's heard her before, which seems like a
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Speaker 1: pretty weak defense to me. If you knew that he's
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Speaker 1: heard her once, how would you not think that he
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Speaker 1: would hurt her again? Obviously Defects Department Family Children's Services CPS,
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Speaker 1: CHOP Protective services are not going to help the children
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Speaker 1: of this country. They will leave them to be murdered brutally.
37:26
Speaker 1: That's why it's so important that we join together. If
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Speaker 1: you know, if you see, if you hear, if you
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Speaker 1: think you know anything, please dial Child Help Child Abuse
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Speaker 1: Hotline eight hundred four two two four four five three.
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Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds Nancy Grace's crime story, signing
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Speaker 1: off for goodness it