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Babysitters Brutalize, Kill One-Year-Old Niece| Crime Alert Recap Sunday · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Crime Alert hourly update. Here now
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  Speaker 1: some of the biggest stories of the week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson. In Tennessee, a couple is charged with
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  Speaker 2: the brutal death of a one year old girl, their
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  Speaker 2: own niece after a tragic incident babysitting. August seventeenth, police
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  Speaker 2: responded to the local children's hospital where one year old
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  Speaker 2: Callie Moore had been rushed in cardiac arrest. She was
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  Speaker 2: pronounced dead shortly after four am. The child's injuries were severe,
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  Speaker 2: multiple skull fractures, a brain bleed, a bruised kidney, and
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  Speaker 2: blood in her lungs. Callie's great grandparents, Margaret and Deacon
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  Speaker 2: James Callicott, are heartbroken and shocked that family members are accused.
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  Speaker 2: They talk to WLBT, we will always love Callie and
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  Speaker 2: we will always love Tie. The knis I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It's very time.
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  Speaker 2: Callie had been under the care of her aunt, twenty
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  Speaker 2: one year old Kayah Moore, and Moore's boyfriend, thirty four
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  Speaker 2: year old to Jean Smith, for two days. Both now
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  Speaker 2: face charges of first murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated
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  Speaker 2: child neglect. In a disturbing twist, the two gave police
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  Speaker 2: different accounts of what happened. Smith says he heard More
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  Speaker 2: slam Cali into the floor and walls multiple times, but
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  Speaker 2: More insists she came home to find the child unresponsive.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't Moore's first encounter with the law. She's already
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  Speaker 2: facing aggravated child abuse charges from twenty twenty two. Her
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  Speaker 2: court date for that case is set for August twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 2: An attorney representing More in that case declined to comment.
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  Speaker 2: No baby food was found in the home, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not clear if the child had a safe place to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Moore and Smith remain in custody without bond as the
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  Speaker 2: investigation continues to unfold.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nicole Parton. In Illinois, Mohammed Alamarro, forty two, of
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  Speaker 3: Tinley Park has been found guilty of first degree murder.
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  Speaker 3: This following the beating of his teenage daughter following an
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  Speaker 3: argument over her prom. Seventeen year old Mia Morrow beat
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  Speaker 3: to death inside her home. This according to the Cook
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  Speaker 3: County State's Attorney reporting to Chicago Tribune. Court documents show
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  Speaker 3: Alamorrow says he initially gave his daughter permission to attend
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  Speaker 3: the senior prom but later changed his mind. Saying quote,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't trust her. Prosecutors said it was the father's
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  Speaker 3: sister who found the niece covered in a blanket in
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  Speaker 3: the home on one hundred and sixty seventh Street. Her father,
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  Speaker 3: Alamarrow was sitting on the floor beside the teen with
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  Speaker 3: his arm draped over his daughter's body. According to the
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  Speaker 3: arrest report, Mia suffered extensive hemorrhaging and bleeding to her brain,
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  Speaker 3: was covered in numerous bruises, and it seemed her father
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  Speaker 3: used multiple objects to beat her. Police Chief Matthew Walsh
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  Speaker 3: he had he had superficial cuts to his throat, he
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  Speaker 3: cuts to his wrist, he had taken the doctor said
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  Speaker 3: that when he writes he was under several narcotics. Court
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  Speaker 3: documents show Alamarro sent an apologetic text to one of
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  Speaker 3: his sons following the incident, saying quote, I lost my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I went out of control all over the prom MIA's
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  Speaker 3: family described her as a beautiful soul with huge goals
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  Speaker 3: of being in the dental field. Her father is facing
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  Speaker 3: life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould. Two fourteen year old girls have been
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  Speaker 1: arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a ninety
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  Speaker 1: three year old woman. Joanne Johnson in Augusta, Kansas. The girls,
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  Speaker 1: whose names have not been released due to their age,
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  Speaker 1: were taken into custody this August, nearly a year after
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's death. The victim's son, Tim Johnson, spoke to News twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not closure, it's not you know, my mom
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  Speaker 1: was still brutally murdered. The murder occurred on September third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and authorities had been investigating the case
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  Speaker 1: ever since. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the
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  Speaker 1: girls were arrested for first degree murder and are currently
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  Speaker 1: being held at separate juvenile detention centers. While the girls
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  Speaker 1: face serious charges, they will not be tried as adults.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas law prohibits individuals under the age of fourteen from
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  Speaker 1: being prosecuted as adults. As a result, the girls will
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  Speaker 1: be subject to the state's juvenile justice system and could
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  Speaker 1: potentially go free when they reached the age of twenty
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years old. The news of the
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  Speaker 1: arrests has sent shockwaves through the community. Johnson's family has
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  Speaker 1: expressed their grief and anger and are demanding severe punishment,
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  Speaker 1: but the father of one of the suspects is painting
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  Speaker 1: a different picture. He spoke to Kake News by phone
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  Speaker 1: and says his daughter and her friend were coerced into
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  Speaker 1: entering Johnson's home by another man, who then committed the crime.
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  Speaker 1: The father alleges that man threatened to kill the girls
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  Speaker 1: and their families if they told anyone about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities have not given any credence to this allegation or
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  Speaker 1: there being another suspect in the case. The KBI has
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  Speaker 1: not confirmed if public tips contributed to the arrests, nor
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  Speaker 1: have they identified any connection between the accused teens and
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  Speaker 1: Johnson either. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.