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84-Year-Old Man Recovering From Severe Elder Neglect, Daughter in Jail | Crime Alert 08.15.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner. An eighty four year old Florida man remains
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  Speaker 1: hospitalized this week after his fifty four year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: left him sitting in a recliner for two months and
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  Speaker 1: hadn't gotten him medical care since January. Pamela Reynolds finally
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  Speaker 1: called nine one one on July thirty first because her
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  Speaker 1: father had a rapid heart rate. She told investigators she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't seen any of his multiple severe injuries a sacram injury,
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  Speaker 1: necrotic tissue in his hip, malnourishment, peeling skin, bruises, and
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  Speaker 1: bed sores, or that his injuries beard, fingernails, and feet
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  Speaker 1: were covered in filth. Reynolds said that her father would
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  Speaker 1: primarily sit and lie down in his recliner chair in
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  Speaker 1: front of the television, and that she had not moved
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  Speaker 1: him since early June. Investigators noted in the police report
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  Speaker 1: that Pamela said there were transportation difficulties and that she
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  Speaker 1: attempted to take him to the doctor back in April
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  Speaker 1: but was unsuccessful and did not attempt again until she
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  Speaker 1: had called nine one one on July thirty first at
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  Speaker 1: Scambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said the case was horrific.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that the description of this one and
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  Speaker 2: what are the medical staff and the protective services individuals
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  Speaker 2: and our deputies and crime scene had to see, witness, describe,
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  Speaker 2: document what they had to do in this particular case
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  Speaker 2: is probably the worst that I can remember. This includes
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  Speaker 2: some maggots in that rotten flesh, feces mixed inside there,
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  Speaker 2: and everything is mean as bad as you can you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine. In fact, it's bad enough to read it,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad enough to describe it. Imagine what it would
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  Speaker 2: be like to have to live through that when you're
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  Speaker 2: the persson that's relatively incapacitated.
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  Speaker 1: The elderly man suffered from other health ailments in addition
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  Speaker 1: to the abuse heaped on him by the daughter, including
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  Speaker 1: diabetes and heart disease. Police said they with him in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital and he was able to confirm he'd been
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the recliner for months.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to comprehend how someone can allow it to
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  Speaker 3: get this bad for this long. I think the important
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  Speaker 3: part here is that he's going to get the care
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  Speaker 3: that he should have gotten months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds pleaded not guilty to a charge of elder neglect
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  Speaker 1: last week. She is being held on a ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars bond and has been ordered to have no contact
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  Speaker 1: with her father if she is released. Her next court
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  Speaker 1: appearance is August twenty second. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. An Indiana couple was formally charged with murder
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  Speaker 1: this week in the death of a six year old boy.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin Elmore Junior, twenty nine and Cheyenne Elmore, twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: appeared in court on Monday to face the charges for
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  Speaker 1: the death of Franklin Elmore's son. The Elmorees were arrested
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  Speaker 1: last week after the child was rushed to a hospital
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  Speaker 1: with traumatic injuries that the boy's father said he caused himself,
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  Speaker 1: but an investigation uncovered surveillance video from the boy's playroom
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  Speaker 1: that showed his father attacking him before his death. Further
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  Speaker 1: court paperwork reveals that Elmore paced around in the yard
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  Speaker 1: with his hands on his head before the boy's stepmother,
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  Speaker 1: who was in the room during the attack and did nothing,
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  Speaker 1: called nine one one. Emergency room staff did not believe
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  Speaker 1: the boy's injuries were self inflicted, as claimed by his father.
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  Speaker 1: They found a brain bleed and a punctured lung, along
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  Speaker 1: with bruises and other abrasions all over his body. WNDU
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  Speaker 1: further spoke with the boy's biological mother, who lives in Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: She told the outlet she had contacted the state's Department
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  Speaker 1: of Child Services on multiple occasions because of things her
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  Speaker 1: son told her, but they did nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I reported to CPS the things that my son was saying,
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  Speaker 4: and I know that they said that they could do
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  Speaker 4: nothing because they didn't find any bruises. But when my
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  Speaker 4: son tells me that he goes to bed hungry at
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  Speaker 4: night when he gets in trouble, I don't care if
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  Speaker 4: there's food in that house, mak me one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: worth the food in that house. Are they fading it
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  Speaker 4: to him? Is he aiding it?
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  Speaker 1: The mother said she had filed a formal report with
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  Speaker 1: the state agency, but they allegedly said they found nothing
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  Speaker 1: that required action. The agency sent the station a statement
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  Speaker 1: saying they were aware of an investigation but providing no
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  Speaker 1: information due to an ongoing police investigation or criminal prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: A forty year old Texas man stands charged with the
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  Speaker 1: stabbing death of a seventy seven year old grandfather as
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  Speaker 1: he rode his bicycle to work earlier this month. Houston
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  Speaker 1: Police say Aaron Bartholomew Sheehan was booked into the Harris
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  Speaker 1: County Jail on Tuesday, charged with murder in the August
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  Speaker 1: seventh death of anival Patricio Elvir Ortiz. Or Tees was
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  Speaker 1: on his way to work at about five forty five
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  Speaker 1: am that morning, riding his bike on a trail along
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  Speaker 1: Harrisburg Boulevard. Surveillance video showed the suspect step out from
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  Speaker 1: behind a fence and stab or Tees in the back.
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  Speaker 1: Or Tees kept riding for about ten minutes until he
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  Speaker 1: got to work. Once there, he told co workers that
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  Speaker 1: a man hit him on his ride, then he collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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  Speaker 1: He rode all the way to work, collapsed at work,
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  Speaker 1: They called an ambulance, and he's since passed away at
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Herman Hospital. That he might not have realized his
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  Speaker 1: injuries were so severe and he just kept riding his
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  Speaker 1: bike and then eventually he succumbed to his injuries. Houston
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  Speaker 1: Police Sergeant Mark Holbrook gave the SAT update that Ortiz
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  Speaker 1: succumbed to his injuries. Investigators followed a blood trail back
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  Speaker 1: to where they believed the attack took place, and from
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  Speaker 1: there found the surveillance video. The suspect was spotted shortly
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  Speaker 1: after the stabbing at a mass transit station, and police
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  Speaker 1: released images of him asking for help with identification. Five
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  Speaker 1: days later, Sheehan was in custody. She hand had recently
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  Speaker 1: been released from prison after a plea deal regarding another
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  Speaker 1: violent incident where he struck someone with a metal poll.
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  Speaker 1: Shee Han was not in court on Wednesday, when a
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  Speaker 1: judge set his bond at a million dollars because he
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  Speaker 1: was undergoing a mental health evaluation. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.