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A Family of Abusers _ Andrew _ Hilery Maison · This is monsters

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, we made it to season 23, which has
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  Speaker 2: Nicot County 911, what's the location of the emergency? Oak Street?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Oak? Yep. Is that a house or apartment?
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  Speaker 2: It's a house. Alright, and what is your name?
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  Speaker 1: Hillary.
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  Speaker 2: He's Mason. And what's going on there? Well, the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of days or so, my husband and I, our
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  Speaker 2: five-year-old has been, you know, rebelling against food. She said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she wasn't going to eat anymore. We went
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  Speaker 2: through this with our other child and got her turned
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  Speaker 2: back around. Right now, she is not, she's not even.
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  Speaker 1: How old is the kid?
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  Speaker 2: Five. Five. I just gave her a bath and she's
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  Speaker 2: not even, she's not even coherent. It doesn't even look
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  Speaker 2: like she's breathing right now. Okay, so this is more
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  Speaker 2: of a medical issue then? No, I don't, in my
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  Speaker 2: personal opinion, I don't think it's a medical issue. We
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  Speaker 2: went through this with our other daughter with just rebelling
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  Speaker 2: against food, certain foods. If it's not what they want,
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  Speaker 2: they won't eat. I see. So, and she's taken it
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  Speaker 2: a little too far. She's taken it to the extreme.
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  Speaker 2: We've been giving her plenty of fluid that she's not
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  Speaker 2: going to eat, you know, but she can't. She's been
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  Speaker 2: stumbling around the house. We've tried a lot. Nothing seems
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  Speaker 2: to be working. Right now, it doesn't look like she's breathing.
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  Speaker 2: My husband's got her in the kitchen right now trying
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  Speaker 2: to give her, you know, like CPR. CPR. He said
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like she's got fluid in her lungs, but... Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm freaking out. I'm sorry. Okay, we'll get help over
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  Speaker 2: to you, okay? Thank you so much. Oh, correct? Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: On May 26, 2015, Hillary Mason called 911 and made
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  Speaker 1: the strangest report I've ever heard. She said that her
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  Speaker 1: five-year-old stepdaughter, Mackenzie Mason, was, quote, She described giving her
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  Speaker 1: a bath and the girl being incoherent before finally saying
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't breathing. But when the operator asked if it
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  Speaker 1: was a medical emergency, Hillary responded that she didn't think
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  Speaker 1: it was a medical issue. In what world is a
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  Speaker 1: five-year-old child not breathing not a medical issue? It's like
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  Speaker 1: she called 911 and is unsure of why she called 911,
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  Speaker 1: but a child isn't breathing, so it should be really
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  Speaker 1: fucking obvious why she called 911. Then, after complaining about
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  Speaker 1: the girl rebelling against food some more, she casually mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that her husband was giving Mackenzie CPR. The operator, who
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  Speaker 1: was likely very confused, sent paramedics to the home right away.
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  Speaker 1: They likely assumed the girl had choked on some food,
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  Speaker 1: but when first responders arrived, it was clear that food
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  Speaker 1: had not been something the girl had experienced much of
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  Speaker 1: prior to the incident. Music Andrew and Hillary Mason had
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  Speaker 1: not been married long, but they were caring for Andrew's
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  Speaker 1: two daughters from a prior relationship, five-year-old Mackenzie and three-year-old Michaela,
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  Speaker 1: whose mother was Shelby Coffey. Shelby had lost custody of
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  Speaker 1: the children about two years prior when she was sent
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  Speaker 1: to jail for a domestic disturbance. She said she had
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  Speaker 1: tried to visit the girls after her release, but was
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  Speaker 1: either told they weren't home or that she wasn't allowed
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  Speaker 1: to see them. Hillary had two children of her own
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  Speaker 1: living with the couple who were between the ages of
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  Speaker 1: 5 and 11. They lived in a house in Port Huron, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: about 60 miles or 96 kilometers northeast of downtown Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: There was an issue raised later about the first 911
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  Speaker 1: operator not staying on the phone with Hillary until the
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  Speaker 1: first responders arrived. It was later determined that that did
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  Speaker 1: not cause any delay in paramedics arriving on the scene. Still,
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  Speaker 1: Hillary called 911 back to check on the status of
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  Speaker 1: the first responders.
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  Speaker 2: 911, what's the location of your emergency? Oak Street. I
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  Speaker 2: just made a call and I'm just wondering when somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to be here. Okay, let me find your call here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we have help on the way. Anything changed? She's not moving. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: is she breathing? We don't think she's breathing. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: need you to get right next to her and check, okay?
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  Speaker 2: My husband's right next to her. He's trying to CP
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  Speaker 2: out on her. Okay, is she laying flat on the floor?
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  Speaker 2: She's laying flat on the floor, yeah. Oh, they're on
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  Speaker 2: their way. They are on their way, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Was she eating something?
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  Speaker 2: No, she's been rebelling against food lately. If it's not
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  Speaker 2: what she wants, she won't eat it. Okay, and she's
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  Speaker 2: not awake? She asked if she's not even there. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I tried giving her a bath to see if it
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  Speaker 2: would help. We've been giving her plenty of food, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not any.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Is she awake right now? No, it doesn't even look
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  Speaker 2: like she's there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Let me get some help for you, okay? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear them?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Okay. She's flat on the floor. Are
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  Speaker 2: you right by her now? I'm outside my husband. Okay. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: make sure your husband's still... I'm doing CPR on her. Yes. Okay. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: have her keep going until they're right next to her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know when they're right there with you, okay? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're pulling up right now. Yep, let me know when
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  Speaker 2: they see you, when they're with you. I'm standing out
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  Speaker 2: by the road, so... Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to leave them in the house. No problem. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: let them... Are they there with you? Yes, they're here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you go. All right, thank you. Yep, bye.
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  Speaker 1: She was really hammering home the detail that Mackenzie was, quote,
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  Speaker 1: rebelling against food. It really feels like they starved the
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  Speaker 1: girl to death and decided to call 911 with this
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  Speaker 1: story that Mackenzie starved herself to death. That operator did
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  Speaker 1: stay on the line until the paramedics arrived. They usually
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  Speaker 1: do so as to report any changes in anyone's condition
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  Speaker 1: before the police or paramedics arrive. Now, when the paramedics
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  Speaker 1: showed up to the Mason's house, it was immediately clear
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  Speaker 1: they were not responding to a choking child. The girl
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  Speaker 1: was wrapped in a blanket and she had no pulse.
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  Speaker 1: She was pale and extremely thin. When she was eventually weighed,
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  Speaker 1: she was only 25 pounds or about 11 kilograms. A
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  Speaker 1: healthy 5-year-old girl weighs about 40 pounds or 18 kilograms
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  Speaker 1: on average. She was rushed to the hospital but pronounced
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  Speaker 1: dead once there. Her younger sister Michaela was only 17
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  Speaker 1: pounds or a little less than 8 kilograms. A healthy
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  Speaker 1: 3-year-old girl weighs about 30 pounds or 13.5 kilograms on average.
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  Speaker 1: Michaela was also admitted to the hospital where she ended
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  Speaker 1: up recovering. Witnesses testify that Hillary's two biological children were
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  Speaker 1: at the house at the time of the call and
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  Speaker 1: they looked perfectly healthy. That's not uncommon during cases of
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  Speaker 1: filicide where a parent or step-parent causes the death of
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  Speaker 1: a child. One of the step-parents in the relationship makes
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  Speaker 1: sure their own kids get taken care of while the
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  Speaker 1: other children get neglected. It's likely that Hillary was the
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  Speaker 1: dominant one in the relationship, but that's just speculation. It
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  Speaker 1: was immediately clear that Mackenzie's death was not an accident.
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  Speaker 1: She had been starved over a long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, but an autopsy revealed that it was
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  Speaker 1: possible that the girl had been dead for hours prior
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  Speaker 1: to the 911 call. They found that Mackenzie had been
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  Speaker 1: suffering from pneumonia at the time of her death and
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  Speaker 1: had an infection in her genitalia. There was no evidence
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  Speaker 1: of sexual assault presented, but the infection was used during
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  Speaker 1: sentencing to highlight the pain and suffering the victim experienced.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and Hillary pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, torture,
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  Speaker 1: and child abuse. Their lawyer claimed that they did not
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  Speaker 1: starve the children, claiming they were just picky eaters. That
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  Speaker 1: was contradicted by the fact that Michaela nearly doubled her
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  Speaker 1: weight in the six months since her sister's death. At
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of 2016, the girl weighed 30 pounds or 13.5 kilograms.
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  Speaker 1: The foster family she lived with said she had no
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  Speaker 1: problem eating and putting on weight. Obviously, she was not
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  Speaker 1: so picky that it would have been hard to maintain
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  Speaker 1: a healthy weight if fed properly. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: January 2016, Andrew and Hillary Mason were found guilty of
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  Speaker 1: first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse. They were both
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison. It seemed that this was
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  Speaker 1: not an isolated incident for the Masons, though. On February 19, 2018,
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  Speaker 1: three-year-old Matthew Mason was found dead in his bed at
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  Speaker 1: the home of his mother, Amanda Mason, and her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Maurice Houle. An autopsy concluded that Matthew's death was a homicide,
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  Speaker 1: likely resulting from blunt force trauma. Amanda was Andrew Mason's sister,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed that the pair had grown into some
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  Speaker 1: of the world's worst parents. Amanda and Maurice, who were
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  Speaker 1: no longer dating by then, weren't arrested until April of 2025, though.
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  Speaker 1: It's unclear why there was a delay, but there was
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  Speaker 1: a protest carried out by Matthew's grandparents in an effort
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  Speaker 1: to make the arrest happen. In court, it was revealed
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  Speaker 1: that someone had witnessed Maurice hit Matthew with a croquet stick,
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  Speaker 1: and despite the person reporting the incident, Maurice was never arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Child Protective Services did become involved at that point, but
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  Speaker 1: that clearly didn't do much good. Amanda admitted to police
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  Speaker 1: that she locked the child up without food and suffocated
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  Speaker 1: him with a pillow as punishment. She also admitted to
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  Speaker 1: having hit the boy's head into a wall hard enough
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  Speaker 1: that it broke the drywall. People who knew the couple
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  Speaker 1: said that they believed they killed the boy in order
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  Speaker 1: to make room for a new child they were planning
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  Speaker 1: to have together. Their trial is ongoing, and if found guilty,
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  Speaker 1: they could each face life in prison. Maurice is also
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  Speaker 1: charged with assaulting an officer slash resisting arrest because, of
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  Speaker 1: course he is. Shelby Coffey went through parent reunification courses
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  Speaker 1: and regained custody of Michaela in November of 2015. In
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  Speaker 1: both cases, it seems like the parents didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: care for their children but refused to let anyone else
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  Speaker 1: care for them either. Shelby Coffey wanted to care for
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  Speaker 1: her daughters and Matthew Mason's grandparents offered to take care
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  Speaker 1: of him before his death. It's unimaginable that there are
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  Speaker 1: people who would rather see their own children abused or
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  Speaker 1: dead than being cared for by someone else. That's a
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  Speaker 1: level of control that's usually only desired by monsters. Thanks again,
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  Speaker 1: and be safe.