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HAUNTING VIDEO OF LSU BEAUTY MADI BROOKS WHO DIES AFTER 3 MEN ALLEGEDLY SEX ASSAULT · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greef.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking you Tonight, haunting video emerges of an lsu beauty
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  Speaker 2: Maddie Brooks, barely able to speak or stand after three
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  Speaker 2: men sex assault her in a car's back seat while
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  Speaker 2: the driver mayhe rot in Hell videos the whole attack,
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  Speaker 2: and at least one perp can be heard laughing. Then
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  Speaker 2: they leave Maddie on an empty street, where she's immediately
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  Speaker 2: mowed down by another driver.
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  Speaker 3: Bombshell Tonight, we learn the female.
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  Speaker 2: Judge who's presiding over this case has a son who's
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  Speaker 2: a convicted serial rapist. And this is the same judge
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  Speaker 2: who lests one rapist after the next walk free. And
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  Speaker 2: I am telling you tonight, this is not justice. Good evening,
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  Speaker 2: I mean grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: being with us.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I guess for ryand one fifty am. By this point,
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  Speaker 4: Maddie is drunk. She's been seen falling inside the bar,
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  Speaker 4: falling outside the bar, but she and these four men
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  Speaker 4: decide to leave the bar. They walk to a vehicle
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  Speaker 4: that's being driven by Cason Carver. They leave Reggie's, they
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  Speaker 4: drive a short distance where they pull over.
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  Speaker 5: Cason Carver eighteen takes several videos from the driver's seat,
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  Speaker 5: narrating what's happening while Madison Brooks is in the back
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  Speaker 5: seat of his car. In one selfie video, Carver yells,
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  Speaker 5: these guys are crazy, they've been a raper. In another,
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  Speaker 5: Brooks can be heard shouting get off me over loud music.
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  Speaker 5: Several videos taken outside the car show Keve in Washington
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  Speaker 5: pushing Brooks down against the seat. Desmond Carver is seen
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  Speaker 5: with his pants down, appearing to penetrate Brooks while the
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  Speaker 5: other men cheer.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, you're seeing video first get to wb ORZ by
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  Speaker 2: the defense, the video given to WAFB by the defense,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow they think that's going to help them. No way,
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  Speaker 2: Guys with me an all star panel to make sense
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  Speaker 2: of what we know right now. But the bombshell that
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  Speaker 2: the judge sitting on this case, presiding on this case
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  Speaker 2: has a son, which is hard for me to believe
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  Speaker 2: this who she actually represented in a serial rape case
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  Speaker 2: and he got decades behind bars. She did everything she
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  Speaker 2: could to save him, but it didn't work, and now
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  Speaker 2: she's letting one rapist after the next off. I want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to what happened the night this beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Young girl, her whole life in front of her. What
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  Speaker 3: happened that night.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me is her mother, who I now consider to
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  Speaker 2: be a friend, Ashley Bostart.
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  Speaker 3: But listen to this.
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  Speaker 6: It's how she was essentially dumped on the side of
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  Speaker 6: the road after what they're claiming was a consensual ride.
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  Speaker 2: In the middle of the night, in the rain, heavy
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  Speaker 2: traffic flying by. They put her out of the car
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  Speaker 2: and bam, she gets run over and dies after she
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  Speaker 2: gets raped.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the state says.
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  Speaker 6: That's not how someone who was part of a consensual
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  Speaker 6: sexual escapade is treated. That's how a victim is revictimized
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  Speaker 6: and thrown out like garbage.
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  Speaker 7: After a long night of drinking, Monty Brooks nineteen leaves
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  Speaker 7: Reggie's Bar with four young men who offer to give
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  Speaker 7: her a ride home. A few blocks from the bar,
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  Speaker 7: the driver pulls over and starts videoing as the two
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  Speaker 7: men in the backseat have sex with an extremely intoxicated Brooks. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 7: Brooks is unable to tell the men her address, and,
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  Speaker 7: according to them, insists on getting out.
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  Speaker 1: Of the car.
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  Speaker 7: Just before three am, a lift driver strikes something in
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  Speaker 7: the road. It's Mattie Brooks who dies of her injuries.
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  Speaker 3: At a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe one bit of this video given to
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  Speaker 2: Wborz by the defense and to WAFB by the defense,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow they believe that's going to help them.
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  Speaker 3: Before I get.
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  Speaker 2: On this judge who has let one rapist after the
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  Speaker 2: next walk free, I want to go to Ashley Boaster. Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: I do not know how you put one foot in
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  Speaker 2: front of the other. I know you are dedicated to
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  Speaker 2: raising your other children, but if you would, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to take you back to that night that you learned
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  Speaker 2: your girl, Maddie was in the hospital.
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  Speaker 8: What happened, It was a complete nightmare.
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  Speaker 9: I got a call from the hospital stating that she
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  Speaker 9: was in credible condition.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't tell me a lot of information. I had
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  Speaker 8: my parents drive me.
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  Speaker 9: There because I knew that I wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 9: safely drive myself to the hospital. And immediately when I
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  Speaker 9: saw her, I knew that something terrible had happened and
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  Speaker 9: that she was with our Lord in heaven.
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  Speaker 8: So it's been a complete nightmare.
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  Speaker 9: The worst possible thing that can happen to anyone happened
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  Speaker 9: to my daughter. And not only was she my daughter,
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  Speaker 9: but she was my best friend. We did everything together.
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  Speaker 9: The best memories I have are spent being her mother,
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  Speaker 9: and that's what I have to hold onto every day.
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  Speaker 8: That's what gets me out of bed.
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  Speaker 9: I'm trying to live as well as I can until
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  Speaker 9: I'm reunited with her in heaven.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, everything that you just said.
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  Speaker 2: Echoes what I feel in my heart, and I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mothers feel the same way. When I
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  Speaker 2: am upset or distressed or even can't sleep. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a movie plays in my head of all these wonderful
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  Speaker 2: times I've had with John, David and Lucy, my children,
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  Speaker 2: and the best years of my life have been the
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  Speaker 2: years that I've had with them. You said that that
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  Speaker 2: night you went to the hospital, and I know that
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  Speaker 2: Maddie was still alive when you got there, because you've
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  Speaker 2: told me that in the past. But you believe, as
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  Speaker 2: you say, she had gone on to our Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you say.
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  Speaker 8: That, Well, they told me immediately that she was brain dead,
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  Speaker 8: so they were keeping her alive.
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  Speaker 9: They were keeping her heart beating and pumping her with
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  Speaker 9: all different types of medication just to see her organs
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  Speaker 9: so that she could be a donor. And we were
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  Speaker 9: also waiting for her dad to travel from Florida to.
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  Speaker 8: Be at the hospital. So Mattie was there and she
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  Speaker 8: was breathing, but she was not there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think at any point she came to and
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  Speaker 2: knew you were there.
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  Speaker 9: I felt her there, and I knew that something terrible
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  Speaker 9: had happened, and it was going to be my mission
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  Speaker 9: to fight for her and to honor her and her
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  Speaker 9: legacy by helping others, which is what we are trying
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  Speaker 9: to do through her foundation.
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  Speaker 2: With me is Mattie's mother, Ashley boastered Ashally, when you
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  Speaker 2: got to the hospital and you were rushed to her room,
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  Speaker 2: did she even look like herself?
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  Speaker 9: No? No, she was extremely swollen. There was tons of
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  Speaker 9: blood leaking out of her body. She did not She
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  Speaker 9: was a very tiny, petite little girl. She was five
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  Speaker 9: to one, maybe one hundred pounds, and I could tell
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  Speaker 9: that it was her, but it definitely she did not
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  Speaker 9: look the same.
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  Speaker 3: What did she look like?
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  Speaker 9: I could hold her hands, I could hold her hands,
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  Speaker 9: but I didn't want to look at anything else.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't want that image to be in my head.
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  Speaker 8: I wanted to remember her the way that she was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, though, Ashley, I never saw my fiancee's body
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  Speaker 2: after he was murdered. At the time, I thought that's
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  Speaker 2: what I wanted, and sometimes I wish that I had
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  Speaker 2: because for the longest time I couldn't accept that he
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  Speaker 2: had been killed. So I don't know. I'm just a
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  Speaker 2: trial lawyer. I don't know what's right or wrong. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me when you learned what had happened.
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  Speaker 9: I suspected everything that had happened. I suspected just based
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  Speaker 9: on the circumstance, the time of day, the fact that
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  Speaker 9: she was alone without her cell phone, that something terrible
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  Speaker 9: had happened. And I guess About a week or so
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  Speaker 9: after the accident, the detectives brought us in and told
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  Speaker 9: us more of what they had learned through their investigation.
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  Speaker 9: I had to leave the room. Honestly, I fell to
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  Speaker 9: my knees. What do you mean, I just fell to
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  Speaker 9: my knees.
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  Speaker 10: It was.
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  Speaker 8: A nightmare, I mean an absolute nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: Which part of what happened to Maddie, after all you
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  Speaker 2: had been through, after you had married your girl, which
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  Speaker 2: part of this scenario made you fall.
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  Speaker 9: To your knees the last few seconds of her life
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  Speaker 9: and what transpired. But I do hold on to the
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  Speaker 9: fact that the people that were in that vehicle are
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  Speaker 9: not the last people that were with her. I know
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  Speaker 9: that God sent those two guardian angels to be with her,
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  Speaker 9: to protect her, to pray over her, and those are
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  Speaker 9: the last two people that were with her, and that
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  Speaker 9: does give me some peace.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley.
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  Speaker 11: I feel that I know you because we've talked so much,
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  Speaker 11: and I know your disposition, and I know how much
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  Speaker 11: this case means to you.
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  Speaker 3: So I doubt knowing you, that you're going to answer
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  Speaker 3: this question.
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  Speaker 2: But Ashley Bost, what do you think about a lady
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  Speaker 2: judge that represented her son who is a serial rapist.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got State v Tailor in my hand. I've
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  Speaker 2: poured over every word of what her son did and
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  Speaker 2: it's not in question because he pled guilty, and before
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  Speaker 2: pleading guilty, I have read the transcript. The prosecutor gave
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  Speaker 2: a rendition of what he did and he agreed that's
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  Speaker 2: what he did, and his mother, who was now a judge,
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  Speaker 2: was representing him on that guilty plate. A serial rapist
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  Speaker 2: who attacks multiple teen girls in the night, wearing a mask,
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  Speaker 2: in one case, wearing a monkey mask, who sneaks into
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  Speaker 2: the girl's room, holds the sheet against their mouth, either
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  Speaker 2: brandishes a knife or a gun and repeatedly rapes them,
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  Speaker 2: threatening he will kill them if they scream. After this,
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  Speaker 2: after representing her son trying to get him a good
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  Speaker 2: sentence on serial rape, she is now letting one rapist
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  Speaker 2: go free after the next. That is a fact in writing.
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  Speaker 2: I've read the corproceedings myself. How do you feel about
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  Speaker 2: this woman presiding over the men that the state says
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  Speaker 2: raped your daughter.
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  Speaker 8: I can't comment on the judge, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: It gives me no joy in saying any of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I am saying tonight, but they are true
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  Speaker 2: and I know you and I know you will not
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  Speaker 2: speak against the judge.
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  Speaker 1: Crime stories With Nancy Greece.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me in addition to Maddie's mother Ashley, who was
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  Speaker 2: working tirelessly on the Maddie Brooks Foundation, Karen Shala is
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  Speaker 2: joining me out of Baton Rouge, Emmy and Muau Award
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  Speaker 2: winning investigative reporter and star of Unfiltered with Kieren dot Com.
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  Speaker 3: Karen, thank you for.
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  Speaker 12: Being with us, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you are investigating a much wider concern
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  Speaker 2: about judges letting rapists walk free, but could you just
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  Speaker 2: give me in a nutshell what this judge has done.
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  Speaker 13: So I think the most glaring part here is going
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  Speaker 13: to be that there was a guy who was convicted
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  Speaker 13: in nineteen seventy two for a deed for a rape
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  Speaker 13: and fifty he was given actually she vacated them sentence,
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  Speaker 13: but he was given life for rape. So he goes
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  Speaker 13: before a judge and asks for a reduced sentence because
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  Speaker 13: he wants parole instead.
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  Speaker 8: She ended up pretty much saying, hey, you're free to go.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 13: The district attorney here is absolutely livid that he's never
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  Speaker 13: heard of such a thing and that the suspect did
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  Speaker 13: not go before her asking to get rid of his
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  Speaker 13: sentence completely. And there's a process for that. You have
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  Speaker 13: to go before the parole board.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go.
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  Speaker 13: The governor can pardon somebody. A judge cannot sit here
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  Speaker 13: and go simply say you're done. He went before the
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  Speaker 13: judge to ask for a reduced sentence and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: So he goes before the judge on something completely different
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  Speaker 2: and the judge cuts him free.
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  Speaker 3: Let's a rapist walk free. And nobody even asked her to.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, this is a tip of the iceberg, and I
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  Speaker 2: want this judge off this case. She's not fit to
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  Speaker 2: preside with this rape case or any other case.
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  Speaker 7: The videos that Case and Carr took the night of
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  Speaker 7: Maddy Brooks alleged to assault have resulted in more charges
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  Speaker 7: for the team. A grand jury indicted Carver for video
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  Speaker 7: voyeurism in addition to the charge of principle to first
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  Speaker 7: and third degree rape. In one of the videos, Carver
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  Speaker 7: left and said they've fin a raper before Brooks was assaulted.
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  Speaker 4: These four men have been charged in this case, two
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  Speaker 4: of them with third degree rape. The other two the
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  Speaker 4: two who were in the front seat of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: They have been charged with principles to third degree rape,
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  Speaker 4: which means that they were present for the alleged crime,
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  Speaker 4: but they did nothing to stop it. The question is
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  Speaker 4: was Madison Brooks raped before she died and did any
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  Speaker 4: of these events led up to her death cause it.
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  Speaker 7: Many are concerned that District Judge Gail Horn Ray will
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  Speaker 7: not remain neutral while presiding over the trial of Madison
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  Speaker 7: Brooks four alleged rapists. Last year, Judge Ray reduced an
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  Speaker 7: accused rapists bail, with that allowing prosecutors to argue against
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  Speaker 7: the decision. Just like last month, Ray moved to overturn
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  Speaker 7: a nineteen seventy two rape conviction when asked to consider
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  Speaker 7: allowing the convict parole. Her son, Nelson Taylor Junior, is
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  Speaker 7: also a convicted serial rapist.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, why is a judge so soft on rape cases?
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  Speaker 3: I think I know why.
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  Speaker 5: Listen Nilsen Taylor Junior, the seventeen year old son of
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  Speaker 5: now judge Gail Horn Rape, is charged with one count
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  Speaker 5: of forcible rape, two counts of aggravated rape, and five
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  Speaker 5: counts of aggravated burglary. Taylor breaks into six homes over
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  Speaker 5: six months with the intent to rape teen girls sleeping inside.
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  Speaker 5: Victims describe a man in a mask who threatens them
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  Speaker 5: with a knife and uses tape to cover their eyes
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  Speaker 5: and mouths. Taylor is connected to the six crimes through
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  Speaker 5: DNA and fingerprints. Detective say seven of Taylor's nine victims
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  Speaker 5: are students at his high school.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on just a moment, Let me go out to
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  Speaker 2: Jarrett Fiorentino, high profile lawyer, former homicide and fellony prosecutor,
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  Speaker 2: host of True Crime Boss podcast, and Jared Fijarrett Farentino
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Jarrett, let me just read something for you.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading from the Court of Appeals of Louisiana. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to circle back to you because I
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  Speaker 2: believe the current case should be a felony murder case.
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  Speaker 2: A death occurred during the commission of a felony, that
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  Speaker 2: felony being rape. Maddie is dead. Two plus two equals four.
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  Speaker 2: That's a felony murder. I don't know what the hey
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  Speaker 2: this prosecutor is thinking, but that said, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to listen to what I read over these weeks of
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  Speaker 2: preparing six rapes. The judge's son had six rapes. He's
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  Speaker 2: convicted of six rapes. Regarding counts one and two, a
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  Speaker 2: fifteen year old girl awakened in her bedroom by the
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  Speaker 2: presence of an unknown assailant wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 3: Wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 2: Regarding count three, a seventeen year old girl was awakened
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  Speaker 2: in her bedroom by the president and some unknown assailant
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  Speaker 2: wearing a monkey mask. Can you imagine a little teen girl?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he had to change masks. Jarreted Farantina because
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  Speaker 2: he stupidly left the other mask on the crime scene,
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  Speaker 2: so he had to go get a mask.
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  Speaker 3: What did he pick? A monkey mask?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen those movies where the assailants are
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  Speaker 2: wearing like pig masks or monkey masks or some kind
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  Speaker 2: of an animal mask.
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  Speaker 3: They're terrifying to a victim.
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  Speaker 2: And a young girl wakes up with seemingly a monster
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  Speaker 2: on top of her.
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  Speaker 3: The assailant straddles the girl.
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  Speaker 1: She screams.
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  Speaker 2: He told her to shut up, push the sheet into
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  Speaker 2: her mouth to keep her quiet. He goes on and
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  Speaker 2: on and on. One has a knife, one has a gun,
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  Speaker 2: mailing tape. This is her son that she fought valiantly
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  Speaker 2: to be treated as a jeevenile, to get five years
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  Speaker 2: probate and GeV jo and now she is sitting on
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  Speaker 2: rape cases, letting one after next walk free.
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  Speaker 14: Farantino, Nancy, it's very concerning. There's a pattern with her son,
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  Speaker 14: and there's a pattern with her. It's the air of impropriety,
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  Speaker 14: it's the smell of a conflict, it's the very crime
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  Speaker 14: before her. She defended her son who should be facing
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  Speaker 14: and serving a life sentence. She let a life inmate
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  Speaker 14: go free, and it wasn't even as prayer for relief,
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  Speaker 14: asking for a break. So this judge needs to step
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  Speaker 14: aside for all the young victims that her son had
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  Speaker 14: and for Maddie and her case for Madison. In her case,
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  Speaker 14: the air of conflict of interest here is too strong.
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  Speaker 14: I am sure she has many cases on her docket
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  Speaker 14: that can keep her plenty busy. Go to a judge
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  Speaker 14: whose son was not a serial rapist that she defended
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  Speaker 14: and got a break. It's that simple, And I'm sure
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  Speaker 14: there's plenty of other capable judges.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just a sun Farantino. As you're pointing out,
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  Speaker 2: there are multiple other rapists.
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  Speaker 1: That I know of.
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  Speaker 2: How many are there that I don't know about? I
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  Speaker 2: mean a completely different jurisdiction thousands of miles away, and
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  Speaker 2: even I know this, what else is there that has
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  Speaker 2: not been uncovered yet? In addition to Maddie's mom with us,
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  Speaker 2: who is refusing to comment on the judge joining us
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Jeff Klshewski, forensic psychologist, author of Dark Sides, Doctor Kalashevski,
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  Speaker 2: what is it about?
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  Speaker 3: Not just a mask where you know, like Zoro has
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  Speaker 3: just his eyes covered up, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean a full long pig mask or a monkey mask
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  Speaker 2: or animal mask. Why does that strike so much fear
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  Speaker 2: in a victim's heart.
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  Speaker 15: Well, it definitely strikes fhere because it's obviously unusual. It's shocking.
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  Speaker 15: But I think what's more important to point out is
• 20:53
  Speaker 15: when someone utilizes a mask, particularly in the middle of
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: a sexual assault, payoff for the behavior that they're engaging
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: in is beyond just a sexual act. The fear and intimidation,
• 21:07
  Speaker 15: seeing the fear in the victim's face, these are all
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: things that sort of satisfy that appetite for the violent,
• 21:14
  Speaker 15: active rape that you talked about earlier.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Nelson Taylor, Junior's mother, acting as his defense attorney, accepts
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: a plea bargain on his behalf, reducing the aggravated rate
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: charges to forcible rape, therefore taking a life sentence off
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: the table. Taylor is sentenced to fifty years in prison,
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: of which he must serve twenty five years before he
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: may be eligible for parole. Gail Ray later argues that
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Taylor should not have been allowed to enter into a
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: plea agreement as a miner. The court points out that
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Taylor's capacity to enter a plea bargain was a natural
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: ramification of Taylor being tried as an adult and uphold
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: his conviction.
• 21:47
  Speaker 16: Bottom line, she could not walk, she could not speak, clearly,
• 21:52
  Speaker 16: she had to be helped to the car. She was
• 21:54
  Speaker 16: that intoxicated she could not consent. Period number two. She's
• 21:59
  Speaker 16: going to have injury to the vaginal area, possibly the
• 22:02
  Speaker 16: anal area. There could be tearing, there could be abrasions,
• 22:05
  Speaker 16: there could be lacerations. She could have bruising from fingertips
• 22:09
  Speaker 16: where she was being held in position. The pathologist notated
• 22:13
  Speaker 16: that she had injury consistent with sexual assault.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: This young girl stunning, so full of life. I've seen
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: videos of Maddie and she is bobbling with the joy
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: of life, just so smart, the whole world in front
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: of her. But after a horrific rape, not one, not two,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: but according to prosecutors three that the car driver was videoing,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: she was let out of the car and immediately mowed down.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Luckily, two good.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Samaritans held her hand and stayed with her as she
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: went on to heaven. Joining me is Mattie's mother, Ashley Boaster. Ashley,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: when you agree to join us today, I know that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you knew you would hear facts of her death and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: her treatment again, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you're going through. I'm sorry to bring it all back up,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: but there are so many rape and homicide victims' families
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: out there that you can inspire. How do you keep
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: going forward when you are hearing these facts.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Again, it's very challenging, Nancy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: I focus on where she is right now, and that's
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: where we all want to be right Our goal is.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: To one day make it to heaven, and.
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: That is what I try to focus on, not the horrific,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: terrible things that happened that evening, because if I do,
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: it will make me sick and I will crawl up
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: in a bed and not want to leave my bedroom.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: But I know that's not what Maddie would want. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: I'm trying to live as well as I can, but
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: I have my moments and sometimes I do crawl up
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: in a bed.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Mother's Day was hard. She made me a mother.
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: We went to church, we went to lunch, and I
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: needed to cry and spend.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: Time alone, and that's what I did. So I take
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: it day by day.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: How do you relieve this has effecting you raising your
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: other children?
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: I cherish every single moment. I go to every field trip,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: if all of their sports activities.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: I live at the baseball field, even when.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: It's challenging, which you know, Nancy, being a mother is
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: the greatest gift, but it's the hardest job that I've
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: ever had too. But I embrace even the hard times
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: where we're up till ten o'clock doing a science project,
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: because I don't have that anymore.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: With Maddie.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: All I have is the memories. But I do keep
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: her alive. She is all over my home. We celebrate
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: her birthday with a trip, We do things that she
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: would like, and we honor her every day.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: We carry her with us.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Ashley, you're bringing back a happy memory from just last night.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: My son, John David had an assignment where he's supposed
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to write a letter from a great great, great great
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: whoever we could find relative, and he picked his great
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: great grandmother, Louisa Fullwood, who had no education. She never
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: got to go to school, and her husband would leave
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: every day to take.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: The bus to the courthouse to watch trials.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: So she ran the farm, okay, and she with no
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: not even first grade, saved up enough money and she
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: would bury the money on the farm in mason jars,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and she.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Paid for the whole farm.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: And he had to make the mason jar look authentic,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: so it was covered in dirt. It was just we were
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: up to midnight and you just saying that I bet
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you think back on those memories all the time and smile.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But I want to apologize for putting you through this,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and you know you'll go through it again at trial.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I've had moms and I would say, ma'am, you know
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you don't have to sit through this, and without fail
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: they would say, no, I'm staying right here on the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: front row. I'm not leaving right And here there is
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Ashley Bostert again on the front row, still refusing to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: say a bad word about the judge. You're stronger than
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I am, Ashley.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Much stronger than me. Guys, What did we learn from
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: the autopsy?
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: According to WBRZ Madison Brooks leaked autopsy report shows Brooks
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: bac as point two eighty two, twelve percent lower than
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: the Sheriff's office report of point three p one nine.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: While there was no sign of vaginal trauma, there were
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: abrasions in bruising to brooks backside that the coroner noted
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: were suspicious of sexual assault. DNA from Kavan Washington was
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: recovered in brooks genital area, but none of the four
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: men's DNA was found inside Brooks.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: But there was their DNA around Mannie's genital area their DNA,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and I'm curious what type of DNA. Not that it
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: matters to me, because the bruising and the indications on
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: her quote backside as they euphemistically call it in the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: autopsy report tell me everything I need to know. Joining
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: me right now, renowned in his field, a domestic violence
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and sex assault expert, former sex detective in California, Bill
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Hernandez joining us tonight out of NAPA.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Bill, thank you for being with us. Thank you again.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That segment of the autopsy tells me everything I need
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: Explain well, I mean, it's pretty clear that if she
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: has those injuries to those areas, she was obviously sexually assaulted,
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: and with her BAC being as high as it was,
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: there's no possiboy that she could have consented to.
• 28:43
  Speaker 12: Any of that. And then plus she was heard in
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: the background on the video telling the telling the suspects
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: no and to get off of her. So I mean
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: it's clearly a rape.
• 28:52
  Speaker 17: So the lack of dnage and that an issue that
• 28:55
  Speaker 17: says there was no sex, that says there was no rape.
• 28:57
  Speaker 17: It just means that there was no ejaculation. But he
• 29:00
  Speaker 17: can also be argued the alternative interpretation to that is
• 29:03
  Speaker 17: there was no sex. But I think with the video
• 29:05
  Speaker 17: and all that that's again a move point.
• 29:09
  Speaker 18: There's saying that she was absolutely in control of saniess
• 29:14
  Speaker 18: to the sex and that it was consensual. Six her
• 29:18
  Speaker 18: blood alcohol content came back at point three one nine. Now,
• 29:22
  Speaker 18: in the beginning, I myself kept saying, Okay, it's four
• 29:24
  Speaker 18: times over the legal limit, but she was under age,
• 29:27
  Speaker 18: so the legal limit for anyone under age is point
• 29:29
  Speaker 18: zero two. Actually she was sixteen times over the legal limit.
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: Law enforcement has also said there's no possible way that
• 29:36
  Speaker 18: she could have consented to it, making it rape.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Absolutely no way that she should give consent.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: And not only that, what about this bizarre video that
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: these let me just put it out there, a holes
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: took during the rapes. According to the state, of course,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they have not been proving guilty at truck They have
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: not been proven guilty at trial, but they gave very
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: detailed statements, very detailed statements about what had happened to Maddie.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: In fact, the ones in the front seat rotating into
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the backseat so they.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Could also assault her. Take a listen to this.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: The videos that Keison Carver took the night of Maddie
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: Brooks alleged assault have resulted in more charges for the team.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: A grand jury indicted Carver for video voyeurism in addition
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: to the charge of principle to first and third degree rape.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: In one of the videos, Carver left and said they've
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: been a raper before Brooks was assaulted.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Those videos first given a WBRZ and WAFB by the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: defense who Kieren Shawla, we were hearing you earlier, Emmy
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and Murrow Award winning investigative reporter at Unfiltered with Kieren Karen.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they think these videos are going
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to help them.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: What can you tell us about the videos?
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: Well, the fact that there were additional charges just because
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: the videos came out. There's one reason that sometimes releasing
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: every single thing is not the best idea.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: I get it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: The defense attorneys released this hoping to kind of show that, hey,
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: Madison was asking for this. This has kind of been
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: their defense this entire time.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: What did I just hear the words? The defense theory
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: is that Maddie asked for this.
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: Well, because they're claiming, hey, she was even though she
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: was drinking, she wasn't to a point where she was raped.
• 31:34
  Speaker 13: This was consensual. That's been the defense's defense the entire time.
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: This was consensual. That was the reason for releasing these videos.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Guys, take a listen to this.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Now, over the course of the next hour, Maddie is
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: either raped or has consensual sex with two of these
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: young men. They taked hard. One gets out of the
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: vehicle while the other has sex with her or raped her.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Then they swomp over. Now while this happens, Taysen Carver
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: the driver, I'm the oldest defendant. His name is ever
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: At Lee. They're in the two front seats of this vehicle.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, so how that's not rape?
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Karen, how many of these defendants are
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: actually charged with rape.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: So three of them are charged with rape itself.
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: But Everett Lee, who was actually one of the uncles
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: of one of the boys, he is charged with principle
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: because he was right there. Now, I want to point
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: out that the driver, he actually threw court through the
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: court document, should I say, they're claiming that he did
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: not actually rape her. However, he videoed it and he
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: never stopped it. That's why his charges from the District
• 32:41
  Speaker 13: Attorney's office were upgraded to include.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Rape crime stores with Nancy Grace.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Guys the fact that this judge has now been documented
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: as representing before she was a judge, her serial rapist son,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and now letting one rapist go after the next.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Donald Link confesses to raping a woman at knife point,
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: and he is sentenced to life in prison without the
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: possibility of parole. After several appeals, the Louisiana State Supreme
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: Court affirms Link's judgment. A year later, in a second
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: bid for a new trial, Link claims the jury's instructions
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: were flawed, but the Supreme Court again confirms the trial
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: was fair. This year, Link asked the court to consider
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: amending his sentence to allow parole. Instead, Judge Gialehorn Ray
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: overturned the rape conviction.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say about that, Jared Ferrentino.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely unheard of, and that's on appeal. So a
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: guy who is a convicted rapist comes to her and
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the request is that he be allowed to be considered
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: for parole. Instead, she throws out, nobody even asked her
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: to do this, even the defense. She throws out his
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: whole case, and he walks freight right there, right there.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Nobody asked her to do that, and she was blaming
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: a jury charge, which is everybody. A jury instruction is
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: after the state and the defense give the closing arguments,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the judge instructs the jury on the law by which
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: they are to judge the case. In other words, the
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: definition of homicide is X, the definition of rape is X,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: and they have to hear the law and it's got
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to be correct verbatim.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: That was not even an issue.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: She used that as a pretext to let a rapist
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: go Farantino.
• 34:41
  Speaker 14: I've never seen a case thrown out for a bad
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: jury instruction by the judge at that level. If there
• 34:49
  Speaker 14: was prosecutorial misconduct, if there was conduct that was beyond
• 34:53
  Speaker 14: the pale, here's the best. They weren't even asking for that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 14: The DA is in shock over that decision. He didn't
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: go into court prepared to even combat that request.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:04
  Speaker 14: The judge gave them a gift which shows a pattern,
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: which is that she has a bias toward rapists.
• 35:10
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, that's just the way it wis.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Well, hold on, I hope you're sitting down. You may
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: need to lay down for this farantine. I listen, there's
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: another case DeAndre Cox.
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: DeAndre Cox is accused of raping his preteen neighbor twice
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: at gunpoint. Judge Gail Horn Ray sets Cox's bond at
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Four days later, Ray
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: lowers Cox's bond to one hundred thousand dollars without a hearing.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: Cox is released the same day to house arrest at
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: his grandmother's home within one hundred feet at the victim's
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: residence in violation of a protection order. At a hearing
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: over the matter, Ray refused to increase the bond and
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: ruled that Cox must now reside with his mother. The
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: victim's mother says Cox's family has harassed her daughter ever
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: since his release.
• 35:54
  Speaker 19: The toxicology obviously shows the lack of consent because it
• 35:57
  Speaker 19: was drug facilitated sexual assault. So whether they admitted to
• 36:01
  Speaker 19: doing it and she wanted it, they could admit that
• 36:02
  Speaker 19: all day, but it wasn't consensual. That it was drug facilitated.
• 36:06
  Speaker 19: So either way knowingly facilitated it and it was done.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: It's there joining me in all star panel to make
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: sense of what we are learning today. If this judge
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: stays on this case, it will be a huge travesty
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: of justice. I know that Mattie's mother, Ashley Boaster, is
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: refusing to comment on whether the judge should be thrown
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: off the case or not. You're stronger than me, Ashley,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: There's no question about that. But Ashley, do you really
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: believe in your wildest imaginations that your daughter would consent
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to have sex in the backseat of a car with
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: three guys while another guy up front videoed it. Do
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you really think that happened.
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: No, I know that didn't happen.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: It did not happen. That did not happened. And what
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: about the fact.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: That these purpose gave detailed confessions about what happened that night.
• 37:11
  Speaker 20: Listen in the reports. The initial reports when they were
• 37:14
  Speaker 20: all arrested were very detailed, and I remember that he
• 37:20
  Speaker 20: did not want to be there and he didn't want
• 37:22
  Speaker 20: to use his vehicle. But one of the main reasons
• 37:25
  Speaker 20: that the district attorney actually helped his charge to first
• 37:28
  Speaker 20: degree principal or first degree is because he did allow
• 37:31
  Speaker 20: that and he didn't leave.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Joining me Bill Hernandez joining the Sadam Napa sex assault
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: detective in California, Bill, thank you for being with us.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Detailed statements by the defendants, and you know they're all
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: like it. It says, thereby damning themselves as well, because.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: One for all and all for one co.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Defendants in the car while this happened at the very best.
• 37:59
  Speaker 12: Right they should be.
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: They're all guilty of the charges that they're facing right now.
• 38:04
  Speaker 10: I mean, they all knew what was going to happen.
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: They talked about it, they were a video recording it,
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: and she even said no, and they all had a principle.
• 38:13
  Speaker 12: And we're actors in this rate too.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Karen Shaula is joining US award winning investigative reporter who
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: is a star Unfiltered with Kiaren.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Karen. I just can't believe that the judge is not
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: stepping down all on her own. What's her problem?
• 38:31
  Speaker 13: I wish I could tell you that it's interesting that
• 38:35
  Speaker 13: we have cases coming up with judges and it's not
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: just her. There are other cases where we've covered with
• 38:41
  Speaker 13: other judges in the same jurisdiction. This is the nineteenth
• 38:45
  Speaker 13: JDC in ban Reach, that is East Bannon Reach Parish.
• 38:49
  Speaker 13: They're not going to talk to the media because they claim, hey,
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: it's an ongoing case.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: You can call their office.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: You usually get no comment and then you're hung up
• 38:57
  Speaker 13: on majority of the times the district attorneys fighting these cases.
• 39:01
  Speaker 13: If it's not with the First Circuit Court of Appeal,
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: it's Louisiana Supreme Court. And honestly, the last several cases
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: with some of these judges in our jurisdiction, they're just
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: getting tossed out NonStop with Louisiana Supreme Court overturning or
• 39:16
  Speaker 13: reversing the charges back to the original what it was,
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: and instead where the judges are overturning cases or vacating
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: in the case with Donald Link that also is now
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: being challenged with the Supreme Court.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: From what I understand, the video and I don't know
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: what kind of mind would choose to video this horrible
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: sex assault on Madnie, But in the video it's very
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: overwhelming madeo of them holding her down and yelling that
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: they're going to rape her. I don't know what else
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: is needed, but I do not trust this judge overseeing
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: this case.
• 39:56
  Speaker 13: Well, and especially number one. You've already said it. Her son,
• 40:00
  Speaker 13: she represented him, and now she's a judge over it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 13: But then look at what she just did a few
• 40:05
  Speaker 13: weeks ago with a guy who was serving life, and
• 40:08
  Speaker 13: he did not even ask for what she gave him.
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: She vacated his sentence. We've discussed this repeatedly that it's
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: unheard of, and it's not just unheard of there even
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: our local district Attorney hill Or Moore is just baffled
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: by something with this that he did not ask for
• 40:27
  Speaker 13: a vacation vacate. He askeds to simply reduce the charge
• 40:32
  Speaker 13: so he could actually be eligible for paroles. Right, So
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: it just goes to show that it's almost like she
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: has a soft corner for rapists. Her son is a
• 40:42
  Speaker 13: convicted rapist. This Donald Link was a convicted rapist.
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: They're not.
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  Speaker 13: It's not that they haven't gone to trial yet, so
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: it's not a innocent until proven guilty.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: They've been proven guilty.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Ashley Boster. This is Maddie's mother, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: If you kids speak out today to other family members,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: moms and dads all across our country and to write
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  Speaker 2: victims themselves.
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  Speaker 3: What are your words? What's your message?
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  Speaker 8: Cherish your babies, cherish every single moment with them, and.
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  Speaker 9: Teach your kids to be a leader, to step up
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  Speaker 9: for what's right. So many people could have intervened that
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: night and none of this would have happened. Teach them
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: to if they see something, to do something, to be
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: proactive if things don't look right, help someone, even if
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: you don't know who they are.
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: Just be that leader, be the voice of action.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Bostert, your mouth to God's ear.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: We stop and we remember American hero police Officer Jonah Oswald, Fairway, Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: Just twenty nine. Oswald shot and killed in the line
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of duty. He was a US Army Reserve that now
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: survived by grieving wife Hannah into beautiful children with a
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: life sentence with no dad. American hero Officer Jonah Oswald.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank all of our guests, but especially
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to Maddie's mother, Ashley Boastered. But thank you to all
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: of our guests and to you for being with us
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  Speaker 2: tonight as we, in our own way seek justice. Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Gray signing off, good night friend,