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Crime Alert 12.02.24 | Child Tells Neighbor Parents Love Her, While They Starve Her · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: A neighbor finds Violet Mitchell, just seven, sitting on her
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  Speaker 1: front porch crying. Violet says she's hungry, so the neighbor
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  Speaker 1: cooks her a meal. Violet refuses to talk about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening at home, and she asks to be taken back.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, the little girl Violet Mitchell pronounced dead
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  Speaker 1: in an Oklahoma hospital. She only weighs twenty nine pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Covered in bruises, Doctors find a plastic baby bottle lodged
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  Speaker 1: in her small intestine.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy the only thing Violet told her neighbor about her
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  Speaker 2: parents is that they loved her. Violet was admitted to
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  Speaker 2: the hospital wrapped in a blanket and wearing a diaper
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  Speaker 2: size for a three year old. Violet's cousin, another seven
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  Speaker 2: year old girl, tells police that Violet was frequently left
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  Speaker 2: tied up in a crib wants for nearly a month straight.
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  Speaker 2: She says Violet was fed little else but bread, and
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  Speaker 2: she had watched as Violet's mother glued her mouth shut.
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  Speaker 2: Violet's aunt and uncle were arrested at the hospital after
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  Speaker 2: doctor's overheard phone conversations leading them to believe they knew
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  Speaker 2: about the abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Parents from Hell, Lisa Mitchell and Anthony Yoko, now charged
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  Speaker 1: with child neglect and aggravated child abuse. Veronica Torres, forty four,
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  Speaker 1: claims her home was destroyed when Milton and Helene swept
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  Speaker 1: through Florida. She wants hurricane aid, but her zip code
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  Speaker 1: was not affected by the hurricanes. The government, however, does
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  Speaker 1: not know her mother no longer resides at the address
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  Speaker 1: on her driver's license. Torres applies for the aid under
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  Speaker 1: her mother's name, but when she goes to pick up
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  Speaker 1: her check, city employees floored that Torres looks so young,
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  Speaker 1: expecting a woman in her seventies. Taus explains it all
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  Speaker 1: and thanks Botox treatments for her youthful appearance, but city
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  Speaker 1: employees are not convinced. Police are called. Veronica Torres now
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  Speaker 1: charged with falsifying official documents. More criming justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now at the latest climate justice breaking these crime
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  Speaker 1: on lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lenley in New Hampshire, a former youth detention center leader,
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  Speaker 3: has been convicted in a disturbing case stemming from abuse
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  Speaker 3: decades ago. We turned to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: for more.
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  Speaker 2: A jury found seventy year old Bradley Asbury guilty on
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  Speaker 2: two counts of accomplice to aggravated sexual assault. Prosecutor say
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  Speaker 2: Asbury restrained a fourteen year old boy, Michael Gilpatrick, while
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  Speaker 2: other staff members carried out the attack in nineteen ninety eight.
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  Speaker 2: Asbury faces up to forty years in prison when sentenced
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  Speaker 2: in January. The verdict follows a four day trial. In
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  Speaker 2: three days of jury deliberation, Gilpatrick, now forty one, testified
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  Speaker 2: that speaking out was part of his healing process. He
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  Speaker 2: described the attack as an out of body experience and
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  Speaker 2: said he wanted to hold those responsible accountable. Defense attorneys
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  Speaker 2: argue there was no corroborating evidence colin Gilpatrick's account, inconsistent
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  Speaker 2: and motivated by financial gain. Prosecutors countered that the key
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  Speaker 2: details of the assault remained unchanged over time. Astbury's one
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  Speaker 2: of eleven former staff members charged after a twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: investigation uncovered widespread abuse at the SUNU New Youth Services
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  Speaker 2: Center in Manchester and related facilities. The case has barked
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  Speaker 2: over eleven hundred civil lawsuits alleging abuse spanning six decades.
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  Speaker 3: In a related civil trial earlier this year, a jury
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  Speaker 3: awarded thirty eight million to another victim, though that amount
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  Speaker 3: is under appeal. Mississippi's Attorney General is pushing for an
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  Speaker 3: execution date for Charles Ray Crawford, a death row inmate
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  Speaker 3: for thirty years. The fifty eight year old Crawford was
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  Speaker 3: convicted in nineteen ninety four of kidnapping and murdering Christy Ray,
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  Speaker 3: a twenty year old community college student in Tippa County.
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  Speaker 3: Juror cited a prior rape conviction as a key factor
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  Speaker 3: in sentencing him to death. Crawford's attorneys argued the execution
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  Speaker 3: request is premature, as they plan to appeal to the
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  Speaker 3: US Supreme Court. Earlier, a federal appeals court denied Crawford's
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  Speaker 3: claim that his trial defense was constitutionally ineffective. A dissenting
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  Speaker 3: judge highlighted concerns over his mental health evaluation, calling it inadequate.
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  Speaker 3: A neurologist later testified Crawford's severe brain injuries and epilepsy
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  Speaker 3: may have impaired his understanding during the crime. Despite multiple appeals,
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  Speaker 3: the state argues Crawford has exhausted all legal options. His
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  Speaker 3: legal team insists the fight isn't over. The U. S
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court's decision will determine the next steps in this case.
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  Speaker 3: Now over four decades old.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Sherry Jackson, fifty six, has a normal day
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  Speaker 1: at work and says goodbye to co workers five PM
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  Speaker 1: before leaving the Southeast Houston, Texas office for her commute home.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't come home that night and doesn't answer texts
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  Speaker 1: or calls from family. When she doesn't show up to
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  Speaker 1: work the next day, her family reports her missing. Cherry
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  Speaker 1: took her belongings with her when she left work. Her
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  Speaker 1: car's gone from the office. Her car has not been recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Sheery Jackson African American, five eight, one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: five pounds, relaxed, shoulder link, black hair, brown eyes, pierced ears,
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  Speaker 1: a tattoo of a rose on her shoulder, a burn
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  Speaker 1: scar on her right arm. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: missing Sherry Jackson, please contact Houston PD eight three two
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  Speaker 1: three nine four one eight for zero or Texas Equisearch
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  Speaker 1: at two eight one three zero nine ninety five hundred.
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