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Kada Scott, 23, Missing After Reports of Harassment | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 10.11.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Philadelphia Police and a devastated family are
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  Speaker 2: asking for your help and locating twenty three year old
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  Speaker 2: Kada Scott, a young woman who vanished after leaving her
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  Speaker 2: overnight job at an assisted living facility. Scott was last
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  Speaker 2: seen on Saturday night leaving the terrace at Chestnut Hill
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  Speaker 2: on East Abington Avenue. She had just started working there
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  Speaker 2: pursuing her dreams. A Penn State grad described as a
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  Speaker 2: creative and artistic spirit, Kada was wearing black scrubs when
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  Speaker 2: she arrived at her ten pm to six am shift,
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  Speaker 2: but shortly after arriving, she disappeared without a trace. Her
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  Speaker 2: cell phone has gone dead, her social media accounts are silent,
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  Speaker 2: and her car still parked outside the facility and troubling,
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  Speaker 2: there is no surveillance cameras on site. Captain John Craig,
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  Speaker 2: a detective with the Northwest Police Department, says the circumstances
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  Speaker 2: are deeply concerning. He said, you have a twenty three
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  Speaker 2: year old young lady who has completely disappeared, no cell
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  Speaker 2: phone activity, no social media, no contact with family or friends.
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  Speaker 2: Her mother, Kim Matthews, is gripped by fear. I love
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  Speaker 2: for I just need her to come home and be safe.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I feel that she's not saving.
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  Speaker 2: Adding to the urgency, police say Kada had reported being
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  Speaker 2: harassed by an unknown individual via phone in the days
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  Speaker 2: leading up to her disappearance. She didn't name anyone, but
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  Speaker 2: detectives are actively investigating. Captain Craig said, there are one
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  Speaker 2: hundred pieces to the puzzle. If there's one hundred pieces
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  Speaker 2: to a puzzle, you may think your piece is insignificant.
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  Speaker 4: Without your piece, that jigsaw puzzle not being soft.
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  Speaker 3: So I would plead with you.
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  Speaker 4: Without our information, you have reach out to the police.
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  Speaker 2: Kada is described as five six, thin build, weighing one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty pounds. Her family says this is completely
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  Speaker 2: out of character. Police have deployed helicopters, canine units and
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  Speaker 2: our canvassing the area, interviewing those close to her and
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  Speaker 2: combing through her digital footprint. Her father, Kevin Scott, says
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  Speaker 2: the family remains hopeful.
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  Speaker 3: Smotest daughter.
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  Speaker 5: I love A last few days been crazy. He's spinning
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  Speaker 5: creative spirit, very artistic.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge Senior Living, which manages the facility, released a statement
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  Speaker 2: saying they are fully cooperating with law enforcement and remain
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  Speaker 2: hopeful for a positive outcome. If you have any information,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how small, call or text Philadelphia Police at
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  Speaker 2: two pine five six eight six tips.
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  Speaker 6: Federal authorities have unmasked the alleged arsonist behind the devastating
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  Speaker 6: Palisades fire, charging, a twenty nine year old former Uber
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  Speaker 6: driver whose digital footprint included a disturbing conversation with chat GPT,
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  Speaker 6: dark Ai generated images and a fixation on wrench wrap
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  Speaker 6: about fire. Jonathan Rinderneck of Melbourne, Florida, was arrested nine
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  Speaker 6: months after the catastrophe scorched over twenty three thousand acres,
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  Speaker 6: claimed twelve lives, and destroyed six thousand, eight hundred and
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  Speaker 6: thirty seven structures. Here's Bill Assali, acting US Attorney for
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  Speaker 6: the Central District of California, at the news conference.
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  Speaker 5: The homes and businesses cannot be rebuilt. This arrest, we
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  Speaker 5: hope will provide a measure of justice to all those
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  Speaker 5: who were impacted.
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  Speaker 6: In court Thursday, a shackled red jumpsuit wearing Rinderneck listened
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  Speaker 6: as federal officials argued he was a flight risk due
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  Speaker 6: to having family in France. Prosecutors also cited his quote
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  Speaker 6: traits of an arsonist, as well as his family's deep
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  Speaker 6: concerns over his declining mental health. Federal investigator state renderneck
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  Speaker 6: allegedly used an open flame, likely a lighter, to spark
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  Speaker 6: the Lockman fire on January first. Though quickly contained by firefighters,
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  Speaker 6: document state the blaze continued to smolder underground, creating the
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  Speaker 6: deadly holdover condition. A week later, on January seventh, powerful
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  Speaker 6: high speed Santa Ana winds caused the deep seated embers
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  Speaker 6: to erupt, turning the smoldering brush into the raging Palisades fire.
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  Speaker 6: The criminal complaint paints a portrait of a calculated act.
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  Speaker 6: Investigators allege that just hours before allegedly setting fire to vegetation,
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  Speaker 6: render Necked, who himself lived in the Palisades, was driving
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  Speaker 6: uber passengers who described him as being quote agitated and angry.
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  Speaker 6: Here's us attorney assili again.
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  Speaker 5: He drops someone off. He was in this neighborhood and
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  Speaker 5: he went up to this hilt time round twelve twelve
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  Speaker 5: am he ignited a fire. He was the only person
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  Speaker 5: in this location at the time this fire ignited. We
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  Speaker 5: have no other indication that any other person was there.
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  Speaker 5: There were no fireworks at the time.
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  Speaker 6: The trail of evidence grew cold until FEDS tapped into
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  Speaker 6: his disturbing online history. Renderneck allegedly asked the AI chatbot
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  Speaker 6: the sinister question of quote, are you at fault if
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  Speaker 6: a fire is lit because of your cigarettes? End quote.
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  Speaker 6: He also reportedly generated images on the platform depicting a
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  Speaker 6: quote burning forest end quote, and a quote dystopian painting
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  Speaker 6: showing a burning city end quote. Months later, he then
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  Speaker 6: allegedly confessed to the bought, writing quote, I literally burnt
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  Speaker 6: the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt
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  Speaker 6: so liberated end quote, further intensifying the digital depravity. Rinderneck,
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  Speaker 6: who official say was obsessed with fire, was reportedly listening
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  Speaker 6: to a French rap song on repeat. The music video
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  Speaker 6: for the song shows the artist lighting items on fire.
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  Speaker 6: Despite Renderneck's claims to investigators that he merely reported the
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  Speaker 6: fire from the bottom of the trail, geolocation data from
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  Speaker 6: his iPhone placed him thirty feet from the origin point
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  Speaker 6: as the fire rapidly grew. Investigators say after fleeing the scene,
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  Speaker 6: he allegedly turned his car around, followed the fire engines back,
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  Speaker 6: and filmed the firefighters at work Renderneck is charged with
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  Speaker 6: destruction of property by means of fire, which carries a
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  Speaker 6: maximum of twenty years in federal prison if convicted. However,
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  Speaker 6: as the La County District Attorney stated, the investigation continues
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  Speaker 6: and more charges are pending the outcome of that investigation. Again,
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  Speaker 6: twelve people lost their lives, which means render necked could
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  Speaker 6: be facing twelve counts of felony murder. Renderneck has no
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  Speaker 6: prior criminal history. He relocated to Florida following the Los
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  Speaker 6: Angeles inferno. A federal magistrate in Florida ordered him held
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  Speaker 6: without bond. He remains locked in Seminole County Jail awaiting
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  Speaker 6: an evidence hearing set for October seventeenth. The Palisades Fire
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  Speaker 6: is one of the costliest urban wildfires in US history,
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  Speaker 6: with an estimated one hundred and fifty billion dollars in damages.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sidney Sumner, a Texas woman, was convicted this week
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  Speaker 4: of killing her diabetic husband in twenty twenty three through
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  Speaker 4: neglect as he suffered from an insulin overdose. A jury
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  Speaker 4: found Sarah Jean Hartsfield, fifty, guilty of murder on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Hartsfield was arrested after staff at Houston Methodist Hospital noted
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  Speaker 4: suspicious circumstances surrounding Joseph's death. In January twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: prosecutors presented evidence showing that Joseph's blood sugar dropped to
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  Speaker 4: dangerously low levels over several hours on January seventh. Sarah
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  Speaker 4: Hartsfield claimed she was sleeping while this happened, but her
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  Speaker 4: cell phone activity showed her on several apps during that time,
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  Speaker 4: and step tracking software showed her up and moving around. Additionally,
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  Speaker 4: Joseph's glucose monitor went off more than one hundred times,
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  Speaker 4: each time alerting Hartsfield's cell phone. Prosecutors acknowledged that they
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  Speaker 4: could not prove Sarah Jean Hartsfield had given her husband
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  Speaker 4: an overdose of insulin herself, but witnesses testified they believe
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  Speaker 4: that's what happened. The jury took less than an hour
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  Speaker 4: to convict Joseph Hartsfield was Sarah Jean Hartsfield's fifth husband.
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  Speaker 4: She previously shot a fiancee to death in Minnesota. She
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  Speaker 4: claimed self defense and was never charged for David Bragg's death.
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  Speaker 4: Hartsfield was also accused of pressuring an earlier husband to
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  Speaker 4: kill the new wife of an ex husband in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty one in Arizona amide a custody dispute over their children.
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  Speaker 4: Hartsfield has a history of alecations that she abused and
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  Speaker 4: threatened former lovers. In nineteen ninety six, police in Houston
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  Speaker 4: arrested Hartsfield after she and her then second husband got
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  Speaker 4: into a physical argument in their apartment. Hartsfield was charged
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  Speaker 4: with assault, but prosecutors dropped the case a week later
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  Speaker 4: for unknown reasons. The woman's husband at the time, who
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  Speaker 4: had been bruised and scraped, received a citation. He said
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  Speaker 4: the pair were married between nineteen ninety six and nineteen
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  Speaker 4: ninety seven, and that he wanted to forget that period
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  Speaker 4: of his life, which he described as miserable. The jury
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  Speaker 4: sentence Sarah Hartsfield to life in prison and to pay
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  Speaker 4: a ten thousand dollars fine.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Drew Nelson, a former Idaho pastor accused of using
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  Speaker 7: his church role so traffic and sexually abused women, is
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  Speaker 7: out on bond as his next court date nears. Gregory
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  Speaker 7: Wayne Jones, who was once a pastor at Liberty Christian
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  Speaker 7: Fellowship Church and director of NXT Dream Center in Mountain Home,
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  Speaker 7: is charged with human sex trafficking and sexual penetration.
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  Speaker 1: With a foreign object. He posted a one million dollar
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  Speaker 1: bond in June after his arrest in April. His next
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  Speaker 1: court appearance is set for December. Fifth Court record say
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  Speaker 1: Jones used his position as a pastor to manipulate and
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  Speaker 1: assault women under the guise of what he called spiritual healing.
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  Speaker 1: One victim was under eighteen. The Idaho Statesman reported that
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  Speaker 1: investigators accused Jones of using his authority to control and
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  Speaker 1: exploit members of his congregation, describing his influence over victims
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  Speaker 1: as quote a tremendous level of control. Whitney Owens, a
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  Speaker 1: former volunteer at NXD Dream Center, tells kiv I she
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  Speaker 1: worked alongside Jones for about a year. She said she
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  Speaker 1: now sees the warning signs she missed.
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  Speaker 3: He was given a gift to lead in the church,
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  Speaker 3: and yet he used it to take advantage of many people.
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  Speaker 1: Owens says Jones never required her to pass a screening
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  Speaker 1: before she worked with children.
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  Speaker 3: He never asked me to get a background check. I
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  Speaker 3: worked with these children for twenty hours a week, and
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  Speaker 3: I never had a background check. How many people we're
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  Speaker 3: working with my child who never had a background.
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  Speaker 1: Check Owens joint Survivors outside the Elmore County Courthouse to
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  Speaker 1: show support for the victims who came forward.
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  Speaker 3: Being so vulnerable, allowing myself to be there so much
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  Speaker 3: of the time, not asking questions about the red flags
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  Speaker 3: that were there that it could have happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the alleged abuse happened at the church and
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  Speaker 1: its child care facility between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty four. Jones,
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  Speaker 1: who is a former Air Force serviceman once honored as
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  Speaker 1: Person of the Year in Mountain Home, pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: A judge later denied a plea deal. In August, the
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  Speaker 1: Elmore County Sheriff's Office commended the courage of those who
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  Speaker 1: came forward and believed more victims may be out there.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information has asked to call two eight five
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  Speaker 1: eight seven twenty one hundred for the latest crime and
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