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Woman Brings 'Tweaking' Child to the ER | Crime Alert 04.18.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Debrah
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  Speaker 1: Scott walks into a Florida emergency room with her two
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  Speaker 1: year olds, saying the tots quote acting crazy, swinging her
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  Speaker 1: arms erradically, bouncing off walls, and not sleeping. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take long to determine the child's exhibiting the same sentence
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  Speaker 1: as someone tweaking from drug use. Lab reports confirmed the
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  Speaker 1: tout tests positive for methamphetamine and opioids Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Few details have been released on how the toddler consumed
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  Speaker 2: the drugs, but what we do know is that Scott
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  Speaker 2: waited nearly twelve hours to get the child medical attention
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  Speaker 2: and did not call nine one one. Scott is reportedly
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  Speaker 2: new to the area, moving into a home that was
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  Speaker 2: previously known for drug use. Scott was arrested at the hospital,
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  Speaker 2: and it's unclear if she's made a pleat.
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Scott now charged with felony child neglect. Three Florida
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  Speaker 1: teens in custody after allegedly assaulting the Easter Bunny at
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  Speaker 1: the Coastline Mall. The bunny is actually a woman in
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  Speaker 1: costume working at the mall photo stage. The twenty four
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  Speaker 1: year old victim says, as she has to a break
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  Speaker 1: from three juveniles attack her, puts her back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between them, pulling on the costume, eventually knocking her to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Security guards past three teens two thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: one fourteen to Naples Police. Two teens arrested for battery,
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  Speaker 1: the third issued a juvenile civil citation for battery. To you,
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  Speaker 1: three jeevenile brats. No Easter buddy for you this year.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice, breaking news. Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Linley, a Pennsylvania woman tied to a suspected cult,
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  Speaker 3: is denying any role in her parents' murders. Michelle Zakos
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  Speaker 3: as she's been falsely accused. In a handwritten letter shared
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  Speaker 3: with our friends with the Associated Press, she claims the
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  Speaker 3: public is being misled about her and the so called
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  Speaker 3: Zizion Group, an alleged extremist network now linked to six
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  Speaker 3: deaths across three states. Authorities say Zayko supplied the gun
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  Speaker 3: used in the January shooting of US Border Patrol agent
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  Speaker 3: David Milan in Vermont. That incident exposed a broader investigation
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  Speaker 3: into the group's activities. Zayko Group leader Jack Li Soda,
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  Speaker 3: also known as Zizz, and another member were arrested in
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  Speaker 3: Maryland charged with trespassing, obstruction, and illegal gun possession. Zako
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  Speaker 3: has not been charged in the twenty twenty two shooting
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  Speaker 3: deaths of her parents, Richard and Rita Zayko, but was questioned.
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  Speaker 3: Lesda was briefly detained during the investigation. In her letter,
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  Speaker 3: Zako denies involvement, defends Lesoda, and calls media reports false.
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  Speaker 3: She also distances herself from group members linked to other
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  Speaker 3: violent incidents, including the killing of a California landlord. The
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  Speaker 3: case remains under investigation. The Indiana Supreme Court has scheduled
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  Speaker 3: the state's second execution in over fifteen years. As I'm
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner explains, Benjamin Ritchie, convicted of killing a
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  Speaker 3: police officer in two thousand, is set to be executed
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  Speaker 3: next month.
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  Speaker 2: In September two thousand, Beechgrove police officer Bill Tony was
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  Speaker 2: shot and killed during a footchase following a police pursuit
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  Speaker 2: of a stolen ban. The suspect, Benjamin Ritchie, turned and
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  Speaker 2: fired four times, fatally wounding Officer Tony. Richie was convicted
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  Speaker 2: of murder and other charges in two thousand and two
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  Speaker 2: and received the death penalty. Since then, he has filed
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  Speaker 2: multiple appeals, most recently arguing that his trial attorney failed
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  Speaker 2: to investigate potential cognitive impairments stemming from fetal alcohol spectrum
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  Speaker 2: disorder and childhood blood exposure. He also contended that his
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  Speaker 2: age at the time of the crime, twenty years old,
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  Speaker 2: should be considered. The Indiana Supreme Court denied his latest motion.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Jeffrey Slaughter stated that additional evidence of cognitive impairments
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  Speaker 2: likely wouldn't have influenced the jury's decision. However, Chief Justice
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  Speaker 2: Loretta Rush dissented, emphasizing the importance of ensuring Richie had
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  Speaker 2: effective legal representation before proceeding with the execution. Ritchie's execution
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  Speaker 2: is scheduled before sunrise on May twentieth. It will be
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  Speaker 2: Indiana's second execution since two thousand and nine, following the
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  Speaker 2: December twenty twenty four execution of Joseph Corkoran, who was
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  Speaker 2: convicted of a nineteen ninety seven quadruple homicide. Corkoran's execution
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  Speaker 2: marked the end of a fifteen year hiatus in the
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  Speaker 2: state's use of capital punishment, largely due to difficulties in
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  Speaker 2: obtaining lethal injection drugs.
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  Speaker 3: Benjamin Ritchie's execution is set for May twentieth, pending any
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  Speaker 3: further legal developments.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Twenty nine year old Matthew Tyler Henry a
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  Speaker 1: new dad and proud. April fifteen, he sets out in
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  Speaker 1: a white Ford Mustang to the local tractor supply dun Lapp, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses say he's seen in the parking lot having a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with someone in a Chevy Silverado truck. Matthew never
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  Speaker 1: seen again. His family says he would never just walk
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  Speaker 1: away from the new baby. Matthew white, male, five eight,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pounds, brown hair, hazel eyes, has
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  Speaker 1: his mother's name Beverly in a red heart tattooed on
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  Speaker 1: his chest. There's a three thousand, five hundred dollars reward
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  Speaker 1: for info leading to his whereabouts. Anyone with info on
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Tyler Henry please contact Dunlap PD four two three
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  Speaker 1: nine four nine three three one nine. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: our best to find missing people, especially children, and solve
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  Speaker 1: unsolved homicides with this crime alert I'm Nancy Grace