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Special Ed Teacher Charged After Sex With Student | Crime Alert Recap Saturday · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly Update, Breaking crime News.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm Jackie Howard.
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  Speaker 4: first year.
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  Speaker 1: Can grab it.
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  Speaker 2: Christina Formella is visibly confused when she's put into the
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  Speaker 2: back of a police car as part of an investigation.
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  Speaker 2: But an investigation into what as a Downer's Grove, Illinois
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  Speaker 2: mom sets up her fifteen year old son's new iPhone
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  Speaker 2: using his iCloud account, She comes across a hidden text
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  Speaker 2: conversation and drags her son straight to the police station.
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  Speaker 2: The conversation is a discussion of a sexual encounter with
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  Speaker 2: his love interest, his married thirty year old special led teacher,
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  Speaker 2: Christina Formella. The victim tells the police after weeks of
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  Speaker 2: flirting from Ella, slammed the door to her classroom and
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  Speaker 2: the two head sex during what was supposed to have
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  Speaker 2: been a tutoring session for Mela is arrested with her
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  Speaker 2: husband of just eight months in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Does she going somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna splain everything to you guys, so go
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  Speaker 3: and turn her.
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  Speaker 2: Off for me.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me? Is my husband?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's thinking it's going ever down were day in Tunchtown.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to down or drow the ten minutes away. No,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I really would prefer that my husband's
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  Speaker 1: with me. Of course, am I in trouble like I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm sold austraight now I'm or something?
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  Speaker 2: For Mela denies having a romantic relationship with the teen,
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  Speaker 2: claiming she's a good person and everybody comes after her
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  Speaker 2: because of her good looks. In the same breath, she
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  Speaker 2: calls the boy a stalker, insisting he sent the texts
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  Speaker 2: to himself. Christina Formela is charged with two counts of
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  Speaker 2: aggravated sexual assault and criminal sexual assault for Mela denies
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  Speaker 2: all allegations against her. For more on this ongoing investigation,
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  Speaker 2: App more crime and justice news after This I'm nicole.
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  Speaker 5: Partin Sean Diddy combs is now facing five criminal charges
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  Speaker 5: linked to his federal sex trafficking. Case The fresh indictment
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  Speaker 5: revealed by federal prosecutors In New york today includes an
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  Speaker 5: additional count each of sex trafficking and transportation for. Prostitution
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  Speaker 5: these new allegations involve a second. Victim according to the,
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  Speaker 5: Indictment combs fifty five was previously facing three counts which
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  Speaker 5: encompassed sex, trafficking, racketeering and transportation for prostitution based on
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  Speaker 5: an indictment first filed In september twenty twenty. Four this
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  Speaker 5: indictment focuses on the alleged Freak, offs which prosecutors described
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  Speaker 5: as elaborate and produced sex performances that The Music mobile
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  Speaker 5: is accused of cohersing in individuals to participate. In it
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  Speaker 5: is claimed That combs and his associates would entice individuals
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  Speaker 5: under the guise of a romantic relationship before resorting to quote,
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  Speaker 5: force threats of force and cohersion to compel their involvement
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  Speaker 5: in the freak. Offs the new charge of sex trafficking by, force,
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  Speaker 5: fraud or cohersion asserts That combs, recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised,
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  Speaker 5: maintained patronized and solicited victim, two and, attempted aided and
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  Speaker 5: abetted and willfully Caused victim two to engage in commercial sex,
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  Speaker 5: acts fully aware and recklessly indifferent to the fact That
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  Speaker 5: Victim TiO was engaging in commercial sex act as a
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  Speaker 5: result of, force fraud and. Cohersion the added count of
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  Speaker 5: transportation for prostitution is also linked to the claim made
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  Speaker 5: By victim. Two the earlier charges of sex trafficking and
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  Speaker 5: transportation for prostitution were solely connected to the Allegations victim. One,
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  Speaker 5: however the racketeering charge remains unchanged in the new superseding.
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  Speaker 5: Indictment colmbs is currently incarcerated At Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention center
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  Speaker 5: awaiting his trial on federal charges set From may, five
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  Speaker 5: to which he has pleaded not. Guilty, additionally he is
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  Speaker 5: named as a defendant in a numerous amount of, lawsuits
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  Speaker 5: more than twelve alleging sexual. Misconduct combs has denied all
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  Speaker 5: allegations against.
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  Speaker 6: Him I'm Drew. NELSON a frantic nine to one one
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  Speaker 6: call from A florida grandfather sparks a murder investigation after
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  Speaker 6: he finds his daughter dead and her toddler missing inside
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  Speaker 6: a blood soaked home On march twenty sixth of twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 6: Four just before, Noon Sarah gamma's father unlocked the front
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  Speaker 6: door at her home and. Plantation he and his wife
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  Speaker 6: had gotten worried their daughter not answering her. Phone her,
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  Speaker 6: Husband Jean CARLOS A, ponti was also not. Replying they
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  Speaker 6: had expected him to drop off the kids at their
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  Speaker 6: house that. Morning inside they found the family's four month
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  Speaker 6: old baby crying in a. Swing then they saw the.
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  Speaker 6: Blood her daughter has been a.
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  Speaker 5: SLAUNTER i think she's best and there's blood all over the.
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  Speaker 4: Place i'm walking into two right.
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  Speaker 6: Now my, daughter she looked like her thort has been.
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  Speaker 4: Flashed we're looking for the.
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  Speaker 6: Sun as they went through the, house they found A
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  Speaker 6: ponti unconscious in the. Bedroom they couldn't find their. Grandson
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  Speaker 6: police later found two year Old ethan And ponty face
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  Speaker 6: down in the backyard pool with stab wounds to his.
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  Speaker 6: Neck Sarah gamma had been stabbed twenty eight. Times she
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  Speaker 6: had wounds to her, face, neck, abdomen and. Spine her
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  Speaker 6: son had four stab wounds and. Drowned in the, kitchen
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  Speaker 6: detectives found two blood covered, knives cut up food on
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  Speaker 6: a child's, plate and a baby bottle Between gamma's, legs
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  Speaker 6: blood marked the, floors, walls and led out to the
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  Speaker 6: lake and the. Water police recovered both parents'. Phones Jean Carlosa,
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  Speaker 6: ponti the forty year Old Marine corps, veteran had labored
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  Speaker 6: breathing in a faint. Pulse meddix gave Him narcan at the.
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  Speaker 6: Scene police believe he tried to overdose after killing his.
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  Speaker 6: Family he later told a nurs quote that's crazy and
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  Speaker 6: mouth to officers Quote i'm, SORRY i did. It texts
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  Speaker 6: and camera footage inside the home revealed a fight that.
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  Speaker 6: Morning surveillance caught a child, screaming slamming, sounds and. Shouting
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  Speaker 6: gamma's search history showed that she had discovered A ponte
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  Speaker 6: having an affair and was researching to. Force in one
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  Speaker 6: unsent text, message she said quote call nine one. One
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  Speaker 6: ponty was arrested days later and charged with two counts
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  Speaker 6: of first degree. Murder he's being held with albond In Broward.
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  Speaker 6: County gamma's parents said they had no warning. Signs they
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  Speaker 6: believed the couple was. Happy ethan would have turned three
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  Speaker 6: the following. Week his baby brother. Survived I'm Jennifer.
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  Speaker 3: Gould in a shocking case of alleged marital discord turned deadly.
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  Speaker 3: Conspiracy An ohio teacher has been accused of soliciting one
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  Speaker 3: of her own high school students to murder her estranged,
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  Speaker 3: husband premiere two thousand. Bucks here she is addressing the
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  Speaker 3: judge in court.
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  Speaker 1: Involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: CASE a seat in the.
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  Speaker 5: Back i'll have your attorney out of discuss with, you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay Stephanie, demetrius a teacher at The academy For Urban
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  Speaker 3: Scholars High school In, columbus allegedly offered the student a
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  Speaker 3: down payment before her. Arrest according To Franklin County Municipal court, Documents,
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  Speaker 3: demetrius forty, four was arrested and charged with felony conspiracy
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  Speaker 3: to commit. Murder the chilling plot allegedly unfolded When demetrius
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  Speaker 3: approached the unnamed student at the school offering a paltry
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  Speaker 3: sum of two thousand bucks to shoot her estranged. Husband
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  Speaker 3: authority say the alarming situation came to light thanks to
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  Speaker 3: the vigilance of the student's, mom who found incriminating details
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  Speaker 3: on her kid's phone and promptly alerted. Officials Sergeant James
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  Speaker 3: fuqua of The Columbus division Of police spoke at the news.
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  Speaker 4: Conference this particular teacher was attempting to groom this young
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  Speaker 4: person into committing. Murder we're unsure of the specific reason
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  Speaker 4: as to why this teacher chose this particular.
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  Speaker 3: Student the documents revealed That demetrius allegedly provided the student
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  Speaker 3: with a two hundred and fifty dollars cash down. Payment,
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  Speaker 3: furthermore police obtained a digital recording in Which demetrius reportedly
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  Speaker 3: reassured the student that the remaining one, thousand seven hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty dollars was. Forthcoming the teacher also allegedly provided
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  Speaker 3: this student with crucial details about her estranged husband's, routine
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  Speaker 3: including the fact that he worked from home and the
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  Speaker 3: times when their kids would be out of the. House
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  Speaker 3: when the student inquired about potential noise from the gunfire
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  Speaker 3: and concerned, Neighbors demetrius allegedly dismissed the, concerns while a
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  Speaker 3: public defender For demitrius denied the allegations during a virtual court,
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  Speaker 3: hearing calling them a. Fabrication further details point a very
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  Speaker 3: troubling picture of the couple's fractured. Relationship Franklin county domestic
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  Speaker 3: relations court records indicate That demitrius filed for divorce from her,
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  Speaker 3: Husband carlington Dem demetrius In april of twenty twenty, four
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  Speaker 3: marking her second attempt to end the. Marriage adding another
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  Speaker 3: layer to the, Allegations Carlington demetrius filed for emergency custody
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  Speaker 3: of their children In july of twenty twenty, four detailing
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  Speaker 3: a series of disturbing incidents involving his estranged. Wife these
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  Speaker 3: allegations include violations of a stay away, order breaking into his, home,
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  Speaker 3: theft and even a claim that she used scissors to
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  Speaker 3: stab him while one of their kids was. Present the
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  Speaker 3: filing also alleges instances of, arson property, damage and the
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  Speaker 3: intentional disruption of basic utilities at his. Home Stephanie demetrius
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  Speaker 3: is now facing felony charges that could carry a life
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  Speaker 3: sentence if she is. Convicted demetrius has been released on
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  Speaker 3: a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash sturty. BOND
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  Speaker 3: a preliminary hearing in the case is set For april.
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