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News of day 8-25-2025 · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: The world is a serious place, and I got some
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  Speaker 1: serious stuff I wanted to talk to you about too,
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  Speaker 1: especially right here in Ohio. Blazer just had Keith Faber
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  Speaker 1: in about a week ago, Ohio auditor, and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the work that he's been doing going around
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  Speaker 1: the state, you know, basically trying to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: the people that are entrusted by the people of the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio are held accountable for their actions. That
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  Speaker 1: leads us to the story from the wsyxcite today to
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  Speaker 1: Siota County, Ohio public officials. There are among four people
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  Speaker 1: been indicted on an alleged kickback scheme that involved the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Ohio Port Authority at a Portsmouth area business park.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Davis, He's a Siota County commissioner. Robert Horton headed
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Ohio Port Authority and the Siota County Economic
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  Speaker 1: Development Department, and their wives, yeah, their wives were indicted
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  Speaker 1: in an ongoing investigation. The indictments alleged that Horton received
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  Speaker 1: kickbacks for securing public contracts. Davis used his position as
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  Speaker 1: county commissioner and is alleged to secure the contracts and
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  Speaker 1: the public funding that was involved, and on one occasion,
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  Speaker 1: Horton is accused of agreeing to pay an unnamed business
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  Speaker 1: more so he could account for a commission that was
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  Speaker 1: to be paid to his wife, who has a business
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  Speaker 1: called RPL Consulting Management. The commission was paid despite his
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  Speaker 1: wife allegedly not having anything to do with this transaction.
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  Speaker 1: The court record said that the money was then removed
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  Speaker 1: from rpl's account and went into the Horton's account under
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  Speaker 1: the alleged direction of Robert Horton. A similar scheme was
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  Speaker 1: used during the bidding process for construction of a building
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  Speaker 1: at the Minford Emergency Ambulance Service at the Southern Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Aeronautical Regional Business Park August twenty twenty two. Davis used
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  Speaker 1: the authority of his office in his position as a
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  Speaker 1: commissioner to vote for and pass a resolution to transfer
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  Speaker 1: one and a half million dollars that would then allow
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  Speaker 1: Horton to use that for the sore Business Park project
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  Speaker 1: without any additional oversight. Allege kickbacks were then paid out
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  Speaker 1: in the form of sales commissions. This is just crazy
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  Speaker 1: and so blatant. I mean, anybody who looks at a
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  Speaker 1: little book keeping could see what was going on. So
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  Speaker 1: Key Faber keep on keeping on. I mean, we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to see how this one turns out, but it's uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it seems pretty cut and dry. Case has been sent
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  Speaker 1: to the Ohio Supreme Court after the Siota County Common
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  Speaker 1: Police Court recused itself, and good for them. Good for them,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that this is too intermingled with local officials,
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  Speaker 1: local elected officials, and the county court said, no, we
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  Speaker 1: don't think so, so it's going to go on to
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  Speaker 1: the court. This story bothers me. It's out of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not why it bothers me, although most stories
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  Speaker 1: out of Florida do. This guy sing si n g
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  Speaker 1: H killed three people on the road. Truck driver. He
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  Speaker 1: did so by trying to make an illegal U turn
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  Speaker 1: with his truck and the truck jackknifed and hit a
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  Speaker 1: mini van and all three people in the minivan were killed.
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  Speaker 1: This is tragic and you think, Okay, well, they know
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  Speaker 1: who he is, they know what he did. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: you know, get charged, go to jail. Well, no, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, he fled Florida the next day, he and
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  Speaker 1: his brother to Sacramento, California. He had at one point
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  Speaker 1: a CDL. However, Fox is reporting that he actually took
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  Speaker 1: the test for the CDL either the day of or
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  Speaker 1: the day after the accident and failed it. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what that's about. The baffling part to this
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  Speaker 1: story isn't about him. Isn't about the test, the licensing,
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  Speaker 1: or anything else. The baffling part of this story to me,
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  Speaker 1: because once upon a time, Virginia, we were all on
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  Speaker 1: the same page. Is the nearly two and a half
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  Speaker 1: million What was nearly when I got the story? Who
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  Speaker 1: knows what it is now two and a half million
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  Speaker 1: people or so that have signed an online petition for
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  Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis basically asking them to give this guy pass
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  Speaker 1: to show leniency with him. I at the very least,
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  Speaker 1: he broke the rules of the road. Find a U
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  Speaker 1: turney illegally with the SEMI. I don't know anything else
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  Speaker 1: about him. I do know they say that he crossed
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  Speaker 1: into the US illegally in twenty eighteen, came across the
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  Speaker 1: southern border. After that, he obtained a commercial driver's license
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  Speaker 1: in California, where apparently anybody can get him, tried to
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  Speaker 1: get work authorization. He was rejected during the first Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration in September of twenty twenty, so we know illegal
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  Speaker 1: failed or refused the CDL outside of the state of California,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find any work. Illegal U turn with a tractor trailer.
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  Speaker 1: Three people dead, and so two and a half million
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  Speaker 1: people think that it makes sense to show him leniency.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't mean I'm assuming he didn't mean to
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  Speaker 1: do what he did. I would hope he didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: to do what he did. But he did what he did,
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  Speaker 1: and what they're saying it was a tragic accident, not
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  Speaker 1: a deliberate act. On the petition, while accountability matters, the
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  Speaker 1: severity of the charges against him does not align. That's correct,
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  Speaker 1: just sounds weird. Does not align with the circumstances of
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  Speaker 1: the incident. If the guy's convicted, the petition asks that
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  Speaker 1: Singh receive a proportionate and reasonable sentence, the parole eligibility
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  Speaker 1: be granted after part of his sentence is served, and
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  Speaker 1: that there are alternatives to incarceration, like count or community
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  Speaker 1: service considered for his sentence. Did I mention three people
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  Speaker 1: were dead? I don't know where these people come from.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand their thought process. Someone here illegally on
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  Speaker 1: the road, illegally doing something illegal, made three people no
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  Speaker 1: longer exist and were signing a petition for leniency. I
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  Speaker 1: call me crazy. I just I don't think that's cool,
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's right, don't think it's sensible, don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's it's reasonable. But we are surrounded by the nonsensible,
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  Speaker 1: non reasonable people today, which leads me to Reynoldsburg. Child
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  Speaker 1: says she was sold Toinoldsburg. Man sold is in quotation
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  Speaker 1: marks A judge is sent bond for two million dollars
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  Speaker 1: for man accused of having sexual contact with a seven
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  Speaker 1: year old child. I would suggest that the term man
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  Speaker 1: no longer applied to him. Daniel Sisk, fifty eight, Rinnoldsburg,
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  Speaker 1: charged with one count of growth sexual imposition on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Court documents filed by the Rinaldsburg Police Department alleged the
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  Speaker 1: victim said she was sold to Sisk. Statement of Facts
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  Speaker 1: in said the detective received an anonymous report on August
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  Speaker 1: twentieth the child had been bought from North Carolina to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio was being sexually abused. The tip claimed the child
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  Speaker 1: had been sold to a male who now possessed her
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  Speaker 1: but not any legal rights. Don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: Police made contact with the child. At a home along
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  Speaker 1: a Legro Drive. Also told detective she was sold and
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  Speaker 1: that her mother gave her to Dan my dad to
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  Speaker 1: have sex. That's a quote from a seven year old child.
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  Speaker 1: No seven year old child should even know what that means,
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  Speaker 1: Dan my dad. The child recounted her alleged abuse to detective,
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  Speaker 1: said that she was told to not tell anyone because
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  Speaker 1: things would go wrong. Legal guardian told police that her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: who is a child's mother, picked the victim up on
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  Speaker 1: July thirteenth and did not return her. Apparently grandma had
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  Speaker 1: custody of this little girl. A woman and three children
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  Speaker 1: lived with Sisk in this same home or the seven
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  Speaker 1: year old child had been taken. The woman said that
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  Speaker 1: she knew the child was sleeping in the same bed
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  Speaker 1: as Sisk and thought it was weird, but she thought
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  Speaker 1: of Sisk as a father figure to the child and
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  Speaker 1: said Sisk had been with the child or in the
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  Speaker 1: child's life for a long time. She reportedly knew the
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  Speaker 1: child said Sisk had humped her. This is a seven
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  Speaker 1: year old child. When arrested, because Sis said the victim
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  Speaker 1: had been with him for two months and a week,
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  Speaker 1: he confirmed the child used to sleep in his bed,
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  Speaker 1: but it stopped when he thought better of it. He
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  Speaker 1: also said that he bathed the child despite her being
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  Speaker 1: seven years old. He appeared in court on Friday, jets
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  Speaker 1: bond at two million dollars. Preliminary hit hearing it set
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  Speaker 1: for September fourth. What is wrong with us? I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about mom who allegedly sold daughter, kidnapped daughter first of all,
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  Speaker 1: then sold daughter. I'm thinking about the woman and her
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  Speaker 1: kids who live in the house who saw this happening
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  Speaker 1: and thought, well, it was a little weird that was
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  Speaker 1: her quote, it was a little weird, and did nothing
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  Speaker 1: about it. I'm thinking about this guy, this dirt ball.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do such a thing? You got a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of people, adult, alleged people who could have
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  Speaker 1: been should have been protecting kids, and instead every one
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  Speaker 1: of those people did something to her or let that
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  Speaker 1: child down. I don't know who made the anonymous call.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was the woman living in his house. I
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  Speaker 1: hope so. I hope so, But ultimately I am just
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  Speaker 1: my heart is broken for this seven year old child
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  Speaker 1: who should not know about having sex with her, who
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  Speaker 1: should not know the word humping. How was she raised
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  Speaker 1: or was she raised? I don't know how long Grandma
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  Speaker 1: had her, but obviously wherever she was before that was
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  Speaker 1: at the very least terrible