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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: at two eight one three zero nine ninety five hundred.

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