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Speaker 1: I have this right? A rape victim is ordered to

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Speaker 1: a rape. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank

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Speaker 1: series X one eleven. I've never seen anything quite like this,

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, having prosecuted nothing but violent

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Speaker 1: well about overcoming adversity. The thirty two year old is

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Speaker 1: statutory rape. There's no other way to state it. That

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Speaker 1: a bar and taken home and rape. And now fast forward,

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Speaker 1: has to pay her rapist child's support. Help me understand

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Speaker 1: how this case has been turned, So bass ackwards with

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Speaker 1: Sarah Ford, Legal, director of South Carolina Victim's Assistant Network,

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Speaker 1: and she focused on crimes against women as a prosecutor.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Mendy B. Mechanic, professor's psychology, and boy do we

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Speaker 1: need a shrink Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton forensics psychologists

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Speaker 1: sex assaults. Doctor Monte Miller, Director Forensic DNA Experts specialists

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Speaker 1: Anchor in chief investigative reporter wb RZTV, Chris, what am

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Speaker 1: I missing in this picture? She's raped at age sixteen

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Speaker 1: No matter how you slice it, you are one hundred

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Speaker 1: And we first heard about the story about a month ago.

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Speaker 1: with us. Dropped the ball. That is certainly putting perfume

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Speaker 1: a jury. They are the ultimate fact find or credibility.

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Speaker 1: It's the sole promise of a jury. How could this

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Speaker 1: be happening? Take a listen to our cut seven, our

429
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: friends at w b r Z. He's well connected, he's

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Speaker 1: threatened me multiple times, saying that he has connections in

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Speaker 1: the justice system, so I need to be careful and

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Speaker 1: that he can take her away from me anytime he

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Speaker 1: wants to. And I don't really believed him up until now,

434
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: because it's happening. It's happening. I spoke to John Barnes

435
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: on the phone. He admitted the daughter with Krista as his,

436
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: but referred all questions to his lawyer, who did not

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Speaker 1: get back to us. The Tangent Behoe Parish Sheriff's office

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00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: says the case is still open and we reached out

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Speaker 1: to the judge who made this decision. A woman in

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00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: his office told us his judicial canons prevent him from

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Wow, that's convenient. Time stories with Nancy

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Speaker 1: Grace to Chris Nakamoto joining US chief in US to

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Speaker 1: get a reporter w b r Z. You guys are

444
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: all over this case, thank goodness. Clearly the criminal justice

445
00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: system there and Potitoola Louisiana is not in hand it themselves.

446
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't understand how the mom has lost custody. I

447
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: don't understand why prosecutors are not taking the case away

448
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: from the local sheriff for cop and handling it themselves.

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00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: But first let's start with the judge. Who is the

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00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: judge Macameto. The judge is Judge Jeffrey Cash. He is

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00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: a family court judge. And after we aired the story

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Speaker 1: this week, we've been flooded with other complaints of people

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Speaker 1: in that parish, in that judicial district, where people are

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Speaker 1: saying they've had other similar instances where things were not

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Speaker 1: the way they should be. Here's what's really perplexing about

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00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: that issue involving the daughter. When she had gone to

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Speaker 1: the hospital about the rape kit, there was a detective

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Speaker 1: that went and collected that evidence. Her name is Lisa Riley.

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Speaker 1: On June first, just a couple of weeks ago, she

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Speaker 1: bile the TROS seeking a protective order from being asked

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Speaker 1: certain questions about any thing that's open. RICTA and the

462
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: nonprofit that she's working with to kind of bring this

463
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: to light told us that rape kit and the evidence

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00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: tied that is now missing. I waterested in that missing

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Speaker 1: sexual assault kit. How can that be missing? There's a

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00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: chain of custody and every person that has had hold

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00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: of it then has to sign it out to somebody

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Speaker 1: else and to hand delivery, sign in, sign out whoever

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Speaker 1: has a copy of that that can be tracked. There's

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Speaker 1: a whole La Riley the last person. Lisa Riley was

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Speaker 1: the last person who put her hands on that sexual

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Speaker 1: assault kit. And she's the one who filed two weeks

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Speaker 1: ago that she doesn't want to be asked about anything

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Speaker 1: pertaining to an open investigation. Wait a minute, who is

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Speaker 1: Lisa Riley? Lisa Riley is the detective with the tangent

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Speaker 1: Behoe Harrish Sheriff's office that went and picked up the

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Speaker 1: rape kit. Okay, and he has to burn that out

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Speaker 1: to somewhere. She has to have it in her possession

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Speaker 1: or manually sign it to somebody else. It can't be missing.

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Speaker 1: She has it or she raised it up somebody. Christa

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00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: and Stacy said through their attorney, they learned that that

482
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Speaker 1: evidence is gone. They don't know where it is, but

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Speaker 1: Lisa Riley was the last person who had her hands

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Speaker 1: on it. Who is the district attorney? The district attorney

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Speaker 1: is Scott Parileu. How do you spell that? Pe r

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Speaker 1: r I l l o u X. We reached out

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Speaker 1: to him yesterday. He did not get back to us.

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Speaker 1: My first question would be is why is a rape

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Speaker 1: case being handled in Family Court number one, the district

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Speaker 1: attorney Scott PARILEU Is that how you're saying it? Chris

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Speaker 1: correct should immediately seized this file and get busy if

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Speaker 1: he is at all interested in seeking justice? What is

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Speaker 1: he one of the John Barnes suspects clients too. It's

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00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: a good question, you know, a minimum. Now that all

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00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: of us has come to light, it's pretty easy for

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Speaker 1: the judge, as easy as he unsealed these documents to

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Speaker 1: do his order. And so as each day passes and

498
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: the right thing isn't done, the race has even more

499
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: questions about what the political corruption is tied to all

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Speaker 1: of these people that are all now covering for each other.

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Speaker 1: Chris Nakamoto, What can be done? What is being done?

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Speaker 1: If anything? When I spoke to Scott Plow last week,

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Speaker 1: he told me that he had not heard anything about

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Speaker 1: this case. What Nothing had been turned over to him?

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00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: Nothing had been turned over my rear end. Nobody turned

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Speaker 1: over evidence to me either. When I was prosecuting, I

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Speaker 1: would get out on the street and find the evidence,

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Speaker 1: beating the bushes, go to the crime lab, find the witnesses.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean turn over the evidence to him?

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00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: What is he talking about He said he was unaware

511
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: of this case until we brought it to his attention.

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Speaker 1: After our story aired Monday, he said he was launching

513
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Speaker 1: an internal review, and then late yesterday the Sheriff's office

514
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: announced that they turned everything over to him internal review.

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00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: So hey with an internal review, he needs to convene

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Speaker 1: a grand jury on the initial rape case, and then

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00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: the same grand jury needs to hear evidence on the

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00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: second alleged sex assault on the daughter. This is not

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Speaker 1: a who's done a case. John Barnes admitted he's the father.

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00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: The DNA to test admits that he's the father. This

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00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: is a clear, open and shut case that needs to

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00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 1: be rectified down and then you've got the whole can

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Speaker 1: of arms, the whole case regarding the daughter that has

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Speaker 1: been put in his custody. She's made an outcry, she's

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Speaker 1: seen a doctor. There is evidence if they say forced

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Speaker 1: entry in other words, sex assault or the girl and

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Speaker 1: she's naming the dad. That's a whole another case. Guys,

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Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut six. Our friends at

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Speaker 1: wb RZ. Lawyer Sean Cassidy says, even in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and five, when the rape took place, that's felony rape

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Speaker 1: in Louisiana, consent or not, it was illegal for a

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Speaker 1: thirty year old to sleep with a sixteen year old.

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Speaker 1: If a child is born from a felony rape that

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Speaker 1: the law mandates says shall the abuser shall not have

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Speaker 1: visitation or any contact with that child, much less custody Tonight.

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Speaker 1: Abeleseth says for years she tried to go about this

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00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: case the right way through the courts, but having her

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00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: daughter taken away weeks ago over allegation she gave her

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00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: a cell phone left her with a lack of confidence

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00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: that she'll ever get a fair shake with justice impossible

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Speaker 1: to find for the past sixteen years. Sixteen years. Annals

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Speaker 1: narrow cut nine WBRZ new Today details about Judge Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Cash's decision forcing Abeleseth to pay John Barnes' child support.

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Speaker 1: Abeleseth says she was sixteen when she met Barnes, then

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Speaker 1: thirty at a bar, was raped, then got pregnant, now

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00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: paying him one hundred and seventeen dollars per month. Barnes

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00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: even going after her when she fell behind on payments.

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Speaker 1: Things took a dramatic turn this year when Judge Cash

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00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: awarded full custody to Barnes, saying the mother was in

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00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: contempt for providing the child with a cell phone. But

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00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: that's not all. A month before the judge gave full

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00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: custody to the father, the child reported she was sexually

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00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: assaulted by Barnes for two nights in a row. The

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00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: teenage girls sought treatment at a hospital in New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: where a doctor confirmed there's evidence of a sexual assault.

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Speaker 1: Chris Nakamoto, I'm actually speechless about what is happening in

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Speaker 1: your jurisdiction. Does Christa abel Seth have a lawyer? Yes,

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Speaker 1: there is a hearing scheduled for July the fifteenth, in

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00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: hopes that parental rights will be terminated for John Barnes.

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00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: But with all of this attention that has now been

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Speaker 1: brought to this case, why do we need to wait

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Speaker 1: till the fifteenth? It seems like this is pretty clear

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00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: cut and it can be undone right now. And where

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00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: is the girl right now? The daughter? The daughter is

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00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: still in the custody of the father, Dear Lord or heaven.

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Speaker 1: The daughter still with the father. Has Abele Sess lawyer

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Speaker 1: considered an immediate hearing an emergency hearing? Has anybody thought

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00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: of that? I think they filed for it, and the

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Speaker 1: earliest date they got was July the fifteenth. Who gave

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Speaker 1: them the July fifteenth to date? I'm just curious. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming they had checked their schedules at the courthouse and

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Speaker 1: that's what was issued to them. I'll tell you one thing,

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Speaker 1: if my daughter were in this home, the courthouse would

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Speaker 1: fall down until I got that emergency hearing on the calendar,

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Speaker 1: not wait a full month, leaving her in the hands

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Speaker 1: of a man she claims molested her with a trite

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Speaker 1: record of raping her mother. You know, at this point,

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00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: what else can we do? Sarah Ford? This is such

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Speaker 1: a clear violation of the victim rights. I mean, Louisiana

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00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: has a statutory and constitutional right to victims, and this

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00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: has completely blown those rights out of the water, made

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Speaker 1: them completely meaningless. I agree, Nancy. An emergency order or

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Speaker 1: emergency hearing needs to happen, and those can normally be

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00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: normally scheduled within twenty four hours in family court. So

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00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: certainly waiting a month for this is absolutely ridiculous, and

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00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: certainly with these circumstances that not only have come about

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: but now being investigated in these additional allegations, of the

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00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: abuse of the child that is still in the custody

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00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: of the father. This is not something that can wait.

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00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: There has to be an emergency hearing and it needs

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Speaker 1: to happen now. Chris Nakamoto, I think I know why

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Speaker 1: the hearing isn't until July fifteen. I think it's because

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00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: this same judge set the hearing down. His Caldor Clark

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00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: set the hearing giving another full month. I mean, I

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00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: don't understand why her abele says, lawyer isn't appealing this.

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00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this, what can you tell

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Speaker 1: me about this Judge Jeffrey Cash. Judge Jeffrey Cash, again,

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Speaker 1: he did set that hearing and this case is going

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00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: to go before him. You know, just recently, judges had

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00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: to start producing their financial disclosure forms, so we started checking,

601
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: you know, some of his background donors and things like that,

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00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: and the companies who he's affiliated with, and we weren't

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00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: really able to pinpoint a connection, which is what really

604
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: makes this whole thing very mysterious. I will tell you

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Speaker 1: the sheriff in that jurisdiction is the governor of the

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00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: State of Louisiana's brother and the state entity that operates

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Speaker 1: under the direction of the governor is the entity the

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Speaker 1: Department of Children and Family Services that is overseeing these

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00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: child support payments to this perpetrator. So we asked the

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Speaker 1: Governor's office two days ago for a statement. We also

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00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: asked the Department of Children and Family Services for a

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00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: statement about how they could be mandating these child support

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00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: payments to this perpetrator when we all know what the

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00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: facts are now. And they said, all our job is

615
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,240
Speaker 1: is to enforce a court order and we're just made

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00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: by it too, but we have to follow a court order.

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Speaker 1: And so I said, well, certainly your attorneys within that

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: agency would see some ethical problem with us, right, And

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Speaker 1: they said, we have to just enforce support order. So

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Speaker 1: we asked the governor first statement, and we have not

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Speaker 1: heard back for two days, which is very out of

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Speaker 1: character for him to not respond or his communications people

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Speaker 1: to not respond to us. I'm also concerned about the

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Speaker 1: parish sheriff because no charges have been filed yet, and

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Speaker 1: they blame the fact it was never assigned to a

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00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: detective and nothing has been investigated. Well, I've learned enough

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00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: right now in the last forty minutes to know for

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Speaker 1: a fact that this man is the bio dad of

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Speaker 1: this little girl, and that the mom was underage at

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Speaker 1: the time they had sex. And I'm doing air quotes

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Speaker 1: because that is statutory rape. Nancy. Once again, John Barnes

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Speaker 1: denies raping a a Seth. He says the allegations against

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Speaker 1: him are lives. He said he did meet the sixteen

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00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: year old at a bar, and he did offer her

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00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: a ride home, but he also thought that she was

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00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: a college student because that was what she had been

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00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: telling people in the bar. She was also using a

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00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: fake ID. He says he believed that she was an adult. Okay, everybody,

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00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: are you trying to just hearing about crime? Do something

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00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: about it? Calls Scott Parilott, the elected district attorney Nancy.

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Speaker 1: The phone number to the District Attorney's office is nine

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Speaker 1: eight five seven four eight seven eight nine zero. You

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm just going to dial that number right

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Speaker 1: now myself. I want justice. Goodbye, friend,