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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson,

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Speaker 1: a Virginia babysitter a sentence to jail after a judge

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Speaker 1: find she starved and abused a toddler in her care

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Speaker 1: over the course of several months. Carly Ray Webb was

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Speaker 1: sentenced Friday in Bedford County to twelve months in jail

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Speaker 1: and three years of probation. She is twenty one years old.

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Speaker 1: The judge handed down five years on a felony child

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Speaker 1: abuse count, with four years suspended. He also sentenced her

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Speaker 1: on five misdemeanor counts of assault and battery, less than

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Speaker 1: one year on each of those and they run at

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Speaker 1: the same time. In total, the Senates reached nine years,

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Speaker 1: but she will just serve one. Deputy Common Wels Attorney

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Speaker 1: Stacy Stickney spoke after the hearing, followed by defense attorney

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Speaker 1: Chris Kowalchuk.

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Speaker 2: We have all left the room feeling very pleased with

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Speaker 2: the judges ruling today and the Senates that he handed

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Speaker 2: down this afternoon to the defendant in this case. From

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Speaker 2: the very beginning at the come of Attorney's office prosecuted

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Speaker 2: this case very aggressively with both misdemeanor and felony.

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Speaker 3: Tri she was facing five years in felony time in

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Speaker 3: five more years on the misdemeanors, and so a sentence

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Speaker 3: of twelve months is a sentence that I think is

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Speaker 3: fair and reasonable, and I was very appreciative of that

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Speaker 3: on behalf of my client.

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Speaker 1: The case centers on abuse that happened between October twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three and January of twenty four inside the family's

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Speaker 1: home in Bedford County. The child was between nineteen and

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Speaker 1: twenty three months old. Prosecutors say the toddler was too

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Speaker 1: young to explain what was happening. Investigators relied on months

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Speaker 1: of home security footage. Bedford County investigator Michelle Alderson testified

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Speaker 1: that she reviewed video showing repeated neglect and physical abuse.

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Speaker 1: The footage showed the child left without food or water

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Speaker 1: for long stretches on some days that reached up to

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Speaker 1: twenty one hours. The child was also left in a

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Speaker 1: crib for up to nine hours at a time. Prosecutors

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Speaker 1: say web struck the child in the face, screamed at her,

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Speaker 1: called her vulgar names, and pretended to shoot her with

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Speaker 1: the toy gun while the child cried. Other moments, she

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Speaker 1: ate food in front of the child, or threw away

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Speaker 1: food prepared by the parents. The child's father described seeing

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Speaker 1: the recordings in courte quote, thank god we had the cameras.

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Speaker 1: Authorities say the parents only checked the cameras after Webb

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Speaker 1: made an offhand comment in early twenty twenty four. The

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Speaker 1: footage then revealed what had been happening during the months

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Speaker 1: she babysat. Web pleaded guilty of five of the seventeen charges.

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Speaker 1: A judge later found her guilty on all seventeen counts

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Speaker 1: in October. At sentencing, both parents spoke in court, the

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Speaker 1: child's mother describing the impact, calling it quote a nightmare

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Speaker 1: I don't get to wake up from. She also said

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Speaker 1: she felt betrayed because Webb had been a close family friend.

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Speaker 1: Despite the length of the abuse, reports state the child

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Speaker 1: did not have visible injuries and there were no medical

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Speaker 1: findings of malnutrition or developmental delays. More crime and Justice news.

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Speaker 1: After this rest easy Kissing Cousins, a bill that would

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Speaker 1: have banned first cousin marriages in Florida fails to pass,

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Speaker 1: and the state Senate lawmakers in Tallahassee did not approve

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Speaker 1: House Bill seven thirty three before the legislative session ended.

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Speaker 1: The proposal would have stopped Florida from recognizing marriages between

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Speaker 1: first cousins starting July first. The bill was part of

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Speaker 1: a broader Department of Health measure report. State lawmakers did

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Speaker 1: not disagree on the cousin marriage provision itself. The bills

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Speaker 1: still failed due to unresolved issues in other parts of

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Speaker 1: the legislation. Florida remains one of sixteen states where first

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Speaker 1: cousin marriage is still legal. The proposed law outlined which

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Speaker 1: relationships would be prohibited. It stated a man could not

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Speaker 1: marry his sister, aunt, niece, or a woman related to

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Speaker 1: him by direct bloodline. It also stated a woman could

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Speaker 1: not marry her brother, uncle, nephew, or any man related

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Speaker 1: to her by direct bloodline. If the bill had passed,

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Speaker 1: those marriages would not have been recognized for any purpose

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Speaker 1: under Florida law. As Chusett's family abduction case remains unsolved,

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Speaker 1: as two young sisters taken overseas by their mother have

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Speaker 1: now been missing for sixteen years. Athena Sheets and Tanit

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Speaker 1: Sheets Marty were last seen January third of twenty ten

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Speaker 1: in Lynn, Massachusetts. Athena was one, Danite was three. Investigators

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Speaker 1: say they were taken by their non custodial mother, Mirea Marti.

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Speaker 1: Authorities believed the case began during a trip to Spain.

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Speaker 1: The girl's father, Jonathan Sheets, had traveled there with them

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Speaker 1: to visit their maternal grandmother. Once they arrived, he was

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Speaker 1: issued a restraining order and removed from the home. He

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Speaker 1: has not seen the children since. Court records show he

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Speaker 1: later filed for their return under the Hague Treaty. That

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Speaker 1: ruling was delayed for years. He was granted a divorce

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Speaker 1: and sole custody in the United States. Official say Spain

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Speaker 1: has not recognized that ruling. Investigators believed the girls may

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Speaker 1: still be in Barcelona. Their Hispanic Athena has brown hair

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Speaker 1: and brown eyes, two foot five thirty pounds. When she disappeared,

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Speaker 1: she'd now be around six seventeen. Then it has brown

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Speaker 1: hair and brown eyes, about three feet tall and forty

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Speaker 1: five pounds. When she was last seen, she'd be around

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Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty now. The case remains classified as a

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Speaker 1: family abduction. If you have any information as to their whereabouts,

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Speaker 1: please contact the Lynn Police Department at seven eight one

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Speaker 1: five nine five two thousand. For the latest crime and

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