1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Police cars at every corner, 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: a crowd of law enforcement going house to house, doesn't 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: searching everywhere in the grass a canal, hoping to find 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: five year old Elizabeth Shelley. There's not much to go, mom, 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: and so we don't even know where to start, where 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: to go. Family is just as puzzled as police. Police say. Lizzie, 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: as her family calls her, was seen sleeping at two 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: am when mom went to bed. When mom woke up 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, Lizzie was gone. She's been a staret called 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: all morning, all day. She's still bolling. It's her worst nightmare. 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: It's the worst thing. She just makes wants it to 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: go away. She wants her baby back. There you hear 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: Mary Whipple, this little girl's grandmother, speaking to Kat SUTV 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City, speaking to Laurence Steinbrecker. Where is 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: five year old Elizabeth Shelley? If you could see her photo? 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: Absolutely pressure. Just this little girl, the one I keep 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: looking at, has flowers all over the top of her head. Lucy, 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: my little girl wanted that I had a little clipping 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: flowers and they would cover the entire top of her 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: head and that's the way she liked it. I Nancy Grace, 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: The search is on for a five year old little girl, 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,279 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shelley joining me right now in all Star panel 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcot, juvenile judge lawyer. You can find to her 25 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: at Ashley Wilcot dot com. Doctor Michelle Dupree, medical examiner, 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert, 27 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University and author of Blood Beneath 28 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: My Feet on Amazon. Doctor Jolie Silva, forensic psychologist, and 29 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: joining me right now from Crime Online dot com, where 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: you can read this and all other breaking crime in 31 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: justice news. Ellen Ki Lauren, Ellen, please tell me about 32 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: the disappearance of this little girl. I don't understand it is. 33 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: She's asleep. The mom sees her at two am. Two 34 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: am is not unusual. By the time I get the 35 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: children to bed and I come and clean the kitchen, 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: let the dog out, blah blah blah blah, it's one 37 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: thirty two o'clock. I never go to bed without looking 38 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: at the twins. Never And then suddenly in the morning 39 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: she's gone. How does that happen? Ellen, that's right, Nancy. 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Her mother looked in at her at around two am. 41 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shelley was asleep that the family calls her Lizzie. 42 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: A little after nine am, when the mom woke up, 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: Lizzie was gone. Listen. People have been out here all 44 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: day handing out missing fires, scouring the neighborhood. But just 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: a few minutes ago police were able to serve the 46 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: searchborn on the house by getting a first look inside 47 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: to see if there are any clues inside the home 48 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: as to where Elizabeth Shelley could have gone. That's our 49 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: friend at KTSUTV saw like city Laurence Steinbreaker outside the home. 50 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: Several thoughts colliding in my head at once. Joe Scott, 51 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: Morgan forensics expert. We need you right now, Joe Scott. 52 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: It is a from what I can tell, a single 53 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: story dwelling wood with a front porch, a front door, 54 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: windows around the outside of the home that are within 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: climbing reach. They don't look too tall to climb into 56 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: to get into. To me, from what I can tell, 57 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: there are no second story windows. There is a front yard, 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: a sideyard on either side, a backyard. There is not 59 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: an enclosure such as a gate. They have to have 60 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: a gate opener to get into. There's no walls to scale. 61 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: That's what I'm seeing. But also I heard search warrant. 62 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: Hold on, Joe Scott Morgan, Ashley Wilcott. They needed a 63 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: search warrant to look in the home. What well, Nancy, 64 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: you know that's an abundance of caution right there. Let's 65 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: be honest. By getting the search warrant, they have the 66 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: right legal means to do it, so nobody can test it. 67 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: And then you're not going to have an alleged you know, 68 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: fruit of the poisonous tree because you didn't enter properly. 69 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I was with you there 70 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: in criminal law, first year law school. I get it, 71 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: search warrant, But did you also hear the rest of 72 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: that sentence? A first look in the home after they 73 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: get a search warrant. I'm telling you, my baby girl 74 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: goes missing. Oh yeah, I would be dragging the cops 75 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: in by their collars, Joe Scott Morgan. It's called permission. 76 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: You give permission to the cops to get in. I'm 77 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: be you. I'm not getting that. Why do the cops 78 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: have to go get a search warrant to get into 79 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: the home. You know what, that's a whole nother can 80 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: of worms. I can investigate. But tell me about the 81 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: home structure. What do they need to be looking at 82 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: regarding the disappearance of Elizabeth Shelley five years old? Well, 83 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: first off with the physical structure, Nancy, war of things 84 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: they're going to be looking for. Is are there any 85 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: signs of forced entry? You'd mentioned the windows, their ground level. 86 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm taking a look at the home right now, and yeah, 87 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: this is plausible that somebody could access the home visa 88 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: that manner. Now, is there anyway someone could have gained 89 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: entrance to the home without forcing their way in? Has 90 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: a window been left open, has a door left unlocked? 91 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: Or does someone have key to the house? And also 92 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: we want to take a look at the individuals that 93 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: are in dwelling the house that location. Is there somebody 94 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: that was in that house that could have brought harm 95 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: upon this little girl and essentially facilitated her disappearance? Well, 96 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: we are talking about the entry or exit into a 97 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: home is extremely important. You heard Joe Scott Morgan mentioned 98 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: is there a forced entry? You look at everything, are 99 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: there primarks on the door has a screen been removed 100 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: from a window? Has a screen being cut? You can 101 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: tell if a screen has been cut from the outside 102 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: or the inside of the home. All these things matter. 103 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: Is there a burglar alarm system that should have, could 104 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: have would have gone off? Or does someone have access 105 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: to the home. Take a listen to this. Inside the 106 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: Hiram Shortstop, it looks like business as usual eight forty two, 107 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: but outside something unusual. Search crews digging through the garbage, 108 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: gathering around the dumpster out back, combing the street. The 109 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: little girl goes missing, and you also BLI this and 110 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: nobody can find it. No one can find five year 111 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: old Lizzie Shelley, not here in Hiram, not in Logan, 112 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: where she disappeared from her home Saturday morning. Police say 113 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: they think her uncle, Alex Whipple, knows what happened, but 114 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: he won't say so they're trying to fill in the blanks. 115 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: The Hiram Shortstop gave them some help. Ryan says he 116 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: saw Whipple Saturday disheveled like he had been, like he 117 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: had been on a binge of some kind. That was 118 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: hours after Lizzie disappear. To Ellen Coolar in crime online 119 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: dot Com, investigative reporter. Who is the uncle twenty one 120 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: year old Alex Swipple And what if anything, does he 121 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: have to do with this? Was he in the home 122 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: that night? Alex Whipple was in the home that Friday 123 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: night before Elizabeth Shelley seeing he stopped by up to 124 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: visit his sister, who is Lizzie's mother. Now, what can 125 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: you tell me about when police catch up with Alex Whipple? 126 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: He actually has some of Elizabeth Shelley's clothing in his possession. 127 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: That police have said that they found evidence not satisfying 128 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: what items tying Alex Whipple to the little girl and 129 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 1: showing that he was with her outside of the home 130 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: since she was last seen there. Police also say that 131 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: he is being uncooperative about the girls whereabouts. Now that 132 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: right there, Ashley Wilcot, disturbs me. Why would he be uncooperative? Well, 133 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: that always is a concern with me when anyone is uncooperative. 134 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: Think about Nancy wake up in the middle of nights gone. 135 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: I would expect anybody and everybody I know, I'm related to, 136 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: I know of, is absolutely going to be one hundred 137 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: percent cooperative with law enforcement because they're gonna help me 138 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: find my child. When they're not cooperative to me. My 139 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: gut is there's a problem with that person. We know this. 140 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: The search is going on right now. CoP's still at 141 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: this so hour going door to door and getting permission 142 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: to search homes and yards of residents in neighborhoods surrounding 143 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: the area. The child's father begging via Facebook for people 144 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: to help find his daughter, begging the public to pray 145 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: for his daughter. Little Elizabeth three feet six inches, just 146 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: forty pounds. She has shoulder length, curly brown hair with 147 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: bangs in, big brown eyes, in a full set of 148 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: beautiful teeth. The tipline four three five seven five three 149 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: seven five five five repeat four three five seven five 150 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: three seven five five five Where is five year old Elizabeth? 151 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy grace Well. Albany Police tell us 152 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: a three year old is on a ventilator at an 153 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: Atlanta hospital this evening. APDs Family Protection Unit says the 154 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: child has some pretty brutal injuries. This all comes after 155 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: an FPU and Division of Family and Children's Services investigation. 156 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: So police tell us the child had injuries to her 157 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: dentital area and her ribs, along with swollen hands and 158 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: an unknown trauma to her head now. Investigators say she 159 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: appeared to have some old wounds as well. This all 160 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: comes after a call to police about an unknown problem 161 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: on Monday morning to a home. Police say one of 162 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: the suspects told police the child was unresponsive once officers 163 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: got there. What happened to this beautiful three year old 164 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: little girl? If you could see her the photos of her, 165 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: she reminds me so much of Lucy at age three. 166 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: The look in their eyes, a smile on their face, 167 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: just looking forward to everything there is to learn about 168 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: the world. Jenia Brooks just three years old. I mean, 169 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being 170 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: with us. You were hearing our friend at w A 171 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: LB Emily Forrester, giving us the latest. You know, Jenia 172 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: Brooks had to be airlifted all the way from Albany 173 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: to Atlanta. All the way to Atlanta. That is some serious, 174 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: serious physical damage to Doctor Michelle du Pretty joining me, 175 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: medical examiner and author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. This 176 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: is what I know about a life flight in my life. 177 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: I've only known about two. My dad when he was 178 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: about to die at Emory Hospital and they had to 179 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: airlift him to University Alabama, they were the only ones 180 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: that would agree to do surgery on him and my 181 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: little nephew and major car crash, got lifted to Scottish 182 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: Ripe Children's Hospital and had been in a coma. Now, 183 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: when somebody gets airlifted, that's a big deal, Doctor Dupree, Yes, Nancy, 184 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: that is a big deal. And typically that's one of 185 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: the most severe cases when that person needs urgent medical 186 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: attention and it's not immediately available in the surrounding area. 187 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: I'm talking about a three year old little girl. Jennia 188 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: Brooks joining me an all star panel, a juvenile judge, 189 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: lawyer anchor. You can find her at Ashley Wilcot dot com. 190 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle Dupree, Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert, author of 191 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: Blood Beneath My Feet and joining me right now. Anchor 192 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:58,839 Speaker 1: reporter from wa LB News ten Damon Arnold, Damon, thank 193 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: you for being with us. Damon. First question to you, 194 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: what alerted police or EMTs to go to the home 195 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: of Jenia Brooks. What alerted them? Why did they show up? 196 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: They got a phone call from someone who was relatively 197 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: close with the family, who had gotten a glimpse of 198 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: Jenia and saw that she was in pretty bad condition 199 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: and decided to go ahead and place that phone call, 200 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: and that's what initially sparked interest in police going over there. Okay, 201 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: wait a minute, let me back you up with me 202 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: from w ALB News ten Damon Arnold, who has been 203 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: there on the scene. So a family member sees her 204 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: in bad shape and they called mt. Now, Damon Arnold, 205 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 1: I'm putting on a a cross examination. This is a yes 206 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: no answer. Was it the mother or the stepfather? Was 207 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: it either Crystal Brooks or Gregory Parker that called police? 208 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: We are told that the stepfather made the call same 209 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: as you. Was unresponsive. Okay, I don't know what exactly 210 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: that means, Not that I couldn't understand you, Damon, but 211 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: that I don't know what that means unresponsive. Would she 212 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: not wake up when you shook her? Would she? Was 213 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: she having trouble breathing? I mean, what does that mean 214 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: in your world? Doctor Michelle Duprey, when somebody is unresponsible. 215 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: Are they passed out cold? Yes, Nancy, Basically they are unconscious. 216 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: They are still They're not considered decease, but they are 217 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: unconscious and probably have very love or heart to detect 218 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: vital sign to Ashley Wilcott joining me, juvenile judge and 219 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: lawyer at ashe Wilcott dot com. Now, from what I 220 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: understood from our friend Emily Forrester at w ALB, that 221 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: she was airlifted from Albany, Georgia to Atlanta after an 222 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: investigation by CPS Defects Department Family Children's Services Child Protective Services. 223 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: You know, no offense, Ash Walcott, because you're a juvenile judge, 224 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: not that you're connected with CPS, but you hear it 225 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: all day long. You know, it takes a lot to 226 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: get CPS to do anything. So when I hear they 227 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: actually were doing an investigation, that really raises the hair 228 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: up on my neck to know they were that far along, 229 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: because you can't get them to do a thing. Every 230 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: time I hear about Child Potative Services, there's a dead child. 231 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: It's too late. They've done nothing. So listen, you know, Nancy, 232 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what to say other than this, You're right. 233 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: Somebody reports child abuse, they opened a case, they start 234 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: an investigation. If they're investigating, then they should see the child. 235 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: They should see if there are any injuries, any problems, 236 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: that that child needs to be removed from their home 237 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: and needs treatment. What bothers me in this case is 238 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: what you're pointing out. There was an investigation, yet who 239 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: called police because the child was nonresponsive? The boyfriend? So 240 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: somewhere there's a system fail. Yeah, you know what you 241 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: called it like it is. He's a boyfriend. Damon Arnold 242 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: joining me, anchor reporter wa LB News ten. Because he 243 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: a live was he a bf? What was his status 244 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: in the home? We reported it originally that he was 245 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: the stepfather, but I'm pretty sure that he was just 246 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: a boyfriend. That you had two different last names, so 247 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: I don't believe them to be married. Hey hey, hey, 248 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: watch out, watch out. I'm still Nancy Grayson. I'm married 249 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: to David Lynch. When somebody says miss Lynch, I think 250 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: they're talking about David's mother. Okay, so you think he's 251 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: more the boyfriend as opposed to the stepfather. Is that correct? Correct? 252 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: Hey Ashley, Ashley question to you, to be a formal stepfather, 253 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: do you have to go through some legal process like 254 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: to adopt the child or is that just a slang term. Well, 255 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: the legal answer is this, you have to be married 256 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: to a parent to be considered a step father. But 257 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people refer to themselves in practice as 258 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: a stepparent even if they're not married, but the legal 259 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: requirement is he's married to her. This little girl, oh, 260 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: I'm looking at her. I'm looking at her right now. 261 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: What a smile. This little girl languishes in the Atlanta 262 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: hospital on a ventilator. Listen. The three year old that 263 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: was involved in what Albany police call a heinous crime 264 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: of child abuse has died. Three year old Janiah Brooks 265 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: who died in an Atlanta hospital this afternoon at around 266 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: twelve fifteen. Now. She was airlifted from Albany about twenty 267 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: four hours ago, and APDs Family Protection Unit says that 268 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: the child had brutal injuries. Investigators say they've charged two 269 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: people in this case. That police say that one suspect 270 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: is Gregory Parker, and they told police that the child 271 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: was unresponsive. Parker is facing several charges, including aggravator assault, molestation, rape, 272 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: and aggravated sodomy. Crystal Brooks is also facing charges. Investigators 273 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: say that she knew about the child being harshly treated 274 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: and was there at the time. She is charged with 275 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: party to a crime of aggravated battery, battery, cruelty to 276 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: children in the first degree and giving a false statement. Initially, 277 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: I just feel sick. I feel sick when I heard 278 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: these charges. Jeniah Brooks three years old. Take a listen 279 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: to what the specific charges. Our friend Emily Forrester Gregory 280 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: Parker's child is charged with aggravated child molestation, rape, aggravated sodomy, 281 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: aggravated battery, battery, and cruelty to children in the first degree. 282 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Another suspect, Crystal Brooks, is also facing charges in the case. 283 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: Investigators say that's because she knew about the child being 284 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: harshly treated and was there at the time. Now she's 285 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: charged with party to a crime of the following charges 286 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: aggravated battery, battery, cruelty to children in the first degree, 287 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: along with giving a false statement. Initially, Now police say 288 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: the suspects are known to that child. Right now, that 289 00:17:51,040 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: investigation is ongoing. Crime stories with Nancy Grace Brooksted after 290 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: being taken off life's support injured by what Albany police 291 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: are calling a heinous crime of child abuse WLB News 292 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: to his Damon Arnold joins US Live Now after speaking 293 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: exclusively with the family of Brooks about the final days 294 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: leading up to her death. Jim Jenia's family tells me 295 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: that they wanted nothing more than to keep her alive 296 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: and well, but they understood that it was time for 297 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: her to rest after so much pain. Kiss gave her 298 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: her last kiss. I held a hair which she took 299 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: a last breath. A family trying to find peace during 300 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: the time of sorrow after the death of their three 301 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,719 Speaker 1: year old loved one, Jenia Brooksty Saturday, after a family 302 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: took her off life support. Albany and police calling this 303 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: I Haine his crime of child abuse. It was a 304 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: heart decision, but not a seafish one. She had brain 305 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: damage and broken fingers. It was a lot. You are 306 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: hearing our friends Jim Wallace and Damon Arnold at w 307 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: a LB with me right now. Is Damon Arnold? Damon 308 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: I just i'd to tell you I have been to 309 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:25,360 Speaker 1: so many funerals, so many crime scenes, so many victims, families, 310 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: homes and apartments. It's it's so hard talking to them. 311 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: But then sometimes it's like they want to talk. I like, 312 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: let it out. I guess tell me how the family 313 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: took the news that this three year old little girl 314 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: was dead. It was really eerie to sit there, honestly, 315 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: to know that you know, that was Jeni, a biological 316 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: father and grandmother, and her grandfather was also there, and 317 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: getting across from him, you could tell he hadn't fully 318 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: grasped the concept that age had lost a daughter, you know, 319 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: in such a brutal manner. He was trying to figure 320 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: out how to process that, and you could see it 321 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: in his body language on his face. And that's why 322 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: I ended up interviewing the grandmother, because there was so 323 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: much that he was trying to figure out how to 324 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: say that dot being angry and still trying to do 325 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: his daughter justice. You know what's interesting joining me now 326 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: in addition to Damon Arnold, Joe Scott Morgan, doctor Michelle Dupree, 327 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: and Ashley Wilcott, doctor Julie Silva, forensic psychiatrist. Doctor Silva, 328 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: I recall, following up on what Damon Arnold just said, 329 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: after my fiance was murdered, there would be so many 330 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,719 Speaker 1: days it didn't actually seem real, and I would go 331 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: to my mom and say, mother, is Keith Dad? I 332 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: just I could not get my mind. I couldn't understand 333 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: what had happened and why, and it was just a 334 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: completely normal day. And then out of the blue, bam, 335 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: violent crime, change all of our lives forever. What is 336 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: that process? When you can't get it through your mind? 337 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,479 Speaker 1: You can't absorb what's happening. You know, when when people 338 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: lose people in their lives suddenly like that, there there's 339 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: a different grieving process than if somebody dies, would say, 340 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: of terminal illness, because there's there's a shock factor. I mean, 341 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: your your body, not only psychologically but physically go process 342 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: information the same level you normally do. It's your your 343 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: entire brain and it is firing as though you know 344 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: a bear is standing in front of you about to 345 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: eat you. That's basically how I can describe it. Your 346 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: entire olympic system is totally on overdrive and you just 347 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: can't process information, you know, the way you normally would. 348 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: Or even if, like I said, somebody died of a 349 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: long term illness, even though there's still a brievement and 350 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: a grieving process, it's different when it's sudden like that. 351 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: Take a listen to Linda face on. This is Jenia's grandma. 352 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: She don't have to be afraid now. He said, you know, 353 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: here's steps coming toward her and said, well, what's gonna 354 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: happen now? Jenia's grandmother says the damage could not be 355 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: undone despite their prayers. Even if she had survived, we 356 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: all think about all the doctors, psychologist, psychiatrists or what 357 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: have you to help bring her back hold. I don't 358 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: believe that she would have ever been hold. Jenia's father, 359 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: Daryl Phaon, was at work when he got the call 360 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: about his daughter. He rushed to be by her side, 361 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: but says the call will always haunt him and twistatations 362 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: would be with lu You know, I think it best 363 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: for us. You know she wanted to scruggle no more. 364 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: You being heartbroken now. The family is preparing to say 365 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: their final goodbyes as they lay Heaven's newest angel to rest. 366 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: I wish I was near to media for her. Took 367 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: her in my arms like I was supposed to what 368 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: I could to Ashley Wilcot, juvenile judge and lawyer at 369 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott dot com. Several things are just slapping me 370 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: in the face right now. I feel like I'm colliding 371 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,719 Speaker 1: with them. The fact that the grandmother says she doesn't 372 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: have to be afraid at night anymore. What's gonna happen tonight? 373 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: And broken fingers and old wounds. All of those things 374 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: are raising red flags to me about what this case, 375 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 1: how it's gonna unfold. Ashley, Absolutely, So that's the key. 376 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: Old wounds. And there's so much horrific damage to this 377 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: little three year old. It could not have all been 378 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: inflicted at one time, which means people knew, someone knew, 379 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: there were signs, there were symptoms there, they were concerned 380 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: about her. All these things that a should have been 381 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: reported and beady during the investigation. This child should have 382 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: been removed from the home to Joseph Scott Morgan forensics expert, 383 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet, Joe Scott broken fingers, 384 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: What does that tell you that this death, this death 385 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: is it borders on torture. It sounds like Nancy. And remember, 386 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: we need to continue to focus on this and this 387 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: is why this girl, this little baby, did not sustain 388 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: a fatal injury. She sustained multiple injuries. And for every 389 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: single injury, that's a point in time. It's almost like 390 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: a historical marker. So we can begin to kind of 391 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: go back in time and unfold what happened. She can't 392 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: speak to us anymore, but you know, they talked about 393 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: the age of these injuries that some were old, and 394 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: the aging of this is going to give us an 395 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: opportunity to give an idea how long has she been 396 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: suffering the sustained trauma over a period of time, And 397 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of things that are coming down the road. 398 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: Here we've got the sexual sexual assault evidence, We've got 399 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: this torture like event with her hand, and then not 400 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: to mention this head injury that she sustained. So every 401 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: piece of this is going to be interconnected. But yet 402 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: it's going to have it's going to be like on 403 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: a long timeline relative to her little life. You know, 404 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking this through. To doctor Michelle Dupree, medical examiner, 405 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: author of Homicide and Investigation Field Guide One, I was 406 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 1: prosecuting a murder case and in doing that I met 407 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: all the victim's family, and one of the sisters of 408 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: the murder victim is an adult survivor child lestation. I 409 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: remember her telling me that when she was a little 410 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: she knew her dad was going to come a Lester 411 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: raper and she thought if she put rubber bands on 412 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: her on her doorknob it would keep him out, that 413 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: the door wouldn't work. I mean in her mind that 414 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: was true. And I'm just thinking about what the grandma said, 415 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: how she won't have to wonder every night what was 416 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: going to happen. In other words, is the stepfather, the boyfriend, 417 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: Gregory Parker going to come in her room and rape 418 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 1: her at three years old? You know the mother had 419 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: to know, she had to know way in Yes, Sancy, 420 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,719 Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. This is just a horrific crime. 421 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: And someone knew the fact that these injuries are dated, 422 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: that there are several injuries that are older, shows the 423 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: chronicity this has been happening over a long period of time. 424 00:26:53,080 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: This is this is an excuse of someone knew crime stories. 425 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: With Nancy Grace, We're going to let you go because 426 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: now you don't have to wake up in the middle 427 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: of the night or any time of the day and 428 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: wonder when is it going to be the next time? 429 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: When am I gonna have to go through this? The 430 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: next time you're hearing Jenny's grandmother when the false face 431 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: and speaking, when will be the next time that you 432 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: are three year old are brutally molested to doctor Michelle Duprey, 433 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: medical examiner, what do the broken fingers on this child 434 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 1: mean to you forensically life was being tortured. Lots of 435 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: reasons that someone may have done that. There are lots 436 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: of ways they may have done it. They may have 437 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: broken them intentionally, trying to discipline the child, or just 438 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: simply make the child cry. To Jessica Morgan, does it 439 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: mean in any way that the child was fighting back? No, 440 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: I doubt that that is the case, Nancy, to sustain 441 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: these kinds of injuries. I think that it was something 442 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: that was probably purposed, and it can be anything from 443 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: you know, the perpetrator bending these fingers back individually, or 444 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: it could be a crushing event, which again is horrific enough. 445 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 1: Maybe the child in some way tried in an attempt 446 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: to fight back, but if that's the case, it was 447 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: met with this kind of punishment too, Doctor Michelle Duprie, 448 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: How does a child die of a brutal rape? How 449 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: can that kill a child? A three year old? A 450 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: child can die from several ways because of that. That 451 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: can be trauma internally, they can suffer internal bleeding. They 452 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: can also die from associated injuries with that. So it 453 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: really just depends on sort of that totality of circumstance. 454 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: To Damon Arnold, joining me anchor report of a w 455 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: ALB News ten. Well, in this case, I'm said to 456 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: report this three year old little girl has a plethora 457 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: of injuries that could have caused her death, a severe 458 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: in brutal rape. How did the mother not hear this 459 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: child screaming? I mean in this home, she was there. 460 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: How did she not know her ribs? Severe injuries to 461 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: her ribs, swollen hands. I don't know why our hands 462 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: are swollen, her fingers broken, trauma to her head, she 463 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: was hit in the head. She appeared to have old 464 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: wounds on her body. I don't get it, Damon Arnold. 465 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: How did the mother, Crystal Brooks not know what was 466 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: going on? She should go down with Gregory Parker the 467 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: same as him, and I fully believe if we're gonna 468 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: have the death penalty, this is the case for it. 469 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: Tell me about the mother, Damon Arnold. She knew about 470 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: what was going on with Jenia and mister Parker. Again, 471 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: I mean, that's suspected in the ledge and maybe that's 472 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: just the reporter in me, but you know she's being 473 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: charged of course, you know, with you know, giving a 474 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: false statement so to finish kids. She knew and from 475 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: speaking with the biological father. She was keeping him at 476 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: bay his words, you know, he wasn't allowed to come 477 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: around Jenia for you know, probably the last year of 478 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: her life, which tells you another story. Yeah, that she's 479 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: intitially covering something up. I'm looking at now. I've switched 480 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: Ashley Willcott from the picture of her all cute and 481 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: precious with her hair done up and a little I 482 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: swear I think Lucy had that same shirt from Target 483 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: with a little white puppy on the front of her 484 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: shirt with hearts all around it. Big smile. Now I'm 485 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: looking at a photo that her aunt shared and it 486 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: shows Jenia hooked up to a ventilator in the hospital. 487 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: And you know what, this is kind of photo I 488 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: don't want to look at. But this is a kind 489 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: of photo I would have to show a jury because 490 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: I would want them to know the suffering that this 491 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: child endured on a ventilator at three years old. This 492 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: child should be playing with the water hose and going 493 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: to a vacation Bible school or playing all summer. She's dead, Ashley, 494 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: after living off a ventilator. I'm just sick about it. Yeah, 495 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: a picture's worth a thousand words. Nancy A. Picture of 496 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: her on a ventilator tells the jury everything they need 497 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: to know. And remember, Nancy, she did not go from 498 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: the picture. I've seen that picture you're referencing. She's a 499 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: beautiful little girl. Look at that smile on her face. 500 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: Every little girl was beautiful, but the smile, right. So 501 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: you have to remember their steps between that picture and 502 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: the end of her life, many many steps that if 503 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: I were the prosecutor, I'm going to outline every single step, 504 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: every single injury, and I would emphasize again that the 505 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: mother knew this was happening to her own child and 506 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: did nothing to protect her. Well, Ashley Wilcott and Damon Arnold, 507 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: you're backed up not by your own observations only, but 508 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: according to police, the mother Crystal Brooks quote, not only 509 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: knew about the child being harshly treated by Parker, but 510 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: was also present during the abuse. You know, I know, 511 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: according to police, Gregory Parker is the one that rape 512 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: this little girl, beat her, killed her. But the mother 513 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: stood by the one, the one a child calls out 514 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: for at night, the one that they run to when 515 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: they grow graduate, the one that they expect to sacrifice 516 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: everything and love them no matter what. Mommy. And let 517 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: me just say, Crystal Brooks knew what was happening in 518 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: that home, Damon Arnold, tell me about the home. Is 519 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: there any way she could not have known? Absolutely not. 520 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: With the photos that were given to me by the 521 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: dad and some of the you know, staying injuries that 522 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: you saw in those photos, you know, there was just 523 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: no way that anyone who was in Denia's president did 524 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: not know that something was off there. And I'm telling 525 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: you what I don't want to Jolly Silva, doctor Jolie Silva, 526 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist. Very often juries will look at a mom 527 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: and they will inside internally maybe even subconsciously, identify with 528 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: their own mother and will not convict a mom. But 529 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: in this case, this three year old baby girl dies 530 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: after being molested and beaten by the boyfriend. Police say 531 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: the mother not only knew of the abuse, but witnessed it. 532 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, she may not be the devil, 533 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: but she's the devil's hitchman. When you look at something 534 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: like this, you think, how could there not be you know, 535 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: pure evil right when you how could how could there 536 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: not be people that are born purely evil? When you 537 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: look at something like this when you look at a 538 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: mother who was likely there not I mean, and not 539 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: just one time, probably repeatedly knowing this was going on 540 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: to her own three year old, you know, And what 541 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: is this mother like? What it was her life like 542 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: where she had a baby of her own and can 543 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: allow this to happen in her presence? Is what was 544 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 1: her life like? I mean, there's a very little doubt 545 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: in my mind that she had a history of trauma herself. 546 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: You know that the way that her brain is made up, 547 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: she is not capable of remorse of putting herself in 548 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: her child shoes, not just for these incidents, probably ever 549 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: for the duration of the three years. You know. I 550 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: don't really care about what she went through in her life. 551 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: I'm sorry for that. But what I care about right 552 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: now is she's responsible for this three year old baby girl. 553 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: The baby girl has been raped and beating and she's dead, 554 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: and the mom frankly needs a death penalty, just like 555 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 1: the boyfriend does. Mean Champain, We just got word from 556 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards. He says that Gregory 557 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,439 Speaker 1: Parker will be charged with felony murder in the death 558 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: of three year old Jenia Brooks. We wait as justice 559 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: unfalls in the case of three year old Jenia Brooks. 560 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: When I think of that little girl being buried, with 561 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: her hands swollen, all of her finger's broken, fearing every 562 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 1: night what was going to happen to her that night, 563 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: with no one there to protect her, as Mommy stood 564 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,760 Speaker 1: by and let it happen. Rest in peace, little Jania 565 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: Gregory Parker Crystal Brooks goes straight to hell Nancy Grace's 566 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: crime story, signing off goodbye friend.