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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news. Now a former

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Speaker 1: Maryland pediatrician who claimed demonic entities made his victims lie

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Speaker 1: about sex abuse. Now he's sentenced. One recent eleven year

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Speaker 1: old victim reports to her mom seventy four year old

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Speaker 1: Ernesto Cesar Tortis molested her during a pediatric exam. Authorities

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Speaker 1: then find at least twenty four victims, all very young

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Speaker 1: female patients from Tortoise medical practice.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Judge William Nicholas sentenced seventy four year

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Speaker 2: old Torres of Friedrich, Maryland, to thirty years for sexual

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Speaker 2: abuse of a minor in three counts of third degree

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Speaker 2: sex offense. On May seventh, twenty nineteen, Friedrich police received

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Speaker 2: a call from the mother of an eleven year old

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Speaker 2: victim to report that her child had been sexually abused

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Speaker 2: by Torres during a pediatric exam in his office. The

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Speaker 2: mother told police she brought her child to Torres to

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Speaker 2: treat a mild skin condition, but that her child's said

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Speaker 2: Torres made her uncomfortable by placing his hand down her

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Speaker 2: pants and touching her down there. In addition, the child

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Speaker 2: described Torres rubbing her stomach repeatedly and kissing her. FPD

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Speaker 2: contacted Child Protective Services and the Child Advocacy Center, who

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Speaker 2: conducted a forensic interview with the victim. Torres was subsequently

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Speaker 2: arrested at his medical practice. After the initial allegation. A

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Speaker 2: judge allowed the pediatrician to continue seeing patients, but he

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Speaker 2: later agreed to stop practicing medicine as part of the

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Speaker 2: terms of his bail. As the investigation continued, detectives identified

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Speaker 2: twenty four victims, all young female patients, who saw Torres

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Speaker 2: between nineteen eighty and twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Some of the parents said that they thought that he

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Speaker 3: was doing an abdominal survey. Meanwhile he had his hand

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Speaker 3: down her pants and what was commanding a sex offense

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Speaker 3: right in front of the mother.

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Speaker 2: State's attorney, Charlie Smith, initially charged Torres with ninety seven

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Speaker 2: criminal counts of sexually abusing dozens of his juvenile patients,

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Speaker 2: but the court ordered the indictment beside by victim. Trial

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Speaker 2: proceeded on count twenty four sexual abuse of a minor

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Speaker 2: and counts twenty five, twenty six, and twenty seven sexual

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Speaker 2: offense in the third degree, representing three years of sexual

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Speaker 2: abuse on mh from age nine to eleven. At sentencing,

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Speaker 2: the doctor claimed he was a prophet in a previous

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Speaker 2: life and demonic entities are possessing the victims, making them

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Speaker 2: lie about experiencing abuse at his hands.

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Speaker 3: He blamed the victims. He did not take responsibility for

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Speaker 3: his actions, which I thought was just egregious. I mean

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Speaker 3: he already traumatized them bi sexually molesting. To traumatize this

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Speaker 3: young girl again by saying she's possessed by demons.

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Speaker 2: Mh told the court, I now can't trust male authority.

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Speaker 2: My childhood was taken away from me. Upon release, Torres

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Speaker 2: will serve five years of probation in lifetime sex offender

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Speaker 2: supervision on the registry, but prosecutors say they aren't done

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Speaker 2: yet and hope Torres will spend the rest of his

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Speaker 2: life behind bars.

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Speaker 3: We're looking forward to prosecuting the other cases, getting consecutive sentences,

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Speaker 3: so that the number of years that he has to

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Speaker 3: serve are going to be far longer than the number

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Speaker 3: of days he has on this earth.

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Speaker 2: In California, a jury deadlocked on a verdict for a

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Speaker 2: mother who left her children in a hot car while

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Speaker 2: she received lip filler. Maya Hernandez's older son survived, but

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Speaker 2: his baby brother, Emilio did not. A current County jury

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Speaker 2: convicted Hernandez on two counts of child endangerment Thursday. They

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Speaker 2: deadlocked on second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. The jurors

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Speaker 2: questioned implied malice in connection with the murder charge. Under

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Speaker 2: California Penal Code one eight eight, implied malice means the

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Speaker 2: deliberate intention to unlawfully take away a life. Twenty year

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Speaker 2: old Maya Hernandez is accused of leaving her two children,

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Speaker 2: ages one and two, strapped inside car seats inside her

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Speaker 2: vehicle as she visited the Always Beautiful Medspa in Bakersfield

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Speaker 2: on June twenty ninth for a lip injection procedure. At

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Speaker 2: around four point thirty pm, Hernandez allegedly returned to her car,

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Speaker 2: a twenty twenty two Toyota Corolla Hybrid, and discovered one

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Speaker 2: year old Amelio Gutierras in distress and foaming at the mouth.

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Speaker 2: A customer took his two year old brother into a

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Speaker 2: restroom and poured water on his face while first responders arrived.

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Speaker 2: Although the two year old survived the incident, Amelia was

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Speaker 2: pronounced dead after failed resuscitation attempts. Their grandmother, Katie Martinez,

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Speaker 2: is devastated by the loss in Hernando's's actions.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't stop screaming. I just kept picturing them alone.

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Speaker 4: They were strapped in their car seats. They couldn't even

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Speaker 4: get up to save themselves. She literally locked them in

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Speaker 4: their car seats and shut the doors. I can't even

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Speaker 4: imagine what they went through.

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Speaker 2: Hernandez told police that she left the children inside the

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Speaker 2: vehicle with the air conditioner on, while an employee reportedly

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Speaker 2: said the children could have stayed in the waiting room

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Speaker 2: during the procedure. The employee said when booking the appointment,

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Speaker 2: Hernandez asked if she could bring her children with her,

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Speaker 2: to which she replied that wouldn't be a problem and

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Speaker 2: A nurse at the sp said that Hernandez made no

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Speaker 2: mention of the children being with her when she arrived.

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Speaker 2: A bystander who grabbed the two year old from the

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Speaker 2: car said that the AC was not turned on. The

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Speaker 2: vehicle's manufacturer indicated that the air conditioner automatically turns off

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Speaker 2: after an hour of inactivity. According to what an expert

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Speaker 2: told Bakersfield Police the lit procedure typically takes around fifteen

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Speaker 2: to twenty minutes. The police said Hernandez left the children

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Speaker 2: in the car for over two hours since the day

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Speaker 2: in question at the SPA had been unusually busy.

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Speaker 4: She just stood there with her lips done. That's what

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Speaker 4: she gave his life for, was to have that look

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Speaker 2: The judge ruled that since the jury deadlocked on the

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Speaker 2: murder charge, a mistrial would be declared for both murder

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Speaker 2: and manslaughter. A status hearing has been set for January twelfth.

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Speaker 2: During the hearing, it will be decided whether Hernandez will

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Speaker 2: be retried for murder and manslaughter. For the latest crime

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