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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Nicole Pardon.

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Speaker 1: A disturbing story out of Alabama, a man faces serious

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Speaker 1: charges for allegedly holding children captive in an underground bunker

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Speaker 1: and allowing men to pay approximately two hundred dollars to

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Speaker 1: sexually exploit those children andres Velasquez, twenty nine, along with

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Speaker 1: William Chase McElroy twenty one, and Dalton Terrell twenty one,

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Speaker 1: are currently incarcerated for their involvement in this disturbing sexual

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Speaker 1: abuse and human trafficking case of at least six miners

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Speaker 1: ages three to ten over an extended period of time.

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Speaker 1: The name of the other suspect remains undisclosed as authorities

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Speaker 1: continue their search. Bib County Assistant District Attorney Brian Jones

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Speaker 1: revealed that Velasquez would bind a child to a bed,

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Speaker 1: another to a chair, and a third to a support

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Speaker 1: poll in the bunker. He would then permit individuals to

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Speaker 1: pay for sexual acts with the children. Joanes stated, it's

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Speaker 1: unimaginable that someone could inflict such harm on a child.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just unimaginable that someone could do this to

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Speaker 2: a child. You know, children are defenseless and they depend

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Speaker 2: on adults to take care of them and protect them,

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Speaker 2: and then when adults do these type of things to them,

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Speaker 2: it's it's just really horrific.

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Speaker 1: Sheriff Jody Wade announced the indictments over the weekend, detailing

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Speaker 1: the bunker as a transformed basement of an old house,

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Speaker 1: likely belonging to a relative of McElroy. This makeshift storm

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Speaker 1: shelter was reportedly the site of repeated abuse from January

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four until earlier this year. According to Jones,

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Speaker 1: the bunker included a concrete floor, an old bed, a

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Speaker 1: few chairs, and a concrete pillar to support the ceiling.

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Speaker 1: The investigation was initiated on February four, twenty three, due

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Speaker 1: to reports concerning the sexual abuse of children occurring in

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Speaker 1: an underground facility in Brent, Alabama. Two of the victims

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Speaker 1: were discovered engaging in sexual acts with one another, revealing

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Speaker 1: that McElroy had instructed them in these behaviors. Allegations against

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Speaker 1: the suspects include forcing the children to endure intercourse as

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Speaker 1: well as oral sex. Court documents indicate that one of

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Speaker 1: the suspects was accused of quote selling children to various

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Speaker 1: clients for sexual gratification. Jones also mentioned that Velasquez allegedly

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Speaker 1: drugged the miners by providing a white powder to their drinks.

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Speaker 1: Hearing their accounts and seeing images of the bunker is distressing,

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Speaker 1: Jones remarked, noting that some witnesses reported the children were

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Speaker 1: drugged during the abuse. The children are currently in the

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Speaker 1: custody of the Department of Human Resources. As troubling as

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Speaker 1: it is to think about Velasquez drugging them, it might

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Speaker 1: actually help chilled them from some of the traumatic memories,

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Speaker 1: Jones added. He expressed hope that the drugging might reduce

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Speaker 1: the cycle logical impact on the children compared to that

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Speaker 1: if they were fully aware of the abuse. Jones suspects

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Speaker 1: that many more details will emerge, additional victims will come forward.

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Speaker 1: Authorities believe there could be up to twelve or more

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Speaker 1: men involved in this abuse. We have no way of

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Speaker 1: identifying these individuals without someone from the community stepping up

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Speaker 1: to share information, he said, noting that the children wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be able to identify the perpetrators. On July eleventh, a

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Speaker 1: grand jury indicted McElroy on multiple charges, including four counts

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Speaker 1: of first degree rape, six counts of first degree human trafficking,

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Speaker 1: and six counts of first degree sodomy four counts of

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Speaker 1: first degree kidnapping. He was initially arrested in February for

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Speaker 1: various sex abuse charges, during which he reportedly confessed to

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Speaker 1: fondling a male victim and raping at least one girl.

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Speaker 1: On April twenty five, Terrell was identified as a suspect

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Speaker 1: and also admitted to engaging in sexual intercourse with a minor,

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Speaker 1: leading to his indictment on six counts of first degree

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Speaker 1: rape and twelve counts of first degree sodomy five counts

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Speaker 1: of human trafficking. Court records indicate that Terrell paid at

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Speaker 1: least two adults to exploit the children. Those children range

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Speaker 1: in age from three, six, eight, and ten. They were

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Speaker 1: exploited sexually by these men. Following further investigation, Velasquez was

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Speaker 1: arrested on April twenty nine and faces six counts of

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Speaker 1: human trafficking. The criminal complaint alleges that he distributed nude

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Speaker 1: images of the victims and facilitated their sexual exploitation. All

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Speaker 1: suspects are from Brent, Alabama, and scheduled for arraignment in August.

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Speaker 1: Court documents reveal they resided in mobile homes located roughly

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Speaker 1: a mile apart at the time of their arrest. The

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Speaker 1: Bibb County Sheriff's Office worked with several agencies during the investigation,

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Speaker 1: including Homeland Security investigations, the Alabama Fusion Center, the Bibb

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Speaker 1: County Department of Human Resources, the Child Delocacy Center, Forensic

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Speaker 1: Interview in Centreville, and the Fourth Judicial District Attorney's office.

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Speaker 1: They need to be put away and stop all that

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Speaker 1: violence going on with the little bit of kids. You'll

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Speaker 1: never know what they might do little kids these days.

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Speaker 1: Keep the kids in safety. The investigation remains ongoing or

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Speaker 1: Crimeate Justice News after this. Police in Florida are searching

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Speaker 1: for a missing twenty two year old woman. Police and

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Speaker 1: her family believe her to be in imminent danger. Her

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Speaker 1: mother tells investigators that her twenty two year old daughter

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Speaker 1: was visibly upset during their last conversation while traveling with

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Speaker 1: her thirty eight year old boyfriend, who had prior arrest

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Speaker 1: for domestic violence. Fox four obtained the report from the

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Speaker 1: Collyer County Sheriff's Office regarding the case. According to the report,

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Speaker 1: Kayleie Bernstein's mother got in touch with police on Monday,

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Speaker 1: July twenty one to report her daughter missing. Bernstein's mother

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Speaker 1: says she saw Cayley at a dinner with her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: William Canterbury. The report says soon after Bernstein and Canterbury

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Speaker 1: left Florida, they also left behind Bernstein's car and all

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Speaker 1: of her belongings, as Canterbury was going to quote show

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Speaker 1: her the world on a three week trip. Bernstein's mother

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Speaker 1: says the two had been traveling throughout the Midwest. The

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Speaker 1: report says the trip extended beyond three weeks as the

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Speaker 1: two continued traveling throughout the year. According to her mother's

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Speaker 1: report to deputies, Bernstein stayed in contact with her family. However,

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Speaker 1: she sounded visibly upset. On her last phone call with

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Speaker 1: her mother on July seven, the twenty two year old

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Speaker 1: stated she was in Arizona and said then traveling to Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Now her exact whereabouts is unknown. There has been no

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Speaker 1: contact since that day and her social media has went silent.

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Speaker 1: Her family says this is completely unusual. Bernstein's mother says

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Speaker 1: a private investigator revealed Canterbury's history of domestic violence and assaults.

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Speaker 1: Court documents show he was arrested in Lee County for

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Speaker 1: domestic abuse in twenty eighteen. The mother also told deputies

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Speaker 1: that a photo sent back in May could have some bruising,

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Speaker 1: revealing that her daughter said she had been hit in

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Speaker 1: the face by the boyfriend. Naples's family continues to search

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Speaker 1: and hold out hope. Police are asking anyone with information

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Speaker 1: to reach out to the Collier County Sheriff's Office at

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Speaker 1: two three nine two five two nine three zero zero.

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Speaker 1: Kaylee is described as five six weighing one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty pounds, with long, blonde hair and green eyes. Her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: thirty eight year old William Canterbury, is with her. According

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Speaker 1: to authorities, He is from Fort Myers, Florida. Again the

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