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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A teen girl goes missing

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Speaker 1: and we learn the worst. We learned that she has

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Speaker 1: been held in captivity in a cage for over a year.

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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. How did it happen?

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Speaker 1: How did a teen girl end up being held in

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Speaker 1: captivity for over a year, being denied food, being subjected

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Speaker 1: to water torture, and, in a stunning, stunning blow to

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Speaker 1: Lady Justice, the guy who makes off with her, Michael Wisselovsky,

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Speaker 1: is walking free. I want to introduce to you Helly,

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Speaker 1: the victim in this case, the teen girl mother Shawn

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Speaker 1: up Burns, and her father Anthony Burns. Tell me about

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Speaker 1: the moment you discover, Heley, your little girl is gone.

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Speaker 1: It was a Monday morning and I went in to

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Speaker 1: so it was dark in the house, no one else

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Speaker 1: bad What did you do at that moment? I started

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Speaker 1: searching other places in the house that I thought she

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Speaker 1: through your mind? What feelings were pulsing through your body?

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Speaker 1: She has to be here, somewhere. She has to be here, somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I just have to find her. That was the idea

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Speaker 1: that she had left, or that she wasn't here, never

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Speaker 1: even crossed my mind. And then after searching every square

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Speaker 1: when I woke my husband up and I came into

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Speaker 1: Anthony Burns, this is Haley's dad. Do you remember that

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Speaker 1: moment that Shanna comes out. I'm sure it's still dark,

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Speaker 1: probably getting now around six six fifteen. What happened in

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Speaker 1: your mind? What's your recollection? I? Um, you know, even

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Speaker 1: sitting here right now, I'm tearing up a little bit, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: because um, as a parent, you know, you know my

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Speaker 1: daughter never tried to run away before, or never been

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Speaker 1: lured away before. It's a better way to put it, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, as soon as my wife, I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you just said that. That's got to be clear. This

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Speaker 1: child did not run away. It is away. It is

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Speaker 1: she was lured by an online predator. She is a

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Speaker 1: child in the eyes of the law. What went through

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Speaker 1: your mind, Anthony. I ran out of bed and I

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Speaker 1: I was just kind of waking up, and I went downstairs.

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Speaker 1: As I went down, there's a look at her front door,

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Speaker 1: and the front door was unlocked, and it was a

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Aerial Placincia WCNC Charlotte. The seventeen

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Speaker 1: year old disappeared from her home back on May twenty third,

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Her family told us then she has Asperger

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Speaker 1: family told NBC Charlotte they tried to limit their daughter's

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Speaker 1: use of the computer after discovering she had been talking

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Speaker 1: to strangers online. According to The Observer, Burne's father said

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Speaker 1: she left a diary behind that detailed a plan to

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Speaker 1: communicate with someone and left to meet that person. Do

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Speaker 1: you believe that this guy, Michael Weiselovski was telling her

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Speaker 1: what to do, to dress differently, to act differently. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of them, which is what ultimately happened, not only in

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Speaker 1: Lato's WSOCTV lawrence reveal the level of abuse a charlatean

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Speaker 1: I used that information to find her to Anthony Burns,

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Speaker 1: Haley's dad. Do you remember that moment you got the

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Speaker 1: One important thing, Nancy, that made this all the more

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Speaker 1: really really would have preferred to see the defendant behind bars.

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Speaker 1: The ten years sentence is to be served on probation. Yes,

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00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: he's registered as a sex offender, but when has that

434
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: ever stopped a sex offender from re offending. Stephen Lampley

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Speaker 1: Detective Stephen Lampley dot com. I learned quickly. I didn't

436
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: need to look at a statistic to learn it. I

437
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: found out that burglars, child molesters, and sex offenders can't stop.

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00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: Oh one more peeping tom's. They can't stop. Now. I

439
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: don't know why. I'm not a shrink, but I can

440
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: tell you they don't stop. They don't stop until they're

441
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: six feet under. So this guy, Michael Wizawowski, thanks judge,

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00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: is going to reoffend. I just don't know how, when,

443
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: or where, but he is going to reoffend Nancy. That's

444
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: that's correct. I learned early on when we started this

445
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: new undercover division to work pedophiles. I learned early on

446
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: from some of the experts that you're correct. This this

447
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: is just my a a condition that can be rehabilitated.

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00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: Once you're a pedophile. It doesn't go away. It's not

449
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: something they can be fixed. It's not something they can

450
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: be rehabilitated. It's not something that's going to stop. It's

451
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: going to kind of perpetuate and continuing answer crime stories

452
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: with me. It's a grace. I can take joy in

453
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: one thing, and that is that Haley Burns is alive

454
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: and well and reunited with her family. Seana, how is

455
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: she progressing now we've been in therapy. We're in therapy.

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00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: She has three different therapists who got to therapy every

457
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: single week, and it is three steps forward, two steps back,

458
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: five steps forward, four steps back, but there are a

459
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: lot of steps forward. She has good days and bad days.

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00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: And it's been very difficult with the trial because it's

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00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: hard to have any closure until after the trial, until

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00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: after the hearing, until after everything's done. Since the last

463
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: year and a half, we've just kind of been in

464
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: window waiting for this. But now that this is done,

465
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: we can have closure with it. We can move on

466
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: and we all aren't like a big weight has been

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00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: lifted off of our family. So we're all in a

468
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: better place as far as like handling this. Take a

469
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: listen to victim Haley Burns speaking in court. So a

470
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: much time I tried to write this, it sounded melodramatic,

471
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: so I decided to stick to the facts. When Michael

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00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: Wislawski and I started corresponding, I was fifteen years old

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00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: about to term sixteen and vulnerable. I was physically unable

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Speaker 1: to process the gravity of our conversation, and he manipulated

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00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: me heavily, taking advantage of my mental illness to push

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Speaker 1: me closer to his desires. I backed up twice and

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00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: he bereaded me, pushing me to commit to him and

478
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: his idea of a life for me. The second I

479
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: left my home, my life was ruined. The first week

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00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: why Sulowski had me in his home, he did unimaginable

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00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: things to me and irreparably broke my spirit and sense

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Speaker 1: of self. This abuse proceeded for fifty six weeks. I

483
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: developed severe OCD about a month after why Slawski was

484
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: released on bond, an escalation from a previous minor disorder.

485
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: I checked blocks, successively, counted steps, tiles, items and numbers,

486
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: and classified everything and everyone I knew into safe and

487
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: unsafe classifications, hoping he would not hurt me again. It

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00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: took me over a year to partially recover from a

489
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: severe eating disorder. From severe eating disordered habits directly related

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00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: to his starving me and refusing me food, which went

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00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: hand in hand with my OCD. He lowered myself, esteemed greatly,

492
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: and led me to believe I would never be loved

493
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: or have a proper life if I gained any light.

494
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: I developed problems with intimacy, rejection, and attachment which goes

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00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: without saying, but I still feel me too mentioned. I

496
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: also developed severe fears of water, such as showering, drinking, rain,

497
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: swimming due to water torture, and fears of sleeping due

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00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: to being in the same bed as him. I severely

499
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: mutilated myself comiga would become unlovable so no one would

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00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: hurt me again as why Solowski did. I am permanently disfigured.

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00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: I also have suffered from deep depressions, lack of drive,

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00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: and an inability to motivate. I am now taking medication

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00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: to keep it in check, which for a long time

504
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: I was also phobic of, directly related to his tendency

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00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: to drug me. I suicide thrice since I escaped by

506
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: Silowski and I'm unable to have normal relationships without fear.

507
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: I am unable to navigate social situations due to how

508
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: he kept me from the outside the world and still

509
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: fear of human interaction sorry as an abuse tactic in

510
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: order to keep recomplacent to captivity. I cannot navigate retail

511
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: or even walk down the street alone without panic attacks.

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00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: This has inspired agoraphobia. Oh my stars, what that family

513
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: had to go through. This is what I know. According

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00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: to the FBI, an average child molester will offend two

515
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: to four hundred times before being caught. If ever, the

516
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: vast majority of offenders are never caught, so they have

517
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: no criminal record. And according to the FBI, only one

518
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: out of ten cases of child sex abuse is ever

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00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: reported to law enforcement. So for this one time he's caught, there,

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00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: according to statistics, have been other instances and will be

521
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: other instances. This guy is walking amongst us now, Seana

522
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: and Anthony. People don't get it. They don't get it,

523
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: and I didn't either until I started studying it. The

524
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: lures online, the chat rooms. Who would have thought this

525
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: guy was targeting her at school when she's on her

526
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: school chrome book after you monitor everything, so cut and

527
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: what And he was smart enough to do it on

528
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: the school chromebook because we legally we could never have

529
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: access to those records because they have to protect the

530
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: confidentiality of the other children. So yes, they absolutely could

531
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: have used that and they could have scanned it and

532
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: they could have found him. But legally he knew it

533
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: because it was public property at the school. They would

534
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: the FBI would never even have the jurisdiction to do that.

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00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: Can I just tell you that tonight, when the children

536
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: come home where the chromebooks from school? You know who's

537
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: going to go lock herself in the bathroom and read

538
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: every email that they've gotten. And that's thanks to Shauna

539
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: and Anthony Burns. Another thing I want to tell you,

540
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: and believe me, in the media circles, this is like

541
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: dropping a stink bomb in the room. Nobody wants to

542
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: hear about this, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I

543
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: believe the Lord brought you back to your daughter, and

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00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: I believe the Lord has a plan for you and

545
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: for Helly and your children. And I also believe that

546
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: by you speaking out today, thousands and thousands of people

547
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: are going to hear your voice and maybe it will

548
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: make a difference in just one life. Anthony, what is

549
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: your message to other parents that are listening right now,

550
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: listening to us on Sirius, listening to us on Crime

551
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: Stories podcasts. What have you learned? What is your advice?

552
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: What is your message? Thank you very much, Nancy. You

553
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: know I had a great life. Up until this happened.

554
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: I thought things like this just don't happen. You know,

555
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: you you live in a good neighborhood and you're doing

556
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: all the right stuff, and you just got to prune

557
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: your headges every every weekend. But the reality is everyone

558
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: is susceptible to this. It doesn't matter how careful you are,

559
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: how on top of things you are. If you're not

560
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: on top of things for one week and you allow

561
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: one of these guys to warm into your life and

562
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: separate you on any level from your child, then you

563
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: could be calling the media sitting there for three hundred

564
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: and ninety nine days not knowing whether your daughter was

565
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: alive or dead. And I don't want anyone else to

566
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: go through that. So take precautions. Know what your child

567
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: is doing, Communicate with them, keep a good relationship, even

568
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: if it's difficult and they not always are warm and

569
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: fuzzy to you. Don't stop trying to be an influence

570
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: on them and to use what you know to help

571
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: them be better. You know what, I'm going to play

572
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: back what you just said million times and listen to it,

573
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: because it is not always easy. Seana Burns, what is

574
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: your message today? To moms and dads hearing your voice.

575
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: My number one message would be that, like my husband said,

576
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: you need to love your children even when it gets difficult.

577
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: I have three kids that have special needs, and sometimes

578
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: I lose sight of the little kids that's in there

579
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: behind the bad behavior and behind the problems. You lose

580
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: sight of that little kid that still loves you and

581
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: still wants to connect with you. And that's the number

582
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: one thing is if you lose that, then they can

583
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: weasle their way in and then they can get in there.

584
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: So never ever ever let your kids distance themselves from you.

585
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: Stay as close to them as you possibly can, and

586
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: never ever ever let them feel that you don't love them.

587
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: No matter what they do, no matter what their behaviors are,

588
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: you always love them, You always support them, you always

589
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: have them. And if you're in a situation where your

590
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: child this missing, never give up. You keep looking for

591
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: your child. You search through every freeing Craig's lift back

592
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: page for months. If you have to define your kid,

593
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: you never stop looking. Ever, they could be out there

594
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: looking for you and needing you to find them. If

595
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: we had not found her, we don't. We don't even

596
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: the idea of what could have happened if that lady

597
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: had not messaged me, if that lady had not taken

598
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: Hamley seriously and that contacted me and thought, oh, this

599
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: is just a prank, She's not serious. If we there

600
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: was no one else that would have rescued her, There

601
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: was no one else that knew she was even there

602
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: to rescue her. Never give up ever, that would be

603
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: That would be it, you know, Nancy, One last thing,

604
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. In our family, we have a mantram. We

605
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: believe in the mantra that the hana means family, and

606
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: that means no one's left behind. And you know, when

607
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: we got my daughter back for her birthday, we had

608
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: blessing of being able to take her Disney and to

609
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: go and see all those things and have this bucket

610
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: list of memories that we've never had. And that's why

611
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: you never give up. Yep, no one gets left behind. Absolutely,

612
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: believe it or not, this girl had the courage to

613
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: speak out loud in court. Listen to Haley Burns. The

614
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: psychological damage Michael Westulowski has afflicted is beyond measure explanation.

615
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: I trynot explain over a year of systematic abuse and

616
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: every neurological quirk it has caused. All I hope is

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00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: that it happens to the other innocent days. Nancy Grace

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00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: Crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,