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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace breaking news. Tony caught on

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Speaker 1: video the sickening moment daddy physically forces his six year

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Speaker 1: old little son to on full speed on a treadmill

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Speaker 1: because he was quote too fat. That little boy, six

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Speaker 1: year old Corey now dead from quote chronic abuse. We

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Speaker 1: want justice. Good evening, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 2: By three pm, this defendant carried Corey's nearly limp body

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Speaker 2: into Southern Ocean Medical Center. You reported that Corey was

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Speaker 2: sleepy and a thrown up. Corey was admitted quickly. He

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Speaker 2: was brought to Room six in the emergency department, coded, he.

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Speaker 3: Was intubated, He quoted again, he lost his pulse, and

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Speaker 3: by five or three pm, Corey was pronounced yet well.

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Speaker 1: At least he did manage to pull out a handkerchief

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Speaker 1: and wipe his face. I didn't see any tears, nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's the dad sitting there. I don't know that he

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Speaker 1: deserves to be called dad. When I think of dad,

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Speaker 1: I think of my father, who sacrificed everything for us.

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Speaker 1: Something stuck out in the prosecutor's opening statement right there.

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Speaker 1: She's given a great opening by the way, We're taking

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Speaker 1: you inside the courtroom as this case advances. She said,

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Speaker 1: everything was fine other than the bruises. The bruises, Everything

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Speaker 1: was fine, but the bruises. In what world is that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: He was fine other than the bruises. The boy is dead,

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Speaker 1: covered in bruises. This after caught on V forcing him

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Speaker 1: over and over and over to keep running, venting, spitting,

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Speaker 1: fuming his rage onto a six year old, frail little boy.

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Speaker 1: The boy is dead. You know how many people around

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Speaker 1: the world would pay everything they've got to have a

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Speaker 1: little boy like that to love. No joining me an

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Speaker 1: all star panel to make sense of what we are learning.

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Speaker 1: But first, more of that opening statement.

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Speaker 4: This case is about Corey and how Corey became the

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Speaker 4: ultimate victim of this defendant's punishment and abuse.

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Speaker 1: And don't be mistaken, We're going to explain to you

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Speaker 1: how this was not the first time this little boy

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Speaker 1: had come home covered in bruises and scrapes and too

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Speaker 1: afraid to tell mommy what was happening. Straight out to

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Speaker 1: crimeonline dot Com investigative reporter Nicole part Nicole, what happened

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Speaker 1: Early in.

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Speaker 5: The morning around nine am. Corey's mom, Brianna drives over

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Speaker 5: to the father's house. Corey is shared custody between mom

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Speaker 5: and dad. She kisses her son, tells him goodbye. He's

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Speaker 5: perfectly fine when he gets out of the car, and

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Speaker 5: we know that around three point forty later that afternoon,

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Speaker 5: Corey's lifeless body, unconscious, is carried into the medical center.

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Speaker 1: Why it was dad so angry? Was it because mommy

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Speaker 1: was running late?

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Speaker 4: Listen, they were in Pennsylvania. There was a traffic and

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Speaker 4: they were running late. Ry's mom told the defendant that

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Speaker 4: but Brian, his lateness you'll hear, was pissing him off.

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Speaker 4: He told Brianna to drop Cory off at the apartment

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Speaker 4: complex's Jim.

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Speaker 6: And meet him there.

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Speaker 1: So she did.

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Speaker 4: Corey and the defendant went into the gym, and you'll

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Speaker 4: see what happened next because that Jim had a surveillance system.

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Speaker 3: And you will see what this defendant did to his

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Speaker 3: son inside.

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Speaker 1: That Jim inside the gym. The video is speaking volumes

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Speaker 1: joining me and All Star panel to makes sense of

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Speaker 1: what we know right now. But I want to go

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Speaker 1: first to a veteran trial lawyer, former homicide prosecutor, host

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Speaker 1: of True Crime, Boss Jarrett Farentino at Jarrettfarantino dot com Jarrett.

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Speaker 1: Before the advent of video cams literally everywhere, there was

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Speaker 1: a very strong chance the father turned murder defendant could

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Speaker 1: have claimed that the little boy had some other accident.

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Speaker 1: Because the boy was so afraid he would never tell anyone,

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Speaker 1: not even doctors, not even teachers, not even his mother,

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Speaker 1: exactly what dad was doing to him. But because we

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Speaker 1: have this video surveillance, we know what dad did.

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Speaker 7: That video surveillance speaks for Corey Nancy. That's his voice

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Speaker 7: in that courtroom. This little boy endured that abuse. You know.

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Speaker 7: The shocking thing too, is it was caught on camera,

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Speaker 7: but it was in a public place. It was a gym.

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Speaker 7: To think that he would have done this in a

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Speaker 1: What more do we know?

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Speaker 8: Take a listen when Corey Micheloh returns to his mother's

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Speaker 8: after his second unsupervised visit with Christopher Gregor, the boy's

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Speaker 8: face is swollen and he has a busted lip. Gregor

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Speaker 8: what happened. Brianna Micheloh immediately calls police and files a

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Speaker 8: report of abuse with New Jersey's Division Child Protection and Permanency.

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Speaker 8: Over the next twenty months, Corey continues to come home

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Speaker 8: with bruises, scrapes, black guys, and buy marks. Michelo files

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Speaker 8: Agents are sent to interview Corey, but always while he

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Speaker 1: What does it take before defacts Department Family Children's Services

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Speaker 1: will actually do something? How many bruises? How many cuts?

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Speaker 1: And then to interview the six year old little boy,

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Speaker 1: Corey while he's with his abuser. Do you really think

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Speaker 1: the boy is going to tell the truth to Doctor

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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, renowned psychoanalysts joining us out of LA at

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Speaker 1: Doctorbethanymarshall dot com. Doctor Bethany I can hardly stand to

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Speaker 1: look at these photos of abuse. Many people would refuse

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Speaker 1: Dad forces the six year old boy to run the

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Speaker 1: treamull because he says the boy is quote too fat.

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Speaker 1: If anything, the boy by the time he died was

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Speaker 1: too Do you see those bruises on your monitor. They're

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Speaker 1: all over his body, Bethany, they are all over.

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Speaker 9: And even when the prosecutor said that the child was

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Speaker 9: fine when he was with his mother, he wasn't fine

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Speaker 9: from the standpoint that he'd probably been abused for years.

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Speaker 9: The father didn't have interest in this child until he

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Speaker 9: was four years old, and it's likely that he abused

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Speaker 9: the child for many reasons, one of which he was

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Speaker 9: to get back at the mother. He probably had a

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Speaker 9: rage disorder, but most importantly, he probably thought that the

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Speaker 9: child was unconditionally bad. This is at the heart of

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Speaker 9: child abuse, that the abuser feels the child as bad

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Speaker 9: and also resents that the child has needs, and that's

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Speaker 9: why they often restrict food. I've heard of abuse cases

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Speaker 9: they do not want the child to eat. So this

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Speaker 9: child was abused in so many ways, and you know,

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Speaker 9: it's interesting there was that strange mark on his forehead

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Speaker 9: that the mother reported. In abuse cases, one of the

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Speaker 9: things we see are marks that do not fit any

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Speaker 9: Often they are on both sides of the body when

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Speaker 9: and also bite marks. That's quite common, and it seems

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Speaker 1: In the opening statements, we hear the prosecutor state that

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Speaker 1: there's biding. I've never heard of an adult biting the child.

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Speaker 1: But I'm looking now at the official warrant the state

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Speaker 1: of New Jersey versus Christopher greg Or, that's the father,

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Speaker 1: and it states here that specifically he forced the child

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Speaker 1: causing maybe to fall, placing it back on, and appearing

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Speaker 1: to quote bite his head. That I've never heard of

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Speaker 1: biting your child, doctor Bethany.

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Speaker 9: Believe it or not, it is a common sign of abuse.

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Speaker 9: And think about it. What is biting? What does that mean?

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Speaker 9: It's a sign of rage. It's primitive, It's kind of explosive,

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Speaker 9: like the person is so angry. All they want to

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Speaker 9: do is sink their teeth into the other person. That

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Speaker 9: gives us great insight into the state of mind of

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Speaker 9: this father. This child should never have been left alone

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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what the mom says on

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Speaker 1: the stand under oath.

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Speaker 10: Did you speak to Corey in the car before you

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Speaker 10: sent him into the defendant's hall? I did? And was

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Speaker 10: that the last time that you spoke to Corey? Was

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Speaker 10: did Corey exit your car?

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Speaker 11: He did?

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Speaker 1: And can you tellagers or Corey walks.

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Speaker 9: You walked inside defendant someone?

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Speaker 1: You're hearing the mom on the stand. I find it

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Speaker 1: very interesting that dad never seems upset in the courtroom.

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Speaker 1: He looks more angry than anything else. To Bill Dealey,

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Speaker 1: former FBI investigator specialty forensic photography security expert, Bill, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being with us. I'm telling you no one

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Speaker 1: would have believed this without the video. Why because Corey,

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Speaker 1: aged six, would never write out his dad, even though

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Speaker 1: he came home over and over and over covered in bruises,

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Speaker 1: horrible scrapes up and down his arm. Did you see

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Speaker 1: where his eye actually his eye was bleeding on the

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Speaker 1: inside of the eye. I mean, how much does it

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Speaker 1: take Bill daily before somebody will listen. Now the boy

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Speaker 1: is dead. Corey is dead at six years old.

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Speaker 12: Bill, Yeah, Nancy, And this heartbreaking story obviously has his

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Speaker 12: long litany of images that were created, not just by

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Speaker 12: the mother, which, of course in the defense defense turns

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Speaker 12: hands is going to be kind of twisted around. But

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Speaker 12: that video taken by just a totally independent operation the

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Speaker 12: and you put together a timeline and from a forensic standpoint,

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Speaker 12: First of all, he couldn't speak, he couldn't carry himself

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Speaker 1: Straight out to doctor Kendall Crown's chief medical examiner, Parent

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Speaker 1: County that's Fort Worth has conducted over ten thousand autopsies.

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Speaker 1: Lecturer University Texas Christian Medical School, doctor Crowns, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being with us. You heard what the mother just

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Speaker 1: testified to on the stand under oath that the dad

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Speaker 1: for what good it is, states Corey was lethargic, his

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Speaker 1: legs were hurting, sleeping all day and throwing up. What

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Speaker 13: So it could mean a number of things. But with

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Speaker 13: the child's dehydrated, becoming lethargic because he's exhausted, not getting

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Speaker 13: any fluid intake, and then getting a low sodium if

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Speaker 13: to death in itself.

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Speaker 11: But then you add on top of that the.

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Speaker 13: Bruises and the other injuries, there could be other things

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Speaker 13: going on internally that could be making him look thargic

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Speaker 1: Doctor Crown's, I want you to hear what we have

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Speaker 1: learned about the initial autopsy. Listen.

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Speaker 14: The initial autopsy reveals that Corey died as a result

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Speaker 14: of blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions, along

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Speaker 14: with inflammation and sepsis. The Ocean County Medical Examiner lists

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Speaker 14: the manner of death as undetermined. A forensic pathologist performs

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Speaker 14: a second autopsy, confirming the blunt force trauma and injuries

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Speaker 14: to Corey's liver and heart. The Pathologists found evidence that

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Speaker 14: Corey was chronically abused and believed he suffered an acute

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Speaker 14: traumatic injury to his heart four to twelve hours before

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Speaker 14: his death. Corey's death is reclassified as a homicide.

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Speaker 11: That's correct? Correct?

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Speaker 11: Heart, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: And why would there be that excess is bleeding? Doctor

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Speaker 1: And at that time, what did you do?

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Speaker 9: I also called my local police department to.

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Speaker 2: Kind of report Corey as like, I don't know where

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Speaker 1: You are seeing the mom on the stand breaking down

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Speaker 1: form of torture. If somebody called me and told me John,

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Speaker 9: Er, Nancy. This just shows the animosity towards the mother

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Speaker 1: Her own son. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, I want

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Speaker 1: we've identified I'm waiting for that video, the moment when

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Speaker 1: He tries to shrink down. Corey shrinks down to try

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Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, have you ever seen anything like it?

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Speaker 11: Yes? I have.

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Speaker 13: In tild Toby's cases, occasionally you will get ones that

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Speaker 1: Stars just what this child has been through, Doctor Bethany,

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Speaker 9: You know, Nancy, this father had prolonged rage and contempt

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Speaker 9: you and I have covered so many cases where there

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Speaker 9: But in this case, the child was at actually an

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Speaker 9: towards the mother, towards god knows, you know what, Nancy.

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Speaker 9: When I see this dad in court, maybe I shouldn't

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Speaker 9: he feels like he's bad, guilty, he deserves to be punished.

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Speaker 9: I am a bad little boy, and if I don't

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Speaker 9: because that means I'll be really, really, really bad. So

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Speaker 1: You, doctor Kendall Crowns, Remember you're speaking to a panel

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Speaker 1: So how does that relate to the essentially beating he

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Speaker 13: So the initial symptoms of he's confused lethargic are what

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Speaker 1: Can you even imagine mommy makes an emergency request for

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Speaker 8: Pediatrician doctor Nancy Deacon saw Corey Michelo on April first,

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Speaker 1: For some reason, For some reason, Corey gets sent back

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Speaker 1: Jarrett Fiorentino, high profile lawyer, former homicide prosecutor, and host

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Speaker 1: of podcast True Crime Boss Jarrett Farentino, I know that

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Speaker 1: you have interviewed many, many child victims and child witnesses,

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Speaker 1: and you have to unlock their story. They don't talk

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Speaker 1: like we do. For instance, if you're trying to get

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Speaker 1: a date to put on an indictment, you have to

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Speaker 1: say things like was the Christmas tree up? Did the

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Speaker 1: Easter bunny come? Was? Did you have the American flag

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Speaker 1: red white and blue out? Was it around July the fourth.

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Speaker 1: That's just an example, and I remember the very last thing.

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Speaker 1: Typically a child would say, I would say who did this?

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Speaker 1: Who did this? Who made this bruise? Who made you

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Speaker 1: take off your underwear? Who? And there'd be a long

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Speaker 1: pause and they would say fill in the blank, Daddy

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Speaker 1: or Uncle Jim, or whoever the perp was. It's very hard,

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Speaker 1: difficult to get that out of a child, especially the

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Speaker 1: child loves the parent, even when the parent is abusing the.

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Speaker 7: Child, absolutely, Nancy, And oftentimes they look down and you

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Speaker 7: know the truth is coming. But when a child can't speak,

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Speaker 7: if Corey could not or would not say what happened

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Speaker 7: to him? Just from head to toe, this little boy

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Speaker 7: had bruising at various levels of healing, which is in

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Speaker 7: dishe of chronic abuse. The system failled this little boy tremendously.

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Speaker 15: It's so sad to listen to the account of those

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Speaker 15: injuries and those interviews. If you couldn't get it out

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Speaker 15: of Corey, the physicians or whoever examined this little boy,

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Speaker 15: or a judge that looked at that emergency petition should

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Speaker 15: have absolutely it should have spoke.

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Speaker 11: Volumes for that.

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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy gray, Doctor Bethny Marshall. I recall

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Speaker 1: an animal abuse case I looked at and in the case,

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Speaker 1: they perp was sitting bebes at the dog in rapid succession,

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Speaker 1: like a lot like twenty thirty Bebes right at the dog,

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Speaker 1: and the dog, instead of running would be was on

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Speaker 1: all fours down, crawling toward the master, wagging the tail

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Speaker 1: and yelping with pain, not running away. And look, I'm

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Speaker 1: just a JD. You're the shrink. What does it mean

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Speaker 1: when the victim is still so deeply attached to the abuser?

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Speaker 1: Corey wouldn't tell that his dad was doing this. He

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Speaker 1: finally did tell, you know, the doctor ultimately at first

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Speaker 1: trying to blame it on playing football with his dad,

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Speaker 1: and then finally mentioned the treadmill incident. But what is that?

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Speaker 1: Why do we humans and pets do that we call

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Speaker 1: go toward our adezer.

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Speaker 9: I know it's so tragic, and you said so beautifully earlier,

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Speaker 9: this little boy loved his dad. Of course, we are

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Speaker 9: wired to connect. That's how we survived as a species,

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Speaker 9: is that we bonded with our caregivers. And it's well

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Speaker 9: known that when you interview a child victim, you or

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Speaker 9: even an adult victim. You can't start with daddy as

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Speaker 9: bad or your husband hit you, because that person has

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Speaker 9: had some good experiences, believe it or not, with the abuser,

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Speaker 9: Daddy through the football. Daddy maybe told him a bedtime story,

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Speaker 9: Daddy fed him, so.

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Speaker 1: That dad is not all bad to the child.

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Speaker 9: And this is a very important thing to remember whenever,

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Speaker 9: let's say you have a friend who's in an abusive

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Speaker 9: relationship or or a church fellow church member, to not say, well,

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Speaker 9: why are you with him? Or he's a horrible person,

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Speaker 9: but to try to acknowledge both sides of their experience

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Speaker 9: so with that person, because that is actually more genuine

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Speaker 9: and true and will align them with you, and it

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Speaker 9: will give you a better chance of helping them.

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Speaker 1: Joining us is an investigative reporter with Crime Online, Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: Nicole not only investigating cases, but very very familiar with

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Speaker 1: the foster system. Why is it it takes so long, Nicole?

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Speaker 1: And you've seen it over and over and over for

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Speaker 1: children to actually be removed from an abusive parent.

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Speaker 5: So many cases, and in this case, if you count

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Speaker 5: up the number of times that Brianna reported the abuse,

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Speaker 5: over one hundred times she made calls she was doing

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Speaker 5: everything she could to report the abuse of her son.

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Speaker 5: One day before Corey's death, she was denied that emergency

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Speaker 5: hearing to have him temporarily removed. The system failed, his

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Speaker 5: father failed, but the system failed little Corey tremendously and

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Speaker 5: he paid the ultimate sacrifice for that.

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Speaker 1: Nancy.

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Speaker 9: Can I be a good comment about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, John Penn, and I want to clarify what I heard, Bethany.

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Speaker 1: I think that's you that he was reported over one

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Speaker 1: hundred times. Did I hear that correctly? That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 5: There were many hundred, one hundred calls, over one hundred

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Speaker 5: that were made, not only from Corey's mother, from Corey's

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Speaker 5: school teacher who had said, there's abuse, there's neglect, there's

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Speaker 5: an abuse, a repeated number of phone calls coming into

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Speaker 5: the Department of Children, and just one day before his death,

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Speaker 5: the judge denied that emergency hearing.

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Speaker 1: Bethany.

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Speaker 9: You know, Nancy, I see this all the time in

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Speaker 9: my practice. Parents who are reporting abuse, and you know

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Speaker 9: what happens is that they eventually become paranoid, obsessed, and

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Speaker 9: they kind of look and sound crazy, like they discredit

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Speaker 9: themselves in some ways because they are so up set,

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Speaker 9: a parent's job is to protect a child, and here

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Speaker 9: the system is actually interfering with the maternal instinct, the

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Speaker 9: drive to protect, and so that the more the parent

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Speaker 9: pleads child protective services, the more they're kind of dismissed

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Speaker 9: and devalued as being just sort of a crazy parent

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Speaker 9: or a part of a domestic abuse situation. And I

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Speaker 9: think that there has to be better training that parents

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Speaker 9: whose children are being abused often present with a lot

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Speaker 9: of anxiety, a lot of panic, a lot of paranoia,

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Speaker 9: and that that is the most credible sign that they

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Speaker 9: are telling the truth.

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Speaker 8: On March thirty first, twenty twenty one, Michelo filed paperwork

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Speaker 8: seeking emergency custody of Corey while DCPP investigated her latest

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Speaker 8: allegation of abuse. The agency had seen the video of

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Speaker 8: Corey running on the treadmill, and a caseworker later told

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Speaker 8: police that he had photographed and investigated bruising on Corey

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Speaker 8: six days after the alleged incident. Our report submitted by

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Speaker 8: DCPP about the March twenty incident played a crucial role

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Speaker 8: in the judge's decision, which said the court does not

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Speaker 8: find that Corey is in danger of imminent and irreparable harm. Therefore,

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Speaker 8: the Court does not find a temporary modification of the

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Speaker 8: party's custody and parenting time arrangement appropriate at this time.

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Speaker 8: Michel left Corey with his father the morning of April second,

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty one. At three point thirty that afternoon, Gregor

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Speaker 8: told them mom he was taking Corey to the hospital.

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Speaker 8: Two hours later, Corey died.

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Speaker 1: Another judge, with his head up his rear end, does

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Speaker 1: not find Corey in danger of imminent harm and refuses

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Speaker 1: to modify visitation. The mom forced to leave the six

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Speaker 1: year old boy with dad. The afternoon, he goes to

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Speaker 1: the er and dies. Why is the judge still on

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Speaker 1: the bench, Just confused, concerned? And also, I want you

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Speaker 1: to hear the teacher one more time. Is not just

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Speaker 1: the mom they're making look crazy because she's reported dad

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Speaker 1: one hundred times over twenty months. The teacher raised the

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Speaker 1: red bell of alarm, but nobody listened. Listened to Kim Peace,

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Speaker 1: this is Corey's first grade teacher, and I want you

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Speaker 1: to notice that she sees the bruises and Corey is

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Speaker 1: then kept on virtual learning remote Listen, what.

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Speaker 2: If any observations did you make of Corey? When you

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Speaker 2: saw him virtually on March twenty.

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Speaker 9: Ninth, I saw, I saw bruises on his cheek.

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Speaker 2: Is that the same as what you were describing from

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Speaker 2: March twenty third? Now that and did Corey attend school virtually.

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Speaker 9: On March thirtieth?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Did you observe him?

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Speaker 11: Yes?

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Speaker 2: What if any observations did you.

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Speaker 1: Make the bruising the teacher? The first grade teacher, You know,

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Speaker 1: you expect the teacher to be sending home construction paper

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Speaker 1: r and checks and big stars on the child papers

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Speaker 1: they do at school. Instead first grade teachers on the

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Speaker 1: stand describing day after day after day bruising on this boy.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear the prosecutor she's really good, state Hey,

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Speaker 1: is that the same bruises as you described on March

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Speaker 1: twenty three? And she goes, oh no, this is March thirty.

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Speaker 1: By this time, they were keeping him home on remote.

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Speaker 1: Did you see daddy not even shed one tear?

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Speaker 9: Nancy? I also noticed that the dad looked quizzical, like

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Speaker 9: he was so stumped by how this could have happened?

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Speaker 9: Was I was scanning his face and he kind of

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Speaker 9: looks like a person who's, you know, the pathological liar,

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Speaker 9: the abuser. The criminality, a person who has criminality and

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Speaker 9: you ask him about the crime and they go, H,

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Speaker 9: what me, I never did that. It's almost like he's

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Speaker 9: playing a role in court.

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Speaker 1: The boy is dead, Corey is dead. That trial happening.

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Speaker 1: Now we stop to remember American hero Deputy Shearif Tobin Bolter.

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Speaker 1: Just twenty seven, Sheriff Bolter was shot while conducting a

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Speaker 1: routine traffic stop Boise, Idaho. A father to be, Sheriff

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Speaker 1: Bolter expecting a new baby with his wife. He leaves

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Speaker 1: behind his grieving wife Abby and his unborn baby and

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Speaker 1: his family. American hero Deputy share of Tobin Bolter. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank our guests for being with us in

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Speaker 1: this extremely difficult case to cover. But I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight and facing the facts.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off, good night friend,