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

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Authorities in South Carolina have taken a

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Speaker 2: couple into custody following a disturbing discovery of severe rat

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Speaker 2: bites on their baby. Akela Bearden and Justin Bearden were

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Speaker 2: arrested by law enforcement on two counts of unlawful conduct

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Speaker 2: towards a child after it was reported that a large

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Speaker 2: rat began to gnaw on their six month old baby girl.

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Speaker 2: This according to a release from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office,

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Speaker 2: deputies responded to a nine to one to one call

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Speaker 2: placed by Akayla, who discovered her daughter's bascinet and body

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Speaker 2: covered in blood, along with bite marks on her baby's arm, head,

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Speaker 2: ear's face. This has detailed in police documents. The infant

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Speaker 2: was promptly taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. In addition,

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Speaker 2: deputies found another child, a twin to the six month old,

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Speaker 2: with bite marks on her feet, her toes nearly bitten off.

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Speaker 2: The couple reportedly confessed to authorities that they had been

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Speaker 2: aware of a rat problem. They said they had the

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Speaker 2: problem for several months. All three of their children have

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Speaker 2: been placed in the custody of the Department of Social

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Speaker 2: Services as indicated by the Sheriff's office. The six month

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Speaker 2: old baby girl is still in the hospital in intensive

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Speaker 2: care while the investigation is ongoing. On May thirteen, of

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Speaker 2: Kayla and Justin were granted bond and prohibited from contacting

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Speaker 2: their children. They are scheduled to appear before a judge

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Speaker 2: again on July thirty one. This as reported by Fox

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Speaker 2: Carolina What Prime in Justice News after this.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 3: For an in depth look at the facts, see What

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Speaker 3: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 3: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: A man from Florida has been sentenced to prison for

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Speaker 2: brutally assaulting his four month old daughter, resulting in her

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Speaker 2: tragic death from multiple injuries, including ten broken ribs, a

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Speaker 2: fractured skull, and spinal hemorrhaging. Jacob Kubay twenty three received

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Speaker 2: a thirty year prison sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated

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Speaker 2: manslaughter of a child. This as announced by the state's

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Speaker 2: attorney's office. At the time of the incident, Kubay was

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Speaker 2: responsible for caring for his daughter while his wife worked

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Speaker 2: multiple jobs. On the evening of February twenty two, around

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Speaker 2: eight thirty pm, Bartow police were summoned to the Bartow

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Speaker 2: Regional Medical Center where a child was experiencing cardiac arrest.

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Speaker 2: Emergency medical personnel transported the infant, named Willow and affectionately

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Speaker 2: nicknamed Strawberry, to a Tampa hospital, where she passed away

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Speaker 2: just two days later. Investigators from the Polk County Sheriff's

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Speaker 2: Office learned that Kubay had taken Willow to the hospital

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Speaker 2: after discovering her unresponsive. He told authorities that he had

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Speaker 2: dropped off his wife at work around five, spent time

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Speaker 2: playing a video game, then went to Walmart around six

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Speaker 2: forty to buy dinner. He claimed he fed Willow at

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Speaker 2: seven point fifty and regularly checked on her until he

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Speaker 2: found her unresponsive at eight ten pm. He stated he

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Speaker 2: attempted CPR before taking her to the hospital. However, surveillance

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Speaker 2: footage from Walmart contradicted his story, showing him shopping alone

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Speaker 2: without the baby. Sheriff Grady Judd indicated that investigators concluded

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Speaker 2: he must have assaulted Willow prior to the trip to

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Speaker 2: the store, and autopsy revealed the extent of Willow's devastating injuries,

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Speaker 2: a fractured skull, numerous bruises to her forehead, ten broken ribs,

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Speaker 2: spinal hemorrhaging, and multiple brain bleeds. Authorities believe that her

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Speaker 2: ribs were fractured when the man squeezed her forcefully. He

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Speaker 2: also struck her forehead multiple times with a hard object

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Speaker 2: and hit her in the back of the head.

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Speaker 2: The baby was literally beaten to death, said the sheriff.

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Speaker 2: Although Kubay initially cooperated with law enforcement, he later began

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Speaker 2: to deny the reality of the situation. He started saying, quote,

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Speaker 2: none of this is real. My wife is not real,

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Speaker 2: my baby is not real. This is all just a

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Speaker 2: fantasy to me. It didn't happen. He began to play

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Speaker 2: mind games with us and show no remorse. The judge

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Speaker 2: said he didn't shed a tear despite having brutally taken

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Speaker 2: the life of his four month old daughter. For the

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