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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imancy grace breaking crime is now. A neighbor

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Speaker 1: finds Violet Mitchell, seven, sitting on a front porch crying.

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Speaker 1: She tells the neighbor she's hungry, so the neighbor cooks

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Speaker 1: her meal. She refuses to talk about what's happening at

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Speaker 1: home and has to be taken back. Two days later,

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Speaker 1: she's pronounced dead in an Oklahoma hospital, weighing just twenty

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Speaker 1: nine pounds. Covered in bruises, Doctors find a plastic baby

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Speaker 1: bottle lodged in her small intestine.

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Speaker 2: Nancy the only thing Violet told her neighbor about her

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Speaker 2: parents is that they loved her. Violet was admitted to

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Speaker 2: the hospital wrapped in a blanket and wearing a diaper

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Speaker 2: sized for a three year old. Violet's cousin, another seven

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Speaker 2: year old girl, tells police that Violet was frequently left

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Speaker 2: tied up in a crib wants for nearly a month straight.

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Speaker 2: She says Violet was fed little else but bread, and

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Speaker 2: she had watched his Violet's mother glued her mouth shut.

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Speaker 2: Violet's aunt and uncle were arrested at the hospital after

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Speaker 2: doctor's over her he heard phone conversations leading them to

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Speaker 2: believe they knew about the abuse.

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Speaker 1: Appearents Lisa Mitchell and Anthony Yoko now charged with child

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Speaker 1: neglect and aggravated child abuse. Ronald Foote's wife not happy

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Speaker 1: when he comes home three sheets to the wind, and

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Speaker 1: he immediately pours himself another glass of rum. The couple

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Speaker 1: argue over his drinking and Missus footed dumps out the rum,

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Speaker 1: enraging her husband. He then pops open a beer and

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Speaker 1: picks up his car keys to leave. When she tries

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Speaker 1: to take the keys, he shoves her onto the bed.

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Speaker 1: Cops are called, and foot It claims his Bible thumper

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Speaker 1: wife his words, not mine, attacked him, but six feet

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Speaker 1: to all three hundred pound foot It is the one

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Speaker 1: put in cuffs for domestic battery. Go sleep it off.

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Speaker 3: Foot It.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news crime online is John Limley.

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Speaker 3: A US Army soldier in Hawaii, is facing military charge

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Speaker 3: which is in connection with the suspected killing of his

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Speaker 3: pregnant wife. Private first Class Duayne Arthur Johnson, the Second

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Speaker 3: has been in custody since August. His wife, nineteen year

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Speaker 3: old Nisha Johnson, was last seen July thirty, first at

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Speaker 3: their home on Chofield Barracks and Army Base on Oahu.

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Speaker 3: She was six months pregnant at the time and is

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Speaker 3: now presumed dead. The Army says Johnson is charged with

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Speaker 3: killing his wife, an unborn child, obstruction of justice, and

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Speaker 3: making false statements. He also faces charges related to possessing, producing,

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Speaker 3: and distributing child sexual abuse images originally from Frederick, Maryland.

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Speaker 3: Johnson enlisted in twenty twenty two and was stationed with

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Speaker 3: the twenty fifth Infantry Division in twenty twenty three. His

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Speaker 3: case will now move through the military court system, with

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Speaker 3: a judge setting dates for arraignment and trial. Charging documents

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Speaker 3: will be released after his arraignment. In Arizona, a legal

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Speaker 3: battle over prison healthcare has reached a critical juncture. Attorneys

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Speaker 3: representing thousands of inmates are urging federal intervention, citing persistent

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Speaker 3: deficiencies in medical and mental health services. Our Sydney Sumner

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Speaker 3: delves into the latest developments in this ongoing case.

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Speaker 2: Lawyers for approximately twenty five thousand inmates in Arizona state

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Speaker 2: run prisons have petitioned a federal judge to appoint a

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Speaker 2: receiver to oversee prison healthcare operations. They argue that the

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Speaker 2: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and re Entry lacks the

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Speaker 2: leadership to implement court mandated reforms stemming from a twenty

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Speaker 2: twelve lawsuit addressing substandard medical and mental health care. Despite

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Speaker 2: a twenty fourteen settlement, this dat has faced multiple contempt

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Speaker 2: fines for non compliance, totaling over two point five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, US District Judge Roslin Silver ruled

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Speaker 2: that Arizona violated inmates constitutional rights by providing inadequate care,

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Speaker 2: leading to prevent deaths. She issued an injunction requiring the

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Speaker 2: state to rectify these violations. A recent report from a

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Speaker 2: Quart appointed expert indicates that prison healthcare remains poor, with

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Speaker 2: little improvement, continuing to place inmates at significant risk of

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Speaker 2: serious harm, including death. The Arizona Department of Corrections in

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Speaker 2: Governor Katie Hobbs's office have not responded to requests for comment. Notably,

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Speaker 2: this lawsuit does not encompass the nearly ten thousand individuals

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Speaker 2: incarcerated in private prisons under state convictions.

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Speaker 3: As this legal battle unfolds, the call for federal oversight

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Speaker 3: underscores the critical concerns surrounding inmate healthcare in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Sherry Jackson, fifty six, has a normal day

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Speaker 1: at work, says goodbye to coworkers five pm, and leaves

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Speaker 1: the Southeast Houston, Texas office. She does it come home

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Speaker 1: that night, doesn't answer texts or calls from family. When

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Speaker 1: Sherry doesn't show up to work the next day, family

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Speaker 1: reports are missing. She took her belongings with her when

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Speaker 1: she left work and her car has gone from the office.

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Speaker 1: Her car has never been recovered. Sherry Jackson African American,

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Speaker 1: five eight, one hundred thirty five pounds, relaxed, shoulder length,

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Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, pierced ears, tattoo of a rose

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Speaker 1: on the shoulder, a burn scar on a right arm.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Sherry Jackson, please contact Houston

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Speaker 1: PD eight three two three nine four eighteen forty or

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Speaker 1: Texas Equasearch two eight one three zero nine ninety five hundred.

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace