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Investigator Jessica McMaster now uncovered 19 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: exclusive evidence he was just a typical little boy, just 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: full of life. Adrian's dad and step mom abused him 21 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: for months. He just had the most amazing smile never 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: before seeing. Video takes us inside Adrian's last moment. You 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: can see the look of nothing in his eyes. So 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: you get on the trash. Could you keep on getting 25 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: cold because you're outside? In this video, you can hear 26 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,919 Speaker 1: Heather's harsh words towards Adrian and a lack of compassion 27 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: for a desperate little boy. The last days and hours 28 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: of Adrian's life spent stripped and confined to a shower stall, 29 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: left outside overnight to stand in a filthy pool. A 30 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: new records show with the State of Kansas knew before 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: the death of little seven year old Adrian Jones, a 32 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: seven year old boy tortured today and fed two pigs. 33 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: You know, And all my years of investigating homicides, of 34 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: prosecuting the bad guys, slamming the door, throwing away the key, 35 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: I never thought I would put those words together in 36 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: one sentence. A seven year old boy tortured, dead and 37 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: fed two pigs. You know, when I first started reporting 38 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: the story of little Adrian Jones, I could hardly even 39 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: say it. You know, how you whisper bad words like 40 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: cancer or divorce. That's how we did it, you know, 41 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: growing up in a small town. I couldn't say fed 42 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: two pigs. I would lower my voice instinctively. But I 43 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: am saying it now because these people need to go 44 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: to jail and never never see the light of day. 45 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories, and it's hard 46 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: to believe these facts are true. I am talking about 47 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: little Adrian Jones. Who authorities knew. This is what makes 48 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: it worse. Authorities and neighbors knew. I'm talking about Sheriff's Police, 49 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: Defects Department, Family Children's Services. They all knew the boy 50 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: was being tortured. What more does it take. They knew, 51 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: and they knew for a long time, and they let 52 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: it happen until the boy is dead. And when I 53 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: say torture, I mean beating, starving, forced to stand out 54 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: in water up to his chin overnight a seven year old. 55 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: I still awake my children up, singing, oh what a 56 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: beautiful morning, okay, and barely open the curtains for the 57 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: sun to come in. They had this kid standing seven 58 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: years old, out in cold water up to his chin overnight. 59 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: That is just the tip of the iceberg of what 60 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: little Adrian lived through. And it's short seven years. I 61 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: want them to stay behind bars for life as just 62 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: a little pit stop on their way to hell. Joining 63 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: me right now and all Star lineup with me. Jessica McMaster, 64 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: reporter with forty one Action News Kansas City who has 65 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: been on the case from the get go, and Ashley Willcott, 66 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: child protection advocate and lawyer. Thank you ladies for being 67 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: with us. Straight out to Jessica McMaster, Jessica, let's try 68 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: to start this thing at the beginn name because our 69 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: listeners ay it's hard to listen to, but be we 70 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: need to know the truth if we turn away from 71 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: it as it is so easy to do. I don't 72 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: want to hear this. I don't want to know this 73 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: because the first time I read this article a long, 74 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: long time ago, Jessica, I saw the title and I 75 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: went to the next story because I absolutely just could 76 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: not take it. Absolutely, Let's start at the beginning, because 77 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: the only way we can fight it is to confront it, 78 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: is to know about it, Jessica, start at the beginning. 79 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: In November two thousand and fifteen, that was right around Thanksgiving, 80 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: we got wings that authorities has found a child's remains 81 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: out in my livestock then, and that was really all 82 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: we knew for a little while, and the time went on, 83 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: we found out that those were domaine of little Adrian Jones, 84 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: who was seven years old living with his father, Michael 85 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: Jones and stepmother, Heather Jones, and initially his father was 86 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: taken to jail. The words evil step mother completely apply 87 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: one here, evil evil, because I got to tell you something, uh, Ashley, 88 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: before I go back to Jessica. Ashley Wilcot is a 89 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: very well known child protection advocate. You know, people don't 90 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: like to talk about good in evil. They want to 91 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: pretend that those forces don't really exist in the world. 92 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: But I don't know of any other word to describe 93 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: this couple that Jessica is telling us about, the bio 94 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: dad of Adrian Jones and the evil stepmother. I mean, 95 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: you know, Nancy, sometimes when we hear these stories, that's 96 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: a matter of a parent has had a psychotic break 97 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: or a one time incident. What's most disturbing about this 98 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: case is four years four years, And Jessica can correct 99 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: me if I have the timeframe wrong, but four years 100 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: of documented abuse, neglect, physical torture ending in his murder, starvation, 101 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: and so yes, this is a case with parents who truly, 102 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: truly evil is the only word you can think of, 103 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: because it was a pattern over a long period of 104 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: time that was horrific to this young child. Back to you, 105 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: Jessica met Master, I'm sorry. It's just a force of habit. 106 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: Having been a trial lawyer for so long whenever I 107 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: hear something objection and I just jump in is so 108 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: incredibly rude. I'm trying to teach my children to don't 109 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: talk all at the same time, which we do constantly. 110 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just can't help it. I'm just I 111 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I'm just sick about it. I'm sick 112 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: about what the seven year old boy endured and to 113 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: know that authorities knew about it and let it happen. Okay, 114 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, pick it up, Jessica. So, speaking of know 115 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: about it, we didn't know who knew what because, as 116 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: we've talked about before, we couldn't get Adrian filed to 117 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: the longest time. And remember they lived on the Candid 118 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: Sty but also would move back and forth over that 119 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: state line into Missouri. So Adrian heather wa explain that 120 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: wo woa whoa explain that because that is very critical here, 121 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: So that Jones has lived on the Kansas side um 122 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: and during that time, Department for Children and Families would 123 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: visit the home and at that point they stated that Heather, 124 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: the stepmother, was almost an immediate threat to these kids. 125 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: After some abuse allegations came forward, she lost custody of 126 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: her own child. So the DCF put in a safety 127 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: plan that Heather Jones was not to be at the house. However, 128 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: they didn't do anything to keep Adrian away from his father, 129 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: who Adrian would also say abused him and so forth. 130 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: So somewhere, you know, during this time when that safety 131 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: plants land was put in the place, the families crossed 132 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: the state line and moved to Missouri around two thousand 133 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: and twelve, and Heather that happened is a lot, right, 134 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: Ashley Willcott. Because you know, the schools can report if 135 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: somebody has been abused, which by the way, they I 136 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: don't know that they did in this case. You can 137 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: find out that somebody moves and they're out of your jurisdiction. 138 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: When somebody moves back and forth about over county or 139 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: state lines, this system loses them. And don't God, Nancy, God, 140 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: it's your show, and I just interrupted. I'm so sorry. 141 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: But I know, I don't care. I wanted to scream 142 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: pick me, pick me, because this is what families do. 143 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: They know the system, they know, and so by moving 144 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, 145 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: they're avoiding getting caught. They're avoiding somebody really being able 146 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: to identify and know exactly what's happening to this child 147 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: services being put in place, and for Missouri to actually say, Okay, 148 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: this child is definitely one whose safety is at risk, 149 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: we need to remove the child because then if they 150 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: go to do that, oh guess what, the child is 151 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: no longer in Missouri. They don't have jurisdiction these being 152 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: least no and I have no doubt in my mind 153 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: this Michael Jones and Heather Jones did this on purpose 154 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: to avoid detection. Back to what we know. I'm sorry, 155 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: Jessica again, it's no problem. So that makes sense, you know, 156 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: if they're you know, and that's been what DCF has 157 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: been claiming all along. It was hard to track his 158 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: family because they moved back and forth. But there's a 159 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: couple of things to note. Michael Jones ran a business 160 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: out of Kansas, a bail bonds business that was always there. 161 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: You could go there at any time. UH Missouri Social 162 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: Services had stopped by the home in Missouri on numerous occasions, 163 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: and the records show that there was contact between DCS 164 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: and Missouri about things that we're going on. UM And 165 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: at some point UH Missouri did try to remove Adrian 166 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: from custody. They had contacted a juvenile officer to remove 167 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: him from the home. However, that juvenile officer bounced it back. No, 168 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: keep him in the hall, let's put a safety plan 169 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: into place. At some point Adrian started attending a mental 170 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: health facility on the Missouri side, and doctors in and 171 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: staff they're also had confirmed because his parents dropped him 172 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: off and left him, they wouldn't call, they wouldn't participate 173 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: in his care plan, or do any of these things 174 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: that they were supposed to do. So there was a 175 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: lot of information UM by a lot of people that 176 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: knew that Adrian wasn't in the best of care, I think, 177 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: And after we got the lawsuit which just came down, 178 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 1: we found out that his parents had left him at 179 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: his facility for months. This wasn't just jay, this was 180 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: months without any contact with him. UM and some emails 181 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: apparently were obtained by the attorney for adrian mother and 182 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: grandmother between some workers held on. It's all blurring together 183 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: from me right now, how do we get to the 184 00:11:52,400 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: point of a seven year old boy being fed two pigs? Okay? 185 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: What happened inside that home? With me is forty one 186 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: Action News reporter investigative reporter Jessica McMasters. What did we 187 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: learn about what happened inside that home? And how do 188 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: we know all this? Because we know it beyond not 189 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: just a reasonable doubt, we know it beyond a shadow 190 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: of a doubt if we are to believe our own eyes, Jessica, 191 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: what happened in the home? And how do we know? 192 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: We were able to get photos and videos? Heather Jones, 193 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: his stepmother, recorded everything, all of his abuse, and it 194 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: showed that the last several months of Adrian's life were 195 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: spent confined to a shower stall. He was stripped, he 196 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: was starved, He was often standing in the shower stall 197 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: with his hands over his head for hours, um. And 198 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: he was isolated from everybody. And as you've mentioned, he 199 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 1: also spent a lot of time outdoors. He would have 200 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: to sleep outside. Um, he'd be handcuffed outside. You have 201 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: to hold peaky porches all night. That was a form 202 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: of I guess his abuse where he would have to 203 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: hit his hands up, um. And he would also have 204 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: to spend the night out in the filthy family swimming 205 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: pool that was up to his chin overnight. So that's 206 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: how he spent the last few months of his life. Um. 207 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: You know, police believe he eventually starved to death. We 208 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: don't have the actual video of how his death occurred. Um. 209 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: And then that's when he was left in that shallow stall, 210 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: according to police, for two weeks, and when his family 211 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: could no longer stand the stench, definitely, they set his 212 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: body to pigs. I'm just trying to absorb everything you 213 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 1: just said. It's slight being rolled over by a steam roller. 214 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: Just not a hit, but just crushing me to hear it. 215 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: They living in a shower stall, making a seven year 216 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: old child live and shower stall, beating him, starving him, 217 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: making him spend the night in a pool of water 218 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: up to his chin, standing in a shower of soul 219 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: for hours on end with his arms up, and they 220 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: would make the other children tell on him if he 221 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: lowered his arms or if he was caught trying to 222 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: get food. The other children were so afraid of the 223 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: same treatment of getting beaten themselves. They would rat out 224 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: the little brother and now they're going to live with 225 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: that the rest of their life. That they rated out 226 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: their brother and he was beaten and tortured until he died. Ashley, 227 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: it's it's really almost more than I can take in. 228 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: But have you noticed, Ashley? And I first noticed this 229 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: anecdote really when I was prosecuting child abuse in childless 230 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: stations in inner city Atlanta for ten years, and we 231 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: would go on trial every other week. I remember noticing that, 232 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: with rare exception, parents would pick out one child and 233 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: that would be the child that they molested. That would 234 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: be the child that they beat or starved, and it 235 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: would be excruciating, like even locking the refrigerator or locking 236 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: the cabinets so the child couldn't get in the night, 237 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: and the child rumaging through trash trying to find food. 238 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: It would be one child, and that child would be 239 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: deprived of food while the rest of the family ate 240 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: a full meal at the dinner table, at the supper table. 241 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: I started noticing it, and I mean, I'm certainly no shrink, 242 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: but I could see in case after case after case, 243 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: it would be one child picked out of many to 244 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: be abused. Have you ever noticed that, Yes, it is 245 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: very true statistically also that there is a target child 246 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: and the sadistic behavior against Adrian. He obviously was the 247 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: targeted child. But as you already pointed out, it is 248 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: no The abuse that occurred to the other children as 249 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: a result of witnessing this, watching this, having to tattle, 250 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: the fear of it happening to them obviously much less abusive, 251 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: but abuse nonetheless, and so they're also case studies. It's 252 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: fascinating that when the target child is removed that frequently 253 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: the other children are not abused in the same manner, 254 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: are not They don't become the target child. So some 255 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: now and you have to look at the family dynamics. 256 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's because the target child has a different parent 257 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: or is treated by a favorite, by a school, or 258 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: by a relative. So it doesn't make sense to a 259 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: rational person. None of us can understand how you can 260 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: engage in this sadistic behavior against a child. It doesn't 261 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: make it. How can you go to bed and sleep 262 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: and put your head on the pillow at night knowing 263 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: your baby is standing living in your shower sall beaten 264 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 1: and starved, I mean, how can you put your head 265 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: on the pillow? I want these people to rot in 266 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: h E double L. And the only way to stop 267 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: abuse like this is to put it out in the open, 268 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: to discuss it, to analyze, to figure out how to 269 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: stop it from happening again. Are you hiring? Do you 270 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: know where to post your job to find the very 271 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: best candidates? 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In this case, this 290 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: is what she tells me, Judy Conway. Listen. I'm just 291 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm just stunned by the whole thing. So you find 292 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: out in November, you get this phone call. Who called you? 293 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: Actually it was my granddaughter who called me. Like I said, 294 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: when she first mentioned it to me, I was just 295 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. And my first reaction was, is 296 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: I have to find out if this is even true, 297 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: you know. And I just knew at that moment that 298 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: nothing else that could ever happen to me and my 299 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: whole lifetime would ever compare, you know, to losing him. 300 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: I just I was I was shocked. I mean, I 301 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: just at that moment, I had no words to describe 302 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 1: how I was feeling. I felt totally lost, and all 303 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: I knew was is my heart was saying, please do 304 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: not let's just be true. Did you have any idea 305 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 1: he was being abused because people in the neighborhood knew 306 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: that he had been taken to the hospital, that he 307 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: had been spotted. They saw him eating out of trash 308 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 1: cans for years. Years. This seven year old boy, which 309 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: means he was doing this at age five, eating out 310 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: of trash cans just to live, would be taken to 311 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: the hospital covered in black and blues, black eyes, the works. 312 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: What I don't understand is how this child could sit 313 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: on a hospital seat in the doctor's office and they 314 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: could look at him and not insist he'd be taken 315 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: away from his parents that minute. I don't understand that. Now, 316 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: what did they hide? Did his parents hide it from 317 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: you that they were beating him and abusing him? Yes, 318 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: they did. I had tried for the longest time, through 319 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: phone calls and texts to be able to see my 320 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: grandchildren because they mean the world to me. Mike and 321 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: Heather would never even pick up the phone. I did 322 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: get one call from Mike during this whole situation. At 323 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: one point he did allow me to speak to the 324 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: kids and they all sound sounded fine. So after that 325 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: I kept on hoping that he was going to continue 326 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: to let me speak to the kids and see them. 327 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: And I continue calling and calling and you know, leaving 328 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 1: text messages and so forth. Then one day I called 329 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: in out the blue. Heather answered the phone. She told 330 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: me that they were just trying to basically, you know, 331 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: get their lives together and so forth, and that I 332 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: would eventually be able to see the kids, but at 333 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: this time I wasn't going to be able to see them. 334 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: That they won't allowing anybody to see the kids. But 335 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: I never thought in a million years, Nancy, that it 336 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: had absolutely no idea that Mike would ever allow anyone 337 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: to hurt his children, or that he would hurt his children. Well, 338 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Let me go back, let me track, 339 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: back track. Why wouldn't they let you see them to 340 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 1: start with? And remember this, this is not about you, right, 341 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: whatever they were doing, they are clearly in the wrong. 342 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: Or whatever pretense they made up. We're trying to get 343 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: our lives together. We're this, we're that, we're cleaning the house, 344 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: we're on vacation, blah blah blah. They were just lying 345 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: so you couldn't see the children. That that's it. They 346 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: kept you away because you would know something was wrong. 347 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: They were intentionally keeping you away. It had nothing to 348 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: do with you. They may have made up some argument 349 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 1: that happened five years ago or something, but that's bs. 350 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: They did not want you to know, just like they 351 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: didn't want the doctors to know. So did you ever 352 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: have any clue duty that anything was wrong? No, I 353 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: had absolutely no clue that anything was going on. All 354 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: I knew was is I wanted to see my grandchildren. 355 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: And one of the things that Heather did tell one 356 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: of the detective is he asked her why she hated, 357 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: you know, Adrian so much, And at that time, Heather 358 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: started crying, and she pointed at Hadrian Adrian's picture that 359 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: she had in the home and stated that boy is 360 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: the reason I lost my son. And Heather went on 361 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: to explain Nancy that Adrian had lied to DCF during 362 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: a I think it was two thousand and eleven investigation, 363 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: and as a result, her own biological son was taken 364 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 1: away from her and that was the excuse that she 365 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: used and is still using this. Well, he probably he 366 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: Adrian probably told the truth that she was beating and 367 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: starving him, and so they take away her bio kid 368 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: and leave him there to die. Exactly exactly what is 369 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: so bizarre about this horrible abuse case A Little Adrian, 370 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: which has now become a national movement, the movement of 371 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: Adrian Jones and protecting Children, is that these idiots. And 372 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: I very rarely say that, because so often I find 373 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: myself doing something idiotic, you know, the pots calling the 374 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: kettle block. But these two were truly idiots because, Jessica McMaster, 375 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: for some bizarre reason, they took photos and videos of 376 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: Adrian being abused. I mean, there are pictures of him healthy, 377 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: and then the picture of him near the end of 378 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: his little life at age seven, and he is so 379 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: emaciated and bruised and pitiful. They took pictures in video. Jessica, 380 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: what did we learn and how that they, like you 381 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: just said, you know, they abused him right up until 382 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: he took his last breath, and they would, like you said, 383 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: used the siblings to help torture him, and they would 384 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 1: have them eat in front of him because he wasn't 385 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: allowed to eat. Heather, actually there was one There was 386 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: some footage of Heather recording herself watching Adrian unsurveillance, watching 387 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: his abuse, and you could hear the children there with her, 388 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: so she would not only records she would sit there 389 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: and watch it. Hold on, hold on. We actually have 390 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: we have obtained some of that surveillance video where they 391 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: would watch on surveillance cameras watch Adrian's almost like watching TV, 392 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: watching Adrian outside in chin deep water, watching him begging 393 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: to come in out of that water, begging for food, 394 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: begging for them to stop beating him and listen to me. 395 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: They had thirty one cameras hooked up thirty one cameras, 396 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: and he would go to doctors. He reported his own meetings, 397 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: He reported it to authorities, and nobody did anything. God 398 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: help me if I only knew, if I could only 399 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: reverse time and try to say this boy, explain to me, 400 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: Ashley Willcott, you're the child protection advocate. You've gone in 401 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: courts all over protecting children. What was the point of 402 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: this the recordings. I've never seen anything like that. I mean, 403 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: this is a little unusual. But thank God for you 404 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: and raising public awareness, because that's what needs to happen 405 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: for people to realize children are actually abused and neglected 406 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: in the United States. This is the perfect case because 407 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: they've chosen to take photos and videos and that can 408 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: be some of the most compelling information for people to 409 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: get and understand what really happens, Nancy, and all of 410 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: my very lengthy career, I've never seen a parent not 411 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: only record and and and take pictures of every part 412 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: of it, but also to to get off, quite frankly, 413 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: and the sadistic nature of actually watching the child on 414 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: the videos. It's really unbelievable. I've I've never seen anything 415 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: quite like several occasions. On several occasions, seven year old 416 00:27:52,720 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: Adrian was actually shown in video and pictures wrapped to 417 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: a table and blindfolded. He's caught on the surveillance video 418 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: standing neck deep in water and the family's dirty swimming 419 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: pool overnight and other photos. It just hurts me to 420 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: even say it. And other photos Adrian's mouth is bloody 421 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: and bruised, his teeth are rotting, the little boy's hands 422 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: are swollen from being tied up. And another picture, this 423 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,239 Speaker 1: child is tied up with a plate of food in 424 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: front of him and a bar of soap in his mouth. 425 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: You know, Jessica, when I report on this story, I 426 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: go through the facts and I don't want myself think 427 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: about it because I can't keep reporting on it. When 428 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: I stopped to think about it, but it just came 429 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: over me like it would in closing statements. You know, 430 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: I would be work, work, work, all hours of the day, 431 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: all hours of the night on a case, trying to 432 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: present the evidence, trying to find the witnesses and build 433 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: my case and do it correctly. But it would always 434 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: be in closing statements when I finished putting the case up, 435 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: and I would be going back through the facts to 436 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: the jury, and I would hear them as I said them, 437 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: and it would take everything I have not to cry 438 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: or just break down, because I knew I had to 439 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: finish the closing and be strong. What jury can respect 440 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: a lawyer crying in front of them or blubbering. When 441 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: I think about this, photos, photos that show this child 442 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: tied up, starving, with a plate of food in front 443 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: of him and a bar of soap stuck in his mouth. 444 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: Who are these people, Jessica, Who who are they? How 445 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: did they get to keep the children? It doesn't make 446 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: sense that to anybody answering. I mean, that's the question 447 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: the whole community is asking. Everybody is still outraged. You 448 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: mentioned his name once and and everybody tunes in and 449 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: they want to know more. They want those answers, But 450 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: neither agency in Missouri or Kansas. We'll talk about it 451 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: that they're not willing to answer the questions. I guess 452 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: they want because they're human, they're embarrassed. How do we 453 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: know that people within law enforcement knew, because we do know, 454 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: we know that they knew. It was on the records. 455 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: There is one occasion where you know, I think it 456 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: was when a marine was three years old. It was 457 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: still on the cancers side. They had gone over there 458 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: and taken a photograph of his black eye, and he 459 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: had mentioned that Mommy, being Heather, his stepmother, hit him, 460 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: and he had also mentioned that Daddy also hit him. 461 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: He had mentioned that Daddy would hit him on the 462 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: back of the head and a little bone would pop out. 463 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: Um so Adrian and she mentioned reported to everybody, everybody. 464 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: He was not shy about it. He told social workers, 465 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: he told police when they came over. He told his 466 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: doctors and therapists at the mental health hospitals he was 467 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: taking to that these things were happening to him. And 468 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: so how he stayed with these people makes absolutely no sense. 469 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: And and keep in mind too, when you think about it, 470 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: he was removed from his biological mother's care for neglect. 471 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: It was not obviously anywhere near this degree. But if 472 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: you can be removed because mom's going out late at night, 473 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: she's not really attentive to the kids, then how can 474 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: you stay in a home or something like this happened. 475 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. His father, Michael Jones, told 476 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: authorities he purchased the pigs after keeping the baby's body. 477 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: The child's body in the home nearly two weeks. A 478 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: child told investigators he heard Adrian screaming I'm going to 479 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: die through a vent and his stepmother, Heather Jones, would 480 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: tell him suck it up. To a seven year old child, 481 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: he was yelling through the vent to his stepmother, I'm 482 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: going to die. During the final days of this child's life, 483 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: he was trapped in a white tiled shower stall and 484 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: left to starve. He starved to death and his body 485 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: fed two pigs. Jessica McMaster joining us from forty one 486 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: Action News in Kansas City, which law enforcement agencies knew 487 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: about the abuse? I mean agent told them they're baiting me, 488 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: they're starving me. He told them what police, what law 489 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: enforcement agencies new? I believe on the Kansas side, the 490 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: photograph that was taken and I'll have to double check this, 491 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: but the photograph that was taken of his black eye 492 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: I believe would by Topeka police officers in Topeka on 493 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: the Missouri side. I'm not sure that he specifically told 494 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: law enforcement, and i'd have to be As you've mentioned, 495 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: there's thousands and thousands of records and it's all kind 496 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: of running together, and I don't think that there was 497 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: specific law enforcements. I know that they had gone out 498 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: to the house on the Missouri side because they had 499 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: to go along with a social worker because it was 500 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: too dangerous for that social worker to go alone. The 501 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: little boy actually tried to chew through the plywood over 502 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: the shower to get out and eat to live. He 503 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: tried to chew through the plywood. You know, I think, 504 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: Ashley Walcott, I think about my twins and John David 505 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,879 Speaker 1: just told me that a piece of his braces had 506 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 1: come unhooked in it was bothering him. He couldn't eat. 507 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: That's all I've been able to think about is to 508 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: get him to the orthodonis so his mouth won't hurt. 509 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: This little boy tried to chew through the plywood. Ashley 510 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: and the reports, the reports The evidence of this is endless. 511 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,240 Speaker 1: Records in both Missouri and Kansas show an endless series 512 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: of reports and hotline calls to inform social services and 513 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: child well fied fair of what was happening to Adrian. 514 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,479 Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. The boys trying to chew 515 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: through plywood to get out, Well, I don't understand it. 516 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: What in the hey is happening at de facts? What 517 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: is wrong with them? In this case? The ball was 518 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,920 Speaker 1: dropped and you even heard, oh, man, man, how can 519 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: you say that, Ashley? I always agree with everything you say. 520 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: The ball was dropped then to have their rear ends 521 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,879 Speaker 1: and died it for this? Ashley for just said, how 522 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: can they go to work every day and sip their 523 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: coffee with this boys trying to chew through plywood to live? No, 524 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: I agree with you, Nancy. And this here's the eerie thing. 525 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: This is very similar to a Georgia case. I don't 526 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: know if you remember. It was the child's name and 527 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: it's all public information was Terrell Peterson, and at five 528 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,279 Speaker 1: it was so similar. He was tortured, beaten, starved to 529 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: death with an open defects case and the result of 530 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: that was a lawsuit against Georgia defects. And what I'm 531 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: suggesting is they did drop the ball, but in such 532 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: a way that they need to be held responsible because 533 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 1: they both say, oh, well, the child was in the 534 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: other state, moved back and forth. Bottom line, this is 535 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: a perfect storm of a case where de Facts should 536 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: have protected this child. This child should have been removed 537 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,360 Speaker 1: from the home. This might cause the system to change 538 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: in a positive way. That's the only positive outcome. There's 539 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,760 Speaker 1: no positive outcome. This child was tortured to death deliberately, 540 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: with well thought out plans by a father and a stepmother. 541 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: And the only only only consolation to me is that 542 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: perhaps it will cause system reform for those two states 543 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: to ensure no other child goes through it. You know, 544 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: de Facts Department, Family Children's Services, cpsh Opertative Services. They 545 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: stood by, sip in their coffee out of their jetty 546 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:01,280 Speaker 1: and writing it all down. You know why they're gonna 547 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 1: They're gonna burn in hell for this, for standing by 548 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: and letting it happen. In my mind, these case workers 549 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: and these police need to be first of all fired 550 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: and second of all indicted in guided charged with aiding 551 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,839 Speaker 1: and abetting and letting this happen. I mean they go 552 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: over there and they make the father and stepmother sign 553 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: a piece of paper agreeing to stop beating the boy. 554 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: That's like having them pinky swear I want to do 555 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: it again. Really, it's just I can hardly even report 556 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: on it. It's so upsetting to know that child protective 557 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: Services and police law enforcement let it happen. In fact, 558 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: cops would go with social workers to the house because 559 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 1: they thought it was too dangerous to let the social 560 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,919 Speaker 1: workers go by themselves. But they left the children there. 561 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: And Nancy, that's the part that doesn't make sense, because 562 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: a child should be removed from a home by a 563 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: court if the child is not safe, and so in 564 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,280 Speaker 1: any instance where there's any physical abuse of a child 565 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,120 Speaker 1: that's been documented or confirmed, which in this case was 566 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 1: multiple times, the child should be removed. So that right there, 567 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: to me, is the crux of the matter. Why was 568 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 1: that child not removed? There were missed times when the 569 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: child clearly should have been removed from the home. So 570 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: it's not one person. It says, if you could indict 571 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,200 Speaker 1: ten twenty different people, it doesn't make sense. Which needs 572 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: to happen. But I don't understand how that many individuals 573 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: failed this child. I am looking right now at the 574 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,800 Speaker 1: photos of the father, Michael Jones and the stepmother, Heather Jones. 575 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: I can truly say, and this is the H word 576 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,120 Speaker 1: we don't use in our home, I hate them. I 577 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 1: hate them so much for what they did. And you 578 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,760 Speaker 1: know what else, I hate that law enforcement and child 579 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: protective services let it happen. As a matter of fact, 580 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,720 Speaker 1: within three months of little Adrian moving in Kansas, child 581 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: welfare workers found out about the problems. Hotline calls began 582 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:31,200 Speaker 1: pouring in. The father had guns, the stepmother was high 583 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 1: on drugs. They were being beaten, weight loss, physical injuries, 584 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: call after call, Adrian's being beaten, Adrian's being choked. Adrian 585 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: had been spanked to the point where his little rear 586 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: end was bleeding. They did nothing with me. Is investigative 587 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,800 Speaker 1: reporter Jessica McMaster. She is an investigative reporter with forty 588 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 1: one Action using Kansas City, and she has exposed the 589 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,720 Speaker 1: pain this child lived through before his horrible death and 590 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: the fact that law enforcement and that pains me to 591 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: say it because I consider myself part of law enforcement. 592 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: How they dropped the ball and let this boy die 593 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:25,240 Speaker 1: and child protective services. May they all go to jail 594 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,160 Speaker 1: and give them plenty of time to think about it. 595 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: Now a new lawsuit has been filed. Jessica Master with 596 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 1: me Ashley Willcott, a very well known child protection advocate. Jessica, 597 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,480 Speaker 1: what did you learn from the filings, the most recent 598 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: court filings. Yeah, so reading through those um we actually 599 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: got some surprises that, you know, we were not expecting. 600 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: When you get almost to the end of that lawsuit, 601 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 1: we found that the attorneys for the family collected callogs 602 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 1: from Kansas DCS that show somebody hotlined the agency at 603 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,000 Speaker 1: the end of two thousand fourteen or the beginning of 604 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, stating that Heather Jones, adrian stepmother, uploaded 605 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,400 Speaker 1: some of those photos of his abuse to her Facebook 606 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,919 Speaker 1: page and that the department did not follow up on 607 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,720 Speaker 1: those calls. And this was just months before he died. 608 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 1: And it really makes you wonder what wait, can you 609 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 1: slow it down? Sorry, Jessica McMaster, what what did you what? Now? 610 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,200 Speaker 1: We were just learning this what just learning that the 611 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 1: attorneys got callogs from Kansas Department for Children and Families 612 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,000 Speaker 1: that show at the end of two thousand fourteen, beginning 613 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,640 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, there were hotline calls placed to the 614 00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 1: agency that Heather Jones, the stepmother, had uploaded photos of 615 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: Adrian's abuse to her Facebook page, and that those calls 616 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: that they gave the agency didn't even follow up on 617 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: those calls. Ashley Willcott, what more do you have to 618 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,879 Speaker 1: do to get caught? She up loaded under a Facebook 619 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,160 Speaker 1: then torturing the little boy and actually listen to this, 620 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: listen to this, Adrian. According to Jessica McMaster's actually said 621 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: records show, Adrian himself opened up about his torture to 622 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,200 Speaker 1: welfare workers as far back as July two thousand thirteen, 623 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,360 Speaker 1: in an interview with Missouri Children Division workers and a 624 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,399 Speaker 1: police officer. He was just five years old, and he 625 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,960 Speaker 1: says his father would kick him so violently into the 626 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 1: back of his head. Quote a little bone come out. 627 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 1: The little boy, aged five set a little bone come 628 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: out when he was beaten, He says, my daddy Quote 629 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: my daddy keeps hitting me in the head and punches 630 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,360 Speaker 1: me in the stomach, and my mom keeps pulling on 631 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 1: my ears and it hurts. Mommy and daddy locked me 632 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: in my room by myself, and mommy and daddy can't 633 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:05,320 Speaker 1: feed me. Another occasion, he tells a social services worker 634 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,440 Speaker 1: he's forced to stand in the corner into jumping jack's 635 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: and push ups all day. What else? What else do 636 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,960 Speaker 1: you have to do? What take out a billboard on 637 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,319 Speaker 1: Madison Avenue. I'm starving my children, she uploaded on Facebook, 638 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,240 Speaker 1: according to Jessica mc masters, and nobody did a darn. 639 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: That's the same. They've got to be punished, they've got 640 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,839 Speaker 1: to be brought to justice for ignoring Adrian. Yeah, there's 641 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: no excuse. There's no excuse. Accountability and system change are 642 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,640 Speaker 1: the two things that have to happen in this case. 643 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,160 Speaker 1: And the good news is the lawsuit has been filed, 644 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 1: because that's step one to drive those two things. But 645 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,480 Speaker 1: those two things are the only justice, and it's not 646 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,920 Speaker 1: justice for the child, but are the only two positive 647 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640 Speaker 1: things to come out of what can never be deemed 648 00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:04,840 Speaker 1: up positive thing. So horrific. There's no excuse. It's unfathomable 649 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,719 Speaker 1: that you have those kind of reports. The second a 650 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,600 Speaker 1: child discloses, and I can tell you this is true 651 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 1: nationwide from all of my work and experience. When a 652 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:19,960 Speaker 1: child discloses physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse. When the 653 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,319 Speaker 1: child discloses, it is believed. You have a forensic and 654 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: the child's removed from the home. No exceptions that didn't 655 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,160 Speaker 1: happen here. In fact, on Christmas Day two thousand fourteen, 656 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: this evil stepmother makes a reference to wanting to simulate 657 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:42,200 Speaker 1: an episode of The Walking Dead where a character shoots 658 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,919 Speaker 1: a child in the back of the head. Just three 659 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: days later, stepmother Heather Jones posts, she quote, might be 660 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,520 Speaker 1: the next and have to fade some pigs a body. 661 00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: I don't understand why they don't get the death penalty. 662 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,640 Speaker 1: That's the thing I don't understand and Adrian. One detective 663 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:10,160 Speaker 1: breaks down in tears, saying the torture Adrian went through 664 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 1: was unlike anything he had ever seen in over twenty 665 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,839 Speaker 1: years and law enforcement. It was detected Stewart Littlefield, and 666 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 1: he recalled how Adrian was shocked with a stunned gun 667 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:29,640 Speaker 1: by the stepmother. Shocked by a stun gun. So. Jessica 668 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 1: McMaster has been on this case from the beginning and 669 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 1: has brought so much of it to light. She's an 670 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,800 Speaker 1: investigative reporter with forty one Action News in Kansas City. 671 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 1: Jessica McMaster, what can be done now? What can be 672 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:53,440 Speaker 1: done about child welfare? And the police that let this happen. 673 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,839 Speaker 1: I think it's obvious that something has to change. And 674 00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, they mentioned the lawsuit that that's the first 675 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,799 Speaker 1: step in, but the accountability there really needs to be 676 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,719 Speaker 1: a discussion about how this happened, because without that, how 677 00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,640 Speaker 1: do we move forward? You know, when the agencies won't 678 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,480 Speaker 1: even talk about it, how do we even get to 679 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,799 Speaker 1: improving if you're not even gonna acknowledge the failures that 680 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,880 Speaker 1: were made in this case? I don't know. Um, you know, 681 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 1: this has happened to other children in the past in 682 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:24,720 Speaker 1: these areas. UM lawsuits have been filed, millions of dollars 683 00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 1: has been built out, and still Little Adrian happened. So 684 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 1: what we do to get over that? We've got to 685 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 1: have to have some accountability. These calls need to be 686 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,120 Speaker 1: followed up on and when they are as in his case, 687 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 1: they were several times people were at the home. This 688 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,800 Speaker 1: isn't a matter of or we didn't have the resources 689 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,680 Speaker 1: even go to the home. No, they were there. There 690 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: were several people there. They need to be taken out 691 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,360 Speaker 1: of that well. First of all, the Kansas Attorney General, 692 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 1: because there is no way that the police or child 693 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:58,040 Speaker 1: services are going to investigate and prosecute themselves if you 694 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,920 Speaker 1: care about this case. The attorney general in Kansas is 695 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:08,680 Speaker 1: Kansas A G. Jerrek Schmidt phone number seven eight five 696 00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:14,520 Speaker 1: two nine six two to one five repeat Kansas Attorney 697 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:20,040 Speaker 1: General Derek Schmidt, s C H M I D T 698 00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:26,760 Speaker 1: seven eight five two nine six two two one five. 699 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,120 Speaker 1: He's not the only one. There's Missouri as well. Now 700 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,719 Speaker 1: aren't those the state lines that they would cross, Jessica, Yes, 701 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:41,640 Speaker 1: they were in Kansas, Missouri. The Missouri Attorney General Josh 702 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:48,160 Speaker 1: Hawley H A W l e Y H A W 703 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:55,000 Speaker 1: L e y to contact them five seven three seven 704 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:59,280 Speaker 1: five one three three to one five seven three seven 705 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:05,280 Speaker 1: five one three three two one. Let your voice be heard. 706 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,680 Speaker 1: Don't let Adrian Jones have died in vain. Jessica McMaster 707 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 1: is trying, Ashley Willcot is trying. I'm trying. Please join us, 708 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:27,400 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off, goodbye friend,