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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy. Grace breaking crime is now A

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Speaker 1: Georgia mom sent us to life for beating her four

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Speaker 1: year old little boy, Anthonyvice, to death because he wasn't

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Speaker 1: potty trained well. Whose fault is that, a thirteen year

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Speaker 1: old witness tells authorities Anthony's mom, Sophia Williams, whipped Anthony

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Speaker 1: into a quote unresponsive state rot in hell woman straight

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Speaker 1: out to Drew Nelson for more nancy.

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Speaker 2: At the cab County Superior Court, Judge Senate Sophia Williams

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Speaker 2: forty three to life without the possibility of parole plus

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Speaker 2: ten years after her four year old son died from

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Speaker 2: head injuries that followed repeated beatings tied to him not

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Speaker 2: being potty trained, a jury convicted her in August of

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Speaker 2: malice murder, two counts of felony murder, four counts of

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Speaker 2: first degree cruelty to children, and three counts of aggravated

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Speaker 2: battery in the death of her son, Anthony Wes. Officers

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Speaker 2: responded to an apartment on Tregony Drive in Decatur March

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Speaker 2: sixth of twenty twenty two for a child who was

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Speaker 2: not briefa. First responders found Anthony lying on the living

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Speaker 2: room floor with no heartbeat. Medicks noticed quote new and

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Speaker 2: old bruising over the child's entire body, and he was

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Speaker 2: taken a Children's Health Care of Atlanta, but was pronounced

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Speaker 2: dead there. Williams told officers that Anthony was not potty trained,

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Speaker 2: and she disciplined him quote by striking him with her hand,

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Speaker 2: a house slipper, a purse strap, and a charging cord

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Speaker 2: when he did not listen or went without using the toilet.

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Speaker 2: She also claimed that he had hit his head the

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Speaker 2: week before. A thirteen year old in the home reported

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Speaker 2: that Williams quote whooped Anthony the day before his death.

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Speaker 2: The witness said he quote appeared to be dizzy and

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Speaker 2: fell to the floor unresponsive. Williams placed Anthony on her

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Speaker 2: bed and threw water on him, reviving him briefly before

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Speaker 2: he became unresponsive again. His movements throughout the night were

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Speaker 2: only involuntary. During that time, she searched on her phone

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Speaker 2: for remedy for concussion and coma symptoms and causes. She

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Speaker 2: later fell asleep and woke up around five am to

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Speaker 2: Anty making a low grunting sound. His body was limp

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Speaker 2: and she felt him stop breathing. She called Anthony's father

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Speaker 2: at exactly five thirty eight am and called nine one

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Speaker 2: one at six twenty six am. She told officers she'd

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Speaker 2: laid calling because of the bruises on his body, and

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Speaker 2: autops he showed he died from blunt force trauma to

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Speaker 2: the head and likely would have survived if she had

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Speaker 2: sought medical care when she first noticed the signs of injury.

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Speaker 1: Thanks drew more Crime and Justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: Federal authorities say a coordinated New Year's Eve bombing plot

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Speaker 2: targeting multiple locations across southern California is thwarted after investigators

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Speaker 2: tracked suspects into the desert while they tested their explosives.

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Speaker 2: The arrests announced at a Los Angeles news conference, where

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Speaker 2: First Assistant United States Attorney Bill A. Saley says four

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Speaker 2: alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front were taken

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Speaker 2: into custody last week. According to prosecutors, the suspects traveled

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Speaker 2: to a remote desert campsite with bomb making materials and

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Speaker 2: began preparing devices before federal agents moved in. Assie says

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Speaker 2: the case centers on a plot that was already underway

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Speaker 2: and carefully planned around the New Year's Eve holiday.

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Speaker 3: It included a step by step instructions to build IEDs

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Speaker 3: or improvised explosive devices, and listed multiple targets across Orange

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Speaker 2: Investigators say surveillance aircraft observed the group unloading materials at

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Speaker 2: the campsite and arranging components consistent with early stage bomb construction.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors said the suspects had already taken significant steps toward

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Speaker 2: carrying out the plan when they were arrested. Assiale describes

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Speaker 2: what investigators uncovered.

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Speaker 3: The charges we are announcing today stem from the defendants

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Speaker 3: and their co conspirators detailed coordinated plot to bomb multiple

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Speaker 3: US companies on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 2: Assie says agents intervened before the group could complete the devices.

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Speaker 3: They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb

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Speaker 3: at that location, and they were subsequently arrested by the

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Speaker 3: FBI before they could build a functional explosive device.

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Speaker 2: Each defendant now faces charges including conspiracy and possession of

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Speaker 2: an unregistered destructive device. The four suspects charged in the

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Speaker 2: case are Audrey Eileen Carroll thirty, Zachary Aaron Page thirty two,

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Speaker 2: Dante Gaffield twenty four, and Tina Lai forty one. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: say all four are from the Los Angeles area and

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Speaker 2: self identified as members of an offshoot group tied to

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Speaker 2: the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Prosecutors have said additional charges

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Speaker 2: are possible as the investigation continues. Authorities are working to

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Speaker 2: identify whether others knew about or assisted the plot. A

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Speaker 2: Jewish family in southern California says they were targeted in

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Speaker 2: what police are investigating as a hate crime after someone

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Speaker 2: shouted slurs and open fire on their home as they

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Speaker 2: they celebrate Hanukkah. The attack happened around eight o'clock December

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Speaker 2: twelfth at a home on Magnolia Avenue in Redlands. Roger

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Speaker 2: Cohen and his son, John Paul were about to leave

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Speaker 2: the house when a sedan drove past. Inside were three suspects,

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Speaker 2: two women, one man. John Paul told KTLA the encounter

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Speaker 2: escalated fast.

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Speaker 4: He was holding whatever it was towards me, but he

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Speaker 4: chose to yell at me and he said, yeah, free Palestine,

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Speaker 4: and then he used the N word.

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Speaker 2: The father and son got into their car and drove away.

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Speaker 2: Minutes later, the suspects returned home. Surveillance video shows the

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Speaker 2: same vehicle driving past again, but this time more than

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Speaker 2: twenty shots fired toward the house. Police believed the weapon

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Speaker 2: was likely an airsoft gun, as no shellcasings were found

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Speaker 2: and no muzzle flash was visible on the video. Inside

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Speaker 2: the home, Roger's wife heads about. Cohen heard the noise

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Speaker 2: and thought it was something else.

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Speaker 4: We just thought there was fireworks going outside. The dogs

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Speaker 4: are barking. Was it. How we pulled the surveillance video,

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Speaker 4: we realized it was a fireworks.

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Speaker 2: The home is decorated with Honukkah inflatables, several of them

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Speaker 2: were damaged by the gunfire. Three family members were inside

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Speaker 2: at the home, though no one was hurt. Roger Cohen

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Speaker 2: says the attack will not change how his family lives

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Speaker 2: or celebrates.

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Speaker 4: Our home is a home of joy. Our home is

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Speaker 4: the home of peace, and as you can see, we

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Speaker 4: like to just share our excitement to the world of

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Speaker 4: bringing joy to the world.

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Speaker 2: Redland's police say they are investigating the incident as a

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Speaker 2: possible anti Semitic hate crime. Officers have increased patrols around

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Speaker 2: places of worship around the city. No suspects have been named.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the night, John Paul says the

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Speaker 2: realization of how close the encounter came has stayed with him.

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Speaker 4: Looking back, realizing that what he had in his hand

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Speaker 4: was likely a gun and that he was that close

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Speaker 4: to me really shakes me up.

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Speaker 2: Anyone with information is urged to contact Redland's Police at

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Speaker 2: nine oh nine seven nine eight seventy six eighty one.

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