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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime News Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: Authorities in Texas report that a man has allegedly kept

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Speaker 1: his wife imprisoned for more than five years in their

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Speaker 1: one million dollar home in Clear Lake, where they lived

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Speaker 1: with their children. James Earl Johnson was taken into custody

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Speaker 1: on Friday morning, but has since posted bell and received

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Speaker 1: a court order to maintain distance from both the victim

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Speaker 1: and their home on Crownridge Court. According to law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: the victim, a forty six year old woman with a disability,

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Speaker 1: was confined to a locked bedroom without access to a phone.

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Speaker 1: Court records indicate that Johnson left a phone on the

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Speaker 1: night stand on Friday, which allowed the victim to make

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Speaker 1: a nine to one one call. However, police say Johnson

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Speaker 1: interrupted the call, reportedly striking the woman and taking her

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Speaker 1: back to the bedroom before disconnecting the call with a dispatcher.

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Speaker 1: The victim's adult son informed Eyewitness News six that his

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Speaker 1: mother is now in the hospital, but did not provide

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Speaker 1: further details regarding her health or the specifics of her disability.

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Speaker 1: People must assume it's simple to escape, but that isn't

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Speaker 1: always possible, said local police chief. It appears that the

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Speaker 1: victim made at least one prior attempt to seek help.

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Speaker 1: Authorities confirmed that she reached out to them on November sixteen. However,

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Speaker 1: when officers arrived at the residence, the victim stated that

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Speaker 1: she and her children had been instructed to remain silent

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Speaker 1: and not speak to the police. Oddly, officers left without

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Speaker 1: documenting the incident. As of the last update, the woman's

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Speaker 1: husband has not yet retained legal counsel, but is out

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Speaker 1: of jail on bond. More crime and justice news after

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Speaker 1: this and now to Florida. A mother who allowed her

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Speaker 1: living boyfriend to quote repeatedly torture and beat her five

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Speaker 1: year old son, even handcuffing him for nearly a day

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Speaker 1: and put him inside a dog cage. Well, that mother

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Speaker 1: is headed to prison. Thirty year old Taylor Schaeffer pleaded

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Speaker 1: no contest to a slew of charges, including abuse, conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to commit child neglect, and aggravated child abuse with great

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Speaker 1: bodily harm, and failure to report child abuse. This according

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Speaker 1: to the Vlusha County Sheriff's Office. A judge has sentenced

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Speaker 1: her to sixty years in prison. The case started in

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Speaker 1: May of twenty three, when the mother had a quote

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Speaker 1: gut feeling that her living boyfriend, thirty five year old

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Speaker 1: Sean Stone, was abusing her five year old son. She

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Speaker 1: checked the home surveillance video, which confirmed her suspicions. She

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Speaker 1: then called police. Police soon learned that she had failed

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Speaker 1: to mention that she was present in the house during

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Speaker 1: much of the abuse, yet failed to stop her boyfriend

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Speaker 1: from hurting her son. On several occasions. The boy was

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Speaker 1: visibly injured and limping in her presence, but received no

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Speaker 1: care or call for medical help. The video also showed

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Speaker 1: she had not only allowed the beatings to take place,

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Speaker 1: but was in the presence this according to a deputy

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Speaker 1: who had written up a statement for court, the victim

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Speaker 1: also tied up the boy and placed him in a

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Speaker 1: dog cage as punishment, and also didn't allow the child

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Speaker 1: to eat for more than two days. The mother present

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Speaker 1: during this time. Stone is charged with aggravated child abuse,

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Speaker 1: false imprisonment, and neglect of a child. His case is

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Speaker 1: ongoing and he remains in the Lusha County Jail. Police

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Speaker 1: in Oregon are asking for the public's help and locating

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Speaker 1: a missing fourteen year old girl from Medford. Lillian Michael

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Speaker 1: Welch was last seen on March five, leaving the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: High School in the afternoon. Communication with her family has

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Speaker 1: stopped and there is serious concern for her safety and

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Speaker 1: well being. Police say the teen was last seen near

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Speaker 1: Highway sixty two and Poplar Drive in Medford, Oregon, on

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Speaker 1: the afternoon of March five. Anyone with information is asked

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Speaker 1: to reach out to the Phoenix, Oregon Police Department at

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Speaker 1: five four one seven seven six seven two zero six.

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Speaker 1: Lillian is described as a fourteen year old female, brown hair,

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Speaker 1: brown eyes. She stands five feet tall and weighs about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Again, the number to

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Speaker 1: call with any information five four one seven seven six

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Speaker 1: seven two zero six. And for the latest crime injustice news,

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