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Speaker 1: A Rugby couple faces charges of murder by abuse tonight

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Speaker 1: and the death of a young child. Sakara Horned Garcia

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Speaker 1: and Estevan Garcia are facing five felony charges on the

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Speaker 1: severy one last year nine one, one was contacted to

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Speaker 1: report five year old Malia Garcia was unconscious and not breathing.

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Speaker 1: Estevan and Skara are charged with murdered by abuse, two

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Speaker 1: counts of mansaughter in the first degree, and two counts

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Speaker 1: of criminal mistreatment in the first degree. The criminal indictment

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Speaker 1: claims the couples did unlawfully and intentionally withhold necessary and

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Speaker 1: adequate food from the girl, as well as necessary and

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Speaker 1: adequate medical attention. This is crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Neighbors say the parents treated Melia differently than other children

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Speaker 1: and whenever she would try to get out, the alarm

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Speaker 1: would go off. District Attorney John Hummel said that the

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Speaker 1: girl went through town. I feel like they're trying to

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Speaker 1: teach her a lesson a five year little girl dead.

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Speaker 1: Malia died weighing just twenty four pounds. Hold on, let

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Speaker 1: me let that sink in. A five year old little girl,

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Speaker 1: Malia dead. She weighed just twenty four pounds. An Oregon

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Speaker 1: couple raising the child they're adopted girl, allegedly debated that

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Speaker 1: night whether they should take Malia to a doctor, just

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Speaker 1: hours before she collapsed dead. Now there's nobody nowhere, no

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Speaker 1: way they can tell me that they did not know

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Speaker 1: something was horribly wrong, that they did not starve this

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Speaker 1: child to death. And if they starved her, what else

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Speaker 1: did they do to her? I very rarely can find

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Speaker 1: a silver lining when a child dies. The only one

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Speaker 1: here is that wherever Malia is now, it is better

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Speaker 1: than where she was with these two devils. They are

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Speaker 1: the devil. One is Bill ze Bob, and one is

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Speaker 1: the devil's handmaid. And that's all I can say. This

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Speaker 1: Oregon couple, just looking into their eyes, they're pure evil.

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Speaker 1: Who could do that? Now they're gonna claim they're innocent

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have a trial. But you can't tell

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Speaker 1: me a baby just suddenly dies at twenty eight pounds,

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Speaker 1: five years old. I Nancy Grace, this is crime stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. Big question for all

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Speaker 1: of us right now, how does this happen here in America?

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Speaker 1: In our country? And a regular subdivision. What nobody knew

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Speaker 1: this child was on nobody's radar. Joining me right now

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Speaker 1: is the Duke Alan, Duke out of l A Alan.

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Speaker 1: I am sick about these two. Steve and the wife Secora,

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Speaker 1: we're texting each other that day the Dailiah died. Steve

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Speaker 1: and Secora the mom and dad trying to decide if

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Speaker 1: they should take her to the doctor. H yeah, you

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Speaker 1: should take her to the doctor. If you're wondering, Gee,

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Speaker 1: should I take my child to the doctor? You know what,

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Speaker 1: go when in doubt, act with caution. I mean just

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Speaker 1: the fact that they were talking about taking her into

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Speaker 1: the doctor Alan, when clearly Steve and Secora have been

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Speaker 1: starving her down to twenty four pounds. When paramedics find

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Speaker 1: her Alan, she's unconscious, unconscious horrible rugor mortis was just

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Speaker 1: when the muscles began to stiff him after one dies

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Speaker 1: to set in. So how long did they let her

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Speaker 1: lie there? She died c O D cause of death, emaciation, starvation.

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Speaker 1: They starved her death. I think this should be a

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Speaker 1: death penalty. Okay, Alan, sorry, go ahead. Unfortunately, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it will be a death penalty. Why justice in

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Speaker 1: the end will be done when these people do find

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Speaker 1: their death. This child whoa, whoa. You can't say this

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Speaker 1: was not premeditated. If somebody doesn't star of a child

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Speaker 1: to murder by abuse, first degree manslaughter, first degree criminal mistreatment.

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Speaker 1: I don't think those are death penalty cases. I've seen

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Speaker 1: To read the court documents that have just been released

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Speaker 1: They had an alarm on her bedroom door that would

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Speaker 1: that's how vicious this was. Why why did you know?

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Speaker 1: will go berserk. Who who's the district attorney? The district

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Speaker 1: attorney is John Hummel. I contacted his office just before

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Speaker 1: district attorney, the lawyers, and the police in the case

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Speaker 1: cannot discuss it. What county is this? Shudis County? Is

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Speaker 1: And the d a's name is John Hummel h U

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Speaker 1: hap when we were in high school, as in that

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Speaker 1: shoot this county. I'm sure that we're mangling it because

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Speaker 1: you know what pushed me over the edge. I was

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Speaker 1: This was like three day before Christmas, this past Christmas,

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Speaker 1: The press release from the District Attorney, whiley wouldn't speak

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Speaker 1: the District Attorney Hummel can be reached at five for one,

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Speaker 1: maximum penalty that these two deserve. I'm Nancy Grace, this

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