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Speaker 1: Topics featured in this episode may be disturbing to some listeners.

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Speaker 1: Please take care while listening.

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Speaker 2: I want to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.

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Speaker 2: I'm grateful to all that have shown me love and

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Speaker 2: compassion that this is the end of my story and

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Speaker 2: this doesn't have to define me the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, Episode three Ruins.

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Speaker 1: Reports of Jason Litton's arrests were all over the local

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Speaker 1: news and on Facebook pages. Aveya, Ashley's oldest daughter and

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Speaker 1: a victim, found out when her friend's mother asked her

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Speaker 1: if anyone else had been videotaped in the house. Ashley's

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Speaker 1: fifteen year old son would stoic and refused to discuss it.

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Speaker 1: She tried to explain what happened to her youngest, but

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Speaker 1: it was a lot for a nine year old to understand.

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Speaker 3: The way that Ashley said was like, Daddy is in trouble.

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Speaker 3: He's in jail for doing something he wasn't supposed to do,

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Speaker 3: and she just went off the rails, like asking all

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Speaker 3: of these questions, like am I going to see him again?

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Speaker 4: What does that mean? Is he going to be gone forever?

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Speaker 4: How do you explain this to a nine year old?

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Speaker 4: Her dad was taken away.

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Speaker 5: Her kids lost their dad, and she lost her husband.

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Speaker 4: It's like he died.

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Speaker 6: He was like my security blanket. He didn't do much

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Speaker 6: for me but make me feel safe and make me

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Speaker 6: feel just He was there, and I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: In the aftermath, Ashley was just trying to hold on

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Speaker 1: and leaned on her best friend Emmy for support.

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Speaker 7: In an instant, he was gone. I still dream about it.

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Speaker 7: I still hear her. I still dream of holding her,

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Speaker 7: but to have to sit there and listen to that

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Speaker 7: and no, there was absolutely nothing I could do to

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Speaker 7: make her feel better, to change things. There was nothing

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Speaker 1: During their marriage, Ashley recognized that things weren't normal, but

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Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do for a person.

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Speaker 8: I had told myself that there was a mental illness

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Speaker 1: Clearly Jason was dealing with something, but his poor behavior

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Speaker 1: had existed for most of his adult life. Jason had

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Speaker 1: made appalling choices at times, but Ashley always gave him

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Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. Candace Holden and her husband Jeff,

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Speaker 1: were good friends with Ashley and Jason. She shares a

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Speaker 1: very awkward encounter some years back and Candace just had

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Speaker 9: My husband was playing football for us in my Pro

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Speaker 9: after his surgery that we drove to Salt Lake and

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Speaker 9: we were saying the night at Jason and Ashley's. They

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Speaker 9: brand new bottle of pain pills with him. I want

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Speaker 9: Jason knew that the bottle was with us, but we

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Speaker 9: next morning, half the bottle was gone. I went to

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Speaker 9: so he went to Jason. He absolutely denied it, but

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Speaker 9: was gone. In my opinion, when Jason would lie pres

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Speaker 9: surely about something big, he get like overly emotional. You know,

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Speaker 1: Candas also recalls Jason's work ethic from his twenties.

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Speaker 9: My husband got him a job at the company that

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Speaker 9: And I just felt like, Ashley, could you know, have

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Speaker 5: We've all been there.

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Speaker 1: We've heard our friends talk about relationships or their marriages

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Speaker 1: and deep down you feel like they deserve better. Until

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Speaker 5: There isn't much you can do, but I spoke with.

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Speaker 1: Jessica Baum, who has been working with Ashley over the

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Speaker 1: past couple of months to help her learn more about herself.

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Speaker 1: Jessica is the author of Anxiously Attached, Becoming More Secure

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Speaker 1: in Life and Love.

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Speaker 10: I'm a psychotherapist with a license in mental health counseling

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Speaker 10: and I have a private practice. We work on family

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Speaker 10: systems issues, trauma, addiction, and couples.

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Speaker 1: Jessica also specializes in attachment styles what draws us towards

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Speaker 4: It appears that she has a lot of childhood trauma.

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Speaker 10: Her dad was pretty overwhelmed and her mom was pretty sick,

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Speaker 10: of acting out to get her needs met. But none

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Speaker 10: as soon as she was able to escape into her

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Speaker 10: first relationship, I'm sure that gave her a relief, and

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Speaker 1: Her first boyfriend, Matt, had been a kind of protector

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Speaker 10: But in the beginning, it does provide her a sanctuary

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Speaker 1: And Jason was a person when Ashley had two small

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Speaker 5: Was to her. I thought, Wow, she's found a good guy.

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Speaker 6: It was like night chiming armor. I was like, here's

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Speaker 1: Ashley's husband had stolen prescription pills from her friend lied

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Speaker 1: on end. Sure all of these were red flags adjacent

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Speaker 5: They couldn't be.

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Speaker 10: Even if our intuition or gut says this could be true,

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Speaker 10: even if underneath it there was an undercurrent of maybe

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Speaker 10: whole world would shatter. And so in this world that

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Speaker 10: her world was very contingent on who he was when

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Speaker 5: Out of all the possibilities of what might.

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Speaker 1: Be going on with him, Jason viewing child pornography and

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Speaker 1: videotaping their daughter never crossed her mind. It just doesn't

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Speaker 8: Not effort. When I had effort ever even considered anything

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Speaker 1: Evea had an order of protection against him, so he

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Speaker 4: So this is the Veya's room.

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Speaker 6: I don't like coming in here, and I avoidited it

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Speaker 1: Ashley's home has a great layout for teenagers. The lower

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Speaker 1: so the older kids feel like they have a little privacy.

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Speaker 1: She showed me exactly how Jason violated.

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Speaker 1: Her bedrooms almost in the basement, so her bedroom is

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Speaker 1: like an negress window.

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Speaker 6: And he would stand outside of this window and film her.

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Speaker 1: He told Ashley the reason he was going outdoors at

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Speaker 6: App I just chalked it up as like another weird

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Speaker 1: Seeing the layout of the house made the secret taping

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Speaker 6: I don't understand. Our backyard is mud and backpool. I

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Speaker 1: Ashley tried to make the room feel more secure by

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Speaker 6: Then I'd have like a lock on it and everything,

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Speaker 6: To know that nobody's going to get in here. But

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Speaker 1: Ashley's sister Anna, I mean, I think she left pretty

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it is. It makes me cry because I miss

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Speaker 1: I mentioned Ashley's first love, Matt. They were together all

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Speaker 1: She ultimately took their two kids and left him because

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Speaker 1: of his drug addiction. Matt is clean now, and while

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Speaker 1: they visits Ashley's house often, she moved it with Matt

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Speaker 11: He robbed them of stability, of structure of trust. I'm

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Speaker 4: One of the moms, she's my friend.

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Speaker 6: She reached out to me asking if any of their

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Speaker 6: kids were a part of it, which really sucked because

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Speaker 6: I still like super in shock. This particular person called

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Speaker 5: The rumor mill was working over time.

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Speaker 6: She's like the girls told me that there was a

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Speaker 6: there's not a camera. I asked the detective, and he

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Speaker 1: But neighbors and other parents still didn't want to send

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Speaker 5: It was humiliating.

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Speaker 4: My house was the hangout house.

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Speaker 5: Ashley didn't want to explain what happened. Did you know

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Speaker 1: She had not committed a sin against children, she had

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Speaker 8: Anyway, when you have everything that makes you a human

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Speaker 1: While everything was crumbling, Jason was sending the children letters

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Speaker 1: To his son, hay stud I hope everything is going

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Speaker 5: Eventually, Jason's absence.

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Speaker 6: Had them stay on for two weeks, and finally it

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Speaker 1: Jason was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of

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Speaker 6: He was always mean to her, Like I thought, maybe

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Speaker 1: Ashley's father, John, recalled tension when he came to pick

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Speaker 5: When I got to throw he was just screaming an

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Speaker 12: As soon as I walked in, he plushed right up.

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Speaker 7: And we did talk about that one time, and I said,

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Speaker 1: Thirty days after Jason was arrested, he was released. Yes,

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Speaker 6: They just gave him some stipulations, like you can't have

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Speaker 1: Ashley had so many questions she had never been able

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Speaker 8: After he got out, he was saying with his grandpa,

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Speaker 1: Ashley made sure he had in a non smartphone. She

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Speaker 5: Been in one.

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Speaker 6: Time when he went to gel I started trying to reconcile,

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Speaker 6: And that's what I had assumed, and I still thought

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Speaker 10: Well, I'm sure part of your psyche wanted to believe it,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like right when he got out of JEL.

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Speaker 10: His behavior started to change for the better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was everything I wanted it to be.

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Speaker 1: But the weight of everything, any indication that what her

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Speaker 8: De number four and he had the discovery from his lawyer,

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Speaker 8: and he's like, oh, no, that's it, and I was like, no,

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Speaker 8: I want to read this. So he got it out

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Speaker 8: he had lied. I started reading in detail that each

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Speaker 1: There was no denying the truth. This was evidence, an

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Speaker 6: That's when it snapped, and I was like, this is it.

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Speaker 6: I told Jason to quit calling me, and he quit

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Speaker 10: There was this other part of you that just got

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Speaker 10: You haven't completely integrated the full picture yet with and

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Speaker 10: I assume after that you got angry. Yeah, so there

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Once Ashley crossed the bridge and saw Jason clearly, she

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Speaker 1: accepted that his crimes were what they looked like, depraved

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Speaker 5: Would divorce him. Her only focus was healing and justice

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Speaker 1: Just about one year after the Litton family was shattered, Ashley, Jason,

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Speaker 12: Okay, well, courts reviewed the pre sentenced report, the psychosexual exam,

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Speaker 12: and there were many many letters that were submitted book

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Speaker 13: Mister tell you?

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Speaker 12: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Sure?

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Speaker 14: Are they the big tim least?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 13: Are they president in the court or?

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Speaker 5: This was not a trial, It was a sentencing hearing.

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Speaker 1: Jason had cut a plea deal with the District Attorney's

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Speaker 1: one count of sexual exploitation of a minor in two

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Speaker 1: counts of voyeurism. A matter of guilt was settled. This

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Speaker 1: A vs at beside her prosecutor. Sam Sutton, the third

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Speaker 14: State's perspective, this is very personal concerning the practically, certainly,

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Speaker 14: your honor has seen plenty of other cases involving sexual

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Speaker 1: In other words, in most these cases they asked for

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Speaker 14: This pudge one count therefore for many others in the charge,

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Speaker 2: Without actually being Hanaza, even though they.

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Speaker 14: Are classafe wayers.

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Speaker 2: From the state's perspective, they are thinking of a pattern of

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Speaker 14: And for that reason, I am very striding as they

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Speaker 2: For a maximum jail term here, and I'd ask the

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Speaker 1: You input the big tenant for a county of sixteen Jason,

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Speaker 1: he argued, should receive the maximum a full year because

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Speaker 1: of what he had done to Aveya. You're about to

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Speaker 1: hear from Aveah for the first time. She decided to

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Speaker 1: Eveya gave us consent to use her voice and her

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Speaker 13: So just tell me your names and what you want

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Speaker 15: I am Jason's son, the ex wife, and this is

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Speaker 15: do want you to pay attention to what she's wearing today.

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Speaker 15: She didn't wear a sweatshirt and so what pants to

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Speaker 13: Know, I don't want him looking at me. I don't

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Speaker 13: want him seeing me. I don't want nothing. He completely

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Speaker 13: ruined my family with our lives. He ruined me. I'm

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Speaker 13: mentally not the same, dropped out the soccer. Doing that

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Speaker 4: Got to me.

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Speaker 13: Where if I am driving and I just somehow see him.

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Speaker 16: In his car, I call my mom because he's in

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Speaker 16: I can't I can't sit in class because my anxiety

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Speaker 13: I would want him to be in prison. I never

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Speaker 13: to me, he was held with me, treated me, treated

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Speaker 13: me so poorly. Me and my mother.

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Speaker 16: Say things to me like I'm a terrible kid, and

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Speaker 16: take my phone and go through it and go through.

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Speaker 13: My privacy like my room.

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Speaker 6: It was.

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Speaker 13: It was unfair and it's rude, and I don't want

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Speaker 6: Ere go through that.

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Speaker 13: Ever, I'm asking for you to send a heaven.

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Speaker 1: Aveya's plea to the court was devastating. All of the stress, sadness,

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Speaker 1: and anger over what he had done poured out of her.

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Speaker 1: Even Judge Metler seemed moved.

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Speaker 9: I'm sorry this happened.

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Speaker 12: I wish I could make it better.

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Speaker 4: I can't.

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Speaker 12: But a venue in particular should feel really proud of yourself.

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Speaker 12: I think It's a very brave thing to report these

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Speaker 12: kinds of things, to stay committed to the criminal justices

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Speaker 12: and process, to show up in court and to speak

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Speaker 13: You're very great, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Jason's public defender made an impassioned plea for his freedom.

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Speaker 17: I would argue Judge first and foremost that mister Lytton

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Speaker 17: think he's demonstrated that by taking full accountability, full acceptance

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Speaker 17: of responsibility for his misconduct. Judge, I understand the name victims.

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Speaker 17: I mean for lack of ptterwords crushing sorrow, crushing anger

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Speaker 17: about this misconduct that mister Lynton engaged in. My client

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Speaker 17: fully understands where they are coming from and why they

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Speaker 17: would never want to see him again ever in society.

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Speaker 17: He was suffering from a severe depression. Yes, he did

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Speaker 17: receive adderall and some prozac, and perhaps that wasn't the

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Speaker 17: best indicated medication for his condition. He has engaged in

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Speaker 17: community based and community supported counseling groups to help address that.

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Speaker 13: He has a long.

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Speaker 17: Way to go with regard to the specialized psychosexual treatment.

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Speaker 17: But doctor Rory and the AP and p P s

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Speaker 17: Our Writer reached the same conclusion that he is appropriate

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Speaker 17: and suitable for community based treatment.

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Speaker 1: The takeaway is that the psychologist who had evaluated Jason,

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Speaker 1: the agency that writes the recommended treatment plan advised court

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Speaker 1: ordered intensive treatment for Jason, but not incarceration. After his

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for the pain in her I've caused

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Speaker 2: my family day goes by. I don't think about her.

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Speaker 2: I've caused them, My heart an exclusion.

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Speaker 13: There was something I could say or do to fix this.

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Speaker 2: I want to say sorry to Abata for destroying her

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Speaker 2: safe place in her life. I failed her as a

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Speaker 2: father and abused love and trust she had to me.

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Speaker 2: What I did to her was despicable, despicable and shameful.

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Speaker 2: I want to say sorry to Ashley for the pain

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Speaker 2: and suffering I've caused her. I flipped her whole world

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Speaker 2: around and destroyed our family in the process. I feel

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Speaker 2: her as a husband and taken away the trust she

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Speaker 2: had in others. I also want to apologize to the

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Speaker 2: kids and the pictures I looked at. I know that

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Speaker 2: they have suffered a huge amount of use and pain.

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Speaker 2: They have lived a life of fear and suffering, and

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Speaker 2: I played a part in that with my actions to

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Speaker 2: all of you. I'm so sorry. I've heard so many

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Speaker 2: friends and family with my actions. This is this whole situation.

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Speaker 5: Is my fault, and my faul alone.

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Speaker 2: My recovery is also very important to me. I look

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Speaker 2: forward to the programs and all other help I will

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Speaker 2: be fortunate to have. I want to ensure that nothing

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Speaker 2: like this ever happens again.

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Speaker 1: Jason also touted the support groups he had joined and

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Speaker 1: his renewed dedication to the church. Judge Metler took everything

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Speaker 1: into consideration and rendered her decision.

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Speaker 12: Okay, well, thank you everyone for your input. Been thinking

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Speaker 12: about this for a while. This is a tough one

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Speaker 12: and that court makes decisions concerning sensing. The court really

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Speaker 12: is balancing ways in which the victim can be made wold,

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Speaker 12: which frankly is pretty unusual, and the victim can truly

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Speaker 12: be able. Rehabilitating that defendant is an important factor.

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Speaker 9: And then, of course.

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Speaker 1: Passion would Avea and Ashley get justice, would Jason be

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Speaker 1: put behind bars?

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Speaker 5: That's next time on betrayal.

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Speaker 12: For the Crown of sexual exploitation of minor second refellony

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Speaker 12: and Crispel.

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Speaker 1: I also visit Vea and Ashley at home to find

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Speaker 1: out what has happened since that day.

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Speaker 7: I'd been laying in bed some nights and I'd just

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Speaker 7: sit there thinking, like someone's looking, someone's creeping.

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Speaker 4: Can you get that feeling?

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Speaker 5: And later on this season of Betrayal, I.

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Speaker 6: Saw FBI on their vests and he's like, Mandy, I'm

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Speaker 6: not gonna sugarcoat anything.

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Speaker 1: We'll meet more women confronted with shocking revelations about the

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Speaker 1: men they married.

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Speaker 7: My dad was like, let's think about this because if

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Speaker 7: he goes to jail, you're gonna lose all of your benefits,

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Speaker 7: Like I give a block run.

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Speaker 1: If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal team,

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Speaker 1: email us at Betrayal Pod at gmail dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: Betrayal Pod at gmail dot com. To report a case

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Speaker 1: of child sexual exploitation, called the National Center for Missing

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Speaker 1: and Exploited Children's cyber Tipline at one eight hundred the Lost.

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Speaker 5: If you or someone you.

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Speaker 1: Know is worried about their sexual thoughts and feelings towards children,

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Speaker 1: reach out to Stop it Now dot org.

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Speaker 5: In the United Kingdom, go to.

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Speaker 1: Stop it Now dot org dot UK these organizations can help.

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