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Cleveland police 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: officers were searching the East ninety third Street area last 25 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: night for missing teenager Aleana de Frieze when they discovered 26 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: the body of a female inside this Fuller Avenue home. 27 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: It's just a shape. This man, who doesn't want to 28 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: be identified, has lived in the East Side neighborhood since 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, and he told me that he is 30 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: heartbroken about how his neighborhood has changed. People loved each other, 31 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: he slept, You sent around, you're talking up to lock 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: your doors. DeFreeze was lasting Thursday morning. Her family told 33 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: me Sir Vellan's video captured her getting off of the 34 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: bus here at East ninety third and Kinsman. She was 35 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: supposed to catch another bus to school, but never made it, 36 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: and she hasn't been seen since. Her family spent the 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: weekend passing out flyers, looking for clues and praying for answers. 38 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: We're not sleeping, we're not eating. It's difficult for us 39 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: to concentrate because right now our main focuses were not 40 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: resting until we bring our home. The parents of a 41 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: little fourteen year old girl in anguish. This little girl, 42 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: Aliana defrees, was tortured, was raped, was murdered in an 43 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: abandoned house. Why all of this revolving around the bus 44 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: stop getting to school? Donantly Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, 45 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: what happened to this little girl? The little girl fourteen 46 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: year old Aliana de Frize, or her mom Denisha Cooper, 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: has told us that on this Thursday, January twenty sixth 48 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: she started out just like a normal day for her 49 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: and her daughter. She walked her daughter from their house 50 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: to the bus stop at East one fifty fourth and 51 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: Kinsman around six thirty am to catch the first of 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: two Cleveland buses that carried the seventh grader to a 53 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: seven am tutoring session. Now, Aliana was dressed as usual 54 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: in her school uniform tan pants, white shirt, and her 55 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: mom says she was excited about going to school. She 56 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: kept hopping into the street to see if the bus 57 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: was coming, and when it finally did, she gave her 58 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: mama a kiss and she boarded the bus. Aliana was 59 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: doing just what she'd done many times before. It was 60 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: a long trip to school. It required that, as we've heard, 61 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: take two separate buses, meaning that on cold winter mornings 62 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: like this one, she spent a lot of time at 63 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: the bus stop. It is also an early journey, meaning 64 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: that she often started to school before the sun was up. 65 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: Aliana was last seen on that video surveillance around six 66 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: fifty getting off an RTA bus at East ninety third 67 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: and Kinsman. That afternoon, mid afternoon comes and goes. Aliana's 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: mom is getting more and more concerned because she hasn't 69 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: come home from school. At four o'clock, Denisha decides this 70 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: is enough, so she calls her daughter's school, and that's 71 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: when she's told that Aliana was not in attendance at all. Okay, 72 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: wait a minute. The school knew all day the girl 73 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: hadn't shown up and didn't call the parents or anything 74 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: about ten hours. You know, this is what I don't 75 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: get to Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina family divorce lawyer. If 76 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: the twins are going to miss school or they're going 77 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: to be late, all right, their teacher, They've never not 78 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: shown up without me writing in or calling in or something. 79 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: To me, that seems like a real case of negligence, Kathleen. 80 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: Ten hours later and the mom has to call the 81 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,679 Speaker 1: school and find out she never showed up. I agree 82 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: with you, Nancy. And in the area that I live in, 83 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: we have mega schools right now. My children all went 84 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: to tiny schools where we knew everybody, and to send 85 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: them to a mega school, this kind of thing is 86 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: going to happen unfortunately, but you're right. I email my parents, 87 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: my teachers if my child is not going to be there, 88 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: and I need a response that they know that she's 89 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: not going to be there. Otherwise she's going to be there. 90 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: I don't understand how this happens. I agree, how did 91 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: that happen? And we see it over and over. I 92 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: want you to hear Alliana's father, Damon to freeze since 93 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: one nineteen this morning. This is how my life has 94 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: been going last year and almost a half. Takes a 95 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: real monster to take a child who's going on her 96 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: way happily to school. It happens too often. Every time 97 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: I turn on the news, read the paper, it's a 98 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: child missing. Not only child, as men and women missing also. 99 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: It gets frustrated and nothing's being done about it. I 100 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: know the officers you're doing. You can only do for 101 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: so much. The administration at city Hall needs to address 102 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: these issues like you addressed the renovation of the queue 103 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: and like you addressed the Republican bench. Our children mean 104 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: a lot to us. They might not be your children, 105 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: but they mean a lot to us. That is just 106 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: killing me to hear Alianna's dad, Damon Defrees speaking openly 107 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: about how the community seems more concerned about buildings and 108 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: events like the Republican Convention, just to name one, and 109 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: not about their children. If you could see a picture 110 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: of this little girl, she looks like she should be 111 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: in a Disney show. You know how they're always getting 112 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: those cute little kids to be in Disney movies and sitcoms. 113 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: She's just beautiful, big brown eyes, long silky black hair, 114 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful smile. We know now Aliana was kidnapped 115 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: walking toward her charter school there in Ohio after getting 116 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,559 Speaker 1: off a school bus by a forty five year old 117 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: guess what, sex offender, doctor Daniel Bober. I'm just sick 118 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: to my stomach. This child was taken to an abandoned house. 119 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: She was tortured, we are told, with a drill and 120 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: raped for who knows how many hours, and the mom 121 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: is just going about her business. That died, going about 122 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: their business while their daughter, somewhere in their hometown is 123 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: enduring all of this pain, crying, begging, trying to get 124 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: away from this registered sex offender, and a school didn't 125 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: bother to call and say, hey, where's your daughter? She 126 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: hasn't shown up. Then on we find out ten hours 127 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 1: later when they call the school doctor bober why the 128 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: child predators keep getting out? Because you and I both 129 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: agree they cannot be rehabilitated. Pends on the offender. But 130 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: this is a particularly horrific crimes, and a lot of 131 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: people drop the ball here, and it seems like, you know, 132 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: authorities could have been alerted much earlier than they were, 133 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 1: So it's really one of the most awful crimes I've 134 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: ever heard of. Now the family is claiming, and I 135 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: agree with them that they could have saved Aliana if 136 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: they had been told she was missing earlier. They knew 137 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: exactly what buses she took every day. The video shows 138 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: for getting off the bus. And we know Karen Smith, 139 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: forensics expert, that a huge percentage of kidnaps of children 140 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: occur relating to bus stops, school bus stops, public bus 141 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: stops to and from school. A huge amount of stranger 142 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: abductions occur regarding bus stops, just like jac Douger. That's right, 143 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, And here's you know, my heart breaks 144 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: for this family. It really does. Ten hours, Nancy, ten 145 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: hours have elapsed before anybody in an official capacity was notified. Now, 146 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: you and I both know that these predators don't wait. 147 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: They don't sit around and wait. This man knew where 148 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: he wanted to go. He knew where this little girl 149 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: was going to get off the bus, and he took 150 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: her there. If authorities had been alerted that she wasn't 151 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: in school, it would have at least given them a 152 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: fighting chance to have brought her back alife. Then ninety 153 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: third is a safe haven for sexual predators like this 154 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: Minster behind him and you lucky. I'm not the same 155 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: person I was twenty five years ago because there's not 156 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: enough police in here to stop me. And you need 157 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: to know that when you get where you go and 158 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: you go get what you got, come before you get 159 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: to that gas that lethal when Jackson changed my baby 160 00:10:54,920 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: have a chance, No, grand Trilo, you can't walk her 161 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: down the eye when she come over on the weekends 162 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: on Fridays, we'd have this same talk about this guy 163 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: back here. I warned her of guys like that. I 164 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: warned her up a band and building. I told her 165 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: to watch out for these predators. I didn't want her 166 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: catching two buses to school. I stressed that this is 167 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: what I get. She would talk to me, Daddy, you 168 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: showed me how to fight. I'll be okay, Daddy, I say, baby, 169 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: listen to me and quit running your mouth. Don't walk 170 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: with your hood on your head, don't have the earbuds 171 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: in your ear. Be aware of your surroundings. She kept 172 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: running her mouth and I grabbed her. I said, that's 173 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,719 Speaker 1: how it's gonna happen, Alliana. I said, that's I was 174 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: gonna happen. Now what she's gonna do? Ww Dad, are 175 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: you scared? Yes? Again? Lord, give me strength and continue 176 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: on this foundation. Keep my mind right, in my spirit right. 177 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: Hearing that father and just breaking my heart. I'm just 178 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: trying to imagine my father, who is just so much 179 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: to me, endearing with this father, Damon Defrieze is endearing 180 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: right now, and Alyana's mother as well. This beautiful little girl, 181 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: Alyona Defriese, just beautiful, had to catch two buses every morning. 182 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: That morning, she was on her way to tutoring seven am, 183 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: and she was excited and happy, not whining and complaining, 184 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: jumping off the curb and looking to see if the 185 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: bus was coming. Her mom walked her to the bus station, 186 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: waiting for her to get on the first bus. It 187 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: was when she was getting off the bus around six 188 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: to fifty in the morning the RTA. She must have 189 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: been on her second bus almost to tutoring at that time, 190 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: ten minutes away. She was spotted getting off that bus. 191 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: She never made it. As her parents go about their 192 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: daily business, they have no idea their daughter has been 193 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: kidnapped off the street at the bus stop by a 194 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: forty five year old sex offender, Christopher Whitaker, who takes 195 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: her to an abandoned house, rapes her, mutilates her, and 196 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: stabs her dead. To John Lemley, Crime online dot Com 197 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,839 Speaker 1: investigative reporter John Linley, what do we learn from this 198 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: little girl's autopsy? Well, the medical examiner, doctor David Dalinach, 199 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: performed the autopsy on Aliana, revealing that she had been raped, 200 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: her body inflicted with multiple blunt force injuries, stabbing puncture wounds. 201 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: Her many wounds were consistent with tools that we've mentioned 202 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: found in the abandoned house where her body was found, 203 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 1: including a drill, screwdriver, and boxcutter. Doctor Dolinak said that 204 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: her injuries were so numerous and severe that he could 205 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: not identify which specifically even caused her death. This little 206 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: girl so innocent, she still played with dolls. She still 207 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: played with dolls. Listen, this is a Chief of Police, 208 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: Calvin Williams. Tonight, we're here to announce an arrest in 209 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: the case of Avianna the Frieze. Tonight, members of the 210 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: US Marshal's Violent Fugitive Task Force Claimed Division of Police 211 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: arrested a suspect in that case, Christopher Whittaker. He's now 212 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: in our custom city and is being talked to by investigators, 213 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: and we'll be booked into our city jail pretty soon. 214 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: This has been a trying time for us. You know, 215 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: a week ago, from a few hours ago, this young 216 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: lady went missing, and we put everything we could out 217 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: there to find her and bring her home safely. Unfortunately 218 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: that didn't happen, but our investigators didn't stop, and tonight 219 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: the culmination of their efforts is the arrest of a 220 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: person that we need to make sure never touches our 221 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: streets again. Marshall Elliott and his members actually received the 222 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: information earlier today and they worked it all day long, 223 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,479 Speaker 1: and approximately seven fifteen this afternoon they arrested the suspect 224 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: in Mayfield Heights and again he's now in our custody. 225 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: You're hearing the chief of Police, Calvin Williams Well, I 226 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: don't understand why already in custody. He's a registered sex offender. 227 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: To Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina family lawyer. Kathleen Murphy, my 228 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: first question to you is do you believe we know 229 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: that there is a lawsuit happening right now where the 230 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: family is suing the school, which I completely agree with. 231 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: Ten hours they probably could have saved her life because 232 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: they knew what bus she was getting on and off. 233 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: What is the point of suing the killer, Kathleen Murphy, 234 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: I think that the point the school is clear. Suing 235 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: the killer would have to relate to whether this guy 236 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: has any assets, or whether it's to prevent this person 237 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: from jail, writing a book or making money off of 238 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: his story. I also think you would be very important 239 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: to them, doctor Daniel Bober to not just go after 240 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: the school who failed to call the parents. A ten 241 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: hour lead time this guy was given. But also, doctor Bober, 242 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: he is the one that murdered their daughter. How can 243 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: you have a lawsuit not sue him. Yeah, it's true. 244 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, these are two different universes. I mean, 245 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: the school just dropped the ball and you know, failed 246 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: to use care. But he was the one that committed 247 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: this horrific and savage crime. You know. The other issue 248 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: is he claimed he was high on cocaine, but that 249 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: very day after she's been murdered, he is spotted at 250 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: a local church and they said he was calm, cool 251 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: and collected. What does that say to you? Doctor Bober 252 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: says that, you know, it's complete nonsense, Nancy. All these 253 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: actions that he took and his behavior the next day 254 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: is not consistent with substance intoxication. I think it's not. 255 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: And there's really nowhere for him to go because video 256 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: shows him getting Aliana off the school bus. So, John Limley, 257 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: what can you tell me about this lawsuit? And I 258 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: think the parents are absolutely correct, Nancy. The parents have 259 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: filed this lawsuit not only against the killer, but her 260 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 1: school and the city of Cleveland itself, claiming wrongful death. Crucially, 261 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: they allege in their lawsuit that Aliana's charter school E 262 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: Prep and Village Prep Woodland Hills Breakthrough School could have 263 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: prevented her death by phoning her mother when she did 264 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: not arrive at school. In their lawsuit, Cooper and the 265 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: girl's family say that they could have saved her if 266 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: they were told she was missing, that it was completely 267 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: out of character for this teenager to miss school, and 268 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 1: that the school should have known just that when she 269 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: didn't show up without any notice from either parent. What 270 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: do you know about this guy? Christopher Whittaker chimly Nancy 271 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: Whittaker was anything but a stranger to police. He had 272 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: quite a lengthy criminal record long before his rape and 273 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,959 Speaker 1: murder of Aliana. In nineteen ninety eight, two charges one 274 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: grand theft and burglary, another aggravated robbery and felonious assault. 275 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: That case was dismissed. Then in two thousand and five 276 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: he served almost four years in prison for felonious assault 277 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: of a forty five year old woman, and that's when 278 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,479 Speaker 1: he was listed as a sex offender. In twenty twelve, 279 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: an additional charge that of aggravated theft. Once again, we 280 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: also know in seeking some kind of closure, which they'll 281 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: never have Aliana defrees. His family knows now that the 282 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: home where Aliana was murdered has been torn down and demolished. 283 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds in the case of little 284 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 1: fourteen year old victim Aliana Defres and her killer, registered 285 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: sex offender Christopher Whittaker. Our prayers to the victims' families. 286 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:14,239 Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, it is unimaginable. That's what 287 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: many are saying this evening about an alleged assault here 288 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: at the Walmart in Chippewa Township, Beaver County, Chippewa Township. 289 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: Police say thirty two year old Adam to Tusco of 290 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: West Mayfield followed a little boy into the bathroom here 291 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: at Walmart. He pulled out a device that police identify 292 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 1: as a doctor who television one. They say, to Dusco 293 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: told the little boy that it was a taser and 294 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: then he better do what he tells him to do. Well. 295 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: At that point, police say to Tusco had the boy undressed, 296 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: forced them into the stall. The alleged assault was broken 297 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: up then when the boy's father came into the bathroom 298 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: and grabbed the alleged attacker. To Tusco now charged with 299 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: a idea of counts including unlawful restraint, indecent assault, and 300 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: corruption of a minor. And that's not all police say. 301 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: They suspect to Tusco attempted a similar assault at a 302 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: nearby McDonald's. That attempt failed when that little boy ran away. 303 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: You're hearing our frenzy KDKA. That was Paul Martine regarding 304 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: a Walmart bathroom attack. Well with me right now is 305 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: a very very special woman. Her name is Misty McDavid. 306 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: And I found out about Misty's story while I was 307 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: researching a book that I'm working on, a nonfiction book 308 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: about how to protect your children and yourself in the 309 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: middle of a crime wave across our country. And I 310 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: was specifically researching and looking at attacks in stores, at malls, 311 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: in playgrounds and so forth. And I got into the 312 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: subsection of attacks in bathrooms. And as I was reading 313 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: and eating and reading, it is about two o'clock in 314 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: the morning, the name Misty McDavid popped up. And when 315 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 1: I read her story and what she is trying to 316 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: tell you now, I had to track her down, and 317 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: Alan and Jackie did just that with me right now, 318 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: Misty McDavid, Misty when you hear the story we were 319 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: just playing. I know that had to bring back some 320 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: really scary memories. Let's just start at the beginning, where 321 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 1: you and your little boy, Luke or in one of 322 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: my favorite stores, Michaels. I go there for all the 323 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: children's school projects. Whatever I have to do, we go 324 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: to Michaels. I love Michaels and I was just and 325 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: Matt last time I was there, we were looking at 326 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: for little figurines and many trees to make a dire 327 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: rama for the children's book report. I don't want to 328 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: remember that. I want to hear your story now. What 329 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: happened with you and Luke? And you're from a small 330 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: town in Tennessee with a very low crime rate. What happened? 331 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: We entered the department store, and like I'm sure most 332 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: of you all with kids, it doesn't matter if you 333 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: let them use the bathroom immediately when you leave home. 334 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,959 Speaker 1: By the time you get to the next destination, they 335 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: have to go again. And so I walked into Michaels. 336 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: I had just made it through a couple of alls, 337 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: and I was in a hurry, and my son was 338 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: I I was ten years old. He said, Mom, I've 339 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: got to be and I'm like, dude, really, are you 340 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: sure you know? Can you not hold it? And he 341 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: was like, well, I can'ts I can't. So I said, okay, 342 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: we're in Michaels. Go ahead, go to the bathroom and 343 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: come right back to me right here. And so he went, 344 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: which he had work, you know, around to the back 345 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: of the store the way Michaels has set up with 346 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: their bathroom is. And he was gone a little longer 347 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: than I thought he should be, and I probably would 348 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 1: have went after him pretty soon. And he turned to 349 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: the corner and the look on his face was just 350 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: I knew something had happened. And I said, what's wrong? 351 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: And he said, Mom, I just got the scaredest I've 352 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: ever been in my wife. And I said what happened? 353 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: And he said, A man tried to get in the 354 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 1: stall with me. Mom, Well, my heart is sank. And 355 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: you think you know what you would do in that situation, 356 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: but I promise you it's probably on the way you 357 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: think you would. I was in shock and he's I said, 358 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: you know, can you identify this man? Do you know 359 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: what he looks like? And he said, Mom, I could 360 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: see his black muddy word boots under the door, but 361 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: I couldn't see him because he was in front of 362 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: the door. And I said, how did he try to 363 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: get in? And he said, he just kept jamming the door, 364 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: just kept like you know, taking it back and forth, 365 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: trying to get it open, trying to get the lot 366 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: to open. And I've told him his entire life, if 367 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: anyone ever tries to bother you or tries to harm 368 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: you, you you scream. Scream as lot as you can, You 369 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: make all the noise you can, because it will cause 370 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: a distraction. They will probably go the other way. But 371 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: he didn't. He froze, He said, Mom. I pulled my 372 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: arms and my knees into my chest hot as I could, 373 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: and I said, as stealing as quiet as I could. 374 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: And I know that the Lord was protecting my child 375 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: that day, because that man could have went underneath the 376 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: stall if he'd have been Adama on getting in there 377 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: with him. But my child had to come to me, 378 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: not knowing that that man was probably somewhere in the store. 379 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: And so I said, can you know, can you show 380 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: me those boots? So I started walking the store and 381 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: I started scanning, you know, for people, and I saw 382 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: a guy with a pair of brown who worked boots 383 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: on the as a register checking out, and I said, 384 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: Luke's about him and he said, no, no, these are 385 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: black boots. I will know the boots if I see him. 386 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: And about that time we turned the corner and I 387 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: came wasn't about two feet of this person, and my 388 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: little boy jumped behind me and he said, Mom, that's him, 389 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: and I just froze. I couldn't say anything, I couldn't 390 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: do anything. I just stood there and the all what 391 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: could have again flashed through my mind and the guy 392 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: just kind of ran his fingers through his hair and 393 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: kind of chuckled at me. He knew I knew, and 394 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: he knew it was nothing I could do about it, 395 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: and he walked out of the store with another lady 396 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: who was in the store with him. I did go 397 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: to the Michael's Department store manager, where we did fall 398 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: a place for They did have that man on camera 399 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: going into the bathroom, but we could not do anything 400 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: about it other than Michael's Department store was told to 401 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: watch for that particular person. And the scariest thing for 402 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: me is that I know had that man. I've been 403 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: able to get ahold of my son in that bathroom. 404 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: He could have got him out of that store quietly. 405 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,479 Speaker 1: And that's the biggest thing, you know, I don't know 406 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: that there is enough training that we can do for 407 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: our children, because I thought that he would scream if 408 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: somebody ever tried to bother him. I mean, he's a 409 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 1: pretty outspoken little guy. He's not shy, he's not reserved. 410 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: He's a people person. He could talk to the president. 411 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: But that day he froze. And I know in my 412 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: heart that man could have got him out of that 413 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: store quietly had he been able to get to him. 414 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: And I just was unaware of the sex trafficking that 415 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: goes on in our little area that I live in. 416 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I was absolutely shocked when I pulled up 417 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: the Tennessee dot gov website and looked at that. And 418 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: I would encourage everyone to look at your air and 419 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: see what kind of sex trafficking and what kind of 420 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: child indections go on in the area that you're in. 421 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: I know, in the United States, on an average, a 422 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: child's brought either bought or sold for sex every two minutes. 423 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: That's seven hundred and twenty children every day, and thirteen 424 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: is the prime ate. I'm thinking my son's getting older. 425 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,439 Speaker 1: I'm probably at you know, I could send him to 426 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: the bathroom, you know, when he gets just a little 427 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: bit bigger. But actually he's going to hit the prime 428 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: age of thirteen. Then what am I gonna do. I 429 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: can't take him in the women's bathroom at thirteen years old. 430 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: So I will stand in the men's door, make sure 431 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: no one is in there. I will send him in, 432 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: and I will stand and I will not let him 433 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 1: in in the I'm sorry, my son's in there, and 434 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to wait. But I just I think 435 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: we can't be prepared enough, we can't be knowledgeable enough. 436 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: There has to be some way to protect your children 437 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: and to protect other children. Missy McDavid is with me 438 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: telling of a real scare she had right there in 439 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: the local Michaels's like a craft store. Misty. Also, your 440 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: hometown is very small. I came from an area about 441 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: the size of your hometown, maybe even smaller, and crime 442 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: rate very very low, Is that right, Misty? Yes, I 443 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: live in a very safe I mean I feel totally 444 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: comfortable going downtown in the town that I live in 445 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 1: and running at you know, even at dusk dark by 446 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: myself like, we just live in a super safe area. 447 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: But the thing that the police brought a lot to 448 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: me the day that this happens. He said, ma'am, let's 449 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: look at the location that this Michael sits on. It 450 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: runs right like you can be on the interstate, and 451 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's right off the interstates. You literally get 452 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: off the ramp and you're there. He said, they can 453 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: get on this interstate right here and be in three 454 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: states within this a matter of minutes. And he said 455 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: the location of things makes it a prim target for 456 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: sex traffickers to take your children because they can be gone. 457 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: Facts of this case are some of the more heinous 458 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: that I've seen in a long time. Clark County Prosecutor 459 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: Jeremy Mule says twenty three year old Michael Weston should 460 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: spend as much time behind bars as the law will allow. 461 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: Police say Weston followed a second grader into a bathroom 462 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: at Bob Hedge Park last week and threatened him with 463 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: a knife before sexually assaulting him. We would like to 464 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: think that our children are able to go to the 465 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: park to play and to be safe, and generally that's true, 466 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: but this is the kind of case that disappearance worst nightmare, 467 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: their child playing in a park and being assaulted. Police 468 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: say park security cameras helped to implicate Weston, who was 469 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: arrested Friday. The victim's father says Weston forced down his 470 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: son's pants and touched him until another person entered the bathroom. 471 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: Mark Wilson says he was babysitting the victim at the 472 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: park the day of the attack, and says his own 473 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: young son was there as well. I'm glad we got 474 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: off to the streets and he'd been a predator over 475 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: there for a while. And you know other family members 476 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: that had their children. Are other people had their children, 477 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: are they need to talk to their children about if 478 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: anything wants to happen there, because there's plenty of children, 479 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: it goes over there unattended by herself. Wilson says the 480 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: victim is doing well, but says the assault has been traumatizing. 481 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: You know, I could happen to any kid, you know, 482 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: so you know it could have been my kid, but 483 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: you know it was his child, and you know what 484 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: I mean, It's it's awful thing. I can just tell 485 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: the public that I will do my best to make 486 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: sure that this individuals not ever on the street of gear. 487 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: You're and our friends at w l k Y regarding 488 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: a man who molests a child in an Indiana park bathroom. 489 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: He was in front of a judge in Louisville, Kentucky 490 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: with me right now telling her story and the story 491 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: of her son, Misty McDavid from Tennessee. She and Luke 492 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: are in a local Michael's craft store. He goes to 493 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: the bathroom. He comes out, Why does a sheet because 494 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: a man tries to get to him in the bathroom 495 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: and can describe in detail a man's black muddy boots 496 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: and Misty goes all over the Michaels till she finds 497 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: the work boots in. The guy just smirks at her 498 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: and leaves too. Doctor Judith Joseph psychiatrists joining us from 499 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: New York. What kind of an impact does that have 500 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: on a child for the rest of his life. It's 501 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: not just a child that's traumatising for everyone, for the parent, 502 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: for him, I mean for the entire family. And you know, 503 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,479 Speaker 1: I think that what mom did in this case was 504 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: really the right thing to do. She believed him. Do 505 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: you know how many times kids tell me that no 506 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: one believes them when they're sexually abuse and for various reasons, 507 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: people can't handle it to paintful the hair they have 508 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: the nile. But she did the right thing in this case. 509 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: She believed him immediately. Then she made him feel safe. 510 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: She held on to him. She did not blame him. 511 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: She told him that it wasn't his fault, it was 512 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: this perpetrator's fault. She did everything that a supportive and 513 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: healthy and loving parent does. So I applaud her in 514 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: this case because in the spur of moment, a lot 515 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: of parents would not have reacted the way that she did. 516 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: And the truth is, Nancy, you can't protect your kids 517 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: all the time. The most common abuses, cases of child 518 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: abuse happened with people who are friendly looking. They don't 519 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: look like predators. And that's why you can protect your 520 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: child and tell them and warn them, look out for this, 521 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: lookout for that. But in the end of the day, 522 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's usually someone close 523 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: to the families, someone at the child knows, or someone 524 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: that does not look intimidating or threatening. And that's why 525 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: they're so good at pulling off cases like this, pulling 526 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: off abuse, because they don't look like a predator. So, 527 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: you know, I think it's important to continue to make 528 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: her child feel safe. Tell your kids it's not their fault, 529 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: and validate them and believe them. You know what's interesting 530 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: following up on what doctor Jusy just said to Missy McDavid, 531 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: the mom joining us now from Tennessee, Missy, I remember 532 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: and John David, my son, has just told me about this, 533 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: and he's now eleven. In his old bedroom, there was 534 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: something that made a shadow on the wall. It looked 535 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: like a cowboy and a cowboy. It looked to him 536 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: at night that the cowboy was getting closer and closer 537 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: and closer. It was like a silhouette I think of 538 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: a cowboy. Still don't really understand it. To this day, 539 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: eight years later, he still remembers it and it's still 540 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: scary to him. Misty, does your son Luke ever bring 541 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: this up or talk about it what happened in the 542 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: Michael's bathroom? He doesn't ever want to discuss it, and 543 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: he that when if we'd leave home and go toward town, 544 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: it has literally took him six months before he would 545 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: stop holding around my husband or my arm when we're 546 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 1: walking through the grocery store or anything he used to 547 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: would walk along beside of us, you know, and he 548 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: didn't ever get away from us and go to a 549 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: different areas of the store, but he would walk along 550 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: beside of us. But for a good six months he 551 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: held one of our arms all the time. And so 552 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: I just tried to help, you know, I would just 553 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: I'd rub his little off. You know, we're not going 554 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: to let anything happen to you. It is okay, and 555 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: just keep reconfirming him. And he is a little bit 556 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: less afraid of going into public. But yes, that was 557 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: you know, it traumatized him and he doesn't want to 558 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: talk about it. You know. What was interesting also to 559 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert, professor of forensics at Jacksonal 560 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: State University and author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. 561 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: Joe Scott, that statistic Misty McDavid just quoted is accurate 562 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: regarding sex trafficking. That's the way it happens, just like this, 563 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: Joe Scott, Just like Missdy McDavid's telling us, Yeah it is. 564 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: And here's You've got two types in this environment that 565 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 1: are going to prey upon children. You've got kind of 566 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,760 Speaker 1: the serialized behavior that goes on with you know, these 567 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: pedophile types that just look for children to prey upon. 568 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: And then you have these groups of people that go 569 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,240 Speaker 1: out and try to traffic and you know, and people 570 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: that are just non suspecting. What's really crazy about all this, 571 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: just like Missy was talking about relative to Michaels, is 572 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: that in my area, we have we have a large 573 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: shopping area that is right on the I twenty corridor 574 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: and it is it is a prim area. You know, 575 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,399 Speaker 1: there's all these major chain stores that are in there, 576 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: and you think that you're safe when you go into 577 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,319 Speaker 1: this environment. And I've had I've got three kids, I've 578 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: got two older daughters, I've got a son that's still 579 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: at home, and I'll I you know, I'm I'm distrusted 580 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,439 Speaker 1: by nature. I suspect everybody, and so I watched really 581 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: carefully over my children, but sometimes you just cannot watch them. 582 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,399 Speaker 1: It's a it's a distracting environment. But these predators are 583 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: counting on your distraction. That's what they're looking for, and 584 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: that's why people have to get aware. Daryl co In Atlanta, 585 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,360 Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor. You know, for every time 586 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: PERP molests he is already molested dozens of times before. 587 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,840 Speaker 1: Darryl Oh Absolutely, Nancy, excuse me. These pups are unbelievable. 588 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: I wish they could wear a sign and it would 589 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: flash off their forehead, but they don't. They look normal. 590 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: They look like your boy next door, like the man 591 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 1: next door. And that's why as parents, it's so incumbent, 592 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: so important to watch your kids, not just the two 593 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,799 Speaker 1: year olds, the five year olds, the seven year olds, 594 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: but all of them. Be my youngest daughter, she's seventeen, 595 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: and I make her aware every minute of every day. 596 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 1: You want to expect the best for people, that you 597 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: also need to prepare for the worst. What about it? Dave, Max, 598 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 1: and Kenny talk to your host hearing Missy McDavid's story. 599 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: I was a little kid. I was raised by a 600 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 1: single mom in the sixties, and I remember when I 601 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: was five years old, she let my brother, who was 602 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 1: two years older than me, go to the movie. We 603 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: went to see Dumbo in the theater. Before we got 604 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: out of the car, my mother said, do not go 605 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,799 Speaker 1: in the bathroom by yourself. My brother, who's now a 606 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,320 Speaker 1: detective and has been for forty years. She said, Michael, 607 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: do not leave your little brother alone in the bathroom. 608 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: And it was an uncomfortable discussion, but she had it 609 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: with us and said, this is what could happen. There 610 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: are bad people who will hurt you. And she gave it. 611 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,960 Speaker 1: And I remember that now. I'm an old man now, 612 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: and she told me that when I was five, Nancy, 613 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,320 Speaker 1: it happened. Then, it's happening now. And you still haven't 614 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: gone in the bathroom by yourself. Okay, you know what, 615 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: Missy McDonald. But you know what, I'm listening to, Missy McDavid. 616 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: And my son is about the same age as yours, 617 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: and they're like, Mom, I can't go back, you know what, 618 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: they can't. I do the same thing. I stand at 619 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: the door and I yell in at him the whole time. Eyeball, 620 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: every guy going in the bathroom. He's bigger than me, 621 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,959 Speaker 1: he's taller than me. I cannot really take him into 622 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: the ladies bathroom anymore. I look for a family bathroom 623 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,759 Speaker 1: and we all troop in there together if I can 624 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 1: find one. Otherwise, I do what you do, Missy. I 625 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: wait at the door and scream in there the whole 626 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: time like a big idiot. But I don't here. That's 627 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 1: what I do. And you know what, Misty, When I 628 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: was reading your blog what you had posted, you said, 629 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: it's been a couple of days and I didn't know 630 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: whether or not I was going to post this or not. 631 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: It's taken me a few days to decide whether or 632 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: not I'm going to post, but I did, and I 633 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,240 Speaker 1: thank God that you did with me from Tennessee, Misty 634 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: McDavid Nancy Grace's crime story, signing off goodbye friend.