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I want to know why he was allowed back in that home. How did a 6-year-old boy die from lack of oxygen inside his own
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home while he was alone with the man who admitted to beating him with a belt? And
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how did this happen less than a year after the system had already substantiated abuse?
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There's been a resounding word throughout this entire episode. Undetermined. Mhm.
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Undetermined cause, undetermined manner, undetermined answers. There is one thing that was never
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undetermined. Jojo mattered. He mattered to his dad, his real life superhero who he wanted to
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be like when he grew up. >> [music] >> And he mattered to the little girl who got to live more life and spend precious
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final moments with her family because of his organ donation. And he mattered [music] to the people
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who saw him every day at school, to the janitor who came to visit him while he was in the hospital because he said that
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Jojo never just walked by him like the other kids. He always stopped and gave him a hug.
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He made him feel special. And that's who Jojo was. For dad, Joseph, this was never just
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about a probation violation. It was about protection. Now, instead of letting his grief swallow him into
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silence, it propels him forward. He tells Jojo's story publicly any chance he can get, not because it's easy, but
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because it's necessary. He speaks to other law enforcement officers about what went wrong, about what might have
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been done differently, how to keep this from happening to another child, another
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family. He fights for accountability because he knows what it feels like to beg for help
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>> [music] >> and to not be heard. I got on FaceTime with my family and let all my family say goodbye to him
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in the hospital room. And then when I hung up, I walked over to him and I leaned over and I whispered
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in his ear. I said, "Don't worry. Daddy got you. He going to find out what happened."