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When a child is killed, the parents are usually mortified, creating some of the saddest moments in the interrogation
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room. But what happens when instead it's a child's own parents who are the secret
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killers? Is he dead? You tell me. Got to be dead. Here are four examples of killer parents
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who did the unthinkable and got caught red-handed. Starting with a mother who got so high she ended up with her
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daughter's blood on her hands. This is the aftermath of a tragic incident that left a child dead. When officers arrived
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on the scene, they were met by the distraught driver. However, they quickly discovered there was something much more
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sinister at play. She's out of she don't know if she's in this world or not. Who else was in the car?
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She was the baby that's in the back lifeless. Chassity was driving eastbound on Jasper
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Road in Newton Township, Pike County, Ohio. And in the car with her were her two daughters, aged seven and 5 years
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old. She tries to explain what happened in the leadup to the crash. So, where were you coming from today
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then? Right now before the crash. Where did you guys come from? When you were driving on the road, where
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did you leave from? The house. You left your house. Where were you going? To Christiey's from the store.
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Christiey's in the store. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, what happened with the crash? Do you
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remember it at all? I turned my head and look at the girls to talk to them and they were fighting
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and I just turned my head. In that split second, she lost control of the vehicle
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with the official press release saying that she drove off the left side of the roadway, ramping over a driveway,
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striking a utility pole and a tree before coming to a final rest in the field. It turns out her 7-year-old
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daughter wasn't wearing a seat belt, which is required for anyone in a moving vehicle. Although her 5-year-old
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daughter survived unharmed, her seven-year-old suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene. But it wasn't
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just a lack of care that caused the crash itself. And as you can see, Chassid's behavior tells the officer she
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is under the influence and a danger behind the wheel. So, you haven't used meth since
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yesterday then? Right. Right. I took my sleep pill last night. Took your sleep pill last night?
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Yes, I did it every night. I mean, everybody. All right. Well, I'm going to run you
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through a few field sobriety tests here. Okay. Um, I'm going to check your eyes first.
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Do the uh horizontal gaze. Chassity had a history of drug abuse, and if she was high at the time she crashed, then she
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would be facing some serious criminal charges. Failed sobriety tests can be hard when you're sober, but when you're
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drunk, they're a nightmare. While conducting this test, the officer noticed something about the suspect that
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needed explaining. How do you how do you ingest your pills in your meth when you take them? Do you
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squirt them? Yeah. Okay. How do you how do you explain having zero nasal hair in your nose?
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Oh, yeah. And that was from years ago, probably years ago. Yeah. Did you just sort Xanax or
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something? Yeah, I did Xanax actually. Okay. How long ago has it been since you done that?
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About five days when I did that last. Five days since you did that last. Okay. Have you smoked any marijuana or
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anything like that today? I don't smoke marijuana. Xanax is popular with those who suffer
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from anxiety and depression, but it also is popular with users who snort it for a
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quicker high. One side effect of snorting it, loss of nasal hair, which tells the officer she uses it a lot. The
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cop decides to proceed with the final test, the one that will seal Chassid's fate. Start it whenever you're ready.
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Okay. Is there any chance you're pregnant right now? No. Not pregnant at all? Okay.
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Actually, that time right now. A month. Okay. I was like, "Yeah." Turn around for me.
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Do you have any shoulder injuries? Yeah. Right now, you're under arrest for OVI.
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Okay. I'm going to read you your rights before we go any further. This officer has seen enough and decides
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to arrest her for DUI. As of November 2023, Chassity is facing some serious felony charges, including first-degree
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aggravated vehicular homicide, thirdderee endangering children, firstdegree involuntary manslaughter,
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and reckless homicide. But compared to the next killer parent, Chassity looks like a saint.
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Is he alive? He's dead. Oh, good, good, good, good, good, good. Okay. When 62-year-old Cynthia suffered a
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stroke, she was taken in by her daughter Laura, who felt she could keep a closer
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eye on her at home. On the surface, Laura's California home seemed to be the perfect place to be. As she settled into
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her new surroundings, she realized just how bad things were. Laura's husband, Jard, was a well-known and respected
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figure in the local community, but was also a very strict father who used military-style training to keep everyone
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in check. Cynthia was against the way he brought up her grandkids, and they frequently argued about it.
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What did you think of him? Okay. Why do you say that? That's the big thumbs down. You didn't
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like it. Jard had his own issues with Cynthia. She was a smoker and when Jard caught
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her with a cigarette, he had a unique way of making her stop. My aunt Cindy would be on the back patio
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smoking cuz she wasn't allowed to smoke in the house. And he would be out there watering and he would see, "Oh, where I
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see smoke, I see fire. Got to put out the fire." And he would hose my aunt down with the hose. He did it to my
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cousin, too. To Laura, his wife. He would hose her wet her with the hose because she say something he didn't
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like. The relationship deteriorated as the years went on and on February 11th, 2014, Cynthia snapped.
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It was the morning of Cynthia's 63rd birthday and she was planning to celebrate in style. When Jard saw the
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outfit she had picked, he made a comment that tipped Cynthia over the edge. You can't go like that because you look
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like you're ghetto in this. Cynthia had only recently purchased a revolver, and now she
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finally found an excuse to use it. She went to her bedroom, grabbed the weapon, and shot five rounds into Jard, who was
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in the garden at the time. Then she went for breakfast at a local Denny's and celebrated her birthday at a casino as
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if nothing had happened. Neighbors quickly called in the shots, and cops later found Jard dead on the kitchen
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floor of his home, leaving Cynthia to become the lead suspect in the investigation. Detectives caught up with
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her at a coffee shop a few hours after her murder, and she was brought in for questioning. Take a look at her frankly
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laughable attempts to feain ignorance and act upset. Well, unfortunately, Laura's husband
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has passed away. Huh? Laura's husband was killed today. You were killed when? Today. [laughter]
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We're going to ask you some questions. We're going to ask you some questions because we're trying to figure out what
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happened today. Okay. As the interrogation went on, Cynthia's mask began to slip.
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So mean to me and all of them. He's mean to everybody. Yes, he is. Did anybody try to stop him?
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Can't stop him. It sounds like somebody had to stop him or I did. I did. Okay. I was guilty.
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Somebody had to stop him. I did. Okay. It's okay. Is he dead? You tell me. You got to be dead.
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Just like that, she admitted to murdering Jard. But her reaction to finding out Juard is actually dead is
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the stuff of nightmares. Is he dead? He's dead, man. Oh, thank you. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
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THANK YOU. Thank you. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. No matter what Jard did, he did not deserve to be gunned down and killed in
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such a brutal way. He was more than just a son-in-law. He was a husband and father. And now a family was left in
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turmoil. Just watch Laura's heartbreaking reaction after she found out her own mother was the one
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responsible. Oh god. I wanted to 13 years. I wanted to go get him. This would be the last time they saw
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Cynthia outside of prison grounds as she was sentenced to 50 years for the murder
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of Jard, meaning she'll undoubtedly die in prison. At least Cynthia made it easy
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for the cops, unlike this next killer who did everything she could to cover up her murder.
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You know what I find interesting? What? How you are right now? how you'd like to climb across this table and
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clock me. I wish I could. In December of 2017, the FBI finally found 5-year-old Jordan Rodriguez in the
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backyard of his family home. But this would be a discovery that would open Pandora's box of abuse and neglect, and
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it was down to one phone call. Cleveland police operator personally, may I help you?
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Hi, ma'am. Um, I'm calling from overseas, but it's kind of messed up the whole situation. But my brother told me
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something and I just can't sleep at night as far as basically he told me that something happened with one of the
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kids and um, they didn't call the cops and basically him and his girlfriend buried the kid in the backyard. The
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father Christopher was serving time when he called his brother and claimed that he and his wife Lorissa had found their
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son Jordan unresponsive and took the decision to bury him in their own backyard. When Lissa's sisters visited
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her in August 2017, they saw a family living in the most disgusting conditions and Lissa told her family that Jordan
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was going to stay with his aunt not long after her sister visited. After the phone call from Christopher's brother,
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police decided to pay Lissa a call and perform a welfare check. She's got five kids.
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Are you kids here? You mind if you step in? Okay. Well, we got a call saying uh wanted us
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to check on the on the uh well-being of the uh five four to 5 year old. Okay. What can we see?
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Okay. I believe you don't want me. brother Rodriguez and his girlfriend Rodriguez.
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All right. Hello, kid. Do you have a child with special needs? Oh, Jordan? Yes, I do.
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How old is Jordan? Jordan, he is just turned five. Where's Jordan at? He's with his dad. He's visiting. Going
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to be visiting for the holiday. He's not here with us right now. right now for the holiday.
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Where is dad at? In Texas. He's not even here. There is no sign of Jordan. And when
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Lissa is asked, she brushes off any concern and tells the officer he's with his father.
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What's his dad's name? Jordan's dad. Patrick. Patrick. Do you have a number to Patrick? Will
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you reach that? Um, when you call him? Yeah. Huh? Right now, I don't have the number
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cuz he was going to get a new number. Tell me something about Patrick. He stays in Texas. I mean, we were together
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for about 2 years. What's his last name? John. We wasn't together actually too long. He was just like an internet
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thing. Lissa seems to have trouble remembering a man who she dated for 2 years and had
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a child with. More worryingly, when asked by police, she could not recall the phone number or any details of where
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they could be found at the time, which all seems to be rather convenient under the circumstances. The next day,
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Jordan's body was found, and the autopsy revealed a history of abuse that had been going on for a very long time.
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Shortly after the gruesome discovery, Lissa was arrested and brought in for questioning where, disgustingly, she
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continued to play innocent. When I tell you some things have changed is we did talk with the coroner,
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okay? And they finished their initial examination and there were some problems. Like
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the problems being Jordan had injuries that were healing on their own without medical help and you're not being honest
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about what was happening to this kid. I mean, I personally didn't. I should not be the only one
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taking full blame for this. When police asked Lissa about the injuries, she denied being responsible,
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but the detectives aren't convinced. How long were you and Chris together? About 2 years. When we confront him with
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Jordan's injuries, is he going to tell us otherwise that you're the one who did it?
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A woman can't do a hit that much harder. And you know what? Anybody can tell you
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that. That's not true. I mean, he's a lot stronger than I am. If he can hit on me and he can
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discipline my other kids, but he wouldn't discipline him like he did Jordan. How did How does he discipline Jordan?
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It was just different. And I used to sit there and tell him, "Don't do that." You
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know, I used to get yelled at. [snorts] My kids all can tell you I defended all my kids. And that's where a lot of me
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and his arguments came in because I did defend my kids and that's where he would
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put his hands on me. As the interrogation goes on, Lissa continues to paint a very bleak picture
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of Christopher, which could be an attempt to make herself out as the victim. It is revealed that in September
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2017, Jordan was in a semi-conscious state. But instead of calling an ambulance, they just gave him a cold
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shower and put him to bed. Tragically, Jordan would never see the light of day, and the couple decided to bury him in
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the backyard. You won't believe who it was. It was Christopher's idea to bury your
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son in the backyard. It was my idea and he just did it. Just because I didn't want Jordan to be far
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away from me. I just wanted him to be close. I was not ready to let Jordan go. I take the responsibility. I didn't take
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him to the doctor. That was my fault. I mean, I didn't call the ambulance when he needed it. That was my fault.
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I also had part in putting him there because I just had a baby. So, you know, and I'm feeling my
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depressed. I I diagnosed with PTSD, you know, and it's probably postpartum. And, [snorts] you know, I didn't know
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what to do. Both Christopher and Lissa were found guilty on charges of involuntary manslaughter with sentences
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of 28 and 25 years. They knew what they were doing when they neglected their responsibility as parents. Unlike this
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next couple who were so high on drugs, they didn't even notice when their infant child walked straight into
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danger. US Route 1, it's one of the busiest highways across America and the last
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place you would ever want to find a child wandering alone. But in June 2019, that's exactly what one motorist saw and
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they had to do something about it. The whole absolutely is. Come here. In 2018, the same family had been
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involved in an incident where a child called 911 and when the police arrived, they found two children alone with a
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potentially dangerous dog. But even worse, there was a shotgun also in the room with them. If the officer was
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hoping Yahra and Jacob had cleaned up their lifestyle in the year since he last saw them, then he was in for a
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major disappointment. You know, I I don't want to say it's that trailer right there.
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But I was out here for a similar incident. And it was that trailer right there. So,
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I'm going to try to find the mom again. Same child. They were younger. I'm pretty They were
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younger, obviously, at the time, but that's why I'm kind of remembering him. You want to sit in the back of my car
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real quick? In the in the blue lights on. We'll put the blue lights on. All right.
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The officer kept the child entertained until his parents showed up. And when they finally did, they were a little too
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out of it to even care. Do you recognize me? No. You don't recognize me? I was here last
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time when this happened. You remember that? Yeah. And your son today was in the street
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walking out on US1. And luckily, some nice ladies saw him and stopped before he got smooshed by a freaking car. What
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were you guys doing in there? We were just sleeping. Just sleeping. Yeah. Can we get him a new diaper on?
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His diaper is really soiled. You don't even want to like I mean you can look at it obviously but it's
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disgusting. Like I didn't even want to walk in there but I wanted to make sure there was wasn't another kid in there.
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Is this the same kid or a different one? No, it's the same kid. It's the same kid that called us last
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time. He's got a younger sister. I think she's with the grandparents. So, we're going to need to call DCF or
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the grandparent. Eventually, the officer decides he has had a do I mean this is just a a circus. All I
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want was the kid to get some clothes and get changed. You guys couldn't even do that. What do
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you think I was doing around? That's what you were doing. I was putting clothes on.
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This is not fair at all. It's not fair. Yeah, it's not fair to your son. That's what is not fair to.
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Have a seat. They later claimed to be taking medication that caused them to fall
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asleep and their son had walked out of a broken door. The boy was sent to live with the family and his parents were
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