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Crime Alert. I'mnancy Grace, breaking crime needs Now. At Surveillance
cameras inside Chester Community Charter School, Delaware County, PA catch
around one hundred incidents of child abuse involving twenty six children,
some as young as five. The footage mostly from the
school's special needs quote Positive Support Room, prompting investigation that

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leads to charges against twenty school employees. The investigation begins
when a parent contacts Dennis Monzioni, the school's director of
special Programs, reporting their seven year old childs afraid to
go to school. Monzioni relays this to Principal Philip Meitner.
Then another seven year old students' parents come forward.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Nancy, the second child, revealed he was afraid of being
put in a hold at school. Surveillance camera show nine
school staffers physically restraining students in kindergarten through fifth grade,
pinging them, holding painful pressure points near their necks, and
even pushing children to the ground by holding them by
their wrists and putting a kneel on their Eleven more
employees are facing charges for failing to inform any one

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of the abuse. District attorney Jack Stolsteimer called the situation
a nightmare, saying adults should be expected to keep school
children safe, not abuse them physically and emotionally. Under state guidelines,
what peak performers staffing solutions are calling safety holds must
be reported each time they are employed. The school reported
no such holds in twenty twenty four, when much of

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the abuse is alleged to have occurred.

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Nine of twenty staffers face assault, false imprisonment, and endangering
children charges. The other eleven charges with failing to report abuse.
Austin Evanson stops at a Prescott Valley, Arizona's store to
get a drink inside her French bulldog, Kimber, accidentally rolls
down a window and jumps out. SAME's Evanson left or

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truck running. Surveillance video shows dog Kimber wandering near the store.
A white Lexus SUV pulls up, parks beside the truck,
picks up Kimber without trying to find the owner, and
drives away. Police id the suv license plate through a
licensed reader system. Within hours of suspect and bulldog found.

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One arrested, the other now writing shotgun with mom more
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All proceeds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Onlines John Lemley.

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A federal grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Luigi Mangioni
for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a
charge that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutor say twenty
six year old mangione shot Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel
in December, just before an investor meeting. Surveillance video captured

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a mass gunman firing from behind. Police say the ammunition
was etched with the words delay, deny, and depose, a
phrase link to insurance claim denials. The indictment follows US
Attorney General Pam Bondi's directive to seek capital punishment, the
first under President Trump's renewed federal execution policy. Bondi called

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the killing quote an act of political violence. Mangioni's lawyers
argue the move was a political stunt that tainted the
grand jury process. They're asking the court to suppress evidence,
including a notebook allegedly outlying plans target a health insurance executive. Mangioni,
who comes from a prominent Maryland family, is being held

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in federal custody. He also faces state murder charges. Prosecutors
say both cases will proceed in parallel. A rare legal
case is unfolding in Georgia, where the father of an
alleged school shooter is facing serious charges himself. As Crime
Online Sidney Sumner explains, a judge has now ruled the

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trial will be moved from the county where the attack occurred.

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Colin Gray, the father of fourteen year old Colt Gray,
the accused gunman in the Appalachi High School shooting, will
not face trial in Barrow County. Both prosecutors and Gray's
defense agreed the local jury pool has been too affected
by the September fourth attack, which left four people dead
and nine others injured. Colin Gray has pleaded not guilty
to twenty nine counts, including second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

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Prosecutors say he gifted his son in an assault style
rifle for Christmas, despite knowing the teen was in crisis.
In an fascinated with past school shootings, Investigators say Colt
kept a shrine to the Parkland gunman above his home computer.
The shooting claimed the lives of two students, Mason shermerhorn
in Christian Anglo, both fourteen, and teachers Richard Aspinwall and

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Christina Eremi. Gray's defense attorney, Jimmy Barry, has suggested moving
the trial to Thomas County in South Georgia, where media
coverage may have been less intense. Prosecutors floated Walton County,
closer to the scene, but Judge Nick Prim hasn't ruled,
raising the possibility that either jurors will be brought in
from elsewhere or the entire trial relocated.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Still ahead. A decision on where Colin Gray's trial will
take place and how far it may go to insure
a fair jury.

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Thanks John David Crabtree, just thirteen, is his older brother's shadow.
When James goes out for football, so does David when
James starts pitching for baseball. David follows in his footsteps.
As James gets older and earns more independence, David doesn't
understand why he can't have the same curfee. He's caught
sneaking out of his Locus Grove, Oklahoma home several times.

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April eight, David tells his family he loves them and
goes to bed. Three boys wait outside the window. David
climbs out and vanishes. His parents immediately reported missing, but
police label him a runaway and the Crabtree family feels
his case was not given the right amount of attention.
David Cherokee five five, one hundred and twenty five pounds,

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black hair, brown eyes, wearing a gray shirt, black pants.
If you have info on David Crabtree, who would be
thirty eight today, please call Locus Grove, Oklahoma PD nine
one eight four seven nine twenty one twenty one.

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