1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,919 Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is not intended for all 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:14,679 audiences. Listener discretion is advised. I think Austin has one of the scariest 3 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,600 type of anger issues because he holds everything in and he doesn't let it out, 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:25,519 and then when it does come out, it's too much. Okay, 5 00:00:25,559 --> 00:00:29,719 I promise after this we're done with child murder. I swear I've had enough. 6 00:00:30,519 --> 00:00:33,399 I don't I don't even know why why we've done so many this year. 7 00:00:33,759 --> 00:00:39,479 It it just happened. Whatever. This is season ten, episode two 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,079 forty six, and Sword and Scale show that reveals that the worst monsters are 9 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:59,479 real. So we are fully aware of all of the psyche problems, all 10 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:04,120 of the problems. 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These people have so 20 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:20,280 much more than I do. You have to push yourself though, to achieve 21 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:24,000 your dreams, because sitting there and complaining isn't going to do you any good. 22 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:30,599 You have to, how do they say, hustle a little bit. 23 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:37,479 But it's important not to let the grind where you're down either. You could 24 00:02:37,479 --> 00:02:40,199 easily lose sight of your dreams because you get bogged down by the day to 25 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,719 day and all of us of day to day nonsense we have to deal with. 26 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:52,639 And let's just say that you are one of those lucky ones and through 27 00:02:52,680 --> 00:03:00,439 some grace of God or game of chance, you happen to actually achieve those 28 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,719 dreams. You get everything you've ever wanted. Well, those dreams are rarely 29 00:03:06,759 --> 00:03:12,120 easy to achieve, but they're always easy to lose. And take it from 30 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:21,159 me, one mistake will cost you everything you've ever worked for and never wanted. 31 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:49,520 Hello, Hi, Hi, is this Erica? This is Erica. 32 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,960 She asked us to keep her last name confidential. Okay, wow, well, 33 00:03:55,479 --> 00:04:00,120 holy crap. This doesn't happen very often, but oh my gosh, 34 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:06,080 it was. It was when I first saw the news one was it about 35 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:12,680 well last year? I could I could not believe it. I couldn't believe 36 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,399 it. And Ari was a was a good friend. She was a comedian. 37 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,240 I live in Chlotte, North Carolina, and she lived in Greenville, 38 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,480 South Carolina, which is about two hours away. And we met through a 39 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:34,199 mutual friends, she who was also a comedian, and she we just you 40 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,879 know, how you just click with some people. That's what happened with Ari. 41 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,040 Okay, so let's let's just back up for a second, kind of 42 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:47,800 explain how we got in contact, because this is an unusual thing to happen 43 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,279 here, one sort of scale, like me calling you out of the blue, 44 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,560 you reaching out to me on social media because you have something to say. 45 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,639 If you could just sum that up a little bit, well, I 46 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:03,839 just saw those Now people were losing their mind because he came back to social 47 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:09,399 media, and I think it's absolutely ridiculous, Like, good lord, let 48 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,639 a man be he just you know, he's just doing this thing and I 49 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,240 was just happy to see you back trolling people. But listen, my job 50 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:20,759 is to provide entertainment. So if I can do that in anyway whatsoever, 51 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,680 even if it's just to make an ass of myself on social media, then 52 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,000 that's what I'm going to do, because that's of course, yes, absolutely, 53 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,360 But okay, So you reached out after that, and you're like, 54 00:05:35,439 --> 00:05:41,680 hey, by the way I sent you that in that article about ari By, 55 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,319 it was just like mistake because I was sending it to a friend of 56 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,439 mine who whose name was right underneath yours, and I just clicked yours by 57 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:56,000 mistake. This is an interesting case, one that we probably wouldn't have covered 58 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,160 except for the unusual way we found out about it. Erica sent us an 59 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:05,360 article about this case by mistake. In January of twenty twenty one, in 60 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:12,399 the city of Simpsonville, South Carolina, tucked into the state's upcountry, a 61 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:18,199 tragedy struck in a quiet neighborhood of split level housing on the west side of 62 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:26,040 town. Were coming Number one was full the emergency he able emergency not its 63 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,959 own responses. He's dronk a lot of waters and were what addressing that? 64 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,560 Then we'll hu get you over to MS line up. Jerry Austin Robinson called 65 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:42,879 nine one at two fifteen pm on January fifteenth, twenty twenty one for his 66 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:48,399 soon to be daughter, three year old Victoria, affectionately known as Tory. 67 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:56,800 He and his wife Ariel Robinson already began to attempt CPR on the little girl. 68 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:02,759 They claimed she drank two much water and began to choke. Alert for 69 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,800 Austin to come upstairs. He gave me in the room when she was on 70 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:12,480 her arm stool and he looked at me and he was like, is she 71 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,199 breathing? And I said, I think I hear her trying to breathe. 72 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:19,519 I hear something in her lungs though it sounds like she's got like fluid in 73 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,839 her lungs. And so they said should I call my one one? I 74 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:26,839 said, yeah, I called nine one one because I don't I don't know, 75 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:30,759 I don't know what to do, and ask the fire what's the address 76 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,519 of your merchant? Tell me exactly, I breathe on daughter sling on water 77 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,600 right now? There's three year old daughter? Is what choking on water right 78 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,519 now would help? Immediately? Okay? I we can't help on the way 79 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:48,519 Okay, she is. So is she coughing like choking or not fire water? 80 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,519 It's hard to tell because they talk over each other, but Austin said 81 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,959 little Tory was not conscious. She had choked on water and become unresponsive. 82 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:05,279 Nine one one would talk them through laying her flat on the floor and performing 83 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:11,680 CPR. You've heard all this stuff before. The Simpsonville Fire Department would arrive 84 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:18,160 four minutes later and take over. About five minutes after that EMS arrived. 85 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:26,199 Not only was Tory unresponsive, but she also didn't have a pulse. Darry 86 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:31,360 and Ariel sat on their bed in the room across the hall and quietly stared 87 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:37,639 in disbelief. They just listened to the ruckus of the many paramedics trying to 88 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:43,039 save Tory's life. Tory had only been alive for a short time, but 89 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:50,080 had already been with three families. She and her older brothers were in South 90 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:56,600 Carolina's foster care system. Her biological parents were good parents, They just weren't 91 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:03,600 good together or a toxic couple. We always co parented well when that we 92 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,039 were apart. It was if we got together that was a problem. He 93 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,159 was the best dad, and that's not anything that anybody can say that we 94 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:13,879 weren't good parents. We were just made bad decisions. Tori's bio mom, 95 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:20,080 Casey, tried to do everything they asked to get her kids back. What 96 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:24,159 all did you do to get to that point where you were trying so hard 97 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,519 to prove that you wanted her it? I did from the very beginning. 98 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:31,440 I made it very clear that I would do anything DSS told me. From 99 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,000 at the beginning. They were, you know, they were very content with 100 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,240 how fast I was doing. I had to do parenting classes and I did 101 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,240 the in home parenting. I did it at the Dream Center. I did 102 00:09:41,279 --> 00:09:43,360 both because I did I missed the class on one and they said between the 103 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:46,559 others. I did two parent classes. Then I did twenty six weeks of 104 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:52,399 battered Women's classes. I did the two times a week for twelve weeks at 105 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,279 the Phoenix Center, a while pregnant and I didn't have a vehicle, so 106 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,519 I had to find rods to these. It was difficult. They knew that 107 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,200 I asked her help multiple times. It was just one thing after another after 108 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,279 another. My living situation got bounced around back and forth. They I've asked 109 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:11,240 for help for that, and there's just roadblock after roadblock after block, and 110 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,279 every time I get so close, and I did. I completed all of 111 00:10:13,399 --> 00:10:16,679 the things that they asked me to do, but every time I got close 112 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,000 division it was something else, something else, and then by the end of 113 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,759 it, it was I didn't have the one of the five mentor things that 114 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:28,039 you have to have accorded the DSS. Casey jumped through hoops to get her 115 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:33,440 kids back, but fell short on one thing, her own place to live. 116 00:10:33,159 --> 00:10:37,879 DSS made me feel that it was better for them that you know, 117 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,440 they had and they Victoria was with a loving foster family, and I thought 118 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:46,360 in my heart that that's where they were going, and that you know or 119 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,519 someone like that, a family like that. I thought that's what the system 120 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,559 was for. And so I thought, well, you know, if they 121 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,600 could have better, happier lives and could become better, you know, versions 122 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:58,960 of themselves, than I guess that's okay. And DSS. I trusted them. 123 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,120 Casey was and only wanted the best for her children. So when the 124 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:09,559 DDS told her she couldn't have her kids back, she wasn't fit, they 125 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,240 convinced her the children would be better off, better provided for if she gave 126 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:20,360 them up. For adoption. Tori and her brothers lived for ten months with 127 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:26,200 the Huggins family. When she entered her room, all eyes were on her 128 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,919 because she demanded it, and she was a cutieu. She was funny, 129 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,919 she was sassy, definitely had some sassy. But after that short stint in 130 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:41,960 foster care, Tori and her two brothers got some good news. A family 131 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,960 was willing to adopt them. Here's Erica again for Ariel. She's had two 132 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,279 biological sons and she always wanted to have a daughter, and she, you 133 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,240 know, she tried. She told me that she was that she had tried 134 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:03,120 IDs and it didn't take. So she decided to go through other means to 135 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:09,080 find that piece of family that she felt was missing. She had two biological 136 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:18,720 boys of her own with her husband, and ari decided to adopt. And 137 00:12:18,879 --> 00:12:28,080 she was very excited back in the fall of twenty nineteen because they had called 138 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,960 her to tell her that there was a newborn adoption that they had her on 139 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:37,360 the list for, and this woman was ecstatic. Unfortunately, that adoption fell 140 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:43,480 through for whatever reason. She tried again a few months later to see if 141 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,440 she could get a foster child or find a little girl that she you know, 142 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:54,159 she could call her own, and the agency called her told her that 143 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,080 there was a little girl that they could foster. She came from a broken 144 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:03,200 home. When they contacted Ariel and told her that, you know, they 145 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:07,360 was a little girl that had two little brothers, she said, well, 146 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:09,879 you know what, I'll adopt all three of them because I can't what kind 147 00:13:09,879 --> 00:13:13,000 of person would I be if I were to separate this little girl from her 148 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:18,639 from her brothers. After always wanting a daughter of her own, Ariel, 149 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:26,720 who everyone calls ari got her wish fulfilled. She and Austin would adopt three 150 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:31,919 more children to make them a family of seven. The Robinsons were soon to 151 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:37,000 be Tory and her brothers forever home, with the adoptions set to be final 152 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:48,120 in just five days after the call to nine. Now she was lying lifeless 153 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,679 on the floor. In an effort to regain a pulse of paramedic administered six 154 00:13:52,720 --> 00:14:01,440 doses of epinephrine directly into her femur, but that did nothing. As they 155 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:07,039 continued to urge Tory's heart to beat, they noticed odd bruising on her abdomen 156 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:16,200 and legs. The fire department immediately notified police. Charlie won't just be advised. 157 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,399 I am holding a confirmed ten eighty nine juvenile, so a circle fd's 158 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:26,480 requesting p D. When the police arrived and asked how Tory got the bruises, 159 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:31,679 Ari explained that she pushed really hard on her stomach during her attempts at 160 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:37,759 the Heimlich maneuver and CPR Riel told us that she did the bruising right then 161 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:41,440 and there, prior to nine one being called to try to do the Heimlich 162 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:48,200 and was pushing on her stomach and that. But I asked, what about 163 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,240 the legs? How did they get so purple? Ari explained that her older 164 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:58,759 brother had anger issues and was violent, mostly taking his anger out on young 165 00:14:58,919 --> 00:15:03,519 Tory. With so many families and such a short amount of time, it's 166 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:09,720 hard to pinpoint where behavior is learned. But Ari was blaming the behavioral issues 167 00:15:11,279 --> 00:15:16,360 on the previous foster parents. She just she had the best personality. And 168 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:20,000 I'm not just saying that because I was her mama. But you could not 169 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:24,120 be mad at that girl, just by the way she looked and how sweet 170 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,919 she was. She was sweet as could possibly be. Officers looked at the 171 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:33,440 bruises and then looked at pictures of Tori's two older brothers, and knew something 172 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:39,360 just wasn't adding up. When I looked at the little boys, Jaden being 173 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,440 the bigger one, and how small he was to myself, I thought, 174 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,039 I said, you know, I don't care if you gave that kid a 175 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,039 ball back. He can't. He's not going to be able to do this 176 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:54,759 much damage to that little girl. Tori's older brothers were barely so. One 177 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:58,919 was six, the other was seven, but far too small to inflict the 178 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:07,200 amount or the severity of bruising the officer's witnessed on Tori. When officers asked 179 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:12,600 Ari what led up to Tori's condition, Austin stood quietly nearby and let Ari 180 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:19,679 do the talking. She explained that after a pancake breakfast and half a popsicle 181 00:16:19,759 --> 00:16:26,840 for a mid morning snack, Tori went to watch TV. Then she began 182 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:32,600 asking for more and more cups of water, far more than she usually drank. 183 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,279 When Ari went to check on her, she noticed her stomach had become 184 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,559 hard, and Tori was complaining of it hurting and that she was cold. 185 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,799 Ari wrapped her in a heated blanket before she went limp. When Tori's breathing 186 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:53,799 became labored and she began to make a gurgling sound. Ari tried to perform 187 00:16:53,879 --> 00:17:00,480 the Heimlich maneuver because she thought she was choking, and she realized that wasn't 188 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:07,200 working. She laid Tory on her back and pushed on her stomach. Eventually, 189 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:11,240 Tory expelled the water and the rest of the contents of her stomach, 190 00:17:12,039 --> 00:17:19,920 but still wasn't breathing any better. That's when Ari told Austin to call nine 191 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:26,880 one one. After finally getting a faint pulse from Tory, she was rushed 192 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:33,720 to the hospital for further treatment. The police and DSS would start investigating her 193 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:41,119 mysterious injuries. The police were suspicious, and rightfully so. Little kids don't 194 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,319 drink water until they pass out. It's just not a thing. The bruising 195 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:52,759 seemed like the more obvious reason for the little girl's condition. The bruises seemed 196 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:59,039 recent, and Ari and Austin were the only ones home with little Tory that 197 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,880 day. Just until they got to the bottom of her injuries. The rest 198 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:11,400 of the Robinson children would be removed from the home. Ari's two biological children 199 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,880 were placed with her father, and Tori's brothers were put with yet another foster 200 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:26,279 family. Tori, though wouldn't be so lucky. Later that evening, they 201 00:18:26,279 --> 00:19:11,319 would get word that Tory had passed away. A call to nine one sent 202 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,640 a slew of emergency personnel to the Robinson's home. A distress call for a 203 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:22,839 child choking on water led to the discovery of far worse injuries. Three year 204 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:29,599 old Tory was covered from the waist down with dark bruises. As word of 205 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,400 the potential crime was disseminated through the community, everyone found it was hard to 206 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:41,359 imagine such a thing could happen in Simpsonville, named the safest city in South 207 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:48,880 Carolina since twenty seventeen, especially because ari was a recent local celebrity. How 208 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,759 did you meet Ariel Ariel Robinson? Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes? 209 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,400 I met Ariel at a comedy show. It was back in two thousand eighteen 210 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:04,960 that I met her. She was headlining a show at a local brewery and 211 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,359 I met her and I talked her after the show. We clicked and we 212 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:17,000 started a friendship through Facebook. And it was a great time, wonderful personality. 213 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,119 Had had a lot to say. I said a lot of things that 214 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:22,839 made you also think, not not part of the show, just some personal 215 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:32,440 conversation. That that's how I met her. We want a sister. We 216 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:41,720 want a sister. You know. Ari was an up and coming stand up 217 00:20:41,759 --> 00:20:47,920 comedian who Erica was introduced to by a mutual friend. We just kept in 218 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,720 contact through Facebook. Mostly. I really couldn't travel much to her city, 219 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:57,559 but we kept on come to contact through Facebook, called each other, you 220 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:03,160 know, maybe every two or three weeks. The chance of meeting blossomed into 221 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,799 a true friendship, both online and off. Let's get a girl, doll, 222 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,960 I said, okay, we'll do this. So we go to the 223 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,680 pil we'll get it. I would see one dollar she like, she didn't 224 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:21,240 hand, but he sum my guys stretched out. They want to visit out 225 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,680 so they sad, don't worry. Her still wasn't go there, dail over 226 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:30,359 time it did not. We can't have surgery and make a plate any do 227 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,039 you want me to have plays and surgery on my dog? So this dollar 228 00:21:36,079 --> 00:21:37,279 you can to tell me? Tell me while I still want my love like 229 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:44,039 eyes tapooks. I don't think you know how it works. When I would 230 00:21:44,039 --> 00:21:47,799 go out and see her and shows at different places, she would seend she 231 00:21:47,799 --> 00:21:51,640 would come over here often to to my city as well, and I would 232 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,559 make sure that we would have either dinner before or dinner after. We you 233 00:21:55,559 --> 00:21:59,599 know, we made sure to just spend time together. But before she was 234 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:06,480 comedian, Ari was the farthest thing from it. And knowing kids today, 235 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,599 she was likely the butt of the joke. She used to be a teacher. 236 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,200 I want to say it was middle school. She used to be an 237 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,000 English teacher on top of that, and she was beloved by her by her 238 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:25,000 students, and you couldn't find anybody who would say a bad thing about her. 239 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:30,400 And then she quit teaching because she was going to pursue comedy full time. 240 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:34,920 She was doing very well. She was getting booked around the country. 241 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,920 She had and she had quite a following. She was she was doing really 242 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:45,000 well with herself, and then she got the spot on Food Network with Worse 243 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:52,599 Cooks of America. Food Networks Worst Cooks in America is like a cooking game 244 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:59,200 show where twelve to sixteen unskilled contestants compete to cook a three course meal for 245 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,119 three food critics. Sounds like a fun show. Actually, I'd probably watch 246 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:10,519 it, as you can imagine, though most of the dishes were inevitible. 247 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:14,720 Out of eleven thousand people, I was one of fourteen. Then I had 248 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,599 to not only be everybody on my team, I had to be the best 249 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:19,839 person on the Red team who would be everybody on their team. Yes, 250 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,839 I am putting Mayo in a glove, and she was, and she was 251 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:30,640 getting calls for shows after appearing on on Worse Cooks of America because she won, 252 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,720 she won, she won on the show, she won, she won 253 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,359 twenty five thousand dollars, and cook said and something something else. I never 254 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:45,319 cried one time on the show. I was just a president because I think 255 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:49,000 I was so nervous that if I if I released too much, I'm gonna 256 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:57,880 release too much. I'm the winner of Worse Cooks in America? Is ryd 257 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:04,640 Now? I truly am not the worst cook in America. And she said 258 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:10,359 she did it all for her kids. I wanted to win this money so 259 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,880 much for them to give them a better life. They are loving my new 260 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,640 cooking skills. Like every day my kids start requesting new stuff and I'm like, 261 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,440 hey, wait a minute, I'm not a waitress. Now, I 262 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,039 don't got a whole pantry in here to go cook for y'alla, this is 263 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:26,079 a restaurant. I just know that the Lord had his hands on me, 264 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,599 and he had a purpose for me to go on there. He knew we 265 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:30,599 were going through this adoption, we really could use the money, and he 266 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:36,200 just let everything work out for our good. Ari took a gamble, quitting 267 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,880 her teaching career to pursue one in comedy, but it seemed to be paying 268 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,039 off and just in the nick of time, but she got the spot on 269 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,880 Worst Cooks in America. She was about to lose her house. The windfall 270 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:56,720 of cash saved their home and set them up to adopt the daughter she always 271 00:24:56,799 --> 00:25:00,559 wanted. So I'm trying to a girl and s work or you know, 272 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:03,119 they have to come my other grand you know see that you're not too crazy 273 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,119 to a doll and the hallway is coming over on thy y'all tell my husband 274 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,200 I said, you go with. We should have lost the other two of 275 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:12,200 the cages because she meant them too. Ain't a waiting give us another. 276 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:18,480 She ain't stare at a toy. They upstairs all I'm screaming where moms saying, 277 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,960 Okay, mom, gonna give y'all white out kids either. But I 278 00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:27,480 don't stay I screaming going all you know you can say, mommy live and 279 00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:30,279 you like good a head. Fine, the moment is in my face. 280 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:40,960 So I turned around. Yeah upstairs, should turning around, and she's looking 281 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:49,400 at me exact way Y'll look at It's again we got proved. Did you 282 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:55,839 know anything about her husband or boyfriend? All I knew about her husband was 283 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,559 what she would tell me, how he was very supportive of her, everything 284 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,920 that that she did. She would always say about him, that he was 285 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,400 great, he was understanding. When she told him that she wanted to go 286 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,920 full time comedian, he said that he would back her up. What did 287 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:18,839 he do for a living? I can't remember what he did. When Ari 288 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:25,279 quit teaching to pursue comedy, her husband, Austin supported her. He said 289 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,680 he would back her up. The reason Erica couldn't remember what he did was 290 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,839 that he didn't really do anything. He dropped out of high school in the 291 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:41,640 twelfth grade and never got his ged. Now, at thirty four, he 292 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:48,200 worked odd jobs, like at a chicken processing facility, but mostly he just 293 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:56,920 managed Ari's comedy career. From chicken processing to entertainment manager sounds like a pretty 294 00:26:56,279 --> 00:27:03,240 legit career path. The day after Tory's death, the Simpsonville PD served a 295 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,839 search warrant at the Robinson residence. It was a normal family home other than 296 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:15,000 the number of Wi Fi cameras, which was weird. There was at least 297 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:21,119 one camera in every room. Some rooms had two cameras, but when asked 298 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,799 if they recorded, the police were told they were live view only. Ari 299 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:33,039 told officers her adoption lawyer advised her not to talk to the cops without counsel, 300 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,400 but she had nothing to hide, so she said she would answer any 301 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:44,079 questions they had that should give you a clue as to the intelligence and narcissism 302 00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:51,000 of this person. She said that the day before the incident, Tory had 303 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,839 thrown up on the way to church, which wasn't concerning because Tory often threw 304 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:02,160 up after eating or drinking too quickly. After church, she seemed to find 305 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,960 she took a bath and went to bed like normal. She reiterated. The 306 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:12,720 day of the incident started like most days, with a pancake breakfast. Afterward, 307 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:18,359 Tori drank an unusual amount of water before complaining of not feeling well. 308 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:25,680 This time, however, she admitted Tory was not choking, but rather acting 309 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:30,839 like she wanted to throw up. When Ari decided to perform the Heimlich After 310 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:37,599 running through all the events again, Ari sat down at her computer and began 311 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,759 to work. When asked what she was doing, she said she was working 312 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:48,920 on her next comedy skit and invited the officer to check her out online. 313 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:56,119 So just to reiterate for a second. Less than twenty four hours after Tori 314 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:03,400 was pronounced dead, Ari was working on joke and promoting herself. Four days 315 00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:10,720 later, the police would serve two arrest warrants for Ari and Austin. They 316 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:12,519 were out there heavy and it was more than one car, more than two 317 00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:17,440 cars. Every day, there was more cars. As the news of little 318 00:29:17,519 --> 00:29:22,480 Tory's death spread, those that knew the Robinsons were surprised. Well, I 319 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:26,119 told you something was going on up there with all the forensics, but I 320 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,240 didn't expect this. I definitely said something, Mom's something happened. It's sad 321 00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:33,839 because that was a beautiful little girl. God, she was beautiful. It 322 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,920 was shocking because no one that knew Ari and Austin would ever expect a child 323 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:44,000 in their care to die. It's not her character. Like you, if 324 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,799 you see her, she's such a bubbly person. She's making you laugh, 325 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,160 even if she's upset. She's gonna make you laugh. Her family is amazing. 326 00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:52,680 They didn't they just I don't know. It just kind of strikes me 327 00:29:53,119 --> 00:29:56,400 in surprise. She's always wanted a linded family and a huge family, and 328 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,480 she loves kids to be on the outside looking in. We don't know the 329 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,000 full story, of course, and I'm hoping we can get the full story. 330 00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:06,880 But I just raised in peace to it. Beautiful baby girl. By 331 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,480 all accounts, the Robinson's were your typical family, albeit a large family. 332 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:18,759 Ari was funny and they were both polite. She was a former teacher and 333 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,920 now spend her life trying to make others laugh while Austin took care of the 334 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:30,400 kids. The whole idea that they abused a child was entirely out of character. 335 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:38,519 Tori's former foster family only felt sadness and disbelief. She just has so 336 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:44,119 much toll from yeah, and she's going to be missed by many, many, 337 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,720 many people. I still don't believe that it's true. I just feel 338 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:52,599 like maybe we'll all wake up and it'll be a bad dream. At the 339 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,599 time of their arrest, the police didn't know what exactly happened the Tory. 340 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,519 They only knew that she was dead, and it didn't happen because of drinking 341 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:10,160 too much water. Either Ari or Austin or both. We're responsible. Tori's 342 00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:17,640 biological family didn't need to know who or why to know that her death should 343 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:22,480 never have happened. I can't imagine what she would have done to make them. 344 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:26,880 I feel UPSI. Victoria is not the first child, and she hasn't 345 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,680 been the last one. They've been death since then within this system. But 346 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:37,160 we're doing our best to stop that, and we're doing in Victoria's honor. 347 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,440 Our family is very staunched in our belief that we don't think the DSS system 348 00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:45,839 needs to be dismantled. It is there for a reason, and there are 349 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,559 children that need to be saved. But there are some gaps, there are 350 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,720 some cracks, and this tragedy happened because of those gaps and those cracks, 351 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:59,359 and that's the part that we want to say fixed. We're fifty thousand strong 352 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:04,680 here and saying that this should not have happened. And here's the things that 353 00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:08,119 we have seen within the system that are falled, and we would like to 354 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:14,880 work with you to make sure that this doesn't happen again. There's no room 355 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,240 for error in this system. This is the system that cannot fail. They 356 00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:28,160 got nearly fifty thousand signatures to petition the state to create Victoria's Law that would 357 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:35,519 revise the DSS procedure for accepting new foster families. They want the screening process 358 00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:44,039 to be more thorough by conducting psychological evaluations of prospective foster parents. Everyone was 359 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:50,079 wondering how this could have happened, and soon it would all be revealed. 360 00:32:51,359 --> 00:32:55,319 The day they were both arrested, Austin wasn't actually at home. He was 361 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,240 on his first day at a new job that is Nat had found for him. 362 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:07,000 So after Ari was arrested, Austin was contacted and told to come home. 363 00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:14,680 When he arrived twenty minutes later, he too was arrested. He immediately 364 00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:19,799 declined to speak without an attorney. Once at the station for booking, he 365 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,720 made two utterances. First, he asked if he had to be in a 366 00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:30,720 cell with his wife. When the officer said no, but the cell was 367 00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:37,079 directly next to hers, he made a second utterance. He said he didn't 368 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:44,240 want to be anywhere near her. Two weeks later, Austin's attorney reached out 369 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:50,039 to the police and said he was ready to make a statement. Austin told 370 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:55,640 a completely different story, of course. Police responded to five on five cell 371 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:01,000 Wood Circle within Greenville County and found three year old Victoria Rose Smith unresponsive and 372 00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:07,440 badly injured could offended. Ariel Robinson told first responders that they thought Tory was 373 00:34:07,559 --> 00:34:13,480 drinking too much water, but firefighters saw unexplained excessive bruising all over Tori's body, 374 00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:19,320 deep purple bruising on her abdomen, bruising on her ear, bruising her 375 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,159 back, and up and down both of her legs. She told police that 376 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,519 the night before, Tory had thrown up on the way to church. Ariel 377 00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:30,039 Robinson said after church, they ate pizza at home and Tori seemed fine. 378 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,480 They went to bed with no issues, she said. The next morning, 379 00:34:35,519 --> 00:34:39,639 on January fourteenth, twenty twenty one, Ariel said, Tory woke up ate 380 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,480 pancakes. While she and this defendant were home alone with the child and the 381 00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:49,920 other four children were at school. Ariel Robinson said Tory kept asking for water 382 00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:53,559 and this defendant filled up her cup five or six times. She also said 383 00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:58,239 Tory said her stomach hurt and that she was cold. She gave her a 384 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,320 heated blanket and was holding Tor when Ariel Robinson said the child went limp. 385 00:35:04,599 --> 00:35:08,320 Ariel Robinson then said she tried to perform the Highlich maneuver because she thought the 386 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:14,840 child was choking while police were on the scene. This defendant maintained Ariel Robinson's 387 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,679 account what happened to Tori. Ari's story set off a lot of red flags 388 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,559 in the minds of the police. They couldn't believe she was that oblivious to 389 00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:30,679 the real reason Tory was dying on the floor, and it wasn't from drinking 390 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,679 too much water, by the way, several days later, they were both 391 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:39,679 arrested. After the arrest, Austin Robinson's attorney contacted the state and stated that 392 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:45,079 his client wished to make a statement. No promises were given to this defendant, 393 00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:49,400 and the phone call was on this defendant's accord. The defendant came in 394 00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:53,119 voluntarily and met with police to tell what had really happened to Tori. Austin 395 00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:59,440 felt ashamed and guilty about Tori's death and wanted to come clean, so he 396 00:35:59,599 --> 00:36:04,039 volunt teared the truth to the police rather than use it as a bargaining chip 397 00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:07,719 or lesser charges. He said he had not physically ever hurt Tory, but 398 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:14,000 that his wife would spank and beat her. Austin Robinson said Ariel Robinson hit 399 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:17,559 Tory with different things, including a belt, paddle, flipflop, hand, 400 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:21,960 or whatever. He said, Tory got the worst of it for some reason 401 00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:25,800 when Ariel would become angry over eating habits such as Tory taking too long. 402 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:32,239 Austin became emotional when he told the police that Ari's reasoning for spanking the three 403 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:37,519 year old was to make her tough. He went on to say she often 404 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:44,199 felt bad after the spankings and would put ice packs on the little girl's bruises. 405 00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:49,039 He told police how Ariel had become angry the night before Tory's death because 406 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,239 she threw up on herself on the way to church. Austin explained that ari 407 00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:58,599 was first annoyed at the three year old not being able to buckle herself into 408 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,039 her car seat. When Austin reached back to help her, it pissed off 409 00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:08,519 ari even more. On the way to church, Tory was eating some food 410 00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:13,960 and ari was pressuring the little girl to finish by the time they got there. 411 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,039 To avoid punishment. She shoved the food in her face, gagged, 412 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:24,119 and vomited. On herself while ari tried to find replacement clothes for little Tori, 413 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,480 a task that took her to a big box store, only to realize 414 00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:34,000 she didn't have her credit card. Austin took the rest of the kids into 415 00:37:34,039 --> 00:37:38,280 the church. When they finally joined them after borrowing some clothes from her sister, 416 00:37:39,119 --> 00:37:46,480 everything seemed fine, but that evening, while Austin was giving Tori a 417 00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:53,719 bath, he noticed big bruises on her back that weren't there before. He 418 00:37:53,840 --> 00:38:00,519 believed ari hit Tori when she was changing her clothes in the parking lot. 419 00:38:00,199 --> 00:38:05,000 The next morning, this defendant said it all started when Ariel was fussing at 420 00:38:05,079 --> 00:38:08,559 Tor for not eating her pancakes fast enough, and then Ariel had put Tori 421 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:13,679 on a timer. All she ever told me was that the little girl was 422 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,679 a handful, and that the girl to give her trouble eating, but that 423 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,079 she would that she would, you know, she'd be able to take care 424 00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:23,320 of it, just little by little. As she was having very she wish 425 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:29,440 she would be really patient with as patient as she could be. She did 426 00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:36,119 say that her parents were strict bringing her up, but that it was good 427 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,400 for her. Austin explained that Tori ate fine when it was just him and 428 00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:46,679 her. This upset Ari. So when Tory took too long to eat, 429 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:52,719 are you would give her three chances? She would set a timer on her 430 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,000 phone for two minutes. When the timer ended, that was the first warning. 431 00:38:59,199 --> 00:39:02,840 She then would reset the timer for one minute when that timer ended, 432 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:09,760 that was the second warning. Then she would set a timer for thirty seconds. 433 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:17,440 When that timer was up. If the food wasn't gone, Tori would 434 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,880 get a spanking. And what were you doing outside the house? I was 435 00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:27,480 putting the yard work, especially just taking I just let my van you get 436 00:39:27,519 --> 00:39:30,360 tiled off and all that stuff. I was trying to get that fixed. 437 00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:32,760 But other than that, I was just trying to pick up like stuff from 438 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,079 the backyards of the fom yard and move to the front. At that time, 439 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:42,360 when you were outside the house that morning, what did you hear screaming 440 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:49,440 and crying? What was Tori screaming and crying about? Basically just getting first 441 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,440 at my home mother, getting a woman for night, ing for food and 442 00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:57,760 I'm sorry you set up whooping. Okay, had you ever heard this before? 443 00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:01,920 Can you speak a little at her? Yes, so you were outside 444 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:08,119 you heard this whooping happening? Why did you not walk inside? Austin was 445 00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:14,920 non confrontational. Even the neighbors said that ari was the leader of the house 446 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,519 and that Austin was more passive. He said ari would get physical with him 447 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,559 as well, and showed them a scar on his shoulder where she had stabbed 448 00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:31,519 him. By the time I'll walk in there, it was as if nothing 449 00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:35,519 was going on, I said. She was seemingly okay at the time. 450 00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:39,679 Okay that morning when Tori woke up, was she fine? All right? 451 00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:44,840 So at some point do you walk inside to see what's going on with this 452 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:49,119 whooping that's happening to Tori? And when you walked inside, what if anything 453 00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:53,840 did you see? You saw the bruising. Who was in the house when 454 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,920 you came inside and saw the bruising on Tori? Can you speak up? 455 00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:05,079 And can you tell the poor what if anything was Ariel holding at that time? 456 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,239 And what if anything was Tory doing at that time? What was Tory 457 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:16,719 wearing? Nothing? So you saw the bruising, what did you say, 458 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:23,800 if anything to Ariel Robinson when you walked in? So far that we had 459 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:30,480 gone too far as time I should have stopped it. Austin carried on doing 460 00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:36,280 his daily chores while his wife berated the little girl. Finally, when he 461 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:42,119 realized the whooping was lasting a lot longer than normal, he went to investigate. 462 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,440 He found Ari standing over a little tory, holding a belt and yelling 463 00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:52,519 in her face. You're done, You're done. You don't get to tell 464 00:41:52,559 --> 00:41:58,760 me when you're done. It was then he noticed more bruises on the little 465 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:04,960 girl, who was only wearing a diaper. Ari's response to his comments about 466 00:42:05,079 --> 00:42:09,920 going too far this time was now, look, you got your dad upset. 467 00:42:12,119 --> 00:42:15,800 Like before, Ari snapped out of her rage and suddenly felt sympathy for 468 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:21,719 her soon to be daughter. They decided to try and give her an Epsen 469 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:28,719 salt bath to soothe her bruises. While Austin went to buy children's tail and 470 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:35,800 all she was already complaining about her stomach hurting. She lesson was trying to 471 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,920 fall he steps when Aaron would give her trying to give her a bath, 472 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:44,440 and her and towards her staff. What she failed? And she tried to 473 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:50,920 water rustle the way. Why did she fall from the money? I'm sorry? 474 00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:58,719 So she walks upstairs after falling. What happened? Then? I'm glad 475 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,599 to go get tom All was her in the bathroom. When he returned, 476 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,559 Ari had Tori out of the bath and wrapped in an electric blanket. When 477 00:43:08,639 --> 00:43:16,000 Ari held the little girl, she involuntarily defecated twice. After that, Little 478 00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:22,320 Tory did ask for a lot of water and drank more than normal, but 479 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:28,559 nothing was making her stomach feel any better. Ari asked her if she felt 480 00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:32,239 like she needed to throw up, and she said yes. Then Tori vomited 481 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:38,159 in the trash can. That was when she went limp, and Ari tried 482 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:44,159 the Heimlich maneuver before giving up and just pressing on her stomach really hard to 483 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:51,280 expel more water. Then Austin finally called nine to one, but only after 484 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:59,719 asking Ari if he should. We are thankful that he has cooperated with prosecution 485 00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:06,159 and is working with them to make sure that Ariel is held responsible to the 486 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:12,000 fullest instant of South Carolina law allows for this case, but we just wish 487 00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:16,079 he had done something sooner. He also admitted that Ari deleted all the footage 488 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,880 from the cameras and even the app itself. When they checked Ari's phone to 489 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,400 confirm some of his claims, they were unable to recover the account for the 490 00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:34,280 cameras, but they did notice something else. Ari's timer was set to thirty 491 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,920 seconds. Of course, as admission made him responsible for Tori's death also, 492 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:46,159 but it was just Austin's word against Ari's. At this point, all of 493 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:53,480 the facts would have to be sorted out in trial. Meanwhile, Tori's biological 494 00:44:53,599 --> 00:45:00,199 family wanted her body so they could finally put her to rest. Nobody and 495 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:05,360 my family's holding it will. The emotions in this family are very raw. 496 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,920 You know, if something was taken from you and then hurt the way that 497 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,639 it was hurt, and all you want to do is like their SOLDI wrists. 498 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,800 I mean, what would you if it was your family? What would 499 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,360 you do? That's what I want to say. If it was somebody that 500 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,840 mattered to you, wouldn't you want the right to bury your family the way 501 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,519 that I want to bury my daughter. Let us give her a proper funeral 502 00:45:24,159 --> 00:45:30,920 and say goodbye, just one last time. We love you and we're so 503 00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:37,960 sorry if this happened to you. But I promise you we are not resting 504 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:44,440 until it's right. Casey, Tori's biological mother, that didn't stop there with 505 00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:49,800 her efforts in this case. She went on to speak at Ari's bond hearing 506 00:45:50,519 --> 00:45:55,960 in a victim impact statement, your owner Zyars on Thursday, January the fourteenth 507 00:45:57,119 --> 00:46:01,719 of twenty twenty one, three year old Victoria Rose take this earth. My 508 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:07,360 family and I have been devastated by her passing. And it's because it is 509 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:13,599 that way, perspectullyric quest that you did not barn for the defendant. Thank 510 00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:17,199 you so much for being here, ma'am and I am. I'm just so 511 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:22,639 sorry for your loss and my condolences to you and the family. Thank you. 512 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:30,320 After that teary eyed statement, Ari's defense lawyer tried to convince the judge 513 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:37,159 that Ari deserved release on bond. Imagine that she's twenty nine years old. 514 00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:40,880 She's lived her entire life in Greenville County in the U State. She's a 515 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:46,880 graduate from Lanter University with degree in communications. She also holds a master's degree 516 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:52,599 in education from the Clubs and University. She was a middle school teacher from 517 00:46:52,679 --> 00:46:59,280 twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen here in the up State. She had been the 518 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:06,079 childerest Creator Church for seven years. She was an assistant coach was an assistant 519 00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:09,320 coach for an Upstate middle school basketball team. She volunteered as a coach at 520 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:15,440 the YNCA as Simpson Board for a couple of years. She was until recently 521 00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:20,960 on the PTA board and an upstate elementary schools at Elementary school here in Greenville 522 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,679 County, she volunteered career affairs carecter building workshops and two different schools in the 523 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,079 up state. Or essentially she'd been she'd been heavily involved in the community her 524 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:37,199 entire life. Lonis Robinson had no prior criminal history. Alvin Payne. Her 525 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,960 father is a retired army officer. Her mother's Sharon's or retired to substitute teacher 526 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,960 god Or. Her sister, Telicia, who's president, was a pharmacist. 527 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:52,639 She currently works at Presbyterian College here, lives in the up state, has 528 00:47:52,679 --> 00:47:58,519 an entire life, and they're here just in a support of miss Robinson. 529 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:05,320 Even with all the good she did in life, the death of Tory overshadowed 530 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:10,199 at all based on the seriousness of the charges. In the egregious nature of 531 00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:15,079 the allegations in this case, mister Boughton, I respectfully deny bond. All 532 00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:22,599 right, thank you. Ari attending the bond hearing via zoom, collapsed on 533 00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:28,039 the table and defeat when she heard that she wasn't getting out before trial. 534 00:48:29,280 --> 00:49:07,800 Austin, however, would be released on house arrest. The tragic death of 535 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:13,000 three year old Tory led to a troubling look into the home of the Robinson's. 536 00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:19,360 According to Austin, Ari was a tyrannical mother to their soon to be 537 00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:27,719 adopted little girl that exacted punishment quickly and fiercely. A child was dead far 538 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:34,000 too soon, a family shattered, and a husband and wife pitted against each 539 00:49:34,039 --> 00:49:39,320 other. Austin would be charged with aiding and abetting homicide by a child abuse, 540 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:45,119 even with the threat of ten to twenty years in prison. Austin further 541 00:49:45,199 --> 00:49:52,559 asserted he was telling the truth about Ari by pleading guilty and foregoing a jury 542 00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:58,719 trial, but at Ari's trial they would both take the stand and point the 543 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:04,320 finger at each other. The evidence in this case is that substance of the 544 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,960 charge is that Ariel Robinson who charged with causing the death of a child under 545 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:15,800 the age of eleven by child abuse or neglect under circumstances that exit it in 546 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:22,039 a stream and difference to human life. And you hear the devastating series of 547 00:50:22,159 --> 00:50:28,760 events. They go from Tory trying to eat some pancakes, to a child 548 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:36,000 beaten, to a hall. The trial dissected every aspect of Ari's claim of 549 00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:42,519 what actually happened. They found a witness at church that overheard Ari talking to 550 00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:47,119 Tori in the bathroom. I heard Ariel say, oh you're cold. You're 551 00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:52,280 cold. Girls that make themselves throw up deserve to be cold. I just 552 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,719 remember thinking, Oh, no, you know, I wonder why did she's 553 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:59,119 talking during that kind of tone. Oh I didn't say that. Those exact 554 00:50:59,119 --> 00:51:04,159 waris now. They also found surveillance footage at the church. It showed Ari 555 00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:08,719 hurrying Tory out of the bathroom and into the parking lot. As soon as 556 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:15,440 they passed the threshold of the door, Ari jerked the near nude toddler by 557 00:51:15,519 --> 00:51:19,880 her arm. She grabbed the little girl and carried her to the car, 558 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:27,840 not like a child, but sideways across both of her arms. The most 559 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,360 important thing noticed in the video is the lack of bruises on little Tory, 560 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:38,320 and the bruises were a big part of this case. This is extensive, 561 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:47,280 dependent bruising on a child's body that was inflicted repetitively by blunt force trauma, 562 00:51:49,519 --> 00:51:53,519 which is the worst I've seen. It was determined that all of the bruises 563 00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:59,880 were made at the same time. There was no previous incident with her old 564 00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:06,639 their brothers. This fact is further supported by interviews done with the Robinson children, 565 00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:12,079 who confirmed their mother would use a belt to discipline them. So this 566 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:16,119 isn't what we think of as a traditional bruise of the skin. This is 567 00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:23,480 a severe d injury that's tearing tissue from tissue and allowing blood to collect within 568 00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:30,000 the tissues underneath the skin. Little Tory's cause of death was internal bleeding. 569 00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:37,480 Her legs were beaten so badly that the skins separated from the muscle and blood 570 00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:44,280 pooled. The trapped blood couldn't make its way back to her heart. What's 571 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,280 the last thing you recalled? Where it's saying to you? Or She was 572 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:55,960 playing on the bed before she got peet macco and she told me she loved 573 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:02,840 me, And I said I love me too. I said, promise, 574 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,280 will this will happen again? She said okay, and I said I love 575 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,519 you. I said I live in too. She gotta keep westde I live 576 00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:16,480 you too, And that was the last thing she said to me. Austin 577 00:53:16,559 --> 00:53:22,719 expressed remorse and deep sadness. He regretted the reason he didn't call nine one 578 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:30,840 one sooner. I was scared. I was trying to pretend her all Day 579 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:37,920 four of the trial, Ari took the stand in her own defense. How 580 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,320 did it make you feel to have a little girl house? It made me 581 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:45,400 feel really good. It made me feel a lot more girly cause I'm Tory. 582 00:53:52,119 --> 00:54:07,639 What kind of childs was Tory? I'm sorry, Tory was perfect. 583 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:14,719 She was perfect child. She didn't have a lot of behavior issues. I'm 584 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:23,039 really easy to get along wits. Oh did you spoil your kids? Yeah, 585 00:54:24,079 --> 00:54:28,840 especially Victorian. It was easy because she was the baby girl. I 586 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,079 was a baby my family, and though I always played favorites with the baby 587 00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:36,360 anyways, and it was just really easy because she was a girl, the 588 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:40,840 only girl. So yeah, we had a good relationship. She wasn't my 589 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:49,159 mini me. She would talk like me, at like me. She wanna 590 00:54:49,199 --> 00:54:53,239 go everywhere I went. She wouldn't do everything I did. She placed all 591 00:54:53,320 --> 00:55:00,079 the blames squarely on Austin's shoulders. A guilty woman blaming a man for her 592 00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:07,199 own actions. That's new. And you would agree because you've seen us that 593 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,920 Victoria was beaten into a hall. Correct. I would agree with that. 594 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:20,239 You believe you call the prisoner herself. See, no, it's either you 595 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:25,320 or Austin, correct, I would say so. I think Austin has one 596 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:30,519 of the scariest type of anger issues because he holds everything in and he doesn't 597 00:55:30,599 --> 00:55:34,480 let it out, and then when it does come out, it's too much 598 00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:38,960 because he bottles it up. But a social media post for Father's Day by 599 00:55:39,079 --> 00:55:45,760 Ari would contradict that claim. This is a little Father's Day post you did 600 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,920 for Austin gret Correct. There's another daddy daughter duo in the world who love 601 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,599 each other more than these two right here. The post went on to say 602 00:55:53,760 --> 00:56:00,559 that the kids needed discipline, and I know that will never come from you 603 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:07,960 having bothers dab let me bungeous. The whole trial boiled down to one thing. 604 00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:13,840 Who do you believe all scenarial I think we can probably admit that the 605 00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,880 evidence dictates that one of these two people committed this crib. Less than an 606 00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:23,840 hour and a half later, the jury returned the verdict to See of South 607 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:29,679 Carolina versus Scarriel S. Robinson as to the charge of homicide by child abuse 608 00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:36,960 le the jury nmically unanimously find a defendant guilty of homicide by child abuse almost 609 00:56:37,039 --> 00:56:43,159 immediately after the judge delivered are a sentence. I think medical testimony in this 610 00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:52,400 case was incredibly heartbreaking. And for folks who deal in the emergency room and 611 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,079 who serve us in that way, and folks who deal with children in the 612 00:56:55,119 --> 00:57:00,800 most critical of situations, for them to say that this was substant actually worse 613 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:06,679 than anything they had seen, I think that has to put something into perspective 614 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:14,960 for you. I can say that in my thirteen fourteen years of being a 615 00:57:15,079 --> 00:57:19,559 judge, I've never seen anything like this. I've never seen anything like this, 616 00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:28,559 not even approaching it. And what compounds it is that I understand what 617 00:57:28,639 --> 00:57:32,159 your attorney is saying. Perhaps she snapped at that moment, but then why 618 00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:38,840 then why let this child suffer and not get for medical attention that she desperately 619 00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:45,480 needed as she lay dying in her own bedroom. Based on all that, 620 00:57:45,719 --> 00:57:49,960 the sentence of the court cannot be anything but life in prison. Thank you. 621 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:58,320 Tori's biological family who attended the trial were overjoyed by the outcome. They 622 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:06,880 we're just here as representation for Victoria and then you know that she was loved 623 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,679 Jo. We just want to thank everyone, from the police to first responders, 624 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:15,880 the nurses, the doctors, the Christie and her team, the jury. 625 00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:21,599 Everyone, Thank you guys so much, but they still had anger in 626 00:58:21,719 --> 00:58:27,440 their hearts. They thought Ari got what she deserved and more thankful that Austin 627 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:32,119 did the right thing. He just did it too late. Honestly, I'd 628 00:58:32,159 --> 00:58:35,880 like to see him and get his knights on them as well. Twenty years 629 00:58:36,719 --> 00:58:37,639 you know, and that I mean, he is just as responsible. He 630 00:58:37,639 --> 00:58:40,199 could have stopped that. He didn't. You said that you knew that she 631 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,960 had been beating on, that your wife had been doing this for the safety 632 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,440 of your own kids, if anything, why didn't you stop that? Because 633 00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,800 it could have turned from my child to your child very quickly. I just 634 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,159 feel like, as a parent, you should have said something. During Austin's 635 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:59,039 sentencing, he addressed the court in an attempt to be treated with mercy. 636 00:58:59,639 --> 00:59:05,920 And the day goes by where I don't steal a name by tour. There's 637 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,679 nothing I will do to go back and change things, even though I know 638 00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:15,920 I can't. I lived there and I still do. I wish I would 639 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:22,880 have him on things differently and consumer, but I was terrified here. I 640 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:29,039 didn't think that things were at that matter too, that they were in tools 641 00:59:29,079 --> 00:59:32,039 too late, and I have to move with that and new live with that 642 00:59:32,159 --> 00:59:37,639 every day in my life story of family. I am truly, truly sorry 643 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:42,320 for all this, and I hope him pray them one day. Y'all can't 644 00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:47,320 forgive me. Austin begged for the sake of his own children for the judge 645 00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:53,880 to consider sentencing him to ten to twenty years but leaving him on house arrest. 646 00:59:55,039 --> 01:00:00,360 It was no use, though. The judge cited all the opportunity that 647 01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:07,119 he had to help to call nine one one to do anything, but he 648 01:00:07,239 --> 01:00:13,880 didn't. He was aware of ongoing abuse, and he did nothing. In 649 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:21,199 the end, and probably rightfully so he was sentenced to the maximum of twenty 650 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:25,800 years in prison. These little boys, tories, brothers, biological brothers, 651 01:00:27,519 --> 01:00:30,320 you know, they're back in the system, and God knows what kind of 652 01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:32,960 family they're going to be put with, and my size wherever they are. 653 01:00:34,119 --> 01:00:37,800 I just I love you guys so much, and I hope that I hope 654 01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,480 y'all can feel me with you, because I just I'm thinking about you guys 655 01:00:39,519 --> 01:00:45,679 all the time. And then Ariel's children, her biological children, are also 656 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:50,360 in the system now because both of her parents, you know both of their 657 01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,920 parents are in jail. They're in prison. The death of Tory led to 658 01:00:55,199 --> 01:01:02,079 two families being torn apart. Ari's kids will never see their mother outside of 659 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:07,159 prison walls, and they will likely be in their thirties when Austin is released 660 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:14,159 at the age of fifty four. Even after the trial was all said and 661 01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:21,440 done, those that knew the Robinson's that knew Ari were still in disbelief. 662 01:01:22,039 --> 01:01:24,280 I'm torn because part of me wants her to get the help that she needs, 663 01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:28,360 but the other part is is like, God, damn, I hope 664 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:34,719 you're fucking vernon hell forever. It's a whole mixed bag of emotions and feelings 665 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,000 and thoughts. I'm really trying to contain my anger because Erica tried to contain 666 01:01:39,119 --> 01:01:45,960 it but did succumb to the anger. It's bullshit, like, why the 667 01:01:46,039 --> 01:01:47,960 fuck do you want to have a baby? If this is what the fuck 668 01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,760 are you gonna do to it? What the fuck is wrong with you? 669 01:01:52,039 --> 01:01:54,239 Why? Why did you fucking doing why? Why would you fucking do this? 670 01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:59,920 Why? Why? And And I'm pissed off, but the husbands, 671 01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:04,360 because you know what, be a goddamn man and stand up for that baby 672 01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,079 and go save her because he could intervene. And what did he do? 673 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,320 He stayed out of it, like he had no part of it, right, 674 01:02:12,519 --> 01:02:16,639 Like what the fuck? I do know that she's gonna get She's gonna 675 01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:22,519 get she's gonna get hers in prison because you know they don't take well to 676 01:02:22,679 --> 01:02:25,840 child Molissa's and child and child killer. So I know she's going to get 677 01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:30,559 hers, and I hope, I hope, I hope she gets good. 678 01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:36,360 I really dont Ari seemed to have it all. She was an educated and 679 01:02:37,039 --> 01:02:43,679 successful teacher before quitting to follow her dream, only to be successful at that 680 01:02:44,519 --> 01:02:50,480 as well. She won a nationally televised cooking show and was awarded twenty five 681 01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:57,719 thousand dollars, not to mention the boost and reputation and publicity. She desperately 682 01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:04,599 wanted a little girl and was given one by the state. She got everything 683 01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:09,079 that she wanted, but couldn't hold on to it. Maybe she harbored a 684 01:03:09,199 --> 01:03:15,920 deep anger behind her comedic facade, or maybe seven kids were just too much 685 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:22,559 to handle and she snapped. We'll never know. All we know for sure 686 01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:30,079 is that Ari focused her anger almost entirely on little innocent Tory. People just 687 01:03:30,239 --> 01:03:35,320 love your kids, just love your kids. If you're angry, if you're 688 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:39,000 pissed off about something, go take it off on something else. Babies, 689 01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:45,800 babies are innocent. Just leave the babies alone. A man. The Food 690 01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:52,679 Network removed the entire twentieth season of Worse Cooks in America after the truth about 691 01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:59,599 Ari came out. The biological family of Tori is still trying to make Victoria's 692 01:03:59,679 --> 01:04:03,039 law a reality. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. It was great 693 01:04:03,079 --> 01:04:05,719 to talk to you, and it's great to see you back on social media. 694 01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:10,280 Really, Oh god, stop it. I'm horrible on social media, 695 01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,320 but thank you, thank you very much. I don't know what else there 696 01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,000 is to say about stories like this. I know we've covered a few of 697 01:04:17,079 --> 01:04:25,840 them, and they almost start to sound like the same story retold over and 698 01:04:26,079 --> 01:04:33,519 over again. There's clearly a problem here in America with child abuse, and 699 01:04:34,119 --> 01:04:44,719 the voices of these innocent children goes mostly silent until it's too late. So 700 01:04:45,039 --> 01:04:54,800 if you suspect child abuse anywhere in your social circle, please call the child 701 01:04:54,920 --> 01:05:03,159 Help National Child Abuse Hotline at one eight hundred four a child or one eight 702 01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:11,360 hundred four two two four four five three. You can also go to Childhelp 703 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:17,760 Dot org. All calls are toll free and confidential. The hotline is available 704 01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:25,360 twenty four seven and more than one hundred and seventy languages. The stories we 705 01:05:25,519 --> 01:05:31,840 tell go out there to hundreds of thousands of people, but unless you act, 706 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:41,440 then it's all for nought. So please remember, children are innocent and 707 01:05:41,559 --> 01:05:48,599 they need our help. So if you know of something going wrong in someone's 708 01:05:48,639 --> 01:05:57,400 home, if you suspect a child is being hurt, please speak up. 709 01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,679 Well, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate you here. 710 01:06:21,159 --> 01:06:25,719 If you haven't already, check out Sort and Scale Nightmares. It's available 711 01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:30,679 on Apple podcasts and Spotify and every other podcast player out there. Speaking of 712 01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:34,599 podcast players, we're going to go back and work on our own. 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