Justice is Served: Chris Sepulvado’s Finality

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's kJ here and I'm back for another episode of Unspeakable.

1:02 How are you doing wherever you are. I hope you're having a fantastic week in a fantastic day. I was not planning on this being the episode that I released this week, but I guess maybe you would call this a little bit of artistic something. I don't know what the word is, but you know how whenever writers sit down like musicians and they say, oh, well, how'd you come up with this song? Like, oh, I just had to write it, you know, I was feeling something in the moment, Well, this is going to be my artistic I was feeling it in the moment drop because from the second, from the very second that this case hit the news, it irked me. It irked me something hard that I had to literally sit down. I was in the middle of another podcast and I had to sit down and write this one just to get it out of my system. But before I get started, I have to give a huge shout out all the way to the Big Apple, New York, New York to miss Leslie. DeJesus, how are you doing, Leslie? I hope you're fantastic. I've enjoyed talking to you a little bit on Patreon and getting to know you and all of that. So I want to give you that shout out tell you hello.

2:01 I'm sorry. I think I should have shouted you out back in January. I wasn't sure if I did or not, so I'm doubling up if I did it. If I didn't, this one's for you. So let's talk about the case, okay, and why I got me going and why got my emotions kind kind of big. So the case is going to be right here out of Louisiana. And this just went back into the news again, even though it was a little bit older, because we have started back our executions in Louisiana. We had a little moratorium there going on, but it's back and it was a big, big topic about I don't know, maybe two weeks ago that there were two men scheduled to die and they were officially back on the schedule and we were about to handle business in Louisiana. So curious as to their names and their cases, I searched some articles online and I was doing a little bit of research about what the case was, with no intentions of writing a podcast on it. But while I was reading one particular article, it took one line to set me the hell off and it had me writing page after page after page, short tempered. Maybe I'll accept that, but you need to hear me out on this one. So it was a defense attorney, Okay, this defense attorney's name was Sean Nolan, and he made a comment about the state of society and the fact that we would put an elderly man to death, and the statement he had just literally had my blood boiling.

3:26 I'm actually I want to quote him directly for you per the Louisiana Illuminator website if you want to go see it, so I don't misspeak. I want to say exactly what he said, word for word he said. Christopher Sepulvedo's death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana. The idea that the state was planning to strap this tiny, frail, dying old man to a chair and force him to breathe toxic gas into his failing lungs is simply barbaric. End quote barbaric? Right? How dare we the people hold up a mirror for someone to reflect on their actions while also being held accountable for them. How dare we as a society do that? And the words that really caught my attention were tiny, frail, and dying, and I want you to focus on those as I tell you this story. So the gst of it is this Christopher was supposed to be put to death. They put him on the schedule, and then he died naturally in the prison infirmary before he could be put to death. And that's why it was the big story. So he finally was going to meet his maker through execution and then he just died naturally before it ever it ever was able to be put you know, gone through with So I am beyond thrilled that the attorney described Christopher in the exact state he was. And I want you to remember, like I said those words exactly as I jumped into

4:59 this ca tiny, frail, and dying. So this case is going to take us back to nineteen ninety two. Christopher was born on November eleventh of nineteen forty three, and he was the seventh of eight children. His mama had a lot of kids, and he did complete school. He went through the twelfth grade, but he did have his problems while he was in school. He certainly was not the smartest kid in the schoolhouse, and his IQ was found to be somewhere near ninety, which, by the way, if you're not familiar with this, the average IQ the average American in the United States is around one hundred. So a ninety is well below the at and I don't want to say well below, but he's below what the average intelligence person in the United States would be.

5:49 So then that got my wheels turn and I'm like, well, I wonder if that's normal for his area. Okay, because Louisiana's let's be for real. So I looked up some information and Massachusetts has the highest average IQ at one oh four point three, which makes sense if you think about it, because they have MIT and they have Harvard, and so there's gonna be a lot of smart people in the area. But the lowest the lowest. I'm not trying to brag, y'all, Okay, but it wasn't Louisiana. No, we were forty ninth. Okay, it wasn't us though. Mississippi y'all got the last place title with an average IQ of ninety four point two. Now, obviously that's not a reflection on everybody there, it's just the average. But if ninety four point two was in Mississippi and that was considered the lowest average out of the United States, and Christopher's IQ was ninety, he's even gonna be below the lowest average there. This is the thing, though, and I want to make sure to be crystal clear about it.

6:49 He was not slow or or mentally disabled. He was just a bonafide dumbass, and it's important to know the difference. So he a little bit about his life. He took up drinking at the age of twelve, which we all know that's problematic, and he would continue drinking up until his incarceration. He was a legitimate alcoholic as an adult and had a complete and total dependence on it. So you need to know all of this information when you're gathering what you think about this case. So he worked labor based jobs, so he typical jobs he held were as a painter or as a carpenter, real blue collar, hands on type work. And while he may have been employed, he had a history of alcohol related offenses starting in his twenties. So from nineteen sixty one through his arrest for the case that I'm about to tell you about, he had a history of offenses and basically being a pain in the ass. He did have his way amazingly with the ladies. And I tell you that because he got married not once and not twice, but four times.

7:59 He got married. He found for women willing to marry him. But I don't think it was his charm that pulled them in. He was diagnosed later on in life. He was diagnosed as having narcissistic personality disorder, which, like I said, that was diagnosed later on in life. But that leads me to believe that he likely roped in women with low self esteem. And so why do I say that let me explain, Because people like Christopher have with that diagnosis at least have a grandiose sense of self importance, and so they have a need for excessive admiration. And I think we've all met people like this. They chase success and they chase power, yet they lack that super important element of empathy for other people in the process.

8:47 It's kind of like they step on whoever they have to step on to get wherever they want to be, and they walk around with an arrogance about them, but amazingly they cannot handle any sort of criticism that might be sent their way. I know, you know somebody like that. I can think of a couple of people like that. He's a perfect example of that term fragile masculinity that you hear thrown about these days. Perfect example. He also spread his seed quite well because he fathered six children between all of his wives by the age of forty eight. So he was knocking him dead, you know, getting it done.

9:29 Two of those children that he created would end up dead before the age of ten. But I want you to hang tight because it's not what this case is about, believe it or not. It's just a fun fact. I'm throwing in there for you. His former wives all seem to echo the same complaints about Christopher. One ex wife, her name was Agnes Marie Agnes, and her son, which would have been Chris's former step son, Larry Michelle. For example, Larry was fourteen years old whenever he was telling he told the media about this or in court and all that. But he was fourteen years old whenever he first told about how badly Chris abused both he and his mother during his time in a family with Chris. Chris was not his father biological father. It was his stepfather. But he was beaten severely by Christopher, horribly in fact, on three separate occasions. And in one of those beatings, Chris hit him with a wooden board with so much force that the board broke in half when he was struck with it. This is a teenage kid, and he's beating him like this. He was so serious and so scary that his mother, who was used to being abused by this man, got so afraid that she snatched him up and they fled to a shelter in Shreveport, Louisiana, to just escape the brutality that was happening. Day in and day out in that home, there were also some questionable sexual behavior yours going on behind closed doors. Seventeen year

11:03 old Gail Hughes. She was seventeen years old. She was allowed to live with Chris and his wife at that time. Her name was Louise Lampkin, and while she was living there, she was extremely thankful that these people opened up their doors, they allowed her a place to stay, but eventually she would endure both physical abuse and emotional abuse at the hands of Chris while she was living there again a seventeen year old girl. But after living there for a while, You're gonna love this. He went from bidding her and abusing this seventeen year old that he opened up his doors to live with him, and then he eventually took her on as his teenage lover. Yeah, that's the guy I'm talking about before I even get into this story.

11:52 So another thing that was put out there was that throughout the years he even cohabitated with his own cousin as well as having another supposedly allegedly fourteen year old girlfriend at one point fourteen. So by nineteen ninety two, Christopher was now forty eight years old. He had been divorced three times, but he was again now in another relationship. And his current girlfriend's name was Yvonne Jones, and although his track record of relationships was weak at best, she was still willing to give him a try. Now, I'm sure he was pulling the wool over her eyes, just like abusers do, but you know she was gonna try this relationship with him. So the two of them began dating.

12:40 In September of nineteen ninety Yvonne was fresh out of a marriage that she had just been in. Actually she was physically separated from him, not legally divorced, and that's when she and her four year old son, his name was Wesley. They She and her son lived with her parents during the time that she was dating. Chris to her in January of nineteen ninety one, that's when everything's changed, though, and so the three of them decided that they would move in together and start their own household. So Yvonne, Wesley, and Christopher all move in together. Now it's important to note Yvonne's family did not approve of them living together, and they met that They made that very well known to Yvonne, But Yvonne did what Yvonne wanted, and she wanted to move in with Chris. So soon after moving in together, Chris was drinking heavily, which wasn't new, but he now added that element of physical abuse to it, and that wasn't so fun for Yvonne, and it got so bad that on May tenth of the same year, Yvonne left Chris and returned back to her parents' house.

13:49 I guess this is why you should never move in with somebody really soon after you meet them, because you don't know everything about them. But she did, and I'm not hating, but she learned really within a few months that this was probably a poor decision. So she moved back in with her parents' house. But as is common fashion, they couldn't leave each other alone, and so they ended up getting back together by the end of May, and then moved back in together. Now, when they moved back in together, she left Wesley with her mom. She did not bring her mom with Chris. But then a few days later, after she went back to Chris, Chris got mad and he beat her up again, so she left him for a second time, retreating back to her parents house. Then, incredibly, they made up again and she went back to him, but this time she brought Wesley with her when she went back, So the following year, although they've had a tumultuous beginning of a relationship, the following year, on Thursday, March the fifth of nineteen ninety two, Chris and Yvonne decided to get married. Wesley was now six years old and Chris had been really the only father figure he had for the last two years. And for those two years, Chris did what he did best, and that would be to discipline young Wesley. This included yelling at him, screaming at the child, as well as physically hitting him to

15:21 discipline him. And he was just a little bitty fella, y'all, this grown man forty eight years old, inflicting pain. He'd probably way too old to be doing this to a child. First of all, he should know better. But inflicting pain and stress upon this little guy constantly, And not only was it constant, but it would gradually escalate the violence and the quote unquote discipline would escalate. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, but I do know this, okay, and you can look it up yourself if you don't believe me. But there are studies out there that are pretty concer assistant in the fact that children who are abused have this correl it or this correlation of gastro intestinal upset, amongst other indicators. And you can go look this up yourself.

16:11 You don't have to believe me, but imagine that you're this little guy who's terrified of an adult man who you know can and will hurt you at the drop of a hat. You're little, you're six years old, You're walking on eggshells, and you're in a constant state of fight or flight. Emotionally. Well, that's exactly where little Wesley was emotionally. And I want you to focus now on one of those words I mentioned at the beginning of the episode, specifically the word tiny. Chris was somewhere around five foot four, definitely not a tall man. But my point here is actually about Wesley. The average six year old little boy is forty two inches tall and forty pounds.

17:03 That is a tiny human. I think we can all agree on that that's a little guy. Well, the very next day after his mama married his tormentor, Wesley came home from school and he had had a really bad day. The reason that he had to leave school is because he had an accident in his pants and he needed to change. Now, I know this is a lot of information, probably TMI, but I want you to understand what the little guy was going through. He had defecated his pants, to be specific, and when his mother arrived to save him from the embarrassment, she was way less than supportive of what had happened. She immediately spanked him for the mess that he had made, and then, to add insult to injury, she refused to let him have supper that night.

17:53 I guess if you're gonna shit your pants, then I don't want to put any more food in your system. I guess that's her logic in her position was it's unconscionable. But she said, well, you're gonna shit your pants, I'm not gonna feed you. Then he was punished when he got home and he was told to stay in his room and he had to wait for his stepdad to get home. And the terror that he must have felt knowing that he was going to be in so much trouble for an accident. But he's a six year old, he's little, and to just have to sit there and wait for this man to come home, I'm sure he was shaking in his boots. And the next thing here that I want to point out to you is that defecating your pants at that age can also be a sign of a trauma response to sexual abuse as well.

18:43 Now I'll tell you this, There was absolutely no evidence that I found anywhere that he was being sexually abused. I'll tell you that. But it is that that correlation of having the stomach problems, and those stomach problems don't stop at home where the trauma happens, that continues on into school. It's kind of like if you don't sleep at night at home, that doesn't mean when you get to school you're not tired. It carries on everywhere that you go. But my soul feels like his gastro problems were tied to his chronic emotional and physical abuse that was happening at home for these last two years. He was so afraid of Chris that no wonder accidents would happen. But Chris returned home from work. This was around nine pm that night, and when he was told about what had happened, he refused to let the child change his clothes.

19:34 He taught him, no, you're gonna stay in your clothes full of crap. You wanta crap your pants, you're gonna keep them on. And then he went grown man and got a length of rope from somewhere, either in the garage or in the house, and then he returned back to this terrified child, where he then tied one end of the rope around Little Wesley's neck, and then he tied the other end of that rope up around a ceiling fan. So there little Wesley stood, cowering and terrified as Chris continued to berate him and threatened to hang him.

20:17 He threatened a child to hang him. That is scary as hell. He wouldn't hang him though, No, he's not going to do that. He just liked that fear factor he could put into that child. Instead, he forced little Wesley to stand on a chair and balance on one leg and told him, you better count the entire time you're standing there. So he's got a rope around his neck, he's on one leg, he's standing on a chair, and he's got to count. Not to mention how hard that is to begin with, with pants filled with his own excrement and being tormented by two adults, his mother and his stepfather. The entire time. Now, Yvonne came in at that point and whenever she saw the rope around Wesley's neck, she did kind of go, WHOA, what's going on here?

21:07 And Chris was very matter of fact that what he was doing was what it looked like. But then he kind of started laughing and was like, oh, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. I was just messing with him, but he wasn't kidding. He scared the shit out of that kid. And that's not funny. And I know this is nowhere near that level. Okay, I recognize what I'm about to tell you is nowhere near that level. But I remember being very young around that same age, and I was taking a bath at the fishing camp where we fished, and they were joking, the parents were joking, okay, but I was all shy and didn't want anybody to know I was in the bathtub and all that, and they all came busting in there joke. They probably been drinking, being stupid, And they all came in eh like that, had umbrellas and stuff like they were the paparazzi being stupid.

21:50 You had to be there to understand they were just being dumb, and then they quickly slammed the door. They were joking. I know they were joking. It was hilarious to everybody, but it scared the shit out of me as a kid because I couldn't understand why it was funny, because I didn't want people in the bathroom. So I just really try to empathize with what this child might have been feeling. And I never had a rope tied around my neck and tied to a ceiling fan and had a grown man tell me he was gonna hang me. That probably was the most terrifying thing ever. So shortly thereafter that happened, Wesley had another accident in his pants. So this time Chris got a belt and he beat little Wesley repeatedly, just whooped him with that belt repeatedly, since threatening to hang him obviously didn't work, now we'll just beat the hell out of you with a leather belt.

22:42 After he was done beating him, Chris then grabbed a little boy, took him by the head of his hair, and shoved his head into the toilet. And while the child felt like he was drowning with his head down in a toilet, Chris started flushing it where it was sucking his head down into the toilet and Hevne. I want you to know something. Yvonne watched as all of this was happening and did nothing to stop it. The mom and me, the mama baron me. I would kill him, do you hear me? I would kill him for doing that to my kid. I'm saying it on a recorded microphone right now. I mean it with everything that I have. So, after the beatings and the torture ended for the moment, Wesley was refused access to his own bed. Instead, Chris decided to shove him in a trunk at the foot of the master bed, where he lay and slept all night, all night. And I would be remiss if I failed to mention that he was forced to sleep in his dirty pants full of fecal matter. And I know people don't want to think about this, but why do we change diapers so often when our children are little? Because urine and feces burns the skin, It irritates the skin.

24:03 We don't leave elderly people in nursing homes to sit in their excrement. Why Because it's number one inhumane, but number two, it's demoralizing. And number three it causes irritation to your skin. And they made that child stay in his dirty clothes after threatening to hang him, flushing his head in a toilet and making him think that he was drowning, and beating the shit out of him with a belt, and then forced him to sleep inside of a trunk at the foot of the bed. Sorry if I'm not so moved right now. The following day would have been a Saturday, and Chris and von teamed up on this six year old child and they said that he would not get to eat all day long since he pooped his pants, and so Wesley at some point, as any child would, became weepy, and he was crying because he was hungry, and he's not having a good time.

25:02 He's having a really bad time. So he gets hungry. He's crying, and this enrages his mother, Yvonne, so she went up to him and just begins slapping and hitting him about the head, grabs him by his head, starts pulling his hair, starts punching him. Y'all, he is six fucking years old. Please don't let that get lost on you. My heart can't take it. And she's punching this baby that she brought into this world, and then brought into this home about the head. And then they shoved him back into the trunk, still wearing his feces filled pants, to lay his Mama saw the condition that the child was in, and she did nothing to comfort him or to help him. Nothing. The acid from that underwear and that feces by this point had to be so irritating to his little genitals and to his little rear end.

26:03 And my mind goes there. I don't know if yours does, but I'm thinking about this poor child and how painful that had to be, and how gross and how uncomfortable. So the next morning was Sunday, March the eighth. Please don't let the speed I'm telling this story get lost in the fact that for two days that child had this dirty clothing on. Please don't let that get lost. I need you to know it. The next morning was Sunday, the March the eighth, and it was around ten am when the family This is almost laughable. The family was getting ready for church. Okay, And I even scoffed whenever I was writing this, when I originally read this, getting ready for church, my ass, you were getting ready to show up to a building with a cross in front of it, no doubt, but you weren't getting ready for church.

26:53 So Chris calls little Wesley into the room, and whenever Wesley got within kicking distance of Chris, Chris turned around and kicked the little boy back into the direction of the bedroom. Through the bedroom, he started kicking him until he was finally into the bathroom, and that's where he told him to take off his clothes, and he said, you're gonna wash out your dirty underwear. But he didn't say you can wash him out in the sink. He didn't say you can wash him out in the tub. He said, just like an inmate in prison. He said, take you under wear and you can wash it in the toilet. So he made the child wash his underwear in the toilet. He then told him, you need to go take a bath. So Wesley hesitated slightly whenever he was told to go take the bath, because number one, he's a child, okay. And number two, maybe I feel like, just from experience, that maybe he didn't know what to do or how to clean himself properly, like, okay, well do I use toilet paper first and wipe myself or do I just get in the tub, because you know, it had to be all over him. But he hesitated slightly.

28:03 He is six years old. And when Chris saw that slight hesitation, he flew into a rage. And that's when he grabbed a screwdriver that he had nearby. Don't don't ask me from where, I have no idea, But he grabbed a screwdriver, took it, and then began smashing that six year old little boy over the head with the handle. And he did it over and over and over again until Wesley finally was knocked unconscious and collapsed on the floor. So this again was around ten o'clock in the morning that all of this started. Don't forget that. It wasn't until three hours later, three hours that Chris and E Vaughan showed up to the emergency room at Desto General Hospital with a severely injured child in the emergency room.

28:58 So when they got there, the child's condition was and well, hey, this is a great time for me to bring up another one of those words from the beginning of the episode. The child's condition upon arrival was fragile. Yeah, he was extremely sick when he got there. He was considered medically fragile when they brought him through the door. So he was brought through the er doors unconscious and in desperate need of life saving measures if he were to live. He wasn't breathing, and Wesley had no pulse, so the er staff swooped him up. They worked quickly on him to try and get his little heart beating, try to get his little lungs breathing. And so when they asked his mom, Yvonne, what happened, she said, well, Wesley went to go get some food and he began vomiting and then he fell over and he lost consciousness. HM. Doesn't seem to fit, does it. I've never seen head injuries from eating, just for you know, just for a fun fact.

30:07 There never seen that happen. So the doctor on call obviously took issue with that explanation because not only was the child, oh I don't know, y'all, maybe I should throw that last word in here that I told you to remember dying. Not only was that child, tiny, frailing dying, but he had way more damage to his little body than what aligned with what his mother had said or explained. Guess what else Wesley had? Little Wesley had scald burns covering sixty percent of his body, primarily on his backside. There were third degree burns over fifty eight percent of his body and second degree burns on the remaining two percent.

30:54 And the scalding was so severe on this child that his skin had burned off. He also had markings. They noted these markings were consistent with having been severely beaten. Little man's scalp had been separated from his skull due to the massive amount of hemorrhaging beneath the skin and the bruising. Like it was lifted from his scalp, There was so much blood underneath it and through the scalded skin on his behind, on his little bottom. Through the scalded skin, the doctor could still see the deep bruises that were all over his little booty. All attempts to revive six year old Wesley failed and he was pronounced dead at the hospital. The truth was that Wesley had been dead y'all for an hour before he was even brought to the er. He was dead when he got there.

31:58 They just tried everything they could, because no one gives up on a child like that. You would think no one would let a child suffer and die without trying something you would think. So the er did what they could well. The very next day, an autopsy was performed on the six year old body of Wesley, and the pathologist's findings were horrific. And please don't forget this is a thirty five pound little boy. It was doctor George McCormick that was the forensic pathologist who examined Wesley the next day. And God bless, God bless these pathologists. I know it's their job, but it cannot be easy to see children in this condition. It can't be easy to see any victim in the condition that I know they show up in. But a baby, a little boy. His examination revealed the existence of substantial bruises all over the body, as well as multiple head wounds, and doctor McCormick found Wesley had been subjected to severe beatings which caused deep tissue bruising on his behind and his groin area. Think of what it would mean to hurt a little boy, to kick him in his groin. Grown men can't handle that.

33:20 It's a little guy. And specifically, he found that the burns, combined with the multiple smashes to Wesley's head are what combined put him into cardiac arrest and in combination, caused his death. Those were the official findings. So the DeSoto Paris Sheriff's Office enacted an investigation, which I'm gonna spare you the mundane details of the step by step, but it did lead to the following truths being uncovered. To start, Christopher tried to present himself as a deeply religious man whenever he was boken to. But the act of going to church does not make you religious, because I could go stand in a garage and it ain't gonna make me a fucking car. But he tried to put on this persona for everybody character, and your actions in conjunction would imply that you actually have religiousness, you know, like the fruit of the spirit that you learn about. I don't think that Chris understands what religiousness means. It's the fruit of the spirit, things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. You know those, Sorry, Chris, because there was zero evidence there. It was just a word you used.

34:47 There was no evidence that that was your character. And during the interrogation, Chris admitted to striking Wesley, but he claimed that Wesley fell into the tub act, and that's where all of this stems from. And I want to tell you something. I've lived on this earth for almost forty one years, and I have never accidentally fallen into a tub, and my children have never accidentally fallen into a tub. Secondly, if I were to fall into a tub, or if my children were to fall into a tub, that tub wouldn't have been filled with boiling water. Ever, like ever, why do you think that this child had scalding burns all over his body? But the fact was that little Wesley had been consistently abused for two years and the day of his death, he was smashing the head with a screwdriver until his scalp separated from his skull and he was knocked unconscious. And once he was laying they are unresponsive. That's when Chris filled the tub partially, not all the way up, but partially with scalding, boiling hot water and then put that little boy in it, where his skin cooked, for lack of a better word, where he was unable to defend himself nor help himself

36:20 in any way. That's what happened to that child. And sometime within the hour, that six year old little boy went into shock, and that is whenever he began vomiting, and that is where he died with the burns combined with the other injuries, after he was dead, hours after he was dead. His quote unquote parents, if we can even call them, that brought that child to the hospital. And additional investigation found that another biological child of Christopher had died prior to this case. I mentioned it earlier.

37:05 Christopher's own mother confirmed that that other child that died that was Christopher's died of dehydration. He didn't accidentally run out in front of a car, He didn't have a medical malady that would have caused a death. No, that child died of dehydration. Additional information on this child I don't have. I'm going to tell you that, but I do think that it's important to show this trend in Chris's care. So police had all that they needed to seal the fate of both Chris and Yvonne, and both of them were charged with first degree murder, but they would be tried separately. Yvonne, who chose to stand aside and allow her husband to beat her six year old son and starve him, humiliate him, make him sleep in a box, beat him some more and then dump him in scalding water, all because he pooped his pants. She was charged with the first degree murder of her six year old son, Wesley, but the state ended up amending those charges and they reduced them to second degree murder, where she pled not guilty by reason of its sanity.

38:29 I don't know, maybe we as a society should make a new plea option that's not guilty by reason of being a fucking bitch. Maybe we need to add that because it only seems the only fitting thing here that I can think of. I'm sorry about my passion here, but it's a child. So after that jury trial, she was convicted of manslaughter and she was sentenced to twenty one years at hard labor. Christopher was convicted for the first degree murder of little Wesley and sentenced to death. But was he ever executed. No. He got the privilege of having his day in court to plead his case.

39:15 Wesley didn't. He got an attorney to stand up for him and defend him. Wesley didn't. He got medical care for the rest of his life, and Wesley didn't. Chris got meals and visitation, and he got to talk to people for the rest of his life, and Wesley didn't. So pardon me if my pitymeter is broken. It's funny to me that a grown ass man feels empowered to beat and scald a baby to death, yet he lies like a coward bitch when he is confronted by the police, grown men who can call you out on what you've done, and you lie, you're a coward. Chris was a coward until the day he died. And just because he grew old and he got sick, it does not undo what he did to that child. Chris got the luxury of growing old to the age of eighty one and never being held to the execution date that was set for him, while Wesley never saw the age of seven. So, in the same spirit of Chris the Palvido's attorney and using his exact same quote word for word, except I'm going to reference Wesley rather than Chris, my stance is this abusing a child to death is a sad comment on the state of Louisiana. The idea that Chris was planning

40:47 to beat this tiny, frail and dying child and then throw him in a tub of boiling water, forcing him to scald until his heart failed is simply barbaric and fucking qu vote from Kelly Jennings. So I hope that this clears up any confusion that you may have as to whether this man should have met his maker long before he died of natural causes on death row. And to people, because there's people out there who hate me and I don't really care right now, to the people who say that I don't have a heart for my strong stance that I take on shit like this, let me tell you where it comes from. Having sympathy for someone is easy because it comes from a position of power.

41:33 When you feel sorry for Chris, it's because you're coming from a stance of power, you're free, and Christopher wasn't because he remained locked up on death row. If you really do some soul searching, that's where that's coming from. Empathy, though, empathy is different. Empathy is getting down on our knees and looking Wesley in his six year old eyes, realizing that he could have been any of us. All that separates us from what that baby suffered is luck. It's not a lack of a heart, trust me. It's not that I lack one. It's that cases like this constantly leave me carrying a broken one. So good riddance to the abusive, mean spirited, hateful man that was Chris Sepulvido.

42:24 And I would have said goodbye, but that would imply I ever gave a shit he was here to begin with.