March 26, 2025

Justice is Served: Chris Sepulvado’s Finality

Justice is Served: Chris Sepulvado’s Finality

This episode recounts the tragic abuse of six-year-old Wesley by his mother and husband Christopher Sepulvado, who was sentenced to death at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.


Timestamps
00:50 The Case That Sparked Outrage
02:14 The Background...

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Season 7

This episode recounts the tragic abuse of six-year-old Wesley by his mother and husband Christopher Sepulvado, who was sentenced to death at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.


Timestamps
00:50 The Case That Sparked Outrage
02:14 The Background of Christopher Sepulvido
06:58 The Unraveling of a Troubled Life
12:38 The Relationship with Yvonne Jones
15:33 The Abuse Begins
18:22 The Night of Terror
23:31 The Aftermath of Abuse
29:31 Wesley's Tragic Death
37:37 The Investigation and Charges
40:13 The Verdict and Sentencing

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Episode Source Material:

• https://lailluminator.com/2025/02/23/louisiana-execution-4/
• https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/la-court-of-appeal/2172537.html
• https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/average-iq-in-usa-1710768833-1
• https://casetext.com/case/state-v-sepulvado-18
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16511365/
• https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/g/normal-growth

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's

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kJ here and I'm back for another episode of Unspeakable.

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How are you doing wherever you are. I hope you're

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having a fantastic week in a fantastic day. I was

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not planning on this being the episode that I released

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this week, but I guess maybe you would call this

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a little bit of artistic something. I don't know what

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the word is, but you know how whenever writers sit

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down like musicians and they say, oh, well, how'd you

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come up with this song? Like, oh, I just had

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to write it, you know, I was feeling something in

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the moment, Well, this is going to be my artistic

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I was feeling it in the moment drop because from

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the second, from the very second that this case hit

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the news, it irked me. It irked me something hard

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that I had to literally sit down. I was in

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the middle of another podcast and I had to sit

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down and write this one just to get it out

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of my system. But before I get started, I have

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to give a huge shout out all the way to

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the Big Apple, New York, New York to miss Leslie. DeJesus,

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how are you doing, Leslie? I hope you're fantastic. I've

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enjoyed talking to you a little bit on Patreon and

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getting to know you and all of that. So I

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want to give you that shout out tell you hello.

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I'm sorry. I think I should have shouted you out

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back in January. I wasn't sure if I did or not,

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so I'm doubling up if I did it. If I didn't,

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this one's for you. So let's talk about the case, okay,

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and why I got me going and why got my

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emotions kind kind of big. So the case is going

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to be right here out of Louisiana. And this just

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went back into the news again, even though it was

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a little bit older, because we have started back our

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executions in Louisiana. We had a little moratorium there going on,

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but it's back and it was a big, big topic

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about I don't know, maybe two weeks ago that there

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were two men scheduled to die and they were officially

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back on the schedule and we were about to handle

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business in Louisiana. So curious as to their names and

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their cases, I searched some articles online and I was

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doing a little bit of research about what the case was,

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with no intentions of writing a podcast on it. But

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while I was reading one particular article, it took one

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line to set me the hell off and it had

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me writing page after page after page, short tempered. Maybe

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I'll accept that, but you need to hear me out

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on this one. So it was a defense attorney, Okay,

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this defense attorney's name was Sean Nolan, and he made

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a comment about the state of society and the fact

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that we would put an elderly man to death, and

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the statement he had just literally had my blood boiling.

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I'm actually I want to quote him directly for you

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per the Louisiana Illuminator website if you want to go

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see it, so I don't misspeak. I want to say

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exactly what he said, word for word he said. Christopher

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Sepulvedo's death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad

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comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.

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The idea that the state was planning to strap this tiny, frail,

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dying old man to a chair and force him to

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breathe toxic gas into his failing lungs is simply barbaric.

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End quote barbaric? Right? How dare we the people hold

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up a mirror for someone to reflect on their actions

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while also being held accountable for them. How dare we

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as a society do that? And the words that really

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caught my attention were tiny, frail, and dying, and I

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want you to focus on those as I tell you

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this story. So the gst of it is this Christopher

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was supposed to be put to death. They put him

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on the schedule, and then he died naturally in the

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prison infirmary before he could be put to death. And

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that's why it was the big story. So he finally

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was going to meet his maker through execution and then

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he just died naturally before it ever it ever was

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able to be put you know, gone through with So

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I am beyond thrilled that the attorney described Christopher in

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the exact state he was. And I want you to remember,

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like I said those words exactly as I jumped into

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this ca tiny, frail, and dying. So this case is

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going to take us back to nineteen ninety two. Christopher

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was born on November eleventh of nineteen forty three, and

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he was the seventh of eight children. His mama had

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a lot of kids, and he did complete school. He

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went through the twelfth grade, but he did have his

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problems while he was in school. He certainly was not

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the smartest kid in the schoolhouse, and his IQ was

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found to be somewhere near ninety, which, by the way,

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if you're not familiar with this, the average IQ the

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average American in the United States is around one hundred.

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So a ninety is well below the at and I

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don't want to say well below, but he's below what

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the average intelligence person in the United States would be.

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So then that got my wheels turn and I'm like, well,

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I wonder if that's normal for his area. Okay, because

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Louisiana's let's be for real. So I looked up some

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information and Massachusetts has the highest average IQ at one

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oh four point three, which makes sense if you think

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about it, because they have MIT and they have Harvard,

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and so there's gonna be a lot of smart people

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in the area. But the lowest the lowest. I'm not

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trying to brag, y'all, Okay, but it wasn't Louisiana. No,

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we were forty ninth. Okay, it wasn't us though. Mississippi

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y'all got the last place title with an average IQ

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of ninety four point two. Now, obviously that's not a

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reflection on everybody there, it's just the average. But if

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ninety four point two was in Mississippi and that was

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considered the lowest average out of the United States, and

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Christopher's IQ was ninety, he's even gonna be below the

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lowest average there. This is the thing, though, and I

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want to make sure to be crystal clear about it.

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He was not slow or or mentally disabled. He was

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just a bonafide dumbass, and it's important to know the difference.

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So he a little bit about his life. He took

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up drinking at the age of twelve, which we all

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know that's problematic, and he would continue drinking up until

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his incarceration. He was a legitimate alcoholic as an adult

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and had a complete and total dependence on it. So

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you need to know all of this information when you're

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gathering what you think about this case. So he worked

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labor based jobs, so he typical jobs he held were

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as a painter or as a carpenter, real blue collar,

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hands on type work. And while he may have been employed,

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he had a history of alcohol related offenses starting in

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his twenties. So from nineteen sixty one through his arrest

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for the case that I'm about to tell you about,

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he had a history of offenses and basically being a

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pain in the ass. He did have his way amazingly

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with the ladies. And I tell you that because he

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got married not once and not twice, but four times.

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He got married. He found for women willing to marry him.

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But I don't think it was his charm that pulled

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them in. He was diagnosed later on in life. He

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was diagnosed as having narcissistic personality disorder, which, like I said,

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that was diagnosed later on in life. But that leads

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me to believe that he likely roped in women with

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low self esteem. And so why do I say that

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let me explain, Because people like Christopher have with that

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diagnosis at least have a grandiose sense of self importance,

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and so they have a need for excessive admiration. And

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I think we've all met people like this. They chase

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success and they chase power, yet they lack that super

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important element of empathy for other people in the process.

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It's kind of like they step on whoever they have

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to step on to get wherever they want to be,

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and they walk around with an arrogance about them, but

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amazingly they cannot handle any sort of criticism that might

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be sent their way. I know, you know somebody like that.

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I can think of a couple of people like that.

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He's a perfect example of that term fragile masculinity that

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you hear thrown about these days. Perfect example. He also

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spread his seed quite well because he fathered six children

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between all of his wives by the age of forty eight.

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So he was knocking him dead, you know, getting it done.

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Two of those children that he created would end up

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dead before the age of ten. But I want you

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to hang tight because it's not what this case is about,

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believe it or not. It's just a fun fact. I'm

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throwing in there for you. His former wives all seem

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to echo the same complaints about Christopher. One ex wife,

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her name was Agnes Marie Agnes, and her son, which

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would have been Chris's former step son, Larry Michelle. For example,

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Larry was fourteen years old whenever he was telling he

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told the media about this or in court and all that.

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But he was fourteen years old whenever he first told

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about how badly Chris abused both he and his mother

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during his time in a family with Chris. Chris was

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not his father biological father. It was his stepfather. But

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he was beaten severely by Christopher, horribly in fact, on

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three separate occasions. And in one of those beatings, Chris

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hit him with a wooden board with so much force

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that the board broke in half when he was struck

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with it. This is a teenage kid, and he's beating

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him like this. He was so serious and so scary

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that his mother, who was used to being abused by

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this man, got so afraid that she snatched him up

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and they fled to a shelter in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

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just escape the brutality that was happening. Day in and

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day out in that home, there were also some questionable

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sexual behavior yours going on behind closed doors. Seventeen year

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old Gail Hughes. She was seventeen years old. She was

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allowed to live with Chris and his wife at that time.

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Her name was Louise Lampkin, and while she was living there,

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she was extremely thankful that these people opened up their doors,

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they allowed her a place to stay, but eventually she

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would endure both physical abuse and emotional abuse at the

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hands of Chris while she was living there again a

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seventeen year old girl. But after living there for a while,

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You're gonna love this. He went from bidding her and

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abusing this seventeen year old that he opened up his

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doors to live with him, and then he eventually took

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her on as his teenage lover. Yeah, that's the guy

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I'm talking about before I even get into this story.

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So another thing that was put out there was that

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throughout the years he even cohabitated with his own cousin

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as well as having another supposedly allegedly fourteen year old

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girlfriend at one point fourteen. So by nineteen ninety two,

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Christopher was now forty eight years old. He had been

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divorced three times, but he was again now in another relationship.

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And his current girlfriend's name was Yvonne Jones, and although

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his track record of relationships was weak at best, she

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was still willing to give him a try. Now, I'm

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sure he was pulling the wool over her eyes, just

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like abusers do, but you know she was gonna try

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this relationship with him. So the two of them began dating.

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In September of nineteen ninety Yvonne was fresh out of

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a marriage that she had just been in. Actually she

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was physically separated from him, not legally divorced, and that's

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when she and her four year old son, his name

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was Wesley. They She and her son lived with her

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parents during the time that she was dating. Chris to

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her in January of nineteen ninety one, that's when everything's changed, though,

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and so the three of them decided that they would

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move in together and start their own household. So Yvonne, Wesley,

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and Christopher all move in together. Now it's important to

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note Yvonne's family did not approve of them living together,

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and they met that They made that very well known

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to Yvonne, But Yvonne did what Yvonne wanted, and she

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wanted to move in with Chris. So soon after moving

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in together, Chris was drinking heavily, which wasn't new, but

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he now added that element of physical abuse to it,

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and that wasn't so fun for Yvonne, and it got

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so bad that on May tenth of the same year,

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Yvonne left Chris and returned back to her parents' house.

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I guess this is why you should never move in

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with somebody really soon after you meet them, because you

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don't know everything about them. But she did, and I'm

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not hating, but she learned really within a few months

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that this was probably a poor decision. So she moved

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back in with her parents' house. But as is common fashion,

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they couldn't leave each other alone, and so they ended

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up getting back together by the end of May, and

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then moved back in together. Now, when they moved back

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in together, she left Wesley with her mom. She did

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not bring her mom with Chris. But then a few

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days later, after she went back to Chris, Chris got

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mad and he beat her up again, so she left

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him for a second time, retreating back to her parents house. Then, incredibly,

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they made up again and she went back to him,

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but this time she brought Wesley with her when she

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went back, So the following year, although they've had a

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tumultuous beginning of a relationship, the following year, on Thursday,

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March the fifth of nineteen ninety two, Chris and Yvonne

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decided to get married. Wesley was now six years old

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and Chris had been really the only father figure he

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had for the last two years. And for those two years,

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Chris did what he did best, and that would be

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to discipline young Wesley. This included yelling at him, screaming

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at the child, as well as physically hitting him to

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discipline him. And he was just a little bitty fella, y'all,

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this grown man forty eight years old, inflicting pain. He'd

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probably way too old to be doing this to a child.

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First of all, he should know better. But inflicting pain

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and stress upon this little guy constantly, And not only

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was it constant, but it would gradually escalate the violence

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and the quote unquote discipline would escalate. Now, I'm not

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a medical doctor, but I do know this, okay, and

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you can look it up yourself if you don't believe me.

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But there are studies out there that are pretty concer

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assistant in the fact that children who are abused have

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this correl it or this correlation of gastro intestinal upset,

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amongst other indicators. And you can go look this up yourself.

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You don't have to believe me, but imagine that you're

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this little guy who's terrified of an adult man who

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you know can and will hurt you at the drop

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of a hat. You're little, you're six years old, You're

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walking on eggshells, and you're in a constant state of

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fight or flight. Emotionally. Well, that's exactly where little Wesley

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was emotionally. And I want you to focus now on

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one of those words I mentioned at the beginning of

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the episode, specifically the word tiny. Chris was somewhere around

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five foot four, definitely not a tall man. But my

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point here is actually about Wesley. The average six year

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old little boy is forty two inches tall and forty pounds.

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That is a tiny human. I think we can all

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agree on that that's a little guy. Well, the very

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next day after his mama married his tormentor, Wesley came

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home from school and he had had a really bad day.

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The reason that he had to leave school is because

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he had an accident in his pants and he needed

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to change. Now, I know this is a lot of information,

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probably TMI, but I want you to understand what the

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little guy was going through. He had defecated his pants,

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to be specific, and when his mother arrived to save

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him from the embarrassment, she was way less than supportive

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of what had happened. She immediately spanked him for the

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mess that he had made, and then, to add insult

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to injury, she refused to let him have supper that night.

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I guess if you're gonna shit your pants, then I

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don't want to put any more food in your system.

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I guess that's her logic in her position was it's unconscionable.

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But she said, well, you're gonna shit your pants, I'm

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not gonna feed you. Then he was punished when he

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got home and he was told to stay in his

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room and he had to wait for his stepdad to

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get home. And the terror that he must have felt

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knowing that he was going to be in so much

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trouble for an accident. But he's a six year old,

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he's little, and to just have to sit there and

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wait for this man to come home, I'm sure he

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was shaking in his boots. And the next thing here

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that I want to point out to you is that

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defecating your pants at that age can also be a

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sign of a trauma response to sexual abuse as well.

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Now I'll tell you this, There was absolutely no evidence

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that I found anywhere that he was being sexually abused.

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I'll tell you that. But it is that that correlation

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of having the stomach problems, and those stomach problems don't

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stop at home where the trauma happens, that continues on

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into school. It's kind of like if you don't sleep

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at night at home, that doesn't mean when you get

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to school you're not tired. It carries on everywhere that

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you go. But my soul feels like his gastro problems

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were tied to his chronic emotional and physical abuse that

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was happening at home for these last two years. He

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was so afraid of Chris that no wonder accidents would happen.

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But Chris returned home from work. This was around nine

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pm that night, and when he was told about what

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had happened, he refused to let the child change his clothes.

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He taught him, no, you're gonna stay in your clothes

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full of crap. You wanta crap your pants, you're gonna

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keep them on. And then he went grown man and

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got a length of rope from somewhere, either in the

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garage or in the house, and then he returned back

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to this terrified child, where he then tied one end

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of the rope around Little Wesley's neck, and then he

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tied the other end of that rope up around a

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ceiling fan. So there little Wesley stood, cowering and terrified

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as Chris continued to berate him and threatened to hang him.

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He threatened a child to hang him. That is scary

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as hell. He wouldn't hang him though, No, he's not

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going to do that. He just liked that fear factor

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he could put into that child. Instead, he forced little

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Wesley to stand on a chair and balance on one

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leg and told him, you better count the entire time

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you're standing there. So he's got a rope around his neck,

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he's on one leg, he's standing on a chair, and

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he's got to count. Not to mention how hard that

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is to begin with, with pants filled with his own

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excrement and being tormented by two adults, his mother and

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his stepfather. The entire time. Now, Yvonne came in at

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that point and whenever she saw the rope around Wesley's neck,

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she did kind of go, WHOA, what's going on here?

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And Chris was very matter of fact that what he

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was doing was what it looked like. But then he

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kind of started laughing and was like, oh, I'm just kidding,

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I'm just kidding. I was just messing with him, but

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he wasn't kidding. He scared the shit out of that kid.

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And that's not funny. And I know this is nowhere

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near that level. Okay, I recognize what I'm about to

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tell you is nowhere near that level. But I remember

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being very young around that same age, and I was

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taking a bath at the fishing camp where we fished,

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and they were joking, the parents were joking, okay, but

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I was all shy and didn't want anybody to know

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I was in the bathtub and all that, and they

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all came busting in there joke. They probably been drinking,

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being stupid, And they all came in eh like that,

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had umbrellas and stuff like they were the paparazzi being stupid.

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You had to be there to understand they were just

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being dumb, and then they quickly slammed the door. They

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were joking. I know they were joking. It was hilarious

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to everybody, but it scared the shit out of me

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as a kid because I couldn't understand why it was funny,

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because I didn't want people in the bathroom. So I

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just really try to empathize with what this child might

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have been feeling. And I never had a rope tied

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around my neck and tied to a ceiling fan and

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had a grown man tell me he was gonna hang me.

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That probably was the most terrifying thing ever. So shortly

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thereafter that happened, Wesley had another accident in his pants.

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So this time Chris got a belt and he beat

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little Wesley repeatedly, just whooped him with that belt repeatedly,

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since threatening to hang him obviously didn't work, now we'll

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just beat the hell out of you with a leather belt.

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After he was done beating him, Chris then grabbed a

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little boy, took him by the head of his hair,

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and shoved his head into the toilet. And while the

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child felt like he was drowning with his head down

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in a toilet, Chris started flushing it where it was

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sucking his head down into the toilet and Hevne. I

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want you to know something. Yvonne watched as all of

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this was happening and did nothing to stop it. The

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mom and me, the mama baron me. I would kill him,

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do you hear me? I would kill him for doing

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that to my kid. I'm saying it on a recorded

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microphone right now. I mean it with everything that I have. So,

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after the beatings and the torture ended for the moment,

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Wesley was refused access to his own bed. Instead, Chris

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decided to shove him in a trunk at the foot

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of the master bed, where he lay and slept all night,

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all night. And I would be remiss if I failed

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to mention that he was forced to sleep in his

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dirty pants full of fecal matter. And I know people

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don't want to think about this, but why do we

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change diapers so often when our children are little? Because

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urine and feces burns the skin, It irritates the skin.

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We don't leave elderly people in nursing homes to sit

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in their excrement. Why Because it's number one inhumane, but

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number two, it's demoralizing. And number three it causes irritation

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to your skin. And they made that child stay in

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his dirty clothes after threatening to hang him, flushing his

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head in a toilet and making him think that he

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was drowning, and beating the shit out of him with

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a belt, and then forced him to sleep inside of

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a trunk at the foot of the bed. Sorry if

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I'm not so moved right now. The following day would

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have been a Saturday, and Chris and von teamed up

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on this six year old child and they said that

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he would not get to eat all day long since

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he pooped his pants, and so Wesley at some point,

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as any child would, became weepy, and he was crying

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because he was hungry, and he's not having a good time.

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He's having a really bad time. So he gets hungry.

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He's crying, and this enrages his mother, Yvonne, so she

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went up to him and just begins slapping and hitting

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him about the head, grabs him by his head, starts

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pulling his hair, starts punching him. Y'all, he is six

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fucking years old. Please don't let that get lost on you.

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My heart can't take it. And she's punching this baby

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that she brought into this world, and then brought into

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this home about the head. And then they shoved him

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back into the trunk, still wearing his feces filled pants,

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to lay his Mama saw the condition that the child

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was in, and she did nothing to comfort him or

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to help him. Nothing. The acid from that underwear and

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that feces by this point had to be so irritating

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to his little genitals and to his little rear end.

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And my mind goes there. I don't know if yours does,

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but I'm thinking about this poor child and how painful

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that had to be, and how gross and how uncomfortable.

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So the next morning was Sunday, March the eighth. Please

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don't let the speed I'm telling this story get lost

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in the fact that for two days that child had

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this dirty clothing on. Please don't let that get lost.

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I need you to know it. The next morning was Sunday,

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the March the eighth, and it was around ten am

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when the family This is almost laughable. The family was

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getting ready for church. Okay, And I even scoffed whenever

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I was writing this, when I originally read this, getting

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ready for church, my ass, you were getting ready to

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show up to a building with a cross in front

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of it, no doubt, but you weren't getting ready for church.

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So Chris calls little Wesley into the room, and whenever

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Wesley got within kicking distance of Chris, Chris turned around

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and kicked the little boy back into the direction of

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the bedroom. Through the bedroom, he started kicking him until

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he was finally into the bathroom, and that's where he

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told him to take off his clothes, and he said,

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you're gonna wash out your dirty underwear. But he didn't

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say you can wash him out in the sink. He

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didn't say you can wash him out in the tub.

460
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.039
He said, just like an inmate in prison. He said,

461
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:28.039
take you under wear and you can wash it in

462
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.920
the toilet. So he made the child wash his underwear

463
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.640
in the toilet. He then told him, you need to

464
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:40.359
go take a bath. So Wesley hesitated slightly whenever he

465
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.839
was told to go take the bath, because number one,

466
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:47.680
he's a child, okay. And number two, maybe I feel like,

467
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:50.640
just from experience, that maybe he didn't know what to

468
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.839
do or how to clean himself properly, like, okay, well

469
00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:57.960
do I use toilet paper first and wipe myself or

470
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.599
do I just get in the tub, because you know,

471
00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.480
it had to be all over him. But he hesitated slightly.

472
00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.359
He is six years old. And when Chris saw that

473
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:10.480
slight hesitation, he flew into a rage. And that's when

474
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.119
he grabbed a screwdriver that he had nearby. Don't don't

475
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:16.240
ask me from where, I have no idea, But he

476
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:21.920
grabbed a screwdriver, took it, and then began smashing that

477
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.359
six year old little boy over the head with the handle.

478
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:28.839
And he did it over and over and over again

479
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:34.440
until Wesley finally was knocked unconscious and collapsed on the floor.

480
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.000
So this again was around ten o'clock in the morning

481
00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.920
that all of this started. Don't forget that. It wasn't

482
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:48.000
until three hours later, three hours that Chris and E

483
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.319
Vaughan showed up to the emergency room at Desto General

484
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:58.279
Hospital with a severely injured child in the emergency room.

485
00:28:58.599 --> 00:29:05.119
So when they got there, the child's condition was and well, hey,

486
00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:07.200
this is a great time for me to bring up

487
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:09.799
another one of those words from the beginning of the episode.

488
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:17.759
The child's condition upon arrival was fragile. Yeah, he was

489
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.599
extremely sick when he got there. He was considered medically

490
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.440
fragile when they brought him through the door. So he

491
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:28.920
was brought through the er doors unconscious and in desperate

492
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:32.279
need of life saving measures if he were to live.

493
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:38.160
He wasn't breathing, and Wesley had no pulse, so the

494
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.880
er staff swooped him up. They worked quickly on him

495
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:44.480
to try and get his little heart beating, try to

496
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:46.960
get his little lungs breathing. And so when they asked

497
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:50.599
his mom, Yvonne, what happened, she said, well, Wesley went

498
00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:53.240
to go get some food and he began vomiting and

499
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:58.599
then he fell over and he lost consciousness. HM. Doesn't

500
00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:01.759
seem to fit, does it. I've never seen head injuries

501
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:07.160
from eating, just for you know, just for a fun fact.

502
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:10.079
There never seen that happen. So the doctor on call

503
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:14.400
obviously took issue with that explanation because not only was

504
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.079
the child, oh I don't know, y'all, maybe I should

505
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.839
throw that last word in here that I told you

506
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:23.400
to remember dying. Not only was that child, tiny, frailing dying,

507
00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:27.079
but he had way more damage to his little body

508
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.119
than what aligned with what his mother had said or explained.

509
00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:38.480
Guess what else Wesley had? Little Wesley had scald burns

510
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.880
covering sixty percent of his body, primarily on his backside.

511
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:49.279
There were third degree burns over fifty eight percent of

512
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:53.599
his body and second degree burns on the remaining two percent.

513
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.640
And the scalding was so severe on this child that

514
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:04.079
his skin had burned off. He also had markings. They

515
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.519
noted these markings were consistent with having been severely beaten.

516
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.960
Little man's scalp had been separated from his skull due

517
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:21.440
to the massive amount of hemorrhaging beneath the skin and

518
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:24.759
the bruising. Like it was lifted from his scalp, There

519
00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:29.319
was so much blood underneath it and through the scalded

520
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:32.400
skin on his behind, on his little bottom. Through the

521
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.440
scalded skin, the doctor could still see the deep bruises

522
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:41.440
that were all over his little booty. All attempts to

523
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.000
revive six year old Wesley failed and he was pronounced

524
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.799
dead at the hospital. The truth was that Wesley had

525
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.440
been dead y'all for an hour before he was even

526
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.960
brought to the er. He was dead when he got there.

527
00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:01.200
They just tried everything they could, because no one gives

528
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:04.119
up on a child like that. You would think no

529
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:07.000
one would let a child suffer and die without trying

530
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.680
something you would think. So the er did what they

531
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.400
could well. The very next day, an autopsy was performed

532
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.839
on the six year old body of Wesley, and the

533
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.880
pathologist's findings were horrific. And please don't forget this is

534
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.599
a thirty five pound little boy. It was doctor George

535
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.599
McCormick that was the forensic pathologist who examined Wesley the

536
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.720
next day. And God bless, God bless these pathologists. I

537
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.079
know it's their job, but it cannot be easy to

538
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.640
see children in this condition. It can't be easy to

539
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:42.960
see any victim in the condition that I know they

540
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.599
show up in. But a baby, a little boy. His

541
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:53.319
examination revealed the existence of substantial bruises all over the body,

542
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:57.680
as well as multiple head wounds, and doctor McCormick found

543
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:03.000
Wesley had been subjected to severe beatings which caused deep

544
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:10.839
tissue bruising on his behind and his groin area. Think

545
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:14.119
of what it would mean to hurt a little boy,

546
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:19.119
to kick him in his groin. Grown men can't handle that.

547
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.759
It's a little guy. And specifically, he found that the burns,

548
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:29.319
combined with the multiple smashes to Wesley's head are what

549
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:33.359
combined put him into cardiac arrest and in combination, caused

550
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:39.279
his death. Those were the official findings. So the DeSoto

551
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.160
Paris Sheriff's Office enacted an investigation, which I'm gonna spare

552
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.359
you the mundane details of the step by step, but

553
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:52.680
it did lead to the following truths being uncovered. To start,

554
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.240
Christopher tried to present himself as a deeply religious man

555
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:03.039
whenever he was boken to. But the act of going

556
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.720
to church does not make you religious, because I could

557
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.559
go stand in a garage and it ain't gonna make

558
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:13.599
me a fucking car. But he tried to put on

559
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:19.639
this persona for everybody character, and your actions in conjunction

560
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:26.559
would imply that you actually have religiousness, you know, like

561
00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:28.559
the fruit of the spirit that you learn about. I

562
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.719
don't think that Chris understands what religiousness means. It's the

563
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:37.559
fruit of the spirit, things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

564
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.679
and self control. You know those, Sorry, Chris, because there

565
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.440
was zero evidence there. It was just a word you used.

566
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.639
There was no evidence that that was your character. And

567
00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:55.960
during the interrogation, Chris admitted to striking Wesley, but he

568
00:34:56.119 --> 00:35:01.599
claimed that Wesley fell into the tub act, and that's

569
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:04.960
where all of this stems from. And I want to

570
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.119
tell you something. I've lived on this earth for almost

571
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:11.840
forty one years, and I have never accidentally fallen into

572
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:16.760
a tub, and my children have never accidentally fallen into

573
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:22.599
a tub. Secondly, if I were to fall into a tub,

574
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.280
or if my children were to fall into a tub,

575
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.039
that tub wouldn't have been filled with boiling water. Ever,

576
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.840
like ever, why do you think that this child had

577
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:42.880
scalding burns all over his body? But the fact was

578
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:49.519
that little Wesley had been consistently abused for two years

579
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.960
and the day of his death, he was smashing the

580
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.360
head with a screwdriver until his scalp separated from his

581
00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:59.519
skull and he was knocked unconscious. And once he was

582
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:04.679
laying they are unresponsive. That's when Chris filled the tub partially,

583
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:09.079
not all the way up, but partially with scalding, boiling

584
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:12.280
hot water and then put that little boy in it,

585
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:15.880
where his skin cooked, for lack of a better word,

586
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:19.880
where he was unable to defend himself nor help himself

587
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:24.920
in any way. That's what happened to that child. And

588
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:29.360
sometime within the hour, that six year old little boy

589
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:34.039
went into shock, and that is whenever he began vomiting,

590
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.840
and that is where he died with the burns combined

591
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:44.000
with the other injuries, after he was dead, hours after

592
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.280
he was dead. His quote unquote parents, if we can

593
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:50.760
even call them, that brought that child to the hospital.

594
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:59.119
And additional investigation found that another biological child of Christopher

595
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.480
had died prior to this case. I mentioned it earlier.

596
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:11.639
Christopher's own mother confirmed that that other child that died

597
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:17.320
that was Christopher's died of dehydration. He didn't accidentally run

598
00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:19.559
out in front of a car, He didn't have a

599
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:23.400
medical malady that would have caused a death. No, that

600
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:29.679
child died of dehydration. Additional information on this child I

601
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.599
don't have. I'm going to tell you that, but I

602
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:36.199
do think that it's important to show this trend in

603
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:41.199
Chris's care. So police had all that they needed to

604
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:44.880
seal the fate of both Chris and Yvonne, and both

605
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.039
of them were charged with first degree murder, but they

606
00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:55.960
would be tried separately. Yvonne, who chose to stand aside

607
00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:59.719
and allow her husband to beat her six year old

608
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:04.079
son and starve him, humiliate him, make him sleep in

609
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.960
a box, beat him some more and then dump him

610
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:14.360
in scalding water, all because he pooped his pants. She

611
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.480
was charged with the first degree murder of her six

612
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:20.840
year old son, Wesley, but the state ended up amending

613
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:24.679
those charges and they reduced them to second degree murder,

614
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.440
where she pled not guilty by reason of its sanity.

615
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:32.360
I don't know, maybe we as a society should make

616
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.440
a new plea option that's not guilty by reason of

617
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.079
being a fucking bitch. Maybe we need to add that

618
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:42.280
because it only seems the only fitting thing here that

619
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.239
I can think of. I'm sorry about my passion here,

620
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:51.599
but it's a child. So after that jury trial, she

621
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:55.920
was convicted of manslaughter and she was sentenced to twenty

622
00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:02.159
one years at hard labor. Christopher was convicted for the

623
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:06.360
first degree murder of little Wesley and sentenced to death.

624
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:12.079
But was he ever executed. No. He got the privilege

625
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.280
of having his day in court to plead his case.

626
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:20.000
Wesley didn't. He got an attorney to stand up for

627
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:25.719
him and defend him. Wesley didn't. He got medical care

628
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:32.280
for the rest of his life, and Wesley didn't. Chris

629
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.760
got meals and visitation, and he got to talk to

630
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:40.480
people for the rest of his life, and Wesley didn't.

631
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:46.440
So pardon me if my pitymeter is broken. It's funny

632
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:49.480
to me that a grown ass man feels empowered to

633
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:53.679
beat and scald a baby to death, yet he lies

634
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.880
like a coward bitch when he is confronted by the police,

635
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.960
grown men who can call you out on what you've done,

636
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:06.480
and you lie, you're a coward. Chris was a coward

637
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.519
until the day he died. And just because he grew

638
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:12.679
old and he got sick, it does not undo what

639
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:16.480
he did to that child. Chris got the luxury of

640
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.960
growing old to the age of eighty one and never

641
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:23.039
being held to the execution date that was set for him,

642
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:27.840
while Wesley never saw the age of seven. So, in

643
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.239
the same spirit of Chris the Palvido's attorney and using

644
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.199
his exact same quote word for word, except I'm going

645
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.920
to reference Wesley rather than Chris, my stance is this

646
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:43.559
abusing a child to death is a sad comment on

647
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:47.559
the state of Louisiana. The idea that Chris was planning

648
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:51.760
to beat this tiny, frail and dying child and then

649
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.800
throw him in a tub of boiling water, forcing him

650
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.239
to scald until his heart failed is simply barbaric and

651
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:03.519
fucking qu vote from Kelly Jennings. So I hope that

652
00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:07.320
this clears up any confusion that you may have as

653
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.199
to whether this man should have met his maker long

654
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:12.920
before he died of natural causes on death row. And

655
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.679
to people, because there's people out there who hate me

656
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:18.880
and I don't really care right now, to the people

657
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:21.239
who say that I don't have a heart for my

658
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.960
strong stance that I take on shit like this, let

659
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.119
me tell you where it comes from. Having sympathy for

660
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:33.119
someone is easy because it comes from a position of power.

661
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:36.239
When you feel sorry for Chris, it's because you're coming

662
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:40.440
from a stance of power, you're free, and Christopher wasn't

663
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:43.639
because he remained locked up on death row. If you

664
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:48.360
really do some soul searching, that's where that's coming from. Empathy, though,

665
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:53.880
empathy is different. Empathy is getting down on our knees

666
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:58.760
and looking Wesley in his six year old eyes, realizing

667
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.079
that he could have been any of us. All that

668
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:07.159
separates us from what that baby suffered is luck. It's

669
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:12.119
not a lack of a heart, trust me. It's not

670
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.880
that I lack one. It's that cases like this constantly

671
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.280
leave me carrying a broken one. So good riddance to

672
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:23.639
the abusive, mean spirited, hateful man that was Chris Sepulvido.

673
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:26.440
And I would have said goodbye, but that would imply

674
00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:28.280
I ever gave a shit he was here to begin with.