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Eddimar Paola Hernández was seven years old, walking with her big sister on a Saturday afternoon in Chicago, when a stranger stabbed her in the back. Bystanders chased the attacker down and held her until police came. Court records say the woman charged had an outstanding felony warrant for more than 18 months. Today I read the Department of Justice numbers nobody will put on television. BJS Table...

A man in Mobile, Alabama got life in federal prison yesterday. Investigators found infant abuse material on his phone and a video of him abusing a child himself. A Minneapolis daycare worker pleaded guilty to photographing the children enrolled at his facility. A Tampa man already serving ten years for a crime against a child got a phone inside a halfway house, distributed abuse material from it,...

Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike last night. Two doses of pentobarbital, an hour and twenty seven minutes, and she is alive in a hospital this morning. Her victim was 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, tortured for an hour, a pentagram carved into her chest, her skull crushed with asphalt. Hillary Clinton went on national television and said white men of "a certain religion" are doing "such damag...

Her name was Luna. She was four months old and she was found in a trash bin in South Los Angeles. In Iowa, a man used AI to put real local children's faces into abuse images. He never touched them. They are victims anyway. Plus 17 years for kidnapping two girls at gunpoint, a registered sex offender who simply left his accounts off the form, seven people indicted over 13 house fires, a woman accus...

A toddler pulled a loaded handgun out of a backpack at a daycare in Canton, Michigan on Monday. Staff got there in time. Canton Police Chief Joseph Bialy says the gun belonged to the child's parent, a police officer from another department, and that it was his personal firearm, not a service weapon. The officer was taken into custody while investigators determine charges. In Hamilton County, India...

Nevaeh Petty was four months old. Her father remembered her as a happy baby with beautiful blue eyes. She suffered catastrophic brain injuries and has now died. Bobby Conner Jr., charged in the case, already had child abuse and child neglect convictions. Nevaeh's father says he contacted Tennessee DCS numerous times about Conner being around his daughter. In Anderson, Indiana, Keynan Santos was se...

At two o'clock this morning my son begins the Crucible. Fifty four hours. Food rationing, almost no sleep, forty five miles of movement, casualty evacuation, night infiltration, combat resupply and twenty nine warrior stations named after Marines who earned the Medal of Honor. At the end of it a drill instructor puts the Eagle, Globe and Anchor in his hand and calls him Marine for the first time....

Nineteen men were arrested in two nights in Kansas for trying to buy sex with children, with Army CID helping the KBI run the sting. U.S. Marshals in New Orleans announced eighty felony arrests over the summer, thirty one of them sex offenders who had absconded or violated registration, and sixteen missing or endangered children cases closed. A Canton, Michigan man is charged after a tip that he w...

A registered sex offender tried to cross the Brownsville bridge with a little girl he claimed was his sister and could not prove it. Border agents flagged him. His phones had 2,177 images and 487 videos of child sexual abuse including a video of an eight year old. He got fifteen years. A Lynn, Massachusetts man is charged with transporting a minor across state lines for prostitution. A Brooklyn tr...

Massie and Khanna say they have the two hundred eighteen signatures to force the Epstein Files Transparency Act II onto the House floor whether leadership likes it or not. A former metro Detroit doctor got nine years after the FBI found child abuse material and AI generated child imagery on his phone, and court records say he tried to talk another man into letting him bathe that man's children and...

Mohammad Sharifullah, the ISIS-K operative who conducted reconnaissance before the Abbey Gate bombing that killed thirteen American servicemembers, was sentenced to twenty years. Twenty. A former Tennessee sheriff's deputy named Johnathan Nathaniel Allen pretended to be a fourteen year old boy named Josh online and manipulated eight children into producing videos, and the case broke because one fa...

Federal prosecutors charged five people in an alleged Russian intelligence operation that recruited a Brooklyn based Venezuelan man and offered him up to forty thousand dollars to murder a Russian dissident living near Washington DC. A veterinary technician named Baleigh Burmaster was stabbed at least seven times and zip tied inside a Texas Medical Center parking garage and she opened the passenge...

A man left a loaded handgun on a Chicago school bus outside Minnie Minoso Academy and a twelve year old found it and fired it through the window. Three federal operations you have never heard of, Restore Justice, Enduring Justice and Relentless Justice, produced seven hundred thirty two arrests of alleged child predators and pulled four hundred fifty three children out. Tim Tebow is behind the map...

Tasia Fortune, twenty nine, a mother of four, was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi. Social media knew exactly what happened within an hour. Then the medical examiner ruled it a homicide, police arrested fifty one year old Jarques Ratliff, a Black man, and Fortune's own mother said she does not believe her daughter's killing was racially motivated. More arrests...

Twenty five years ago today, two thousand nine hundred seventy seven people were murdered by radical Islamic terrorists. At eight forty six a.m. Flight 11 hit the North Tower. Firefighters ran up the stairs while everybody else ran down. The passengers on Flight 93 figured out what was happening and fought back. Today I am reading the timeline, remembering them, and then telling you what America l...

One year ago today Charlie Kirk was murdered while answering a question at Utah Valley University. He was thirty one years old. He was a husband and the father of two small children. And people celebrated. Teachers celebrated. Nurses celebrated. People with verified accounts and real names posted that he deserved it. I am not doing both sides on this one. Today I am telling you what Charlie actual...

Antonio Marquis Nicholson was sentenced to twenty five years as the final defendant in a child sex trafficking ring that targeted sixteen and seventeen year old girls including a runaway from another state. Jeriah Mast, an Ohio missionary, pleaded guilty to illicit sexual conduct with minors in Haiti. Andrew Wade Case got twenty seven years for exploiting a child under twelve who was in his own cu...

The Lindsay Clancy jury could not reach a verdict and the judge declared a mistrial, which is not an acquittal, and now her attorney is publicly asking President Trump for a pardon in a Massachusetts state murder case. Then in Illinois, a forty year old mother named Corie Walsh was charged with three counts of first degree murder in the death of her two year old son Barrett, and prosecutors say sh...

On one single day, September third, the federal Project Safe Childhood docket included a forty five year sentence in Hawaii, a thirty year sentence in Omaha, a life sentence in Houston, a ten year sentence for a Texas National Guardsman who had one thousand two hundred thirty eight files, an eleven year old victim in Wilmington, a Dover airman accused of transporting a fifteen year old across stat...

Saylor Hayes was five years old with severe nonverbal autism and a history of wandering. She was enrolled in Project Lifesaver, which means she had a tracking transmitter specifically because of that. When she disappeared from a South Carolina vacation rental, she was not wearing it. It was in Virginia. Her parents have been arrested and police allege they encouraged searchers to use the tracking...

An Indiana senior pastor was arrested yesterday on child sexual abuse material charges after an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation that started with tips to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Daniel Willis, 62, of Terre Haute. Search warrants at his home and his workplace. A collar does not buy immunity and the church has to be the first institution demanding accou...

Thomas Massie went to the House floor last night and named fourteen people he says should be investigated and prosecuted in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Then he launched a discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, House Resolution 9694, which would give state attorneys general, survivors, and members of Congress standing to sue the DOJ for failing to release...

Forty-one people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. Three are dead. Fifteen of them were shot at a single gathering in Washington Park where police were already on scene trying to disperse the crowd. Rontonio Guterz, 35, was killed. No arrests. A fifteen-year-old named Kyren Wormely was killed in South Austin. An eighteen-year-old named Kamarion Coleman was killed in Crest Hill. Then the story...

Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80 at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. She donated one million dollars to Vanderbilt for the research that produced the Moderna COVID vaccine. She publicly encouraged people to take it. And she died at the same institution she funded. I am not telling you what that means. I am telling you to notice it. Today's episode is entirely about pattern recognition....

Marshun Kimber allegedly tried to ignite a Molotov cocktail at a Chicago CTA bus stop. Prosecutors said he was dangerous and a flight risk. He told the judge "I get a little messy" when he's off his medication. Judge Kelly McCarthy released him on 24/7 electronic monitoring anyway. Within days he allegedly violated monitoring. Then he didn't show up. Three judges have issued arrest warrants and he...