0:03 [SPEAKER_03]: Listener, throughout this episode, you will hear the body camp footage from the rest of Jonathan Matthew Cheek and Sierra Pearls, Daytona. 0:13 [SPEAKER_03]: This body camp footage features the police coming upon a particularly grizzly crime. 0:20 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's get on with it. 0:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, listener. 0:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad you're here. 0:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Take a seat. 0:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Next to the fire. 0:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark. 1:00 [SPEAKER_01]: As Shannon Corbett arrived to her Clinton township home last Thursday, she had no idea why so many emergency crews were on her street. 1:08 [SPEAKER_01]: She also did not realize all the things she did not know about her neighbors, Jonathan Sheik, and Sierra Zetona. 1:17 [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't even know she had a baby, had no idea. 1:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And the baby was, I'm guessing, like a year and a half old, according to police, the couple found their son dead and his crib, that's when the fire department and police responded 1:39 [SPEAKER_07]: get down. 1:41 [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, come up. 1:42 [SPEAKER_07]: Let's go. 1:42 [SPEAKER_07]: Bring the baby out from here. 1:44 [SPEAKER_07]: Bring it out from here. 1:46 [SPEAKER_07]: Bring it out from here. 1:47 [SPEAKER_04]: Bring it out from here. 1:48 [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go. 1:49 [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go. 1:49 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:49 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:51 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:51 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:51 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:51 [UNKNOWN]: Come on. 1:52 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:52 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:52 [UNKNOWN]: Come on. 1:53 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:53 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:53 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:54 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:54 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:54 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:54 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 1:55 [UNKNOWN]: Come on. 1:55 [UNKNOWN]: Come on. 1:55 [UNKNOWN]: Come on. 1:55 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[SPEAKER_04]: He's out 2:34 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:47 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:49 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:50 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:51 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:51 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:52 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:52 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:53 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:53 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 2:54 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a mouthful. 3:14 [SPEAKER_03]: Jonathan Cheek and Sierra Zetona lived in a faded mobile home at the Rivers Edge Park in Clinton Township, Michigan. 3:22 [SPEAKER_03]: The park stretches between Garfield and Hayes Road, not far from Metropolitan Parkway, a 17 mile road. 3:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Manufactured homes lined the narrow streets were families scraped by on a tight budget and live in tight spaces. 3:37 [SPEAKER_03]: Sheekens Daytona collected eviction notices like unpaid bills. 3:42 [SPEAKER_03]: In 2023 alone, the park management filed at least three against them. 3:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Jonathan Sheek was born in the late 1990s and grew up in the Clinton township area of Macomb County, Michigan. 4:00 [SPEAKER_03]: In 2019, Cheek faced charges of aggravated assault and domestic violence in Clinton Township. 4:07 [SPEAKER_03]: The victim was an unidentified woman. 4:10 [SPEAKER_03]: He put guilty to aggravated assault charges. 4:13 [SPEAKER_03]: The domestic violence count was dismissed as part of a resolution. 4:17 [SPEAKER_03]: The incident occurred years before Zayden entered the picture. 4:21 [SPEAKER_03]: Sarah Pearl Zaytona was born in the mid-1990s and also put down roots in the McComb County region. 4:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaytona married a man who was not cheek and they had a child together. 4:32 [SPEAKER_03]: One of three future children. 4:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaytona then gave birth to another child. 4:37 [SPEAKER_03]: This time with cheek, a baby boy named Zayton. 4:41 [SPEAKER_03]: She crossed state winds to Ohio on purpose. 4:44 [SPEAKER_03]: She wanted to keep Michigan child protective services blind to the pregnancy. 4:48 [SPEAKER_03]: In the delivery, you see, she had problems with their previous children. 4:53 [SPEAKER_03]: And she was already on the radar in Michigan. 4:56 [SPEAKER_04]: I have it there, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down, put it 5:21 [SPEAKER_04]: He said that now I've been trying to get away from his abuse, and they love it and have the time he's like, no, you're sitting there You want to see what you want to see here? 5:32 [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, let's see. 5:34 [SPEAKER_04]: No, look now. 5:35 [SPEAKER_04]: Look. 5:36 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. 5:39 [UNKNOWN]: Bye. 5:40 [SPEAKER_00]: That is that's your fault. 5:42 [SPEAKER_04]: I know yeah, I can't work Baby's been dead for about a month. 6:03 [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it looks like 6:05 [SPEAKER_03]: The tactic worked long enough for the couple to slip back to McCone County without a media eyes on them, Zaden entered the world and almost immediately entered foster care. 6:16 [SPEAKER_03]: A local foster mother named Melissa opened her home to the newborn for the first eight months of his life, Zaden knew safety, eating full bottles and warm blankets. 6:25 [SPEAKER_03]: In regular doctor visits, he knew love, he packed on healthy weight, he rolled over and crawled and laughed at the right times, hit every milestone with room to spare, his foster mother watched him flourish, and later told the court this boy deserved love and safety, and the chance to grow into everything he could be. 6:43 [SPEAKER_03]: Under her roof, he had exactly that, in November 2021, things would change. 6:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Authorities handed his aid in, back to his biological parents. 6:54 [SPEAKER_03]: She can Zetona, regained full custody. 6:57 [SPEAKER_03]: The boy who had thrived in foster care, crossed the threshold of that mobile home. 7:02 [SPEAKER_03]: He never came out healthy again. 7:08 [SPEAKER_04]: Don't grab the pussy for it, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it here, or you can put it 7:38 [SPEAKER_06]: I thought it came out of me two years, I don't know if you can imagine it. 7:43 [SPEAKER_07]: Just hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it 7:59 [SPEAKER_07]: He's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell, he's gonna use a cell 8:32 [SPEAKER_07]: Two, can you find out where the kid was at and keep the dogs out of that area? 8:39 [SPEAKER_03]: The returning door to every warning sign, Zetona had already proven she would dodge oversight, cheekbacter play, neither showed the slightest proof they could keep a toddler alive. 8:50 [SPEAKER_03]: They cut every tie to the foster mother, they ignored her messages and her offers to check in. 8:56 [SPEAKER_03]: When Zetan disappeared behind the door of that mobile home, no outsider gained regular access to him again. 9:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Neighbors later claimed shock, but Red Flag's waived in plain view. 9:07 [SPEAKER_03]: For anyone that was willing to look, inside the river's edge home, Zed and entered a living hell. 9:12 [SPEAKER_03]: Sheikens atona placed their own once above his needs. 9:16 [SPEAKER_03]: Every single day, they controlled the refrigerator, the pantry, the schedule, the milk, the bottles, you get the idea. 9:24 [SPEAKER_03]: They chose not to fill any of their time with taking care of him. 9:27 [SPEAKER_03]: They chose not to drive him to a doctor when his weight dropped in his energy vanished. 9:31 [SPEAKER_03]: They chose to leave him alone in a crib for hours and days on end. 9:35 [SPEAKER_07]: With nothing but his own weakening body for company. 9:48 [SPEAKER_07]: a little child, she's in there just been inconceivable. 9:51 [SPEAKER_07]: He's got her in the back of my power right now. 9:54 [SPEAKER_07]: The female, yeah. 9:55 [SPEAKER_07]: She's got two other kids here, FD had them over here, but do it, it's gonna mess in there. 10:00 [SPEAKER_07]: I just, I, Chang went back with her to take the two dogs that are running loose out of your back end. 10:07 [SPEAKER_07]: There's nobody else in the house. 10:09 [SPEAKER_07]: She's out here. 10:09 [SPEAKER_07]: We got over there. 10:11 [SPEAKER_07]: The kids SD had them somewhere over here. 10:13 [SPEAKER_07]: The two kids still on the porch here. 10:17 [SPEAKER_07]: They're like, dude, this thing's this kid's been gone at least a week. 10:20 [SPEAKER_07]: So I told them just they want to move it. 10:25 [SPEAKER_07]: You know, we brought the other kids out. 10:26 [SPEAKER_07]: They want to move it. 10:27 [SPEAKER_07]: I told them we've everything is it is. 10:30 [SPEAKER_07]: So everything is as it is. 10:32 [SPEAKER_07]: They brought the kid out from one of these back bedrooms here. 10:36 [SPEAKER_04]: They brought her out and we're in later on. 10:52 [SPEAKER_04]: He's controlling it. 10:54 [SPEAKER_04]: He's using it right now. 10:55 [SPEAKER_04]: Where's the guy? 10:56 [SPEAKER_07]: Where's dad? 10:56 [SPEAKER_07]: Where's dad? 10:57 [SPEAKER_07]: Where's dad at? 10:58 [SPEAKER_04]: He's avoiding coming back and I think he's doing. 11:01 [SPEAKER_07]: What's his name? 11:01 [SPEAKER_04]: I think he knew this morning what he loved the day he was gone. 11:06 [SPEAKER_07]: What? 11:07 [SPEAKER_07]: When's the last time that you knew of the day he was alive? 11:10 [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, day day. 11:11 [SPEAKER_07]: Yesterday, when? 11:12 [SPEAKER_04]: Yesterday morning. 11:14 [SPEAKER_04]: How do you know? 11:14 [SPEAKER_04]: Before I went to stream, I made sure you didn't move on. 11:17 [SPEAKER_07]: Some of these, you feel a little bit of pain. 11:20 [SPEAKER_07]: I never thought my dad was going up there. 11:22 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 11:22 [SPEAKER_07]: We've come on our all-time show. 11:23 [SPEAKER_07]: Not anymore. 11:25 [SPEAKER_07]: Not anymore, guys. 11:26 [SPEAKER_07]: I got it. 11:27 [SPEAKER_07]: I got it. 11:27 [SPEAKER_07]: I got it. 11:28 [SPEAKER_04]: I assume this is gonna be the end of the film. 11:40 [SPEAKER_04]: What's his name? 11:45 [SPEAKER_03]: Starvation does not strike like a bullet, listener. 11:48 [SPEAKER_03]: It creeps in, and it hollows a child from the inside out. 11:52 [SPEAKER_03]: A toddler that aged burns 1,400 calories daily, just to stay alive and grow. 11:57 [SPEAKER_03]: Zade and received almost none on a regular basis. 12:00 [SPEAKER_03]: At first, his small body consumed its own fat reserves. 12:03 [SPEAKER_03]: The soft roundness of his cheeks and belly melted away. 12:07 [SPEAKER_03]: Then the muscle tissue started to break down, his legs and arms grew spiny, his heart muscles thinned because the organ itself was being eaten for fuel, his immune system collapsed so ordinary germs turned deadly, skin stretched tight over bones that jumped it out like co-hangers. 12:23 [SPEAKER_03]: Ribs became visible ladders down his chest. 12:26 [SPEAKER_03]: His belly sunk inward while his head looked too large for the shrinking frame. 12:31 [SPEAKER_03]: He stopped growing taller. 12:32 [SPEAKER_03]: He stopped playing. 12:34 [SPEAKER_03]: He might listlessly in the crib too weak even to cry with full force. 12:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Tears dry up because there's no fluid left to spare. 12:42 [SPEAKER_03]: His hair falls out in patches. 12:44 [SPEAKER_03]: His skin flakes and bruises at the slightest touch. 12:51 [SPEAKER_03]: This is not a theory, Listener. 12:53 [SPEAKER_03]: This is what happened is 8 and over 16 long months in that mobile home. 12:57 [SPEAKER_03]: The parents saw every stage. 12:59 [SPEAKER_03]: She collapsed the house at times of his and family. 13:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaitona stayed behind with the boy but didn't nothing to reverse the decline. 13:06 [SPEAKER_03]: They both lived there. 13:07 [SPEAKER_03]: They both breathed the same steel air that smelled of neglect and unwashed bedding. 13:12 [SPEAKER_03]: They both heard the weakening wimpers that grew quieter each week. 13:15 [SPEAKER_03]: They both watched their sun shrink from a sturdy toddler into a skeletal shell. 13:20 [SPEAKER_03]: They did not call for help. 13:22 [SPEAKER_03]: They did not buy formula or baby food or even table scraps or vitamin D milk. 13:27 [SPEAKER_03]: They did not take him outside for fresh air or sunlight. 13:31 [SPEAKER_03]: They simply let the starvation run its course until nothing remained but skin and bone, a feeling hard and a broken future. 13:44 [SPEAKER_04]: It's very, very something to say. 13:50 [UNKNOWN]: There's no! 13:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Hey. 13:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Don't let me in. 13:53 [SPEAKER_04]: She's the one. 13:54 [UNKNOWN]: She's the one. 13:55 [SPEAKER_04]: She's the one. 13:56 [SPEAKER_04]: She's the one. 13:56 [SPEAKER_06]: She's the one. 13:58 [SPEAKER_06]: We'll grab a freak in in the world, okay? 13:59 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 14:01 [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. 14:02 [SPEAKER_06]: It's not like we don't believe you, okay? 14:03 [SPEAKER_06]: You just gotta give us some time, okay? 14:05 [SPEAKER_04]: Nothing's gotta bring it back. 14:08 [SPEAKER_04]: He was so kind enough to want to live there. 14:10 [SPEAKER_04]: We're not only motivation to get us out of here. 14:13 [SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean? 14:13 [SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean? 14:14 [SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean? 14:15 [SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean? 14:15 [SPEAKER_06]: There's nothing that's going to bring him back. 14:17 [SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean by that? 14:18 [SPEAKER_04]: My family. 14:19 [SPEAKER_04]: I tried to spread the old screen. 14:21 [SPEAKER_04]: He's floating in black. 14:24 [SPEAKER_04]: What does that say? 14:26 [SPEAKER_04]: What is it? 14:26 [SPEAKER_04]: What is it? 14:27 [SPEAKER_04]: What is it? 14:28 [SPEAKER_04]: He wants to get choked through about something local. 14:32 [SPEAKER_04]: They're calling. 14:34 [SPEAKER_04]: He has no name. 14:34 [SPEAKER_04]: He doesn't want to call him. 14:37 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't call them, no, I didn't know! 14:42 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm driving away, I can wear my car! 14:46 [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, what are you doing? 14:47 [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 15:03 [SPEAKER_04]: And when we get to the house with the yard away from him away from thing one which was all the nicest is to get a view to the bit which is my oldest dad Hey, how are you? 15:14 [SPEAKER_06]: How are you? 15:15 [SPEAKER_06]: I'm fine. 15:16 [SPEAKER_06]: I'm fine. 15:17 [SPEAKER_06]: Can you live here too? 15:18 [SPEAKER_06]: I'm fine. 15:20 [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. 15:20 [SPEAKER_06]: We'll probably get you got your idea on you. 15:26 [SPEAKER_06]: Did she call you or something? 15:28 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 15:30 [SPEAKER_06]: Once the last time you've seen this morning, how was he this morning? 15:38 [SPEAKER_06]: Fine. 15:40 [SPEAKER_06]: What time did you see him this morning? 15:41 [SPEAKER_06]: Roughly. 15:42 [SPEAKER_06]: About 12 a.m. p.m. We'll be doing that that time. 15:47 [SPEAKER_06]: Leave him. 15:48 [SPEAKER_06]: While we're... What brings him to the cliff? 15:50 [SPEAKER_06]: We're sleeping. 15:51 [SPEAKER_06]: We're sleeping right here. 15:54 [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. 15:55 [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. 15:57 [SPEAKER_06]: Um. 16:00 [SPEAKER_06]: Did you pick up the baby at all or what would you're interacting with the baby? 16:06 [SPEAKER_06]: Not the out of the ordinators are you though? 16:11 [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, remember what he was wearing? 16:15 [SPEAKER_06]: Disciper's okay, um, and about what time do you sleep here? 16:19 [SPEAKER_06]: 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2 16:48 [SPEAKER_06]: Try this morning when you were here, okay? 16:52 [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. 16:54 [SPEAKER_06]: Who else lives in it with you? 16:58 [SPEAKER_06]: Just me, you're a... That's the area you're living in. 17:05 [SPEAKER_06]: Ah, I'm the other kids you guys have. 17:06 [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's just the area you're living in. 17:09 [SPEAKER_06]: You made some her own this? 17:10 [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. 17:11 [SPEAKER_06]: This is all you're also. 17:13 [SPEAKER_06]: It's just really a piece of this movie for you guys. 17:15 [SPEAKER_07]: So it's just you, Sierra, and... 17:18 [SPEAKER_07]: How many kids do you have with her? 17:19 [SPEAKER_07]: Two, two, what's the use of my partner with the name of the two work? 17:24 [SPEAKER_07]: And then we babysit her, hold us. 17:26 [SPEAKER_07]: Hold us. 17:28 [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, uh... Is everything gonna play the same thing? 17:31 [SPEAKER_06]: work was so investigating uh... 95, both of them very pretty okay, so both are correct there's two of them and I'm proud of it didn't one card? 17:43 [SPEAKER_06]: no no okay you should mine they could add it they're 14 okay okay uh, I'll take this 17:52 [SPEAKER_03]: As they told us spent her time curating an online image that screamed self absorption. 17:58 [SPEAKER_03]: She posted under the name Luna Sweetie on Facebook, and 96 Luna Blaze on Instagram. 18:04 [SPEAKER_03]: Her feed was filled with thirst traps and captions about personal whims. 18:09 [SPEAKER_03]: She had comments, loaded on the images, talking about how attractive she looked, how sexy she looked. 18:15 [SPEAKER_03]: One image from February 2023, shows her with a safety pin driven through her nose. 18:22 [SPEAKER_03]: She urged followers to follow her to other platforms for live streams for more content. 18:26 [SPEAKER_03]: None of it involved her child, none of it showed off her child. 18:30 [SPEAKER_03]: There was nothing to do with her child. 18:32 [SPEAKER_03]: It was like she wasn't even a mother. 18:34 [SPEAKER_03]: She kept a quiet or digital profile, but he shared the household in the decisions. 18:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Together, they created the environment that starved their son to death. 18:43 [SPEAKER_03]: A fiction paper stacked up on the kitchen counter, or wherever they landed. 18:48 [SPEAKER_03]: Financial pressure squeezed the couple, but they never turned that pressure into action for Zaden. 18:53 [SPEAKER_03]: They never reached out to social services for food assistance or parenting help. 18:58 [SPEAKER_03]: They never asked family to step in. 19:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Neighbors in the park caught glimpses of the small boy. 19:04 [SPEAKER_03]: But never grasped the horror unfolding behind closed doors. 19:07 [SPEAKER_06]: I said you put your hands on your back, look at it. 19:10 [SPEAKER_06]: Interlace your fingers? 19:12 [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. 19:12 [SPEAKER_06]: Anything in your pocket, Sonny and Ova? 19:16 [SPEAKER_06]: Nothing that's going to cut us pokus, okay, no drug or anything in your pocket. 19:21 [SPEAKER_06]: Is it no? 19:23 [SPEAKER_04]: No. 19:23 [SPEAKER_04]: I got it. 19:38 [SPEAKER_06]: Where is it? 19:45 [SPEAKER_06]: I can't turn. 19:47 [SPEAKER_06]: Let's go this way. 20:04 [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. 20:04 [SPEAKER_06]: Can you touch his heart? 20:45 [SPEAKER_06]: Have a seat. 20:50 [SPEAKER_07]: Miss, what's your name again? 20:51 [SPEAKER_07]: Do you see that enough for me? 20:57 [SPEAKER_07]: Turn the face to your house. 20:58 [SPEAKER_07]: You should be on your back. 21:19 [SPEAKER_07]: I'll put her in my jacket. 21:39 [SPEAKER_04]: This is wrong good mid now. 21:41 [SPEAKER_04]: I should have killed you. 21:42 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm about when you first Okay, where we're gone. 21:46 [SPEAKER_04]: We're done You got a brown I see I'm a search my body cameras now, okay? 21:56 [SPEAKER_04]: Okay That's it 22:12 [SPEAKER_03]: The final weeks turn the mobile home into a death watch. 22:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaden Lane is cribbed day after day. 22:17 [SPEAKER_03]: His body had burned through every reserve. 22:21 [SPEAKER_03]: His organs began to shut down in sequence. 22:24 [SPEAKER_03]: The heart struggled to pump what little blood remained. 22:27 [SPEAKER_03]: kidneys failed to filter toxins, ones labored with each shallow breath, he no longer had the strength to sit up, or even lift his head, his eyes sank deep into his sockets, wring with dark circles, his lips cracked in blood from dehydration, they once vibrate toddler, who have been foster care. 22:48 [SPEAKER_03]: Now existed as a silent bag of bones, barely 28 inches long, and weighing just 12 pounds. 22:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Listener, picture this, my one-year-old daughter, little older than one, weighs twice way he weighed at half his age. 23:04 [SPEAKER_03]: His body had literally consumed itself to stay alive as long as it could, and 23:10 [SPEAKER_03]: On the morning of March 16th, 2023, Zaytono walked to the crib and found her son lifeless. 23:17 [SPEAKER_03]: His chest no longer rose and fell. 23:20 [SPEAKER_03]: His skin felt cold to the touch. 23:22 [SPEAKER_03]: She called 911, paramedics raised to the house, but they arrived to a scene already finished. 23:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaden was dead. 23:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Cheek was not even home. 23:31 [SPEAKER_03]: He had gone to visit his mother that morning. 23:34 [SPEAKER_03]: When he returned, police waited with questions and crime scene tape. 23:38 [SPEAKER_03]: Emergency responders noted the obvious. 23:40 [SPEAKER_03]: The child did not die from a sudden illness or accident. 23:44 [SPEAKER_03]: He had wasted away over a month and plain sight. 23:47 [SPEAKER_06]: Give me a favor. 23:48 [SPEAKER_06]: Take off your piercings. 23:52 [SPEAKER_06]: You don't want the piercings, right? 23:55 [SPEAKER_06]: So what we're going to have to do, you're going to take off our clothing, we're going to give you a little white jumpsuit, take the clothes, we got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up, got it up 24:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's not do that, okay? 24:37 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 24:45 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 24:48 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 24:52 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 24:57 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 24:57 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even want to be! 25:02 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't need to get in the eye, I don't 25:31 [SPEAKER_03]: The medical examiner performed the autopsy and delivered a brutal truth, cause of death, fatal starvation. 25:38 [SPEAKER_03]: No trauma, no hidden disease, no broken bones, or bruises that could explain the end. 25:43 [SPEAKER_03]: Just the unmistakable signature of pro-wand, deliberate neglect, as fast stores were gone, as muscle mass had totally eroded, as organs shrunk, the heart weakened to point of total failure. 25:56 [SPEAKER_03]: the report painted a picture of a child who had been erased inch by inch. 26:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Investigators later reconstructed the full timeline. 26:05 [SPEAKER_03]: Zating lived in the parents' care for roughly 16 months after foster placement ended. 26:10 [SPEAKER_03]: During that period he received no consisted nutrition, his weight crashed, height froze, and no medical records exist from that time because no doctor saw him, no daycare, 26:20 [SPEAKER_03]: No family members forced the issue or demanded proof the boy still lived. 26:25 [SPEAKER_03]: The isolation was absolute. 26:27 [SPEAKER_03]: The neglect total. 26:29 [SPEAKER_03]: Court documents proved both parents understood the charges they faced. 26:33 [SPEAKER_03]: They sat through hearings with lawyers present. 26:35 [SPEAKER_03]: They never offered any excuse that could justify what they did. 26:39 [SPEAKER_03]: No contested fleas meant they accepted the facts without challenge. 26:43 [SPEAKER_03]: The facts remained brutally simple. 26:45 [SPEAKER_03]: They had illegal and moral duty to feed and protect Satan. 26:49 [SPEAKER_03]: That baby. 26:50 [SPEAKER_03]: They violated that duty every day for months. 26:53 [SPEAKER_03]: He died as a direct and inevitable result. 26:57 [SPEAKER_03]: In court witnesses took to the stand to describe the condition of the boy and the inside of the home. 27:03 [SPEAKER_03]: The testimonies prove so harrowing that multiple people broke down in tears right there in open court. 27:09 [SPEAKER_03]: Core Observer said it was the first time in memory that they had seen witnesses forced to stop because they could not speak through Psalms. 27:18 [SPEAKER_03]: The judge bound both defend its over to McCone County Circuit Corps. 27:22 [SPEAKER_03]: On every count, she gandered in no contest plea on October 21, 2024. 27:26 [SPEAKER_03]: The deal walked in a sentence of 24 to 50 years on the murder charge. 27:32 [SPEAKER_03]: He received credit for 643 days, already spent in jail. 27:37 [SPEAKER_03]: On December 18th, 2024, the judge read the sentence I wound. 27:42 [SPEAKER_03]: Cheek stood and accepted his sentence without emotion. 27:45 [SPEAKER_03]: He will serve at least 24 years before he can even ask for parole. 27:49 [SPEAKER_03]: Zetona held out longer. 27:51 [SPEAKER_03]: She had a final pre-trial and a trial date set for April 1, 2025. 27:55 [SPEAKER_03]: On February 18, 2025, she changed course and entered no contest police to bolt charges. 28:03 [SPEAKER_03]: She received 24 to 50 years on the murder count, and 43 months to 10 years on the child abuse account. 28:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Credit for time served applied. 28:12 [SPEAKER_03]: Both parents now face decades behind bars. 28:15 [SPEAKER_03]: the sentence is matched the horror of the crime. 28:18 [SPEAKER_03]: To some degree, Melissa, the foster mother, spoke directly to the court at St. Tony's Sentencing. 28:24 [SPEAKER_03]: She reminded everyone that Zaden's death was completely preventable. 28:29 [SPEAKER_03]: He suffered needlessly for months while adults looked on. 28:33 [SPEAKER_03]: She described handing over a healthy vibrant baby in November 2021, only to have the parents cut off all contact, 28:40 [SPEAKER_03]: She asked why no one stepped in. 28:42 [SPEAKER_03]: She begged the court and the public to remember Zaden, not as some statistic. 28:49 [SPEAKER_03]: But as a little boy, a baby who smiled and played and grew, when someone actually cared. 28:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Prowards turn the sterile courtroom into a place of total, wrong grief. 29:01 [SPEAKER_03]: People openly wept. 29:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Listener. 29:03 [SPEAKER_03]: This is the unfiltered account of what she can Zetona did to Zaden. 29:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Zaden was once a child, a baby. 29:10 [SPEAKER_03]: He would have thrived with even an ounce of care. 29:14 [SPEAKER_03]: Instead, he received nothing. 29:16 [SPEAKER_03]: Children cannot advocate for themselves. 29:19 [SPEAKER_03]: She can Zetona held the power to change his ending, any moment. 29:23 [SPEAKER_03]: But they refused to do so. 29:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Their inaction became the weapon that killed their son. 29:28 [SPEAKER_03]: As prison walls close around them, Satan rests without pain. 29:33 [SPEAKER_03]: He no longer waits for a meal that will never arrive. 29:36 [SPEAKER_03]: He no longer waits away alone in the isolation of that crib. 29:40 [SPEAKER_03]: His parents will spend the next quarter century or more agonizingly counting down the years, months, weeks, days and minutes.
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