Feb. 21, 2026
The Tragic Death of Oaklynn Vazquez: Abuse, Confinement & a Father's Haunting Words
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In the early hours of February 14, 2026, 11-year-old Oaklynn Ann Vazquez was found unresponsive in her Stilesville, Indiana home and later pronounced dead. What followed was a heartbreaking investigation that uncovered years of alleged severe neglect and abuse by her father, Kenneth Vazquez, and stepmother, Elba Vazquez.
In this episode, we closely examine the probable cause affidavit from the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office. The document reveals disturbing evidence including:
- Severe malnutrition and visible signs of prolonged physical abuse: widespread bruising, deep lesions, wrist and ankle restraint marks, and blisters on the soles of her feet.
- A basement room used for confinement—door screwed shut from the outside, blocked by a dresser, and monitored by a wall-mounted Ring camera.
- Bloodstains on walls and concrete, drag marks across the floor, blood droplets on a gold bed frame, and indications she was forced to use a bucket for bathroom needs.
- Reports of punishments including naked calisthenics in cold weather, baths in unheated water, restraint to the bed frame, minimal food (beans, rice, sardines) only as a reward, and beatings—including one allegedly overheard the night before her death.
- The chilling moment captured at the scene: Kenneth Vazquez leaning over his daughter after she was pronounced deceased and whispering under his breath, “Why couldn’t you just be good?”
While the couple claimed Oaklynn was a “problematic” child who self-harmed, sibling forensic interviews and physical evidence painted a far different picture of systematic abuse and isolation.
This episode explores the red flags, the conflicting accounts, the timeline of escalating mistreatment, and the urgent questions surrounding child welfare oversight.
Trigger warning: This episode contains graphic and detailed discussions of child abuse, neglect, physical punishment, confinement, and death. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Rest in peace, Oaklynn. May justice be served.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome everyone to podcast 69 South where we kiss and discuss true crime and co-cases, current events and hot topics along with our state of society today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please Saturday morning, hundreds County Sheriff's Deputies were called to this home along U.S. 40 in Stylesville and found an 11-year-old girl unresponsive despite life-saving efforts that child died on scene.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's very sad, and should have never come to this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After the death investigators arrested the gross father, 39-year-old Kenneth Vasquez, and her stepmother, Fort Erol, Elbert, Sophia Vasquez, for neglect resulting in death, Lana Vasquez says the young victim Oakland is her son's only sister, Lana divorced their father years ago, but says she's not surprised by the tragedy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just, he wasn't a good man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I saw it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've known him since 2006.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: he wasn't a fit father sheriff's report doesn't explain what led to the girl's death and Lana doesn't know either but for years long before the weekend tragedy, Lana says she filed multiple CPS reports involving Kenny's alleged mistreatment of their son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was awful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody would ever listen to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was always treated like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it didn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the 2025 numbers haven't been published, the most recent annual report for child abuse and neglect desk shows statewide every year for the last decade around 50 to 60 children died from abuse or neglect, that's why Atlanta urges anyone who believes a child is being neglected to contact the state's child abuse hotline, but she also insists the courts need to take those complaints serious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like this little girl was probably begging for help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now it's too late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, neglect of a dependent resulting in death is a level one felony, if convicted, that crime carries up to a 40-year sentence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to 69 South Everybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm choppy your host and ride in shotgun as my beautiful ghost, Julie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How are you doing today?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we got to kind of a sad story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As you guys know, we go through the problem.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had a pretty sad one show up on the news feed recently.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was 11-year-old Oakland Vassquiz.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Such a sad story, really.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And let's get in the...
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to say the statistics on the child deaths in Indiana from neglecting abuses, shocking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's, I saw one year in the past decade, 77 children died from abuse in neglect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's, in Indiana, horrible, horrible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that was 2024.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then it's like an average of 50 or 60 a year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's way too many.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's 50 or 60 too many in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's get right into it and find out what happened in this little girl.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm February 14th, 2026 at around 124 a.m. Deputies and medics responded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to this home in Stilesville in Hendrix County, Indiana for an unresponsive 11-year-old female identified as Oakland on arrival, life-saving measures were attempted but ultimately were unsuccessful and she was pronounced deceased.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Shortly after she passed away, Debbie D's on the scene noted that her father, Kenneth Vasquez, leaned down in the attempt to hold her face.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This action was stopped in order to preserve evidence, but Kenneth commented under his breath, why couldn't you just be good?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Investigators responded to the scene to conduct the death investigation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I heard that, I have to say that stuck in my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, for him to say to a little baby girl, 11 years old, why couldn't you just be good?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like all this shit was her fault.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just broke my heart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's tragic, it just chokes me up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that he technically spoke with Oakland's father, Kenneth Vasquez, to try to establish a timeline of events and any pre-existing condition or diagnosis.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth stated that Oakland was vomiting and had diarrhea and was not feeling well that day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth reportedly left for work at 9 a.m. and returned home at 3 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He stated that she was awake before he left and she had been working on homework.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When he returned home, he stated Oakland did not say anything about her stomach, but was cold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He advised that Oakland had been staying in the master bedroom with him in his wife.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba Sophia Vasquez, while her room in the basement was being remodeled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That night, Oakland reportedly came into his office and advised she was going to shower.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenna stated that Oakland had been in the bathroom for some time when he heard a thud sound.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He went into the bathroom to find Oakland on the floor unresponsive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At first, he believed she was being overgemattec before realizing she was cold to the touch and had shallow breathing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He took her to the bedroom and put a warm blanket on her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kinnis signed a consent to search for him for the home so the investigation could be conducted.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A walkthrough of the residents took place and was documented with photographs by a crime scene investigator.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Examination of the upstairs master bedroom and bathroom showed indications of vomit on the bedding, including a brown heated blanket, towels in the bathroom, and in the shower drain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a detective exam in the basement room, I identified by Kenneth as Oakland's bedroom.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They located hand prints and red stained consistent with blood on the wall along with an indention in the dry wall that contained hair.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So her head went through the drywall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what that makes me think.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's hand prints that blood on them on the wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds a little messed up to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was also red stains on the concrete and a towel that was consistent with blood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A gold unassembled bed frame was observed in the room, and the detective noticed gold drag marks all throughout the floor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This bed frame also had droplets of red stain consistent with blood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Upon further inspection of the unfinished rooms, entry sliding door, he observed a latch and screws inserted on both sides.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The evidence observed, indicated, this door had been screwed to the door frame from the outside to secure its shed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additionally, a white dresser was placed in front of the entry sliding door located outside of the room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There were no other mattresses furniture, bedding, seating, pillows, comforters, or blankets observed in this room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they had her locked in the basement in this room with just a bed frame and the bed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's messed up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The poor little thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like she was a prisoner
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[SPEAKER_03]: but they didn't know what happened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She just complained about a stomach ache this morning, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: This makes me want to puke.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The room also contained a wall mounted ring camera positioned to view the interior of the room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So they had to lock down there with the camera on her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the camera on her, making sure she was being good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The corner arrived on scene and when
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[SPEAKER_03]: They examined Oakland, who was previously covered by a sheet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They observed Oakland was severely malnourished, had been suffering from bruises all over her arms and legs, multiple scratch wounds, deep lesions, bruising on her wrist and her ankles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additionally, she had what appeared to be opened blisters on the bottom of her toes and on both feet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Based on the detective's training and experience,
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[SPEAKER_03]: His observations of the child's condition and signs of confinement, evidence supporter that she had been neglected and abused.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At this time, the walkthrough investigation based on consent was stopped, and his search warrant was obtained to continue the investigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They probably had to do that just for, they knew it was a crime scene, and they wanted a search warrant for everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, once they sign consent, I wonder if they, they, they've seen the detectives were seeing this shit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I wonder if he stopped the search, or they wanted to just get a search warrant, just to make sure everything was only.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, that's what I was saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Oakland's father, Kenneth, and her stepmother, Elba, and Elba's adult son, were transported to the Hendrix County Sheriff's Office for
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[SPEAKER_02]: Forensic interviews were also conducted with other children in the home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenneth and Elba were interviewed separately and advised of their Miranda rights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They agreed to speak with investigators.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They claimed they had nothing to do with victim ones' condition.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They both insisted that she was a problematic child that would hurt herself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They reported that Oakland would defecate and urinate in all the rooms of the home
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba advised investigators of intentions to take Oakland for medical treatment the following day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even though medical records indicated Oakland had not been seen in a medical profession since May of 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba did admit that Oakland had been in the basement for a couple of days.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She advised she and Kenneth never disagreed on punishment for Oakland,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba advised that Oakland had been in her life for seven years and called her mommy, indicating Elba was a parental figure responsible for her care.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you get the ode, we were getting Ray take her to the doctor just tomorrow, but she hadn't seen a doctor since 2020 or two years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, during the interview with Kenneth he advised that Oakland was usually pretty healthy, but recently had diarrhea, went to the restroom several times, and was cold to the touch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth alluded to the fact everything was foggy, missing a period of time before he allegedly found her on the shower floor, and she wasn't moving.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He stated he took her out of the shower, dressed her, and put her in the heated blanket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They then took her downstairs, Elba cleaned her up, and he performed CPR.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth did confirm that Oakland slept in the basement, but did not know a time frame.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When asked if he had been two weeks to a month, Kenneth replied, maybe.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He made other statements like he didn't want to remember, and I don't know what happened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth spoke slowly and quietly during the interview and seemed evasive as he gave overly broad responses to specific questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, how do you not know where your child sleeps every night if you're in the same house with her?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to know how in the hell that big dent in the dry wall with her hair was in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't get that out of my mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he probably slammed her head into the wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, at what point?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it okay to do that to a little kid?
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[SPEAKER_03]: 11 year old girl.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Information received from Edmund, which is Elva Zedal-san, and the other children during forensic interviews disclosed a very different description, which was co-operated with evidence, found while executing the search warrant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Children disclosed during separate forensic interviews, that Oakland endured a long-standing pattern of neglect and abuse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oakland had reportedly been locked in the basement, denied clothing, forced to defecate and urinate in a bucket, had been restrained or tied to a bed frame.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Evidence collected and observed at the scene supported this being the same gold bed frame that was found in the basement room with droplets of blood.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One of the forensic interviews described an incident in which Oakland managed to free yourself from the room when there was just a latch in place securing the door.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The child disclosed witnessing screws being inserted through the door and into the door frame by both Elba and Kenneth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, witness was the dresser being placed in front of the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So one of the other kids admitted that he saw both dad and step mom screwing the fricking door shut so this little girl could get and making her use the restroom in a bucket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That just makes me want to pee here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's my soul so bad that could you imagine where she felt like on the other side of that door here in those screws be placed in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, what happened if that house caught on fire?
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[SPEAKER_02]: or something like that, and they couldn't get her out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She would have burned a death down there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously they didn't give a shit about this baby.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not one, not, not, they did not care about her at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And what was weird is I went and looked up these people's face book, and both of them had all kinds of pictures of the other children and stuff, and on Elbez, there was only one picture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that had Oakland in there and I think it was just because they were on family vacation or something and she's she wanted to post it but this picture but it's just one picture and you you've been there for seven years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This kind of reminds me of Kinsley.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kindly wealthy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's weird.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was locked in the closet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She had feces all over her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was in cheap past away, too, from malnourishment and neglect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes you wonder what's going through these people's mind because they have multiple children, but they pick one children, usually from a past marriage or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they just treat them like shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This guy had been married like five times, hurt Kenneth Vasquez, has been married five times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, that was his first wife, and the interview that the news had did saying that he wasn't a good person, he wasn't a good man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, her mom wasn't in the picture, her real mom.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she did state that she had made, this is her statement, several notifications and calls the CPS about him mistreating their child.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they had to open out a brother additional disclosures during forensic interviews described her being held in the basement room for days at a time, only being allowed out for short periods of time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: before being placed back in the secured room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was often denied food or given beans, rice, or sardines when she was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The staffers remember sardines.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They gave them sardines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've never even ate sardine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I can't even imagine having to eat a sardine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When she was, quote, very good, she would get to eat at the kitchen counter, but not at the dinner table with the rest of the family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was reported that she was forced to perform calistinics while naked in the basement as a form of punishment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At times, Oakland was forced to perform calistinics outside in the cold weather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The last time this was witnessed to have occurred was approximately two weeks ago, and Oakland was reported to not be wearing socks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When it was just freezing cold and the teens and all that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sub-zero wind chills and shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had her out there with no socks and no shoes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like speechless.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The interview disclosed that Oakland was pushed outside the residence by Elba.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additional disclosures identified other forms of punishment as being bathed in an unheated water source in the basement, which was located also during the search of the residents.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The bathing was reported to be mostly done by Kenneth, but sometimes by Elba.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was also disclosed that a camera had been installed in the room to monitor Oakland while she was confined.
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[SPEAKER_03]: ice code baths in the basement forced to do calisthenics outside naked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had a ring camera in there in that room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a ring camera watching her at all times and they're making her get naked in front of that and do calisthenics.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes you wonder if they were like Sharon sees.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm just saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If that that's what that is, if they have that, those kind of images on there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They searched her phone and if they find some shit like that, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to be in some shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Additional disclosures reported that Kenneth was overheard beating Oakland in the basement on February 13th just before midnight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oakland was heard crying out during this incident.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When the witness awoke between midnight and when I am, Oakland was described as not moving an inch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: While in the upstairs bathroom shower, she was reportedly placed in a hot shower to warm her up and then placed under a heated blanket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The witness further disclosed Kenneth was over her telling victim one to wake up and they were sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The 911 call for this incident was placed at 124 a.m.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I bet that shit already passed away and they were trying to warm her body up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it raised the temperature of her body.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it didn't look so bad when they called 911 and got the the medics and the pope out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or was she alive whenever the police thought I think they said she passed away while they were there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This little girl was on the doorstep of death for a while and being tortured to the extremes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I don't understand at what point in your life you have to be so fucking mean to an 11-year-old child.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I can't, I don't grasp that type of shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Neither do I.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now Oakland's biological mother signed over custodial rights to Kenneth back in September of 2024, giving Kenneth full legal custody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She reported the last time she saw Oakland was in July of 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At this time, she reported that Oakland to be healthy and energetic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It should also be noted that DCS had contact with Oakland on May 15, 2024 and took a photograph of her at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She looked to be a healthy child and even smiled for the picture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Based on the investigation, Oakland was subjected to a long-standing pattern of neglect and abuse by Kenneth and Elba.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenneth and Elba were her father and stepmother and responsible for her care and well-being.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The treatment and her resulting injuries described above are only a short summary of what Oakland and 11-year-old child had to endure before she also
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[SPEAKER_02]: This investigation is ongoing as evidence is still being analyzed and several reports are pending, including the pathology report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Additional charges could follow further on the investigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it breaks my heart.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure there's going to be a lot more come out when, you know, they found out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They find all the evidence of what this poor girl went through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had a source contact us and they was telling us
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[SPEAKER_03]: that he had a landscaping business that's being Kenneth Vasquez and that one of the other children come home telling crazy stories about how once Oakland had wet the bed so Kenneth made her wear adult deep in diapers on top of her clothes too school
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[SPEAKER_03]: and told the schools she's not allowed to take them off and the other kids were always responsible to take care of the younger kids that they didn't do much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then this source goes on to say, everyone that I know that ever met her said she was the sweetest, kindest kid ever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The boys, we would see playing on the street all the time, but we never saw Oakland.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We never even knew that they had a daughter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So just like Kingsley, it's like the other children, the boys outplaying this street.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For some reason, they had a vendetta against this little girl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, this is kind of weird, but I always wonder in the back of my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is just, you know, my chop crazy thinking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes me wonder if the child reminds them of maybe their ex and maybe the wife did it like her because I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to say this is trying to come up with a thought or a reason or rhyme to why they would treat this child.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right, and shout out to the person you gave us this information.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate it and that's all just a alleged hearsay, but it's, I believe it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was told to us with somebody with a heart that's heard over the situation very much so, and if we hear anything else, we're going to follow this case all the way through.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kinsley waltese cases, her mom, Tony McLears, getting ready to go to Trialson, gets pushed back here and there, but hopefully it's about to come to an end.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of checked out Kenneth Vasquez's stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like he had a nice truck.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he had a decent business going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The house looked like a huge, a nice home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it had, you know, obviously a basement, unfortunately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he looks scary in his Facebook pictures and stuff, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He kind of looks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he's been married like five or six times, just like since,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh six, I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh six, but like in the last seven eight years, it's been at least three or four times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He is currently being held in the hinders kind of jail on a one million dollar cash only bond.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's probably going to be sitting there for until trial unless he can come up with one million dollars cash.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Folks, if you see something that's out of place or weird man, see something safe, something, I know a lot of people are discouraged with CPS and some of the counties here that they don't do enough and you know, but stay on it because these children are a future and they are important.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And sad cases like this just breaks everybody's heart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And no child should have to go through anything like this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be following this case.
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[SPEAKER_03]: tooth and nail.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we will let you know any updates on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We hope you enjoy the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Until then, have a good day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What ever, man?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome everyone to podcast 69 South where we kiss and discuss true crime and co-cases, current events and hot topics along with our state of society today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please Saturday morning, hundreds County Sheriff's Deputies were called to this home along U.S. 40 in Stylesville and found an 11-year-old girl unresponsive despite life-saving efforts that child died on scene.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's very sad, and should have never come to this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After the death investigators arrested the gross father, 39-year-old Kenneth Vasquez, and her stepmother, Fort Erol, Elbert, Sophia Vasquez, for neglect resulting in death, Lana Vasquez says the young victim Oakland is her son's only sister, Lana divorced their father years ago, but says she's not surprised by the tragedy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just, he wasn't a good man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I saw it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've known him since 2006.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: he wasn't a fit father sheriff's report doesn't explain what led to the girl's death and Lana doesn't know either but for years long before the weekend tragedy, Lana says she filed multiple CPS reports involving Kenny's alleged mistreatment of their son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was awful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody would ever listen to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was always treated like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it didn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the 2025 numbers haven't been published, the most recent annual report for child abuse and neglect desk shows statewide every year for the last decade around 50 to 60 children died from abuse or neglect, that's why Atlanta urges anyone who believes a child is being neglected to contact the state's child abuse hotline, but she also insists the courts need to take those complaints serious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like this little girl was probably begging for help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now it's too late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, neglect of a dependent resulting in death is a level one felony, if convicted, that crime carries up to a 40-year sentence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to 69 South Everybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm choppy your host and ride in shotgun as my beautiful ghost, Julie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How are you doing today?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we got to kind of a sad story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As you guys know, we go through the problem.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had a pretty sad one show up on the news feed recently.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was 11-year-old Oakland Vassquiz.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Such a sad story, really.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And let's get in the...
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to say the statistics on the child deaths in Indiana from neglecting abuses, shocking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's, I saw one year in the past decade, 77 children died from abuse in neglect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's, in Indiana, horrible, horrible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that was 2024.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then it's like an average of 50 or 60 a year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's way too many.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's 50 or 60 too many in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's get right into it and find out what happened in this little girl.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm February 14th, 2026 at around 124 a.m. Deputies and medics responded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to this home in Stilesville in Hendrix County, Indiana for an unresponsive 11-year-old female identified as Oakland on arrival, life-saving measures were attempted but ultimately were unsuccessful and she was pronounced deceased.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Shortly after she passed away, Debbie D's on the scene noted that her father, Kenneth Vasquez, leaned down in the attempt to hold her face.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This action was stopped in order to preserve evidence, but Kenneth commented under his breath, why couldn't you just be good?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Investigators responded to the scene to conduct the death investigation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I heard that, I have to say that stuck in my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, for him to say to a little baby girl, 11 years old, why couldn't you just be good?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like all this shit was her fault.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just broke my heart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's tragic, it just chokes me up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that he technically spoke with Oakland's father, Kenneth Vasquez, to try to establish a timeline of events and any pre-existing condition or diagnosis.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth stated that Oakland was vomiting and had diarrhea and was not feeling well that day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth reportedly left for work at 9 a.m. and returned home at 3 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He stated that she was awake before he left and she had been working on homework.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When he returned home, he stated Oakland did not say anything about her stomach, but was cold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He advised that Oakland had been staying in the master bedroom with him in his wife.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba Sophia Vasquez, while her room in the basement was being remodeled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That night, Oakland reportedly came into his office and advised she was going to shower.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenna stated that Oakland had been in the bathroom for some time when he heard a thud sound.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He went into the bathroom to find Oakland on the floor unresponsive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At first, he believed she was being overgemattec before realizing she was cold to the touch and had shallow breathing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He took her to the bedroom and put a warm blanket on her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kinnis signed a consent to search for him for the home so the investigation could be conducted.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A walkthrough of the residents took place and was documented with photographs by a crime scene investigator.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Examination of the upstairs master bedroom and bathroom showed indications of vomit on the bedding, including a brown heated blanket, towels in the bathroom, and in the shower drain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a detective exam in the basement room, I identified by Kenneth as Oakland's bedroom.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They located hand prints and red stained consistent with blood on the wall along with an indention in the dry wall that contained hair.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So her head went through the drywall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what that makes me think.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's hand prints that blood on them on the wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds a little messed up to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was also red stains on the concrete and a towel that was consistent with blood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A gold unassembled bed frame was observed in the room, and the detective noticed gold drag marks all throughout the floor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This bed frame also had droplets of red stain consistent with blood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Upon further inspection of the unfinished rooms, entry sliding door, he observed a latch and screws inserted on both sides.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The evidence observed, indicated, this door had been screwed to the door frame from the outside to secure its shed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additionally, a white dresser was placed in front of the entry sliding door located outside of the room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There were no other mattresses furniture, bedding, seating, pillows, comforters, or blankets observed in this room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they had her locked in the basement in this room with just a bed frame and the bed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's messed up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The poor little thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like she was a prisoner
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[SPEAKER_03]: but they didn't know what happened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She just complained about a stomach ache this morning, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: This makes me want to puke.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The room also contained a wall mounted ring camera positioned to view the interior of the room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So they had to lock down there with the camera on her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the camera on her, making sure she was being good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The corner arrived on scene and when
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[SPEAKER_03]: They examined Oakland, who was previously covered by a sheet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They observed Oakland was severely malnourished, had been suffering from bruises all over her arms and legs, multiple scratch wounds, deep lesions, bruising on her wrist and her ankles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additionally, she had what appeared to be opened blisters on the bottom of her toes and on both feet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Based on the detective's training and experience,
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[SPEAKER_03]: His observations of the child's condition and signs of confinement, evidence supporter that she had been neglected and abused.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At this time, the walkthrough investigation based on consent was stopped, and his search warrant was obtained to continue the investigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They probably had to do that just for, they knew it was a crime scene, and they wanted a search warrant for everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, once they sign consent, I wonder if they, they, they've seen the detectives were seeing this shit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I wonder if he stopped the search, or they wanted to just get a search warrant, just to make sure everything was only.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, that's what I was saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Oakland's father, Kenneth, and her stepmother, Elba, and Elba's adult son, were transported to the Hendrix County Sheriff's Office for
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[SPEAKER_02]: Forensic interviews were also conducted with other children in the home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenneth and Elba were interviewed separately and advised of their Miranda rights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They agreed to speak with investigators.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They claimed they had nothing to do with victim ones' condition.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They both insisted that she was a problematic child that would hurt herself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They reported that Oakland would defecate and urinate in all the rooms of the home
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba advised investigators of intentions to take Oakland for medical treatment the following day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even though medical records indicated Oakland had not been seen in a medical profession since May of 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba did admit that Oakland had been in the basement for a couple of days.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She advised she and Kenneth never disagreed on punishment for Oakland,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elba advised that Oakland had been in her life for seven years and called her mommy, indicating Elba was a parental figure responsible for her care.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you get the ode, we were getting Ray take her to the doctor just tomorrow, but she hadn't seen a doctor since 2020 or two years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, during the interview with Kenneth he advised that Oakland was usually pretty healthy, but recently had diarrhea, went to the restroom several times, and was cold to the touch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth alluded to the fact everything was foggy, missing a period of time before he allegedly found her on the shower floor, and she wasn't moving.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He stated he took her out of the shower, dressed her, and put her in the heated blanket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They then took her downstairs, Elba cleaned her up, and he performed CPR.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth did confirm that Oakland slept in the basement, but did not know a time frame.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When asked if he had been two weeks to a month, Kenneth replied, maybe.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He made other statements like he didn't want to remember, and I don't know what happened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kenneth spoke slowly and quietly during the interview and seemed evasive as he gave overly broad responses to specific questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, how do you not know where your child sleeps every night if you're in the same house with her?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to know how in the hell that big dent in the dry wall with her hair was in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't get that out of my mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he probably slammed her head into the wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, at what point?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it okay to do that to a little kid?
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[SPEAKER_03]: 11 year old girl.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Information received from Edmund, which is Elva Zedal-san, and the other children during forensic interviews disclosed a very different description, which was co-operated with evidence, found while executing the search warrant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Children disclosed during separate forensic interviews, that Oakland endured a long-standing pattern of neglect and abuse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oakland had reportedly been locked in the basement, denied clothing, forced to defecate and urinate in a bucket, had been restrained or tied to a bed frame.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Evidence collected and observed at the scene supported this being the same gold bed frame that was found in the basement room with droplets of blood.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One of the forensic interviews described an incident in which Oakland managed to free yourself from the room when there was just a latch in place securing the door.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The child disclosed witnessing screws being inserted through the door and into the door frame by both Elba and Kenneth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, witness was the dresser being placed in front of the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So one of the other kids admitted that he saw both dad and step mom screwing the fricking door shut so this little girl could get and making her use the restroom in a bucket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That just makes me want to pee here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's my soul so bad that could you imagine where she felt like on the other side of that door here in those screws be placed in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, what happened if that house caught on fire?
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[SPEAKER_02]: or something like that, and they couldn't get her out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She would have burned a death down there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously they didn't give a shit about this baby.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not one, not, not, they did not care about her at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And what was weird is I went and looked up these people's face book, and both of them had all kinds of pictures of the other children and stuff, and on Elbez, there was only one picture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that had Oakland in there and I think it was just because they were on family vacation or something and she's she wanted to post it but this picture but it's just one picture and you you've been there for seven years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This kind of reminds me of Kinsley.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kindly wealthy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's weird.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was locked in the closet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She had feces all over her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was in cheap past away, too, from malnourishment and neglect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes you wonder what's going through these people's mind because they have multiple children, but they pick one children, usually from a past marriage or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they just treat them like shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This guy had been married like five times, hurt Kenneth Vasquez, has been married five times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, that was his first wife, and the interview that the news had did saying that he wasn't a good person, he wasn't a good man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, her mom wasn't in the picture, her real mom.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she did state that she had made, this is her statement, several notifications and calls the CPS about him mistreating their child.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they had to open out a brother additional disclosures during forensic interviews described her being held in the basement room for days at a time, only being allowed out for short periods of time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: before being placed back in the secured room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was often denied food or given beans, rice, or sardines when she was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The staffers remember sardines.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They gave them sardines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've never even ate sardine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I can't even imagine having to eat a sardine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When she was, quote, very good, she would get to eat at the kitchen counter, but not at the dinner table with the rest of the family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was reported that she was forced to perform calistinics while naked in the basement as a form of punishment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At times, Oakland was forced to perform calistinics outside in the cold weather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The last time this was witnessed to have occurred was approximately two weeks ago, and Oakland was reported to not be wearing socks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When it was just freezing cold and the teens and all that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sub-zero wind chills and shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had her out there with no socks and no shoes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like speechless.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The interview disclosed that Oakland was pushed outside the residence by Elba.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Additional disclosures identified other forms of punishment as being bathed in an unheated water source in the basement, which was located also during the search of the residents.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The bathing was reported to be mostly done by Kenneth, but sometimes by Elba.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was also disclosed that a camera had been installed in the room to monitor Oakland while she was confined.
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[SPEAKER_03]: ice code baths in the basement forced to do calisthenics outside naked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had a ring camera in there in that room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a ring camera watching her at all times and they're making her get naked in front of that and do calisthenics.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes you wonder if they were like Sharon sees.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm just saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If that that's what that is, if they have that, those kind of images on there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They searched her phone and if they find some shit like that, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to be in some shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Additional disclosures reported that Kenneth was overheard beating Oakland in the basement on February 13th just before midnight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oakland was heard crying out during this incident.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When the witness awoke between midnight and when I am, Oakland was described as not moving an inch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: While in the upstairs bathroom shower, she was reportedly placed in a hot shower to warm her up and then placed under a heated blanket.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The witness further disclosed Kenneth was over her telling victim one to wake up and they were sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The 911 call for this incident was placed at 124 a.m.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I bet that shit already passed away and they were trying to warm her body up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it raised the temperature of her body.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it didn't look so bad when they called 911 and got the the medics and the pope out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or was she alive whenever the police thought I think they said she passed away while they were there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This little girl was on the doorstep of death for a while and being tortured to the extremes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I don't understand at what point in your life you have to be so fucking mean to an 11-year-old child.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I can't, I don't grasp that type of shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Neither do I.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now Oakland's biological mother signed over custodial rights to Kenneth back in September of 2024, giving Kenneth full legal custody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She reported the last time she saw Oakland was in July of 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At this time, she reported that Oakland to be healthy and energetic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It should also be noted that DCS had contact with Oakland on May 15, 2024 and took a photograph of her at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She looked to be a healthy child and even smiled for the picture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Based on the investigation, Oakland was subjected to a long-standing pattern of neglect and abuse by Kenneth and Elba.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kenneth and Elba were her father and stepmother and responsible for her care and well-being.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The treatment and her resulting injuries described above are only a short summary of what Oakland and 11-year-old child had to endure before she also
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[SPEAKER_02]: This investigation is ongoing as evidence is still being analyzed and several reports are pending, including the pathology report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Additional charges could follow further on the investigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it breaks my heart.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure there's going to be a lot more come out when, you know, they found out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They find all the evidence of what this poor girl went through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had a source contact us and they was telling us
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[SPEAKER_03]: that he had a landscaping business that's being Kenneth Vasquez and that one of the other children come home telling crazy stories about how once Oakland had wet the bed so Kenneth made her wear adult deep in diapers on top of her clothes too school
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[SPEAKER_03]: and told the schools she's not allowed to take them off and the other kids were always responsible to take care of the younger kids that they didn't do much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then this source goes on to say, everyone that I know that ever met her said she was the sweetest, kindest kid ever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The boys, we would see playing on the street all the time, but we never saw Oakland.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We never even knew that they had a daughter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So just like Kingsley, it's like the other children, the boys outplaying this street.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For some reason, they had a vendetta against this little girl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, this is kind of weird, but I always wonder in the back of my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is just, you know, my chop crazy thinking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes me wonder if the child reminds them of maybe their ex and maybe the wife did it like her because I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to say this is trying to come up with a thought or a reason or rhyme to why they would treat this child.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right, and shout out to the person you gave us this information.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate it and that's all just a alleged hearsay, but it's, I believe it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was told to us with somebody with a heart that's heard over the situation very much so, and if we hear anything else, we're going to follow this case all the way through.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kinsley waltese cases, her mom, Tony McLears, getting ready to go to Trialson, gets pushed back here and there, but hopefully it's about to come to an end.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of checked out Kenneth Vasquez's stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like he had a nice truck.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he had a decent business going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The house looked like a huge, a nice home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it had, you know, obviously a basement, unfortunately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he looks scary in his Facebook pictures and stuff, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He kind of looks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he's been married like five or six times, just like since,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh six, I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh six, but like in the last seven eight years, it's been at least three or four times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He is currently being held in the hinders kind of jail on a one million dollar cash only bond.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's probably going to be sitting there for until trial unless he can come up with one million dollars cash.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Folks, if you see something that's out of place or weird man, see something safe, something, I know a lot of people are discouraged with CPS and some of the counties here that they don't do enough and you know, but stay on it because these children are a future and they are important.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And sad cases like this just breaks everybody's heart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And no child should have to go through anything like this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be following this case.
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[SPEAKER_03]: tooth and nail.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we will let you know any updates on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We hope you enjoy the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Until then, have a good day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good evening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What ever, man?
