May 26, 2026
60 ROUNDS AT MEMORIAL DRIVE DRIVERS, ATHENA BROWNFIELD CAREGIVER GETS LIFE & OHIO CULT SENTENCED
A judge “takes a chance,” a 4-year-old weighs 23 pounds, and an Ohio courtroom hears that a six-adult household ran a captive torture house for two years.
Garret Fisher covers a Massachusetts man held without bond after allegedly firing 60 rounds from an assault-style rifle at random drivers on Cambridge's Memorial Drive — while still on probation from a 2020 shooting that a judge said she was “taking a chance” on. Plus an Oklahoma caregiver gets life after pleading guilty in the Christmas 2022 beating death of 4-year-old Athena Brownfield, who weighed 23 pounds when her remains were found buried in a backpack. And in Toledo, a judge calls herself “sickened” as she sentences a 29-year-old woman who ran what prosecutors called a small cult that held a man captive and tortured him for two years.
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Garret Fisher covers a Massachusetts man held without bond after allegedly firing 60 rounds from an assault-style rifle at random drivers on Cambridge's Memorial Drive — while still on probation from a 2020 shooting that a judge said she was “taking a chance” on. Plus an Oklahoma caregiver gets life after pleading guilty in the Christmas 2022 beating death of 4-year-old Athena Brownfield, who weighed 23 pounds when her remains were found buried in a backpack. And in Toledo, a judge calls herself “sickened” as she sentences a 29-year-old woman who ran what prosecutors called a small cult that held a man captive and tortured him for two years.
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning. I'm Garrett Fisher. This is
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Daily Crime Injustice. Today is Tuesday, May twenty sixth, twenty
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twenty six. Three cases on the docket today, three different states,
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and a recurring theme. The system got a chance to
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stop something, and the system didn't stop it. In Massachusetts,
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a man on probation walks into the middle of Memorial
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Drive in Cambridge with an assault style rifle and starts
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firing sixty rounds into traffic drivers diving under their cars.
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A weapon powerful enough, prosecutors say, to throw rounds across
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the Charles River. He was on probation because a judge
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five years ago looked at him in court and said,
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and one of the Boston stations has the audio, I
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do realize I'm taking a chance on you. Then she
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gave him half the sentence the prosecutors as for then.
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Last Thursday, this same defendant pleaded not guilty to two
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counts of armed assault with intent to murder. Held without bond.
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In Oklahoma, a woman named Alicia Adams pleaded guilty last
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week to second degree murder and child neglect. The victim
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was four years old. Her name was Athena Brownfield. She
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died on Christmas Day twenty twenty two, when her body
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was eventually found in a backpack buried near a fence line.
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The autopsy weighed her at twenty three pounds. Adams was
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sentenced to life. Her husband, the man who, according to
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her own confession, actually beat the child, is still awaiting trial.
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In Toledo, Ohio, a twenty nine year old woman named
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Martina Escuada pleaded guilty to kidnapping and two counts of
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felonious assault for holding a man captive in a house
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for two years and torturing him with five other people.
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The judge looked at her in court and said, quote,
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this case has really kind of sickened the court. Then
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the judge added, quote this in all ways was a cult.
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Twenty two year minimum sentence, thirty three year maximum. Three
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different states, three different kinds of evil, one common thread.
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Somebody was warned, somebody was watching, somebody had the chance
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to do something earlier, and nobody did. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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Let me walk you through this. This is daily crime
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and justice. Let's start in Massachusetts. May eleventh, twenty twenty six,
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Memorial Drive in Cambridge. If you don't know the road.
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It runs along the Charles River between Boston and the
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water with Harvard on one side, busy at all hours,
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lined with joggers, cyclists, commuters, cutting through a perfectly ordinary
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stretch of suburban Massachusetts road. On a perfectly ordinary Monday,
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police get the call active shooter. A man is walking
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down the middle of Memorial Drive in traffic, carrying what
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investigators would describe as an assault style rifle. And he
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is firing not at one target, not at one specific person,
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at cars, random vehicles, whoever happens to be driving past.
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Middlesex County District Attorney Maryon Ryan said the defendant was
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quote actively firing in an erratic fashion at various vehicles
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along the road. She said the weapon was powerful enough
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to hit targets on the other side of the Charles River,
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the other side of the river. By the time it
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was over, the shooter had fired and estimated sixty rounds.
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Drivers were jumping out of their cars and running, Some
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ended up hiding underneath their vehicles. Two people were hit
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by gunfire by a real piece of luck. Both of
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them have since been released from the hospital. The shooter
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himself was eventually taken down by a combination of a
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Massachusetts State trooper and an armed civilian, both of whom
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opened fire. They hit him multiple times in the arms
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and legs. He's been in a hospital bed ever since.
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Last Thursday, May twenty first, he appeared at his Dangerousness
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Hearing virtually from that hospital bed and pleaded not guilty
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to two counts of armed assault with intent to murder,
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along with a stack of weapons offenses. His name is
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Tyler Brown. He's forty six years old, and here is
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where this story turns from a horror story into an
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accountability story. Brown has a long criminal history across three states.
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Assault and battery in Massachusetts, drug possession in New Hampshire,
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armed robbery, and escape from jail in Michigan going back
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to the nineteen nineties. And in twenty twenty, six years ago,
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he was convicted in Massachusetts of a shooting that involved
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police officers. That twenty twenty case was in front of
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Judge Janet Sanders. Prosecutors stood up in court and told
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the judge on the record in open court that this
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man was a danger to the community. They asked for
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somewhere around ten to twelve years in prison. Judge Sanders
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gave him five to six half of what the prosecutors
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asked for, and as she handed down that sentence, she
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said something out loud that one of the Boston television
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stations has the actual audio of quote. I do realize
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I'm taking a chance on you. When people stand up
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experience police officers and probation officers and they tell me
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this guy is a danger to the community. I hear that,
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and it gives me. You know, I can't look into
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a crystal ball and figure out what's gonna happen once
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you get out. But I do understand that I'm taking
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a risk here. End quote. Five to six years. He
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served his time, he came out on probation, and on
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May eleventh, twenty twenty six, while still on that probation,
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he walked into the middle of Memorial Drive with an
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assault style rifle and fired sixty rounds at random drivers
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in traffic. Look, I'm going to be honest with you.
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I don't envy a sentencing judge. They have hard, real
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complicated decisions to make. The defendant in front of them
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is a person, not a statistic. Rehabilitation is a real goal.
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Mass incarceration is a real problem. None of this is simple,
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and I'm not pretending it is. But when experienced police
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officers and probation officers, the people who actually know this
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defendant stand up in your courtroom and tell you he
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is a danger to the community, and the prosecutors ask
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for a ten to twelve year sentence, and you cut
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that in half, and you say out loud on the record,
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I'm taking a chance. That's not a mistake, that's a choice.
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And six years later, when the chance you took is
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somebody firing sixty rounds at strangers on a Massachusetts road,
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that choice is part of the record. Brown is being
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held without bond. Even his own defense attorney did not
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contest the hold. His probable cause hearing is scheduled for
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June twenty second. Both of the shooting victims have thankfully
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been released from the hospital. They are going to spend
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the rest of their lives knowing they could have died
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driving home from work in the middle of the afternoon
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commercial break. An Oklahoma woman gets life in prison for
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the Christmas Day beating death of a four year old.
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The body was found in a backpack. The autopsy says
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she weighed twenty three pounds and in Toledo. A judge
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calls herself sickened as she hands down a twenty two
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year minimum on a woman a court has now formally
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called a cult leader. Welcome back to Daily Crime Injustice.
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I'm Garrett Fisher. Anadarko, Oklahoma, small town about an hour
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southwest of Oklahoma City, population around six thousand. January tenth,
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twenty twenty three, A male carrier on his usual route
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notices a small child wandering outside a house, a little
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girl five years old. He stops. He calls the police.
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When officers arrive and start talking to her, she tells
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them something I'm going to read directly from the affidavit quote.
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She had been home alone and she is tired of
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being alone. Officers go into the house. The five year
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old's four year old sister is not there. Her name
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is Athena Brownfield. The question becomes where is Athena? The
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story comes out in pieces about a year and a
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half to two years before the biological mother of these
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two little girls had handed them off to be raised
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by another couple, Alicia Adams thirty four and her husband
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Ivan Adams thirty nine. In every meaningful sense, the Adams
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were the only parents these two children had in the
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entire time they had been caring for these girls, somewhere
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between eighteen months and two years. Alicia would later admit
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to investigators that they had never once taken either child
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to a doctor, never enrolled either child in school, never anything.
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Two small children, completely off the radar of every public
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facing system this country has built to notice a child
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being harmed. No pediatrician, no teacher, no school nurse, nobody.
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Christmas Day, twenty twenty two, According to the affidavit Elisia
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signed when she eventually confessed to investigators, Ivan Adams beat
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four year old Athena. He held her up by her
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arms and beat her and then, I'm quoting from the
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affidavit quote she was not moving and her eyes were
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barely open. He then laid her on the ground and
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punched her at least three more times in her chest.
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She never moved after that end quote. Christmas Day. The
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next morning, Alicia told police even left the house with
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the body of the child. He came back without her.
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He told his wife he had buried the child near
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a fence line at the previous property where the couple
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had lived. When investigators went to search that area, they
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found her remains in a shallow grave inside a backpack.
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The autopsy report said she weighed twenty three pounds. For reference,
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the average four year old American girl weighs around thirty
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six pounds. Athena weighed twenty three. The official cause of
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death on the autopsy was quote acute pneumonia complicating malnutrition.
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She was starving, she had pneumonia, she had been beaten.
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She died last Wednesday, May twentieth. Alicia Adams stood up
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in court and pleaded guilty second degree murder, child neglect,
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obstructing an officer, sentenced to life in prison. In her
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statement to the court, she said, quote, I'm sorry for
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my actions and I am taking responsibility for them. I
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regret my decisions. I have grown closer to God, which
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is helping me become a better person. I hope the
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family can forgive me one day end quote. Forgiveness is
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not on the table today. The adoptive father of Athena's
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now eight year old sister, the little girl who told
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that mail carrier on January tenth that she was tired
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of being alone, that man stood up at the hearing.
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He told the court that his daughter, now eight years old,
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is on suicide watch. Quote. She's on suicide watch at
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eight years old. End quote. That is what was done
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to that little girl by being made to live in
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that house. That is the lasting damage of what happened
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to her younger sister eight years old, and the people
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responsible for keeping her safe are dead or in prison
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for life or awaiting trial, and what's left is a
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child on suicide watch. Ivan Adams, the man who actually
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beat Athena to death by his own wife's account, has
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pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and child neglect.
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His arraignment is scheduled for June seventeenth. We'll be back
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on that one when it happens. Athena Brownfield was four
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years old, twenty three pounds buried in a backpack on
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Christmas morning. Someone has to say your name, Athena. We
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just did. Toledo, Ohio, Lucas County Common Police Court, May first,
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twenty twenty six, Judge Laurie Olander is preparing to sentence
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a twenty nine year old woman named Martina Esquada. Olander
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opens by saying something most judges don't put on the record, quote,
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this case is really kind of sick. In the court
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here's what the judge is reacting to. March twenty twenty five,
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Toledo police arrest Eskata along with five men she'd been
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living with. The men are Aaron Bradshaw, Austin Bradshaw, David Cesna,
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Michael Eskata, and Chance Johnson. Michael Eskata is Martina's husband.
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The other four, according to the court record, were all
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in romantic relationships with her at the same time. All
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six adults shared a house, and inside that house for
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two years, they had been holding another man captive. The
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victim is identified in court records only as Am. He
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arrived at the home one day, according to the affidavit,
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and was not permitted to leave for the next two years.
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He was beaten with this and with a base ball bat.
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He suffered fractured ribs, a broken sternum, a broken fibula.
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He was not allowed to eat regularly, not allowed to
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use the bathroom. The judge described the conditions inside the
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house as and this is her word, disgusting. In a
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statement read on his behalf in court, Am said, quote,
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I endured abuse from every one of these individuals for
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the entire two years I was held there. Martina is
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a deceitful, manipulative, and cruel woman who enjoyed hurting me
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and watching others hurt me. He added, quote the torture
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I endured was unthinkable and barbaric. You didn't treat me
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like a human being. End quote. He eventually escaped and
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he got to police. That's why this case exists. He
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got out. Five of the six co defendants, including Martina Escada,
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now have pleaded guilty to similar charges. Judge a Lender,
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while delivering the sentence, said this, and I'm quoting her exactly.
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Quote this in all ways was a cult, not a
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giant cult, but it was a small cult. Seems like
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people came in, but you weren't allowed to leave. End quote.
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Twenty two year minimum, thirty three year maximum. Now here's
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the part of the story that's harder. Escada's defense attorney,
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Morgan Eisenberg, stood up at sentencing and told the court
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about her client's childhood. According to defense counsel, Martina Escuada
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was sexually abused starting at the age of three months
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by her stepfather. At age nine, she was sent to
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live with her biological father, who, according to the defense
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attorney quote, passed her off as a hooker and gave
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her a way to people for money. The defense attorney's
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exact words to the court were, she did not understand
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love because she never felt it. I'm gonna be honest
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with you about how I think about that. Both things
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can be true, and in this case, I think both
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things are true. The childhood that defense attorney described, if
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it's accurate, is one of the worst childhoods a human
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being can have. It does not stop being terrible because
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of what she did later, and it also does not
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