Feb. 19, 2026

"BOYFRIEND LEFT HER TO FREEZE ON AUSTRIA'S HIGHEST PEAK, BROTHER SENTENCED FOR STARVING 12-YEAR-OLD & SHIA LABEOUF'S MARDI GRAS MELTDOWN"

Show Notes
Transcript

Reid Carter covers the trial opening in Innsbruck where Thomas Plamberger faces negligent homicide for leaving girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner to freeze to death 150 feet below the summit of Austria's highest mountain - prosecutors say nine critical errors, her own mother defends him. Tyler Peterson sentenced to 5 years to life for his role in the starvation death of 12-year-old brother Gavin - father and stepmother already serving life sentences while DCFS ignored years of abuse reports. Shia LaBeouf arrested on two counts of simple battery after weeklong Mardi Gras bar crawl ends in brawl - bartender says he was "terrorizing the city."

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Caalarugushark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Thursday, February nineteenth,

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twenty twenty six. Three stories today. Each one will make

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you question the people who were supposed to protect someone vulnerable. Innsbruck, Austria.

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Trial open today for Thomas Plamberger, thirty nine years old,

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charged with negligent homicide after leaving his girlfriend Kirsten Gertner

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to freeze to death on the gross Glockner, Austria's highest mountain,

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in January of last year. She was thirty three, found

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dead just one hundred fifty feet below the summit temperatures

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hit minus twenty celsius with wind chill. Prosecutors say he

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made nine critical errors, left her unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic, and

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disoriented at two in the morning, didn't call for help

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until ninety minutes later. Haunting webcam images show two headlamps

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going up in the evening hours later only one coming down.

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Her own mother is defending him, says this was a

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tragic accident, not a crime. Salt Lake City, Utah, Tyler

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Peterson sentenced yesterday to five years to life for his

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role in the death of his twelve year old brother, Gavin.

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The boy was starved until his organs shut down completely.

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Father Shane Peterson already serving five years to life, stepmother

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Nicole Scott serving fifteen years to life, and DCFS received

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multiple abuse reports going back to twenty twenty. Nobody saved

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Gavin Peterson and New Orleans Schia Labouf arrested early Tuesday

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morning during Marty Grass two counts of simple battery after

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allegedly punching two men outside a bar in the French Quarter.

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The thirty nine year old actor had been on a

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week long bar crawl through the city. One bartender told

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reporters he was terrorizing the city. Video shows Lebeuff shirtless,

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facing off against a crowd, then getting beaten on the ground,

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released on his own recognizance back on Bourbon Street hours later.

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I'm Red Carter today, a mountain, a starving child, and

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a Hollywood train wreck. This is Celebrity Trials. January eighteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Austria. The gross Glockner twelve thousand, four

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hundred and sixty feet Austria's highest mountain, one of the

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most challenging climbs in the Austrian Alps, requiring full climbing

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and glacier gear even in summer. In winter, it's a

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death trap for anyone who isn't prepared. Thomas Plamberger, thirty

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nine years old, experienced mountaineer dozens of high altitude climbs

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under his belt. His now deleted social media was filled

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with summit photos, climbing routes, alpine adventures. He knew what

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he was doing up there. Kirsten Gertner, thirty three years old,

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his girlfriend from Salzburg, described herself on social media as

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a winter child and mountain person. Loved hiking, loved pushing

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her limits, but according to prosecutors, she had never undertaken

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an alpine high altitude tour of this length, difficulty and altitude.

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That distinction matters. Loving the mountains and being qualified for

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a technical winter ascent of Austria's highest peak are two

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very different things. Six forty five am, the couple began

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their ascent via the Southwest Ridge, known as the Studelgrat

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Technical climbing route, rated UIAA three to four difficulty requires ropes, crampons,

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ice axes, serious mountaineering. Prosecutors say they started two hours late.

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In winter climbing, timing is everything you need to summit

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and descend before temperature's plummet after sunset. Starting late means

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getting caught on the mountain in the dark, in the cold,

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in the wind. By one thirty PM, they reached what

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climbers call the breakfast spot at about a eleven six

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hundred feet. This is the critical turnaround point, the beginning

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of the hardest climbing on the route. If you're not

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making good time. This is where experienced climbers turn around,

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go back live to climb another day. Plamburger and Girtner

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kept going. Here's another problem. Prosecutors identified Girtner was wearing

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snowboard soft boots, not proper mountaineering footwear. Snowboard boots are

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designed for bindings on a flat board. They don't have

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the rigidity or support needed for cramp on equipped climbing

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on steep ice and rock. At nearly thirteen thousand feet. Plamberger,

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as the experienced climber who planned the route, should have

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known this. By six pm, roughly twelve hours after they started,

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webcam images from a nearby mountain hut, captured two tiny

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headlamp lights slowly moving toward the summit, still climbing in

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the dark. In January, at nearly thirteen thousand feet. By

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around nine fifty pm, Ger's legs gave out, exhaustion, hypothermia

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setting in. They were roughly one hundred fifty feet below

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the summit cross, so close to the top, but she

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couldn't go up, couldn't go down, could barely move. Temperatures

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minus eight degrees celsius, wind speeds up to forty six

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miles per hour, wind chill minus twenty bone numbing, organ

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shutting down. You will die if you stay here cold.

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At ten fifty pm, a police helicopter flew over the

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area the couple was stranded. This was their chance signal

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the helicopter wave, use a light, fire, a flare anything.

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Prosecutors say Plamburger did not give any distress signals. The

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helicopter flew on. Police tried repeatedly to contact Plamburger by phone.

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His phone was on silent, stored away, unreachable. Twelve thirty

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five am, Plamburger finally spoke with Mountain police. The details

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of that conversation are disputed. His defense says he requested assistance.

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Prosecutors allege he indicated things were under control. For the

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next hour and a half, nothing happened. Gertner was still

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up there, exposed, freezing deteriorating. Two am, Plamburger made the

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decision to leave, left Girtner on the mountain, began descending

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alone toward the Erzerzog Johann Hutt to find help. Here's

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what prosecutors say he didn't do before leaving. He didn't

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move Girtner to a wind protected spot, didn't use her

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bivouac sack, didn't deploy the emergency rescue blankets they carried,

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didn't remove her heavy backpack and split board to reduce

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her exposure. Just left her there, unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic, disoriented

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at nearly thirteen thousand feet in minus twenty wind chill

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alone three point thirty AM. An hour and a half

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after leaving Gertner, Plamburger finally called rescue services. Told them

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he'd had to leave his girlfriend behind. Suggested sending a helicopter,

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but the storms were so severe that helicopter rescue was

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impossible hurricane force wins at that altitude, nobody could reach her.

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A helicopter search mission, launched around seven a m was

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called off due to conditions. It wasn't until approximately ten

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AM that a search team reached Gertner on foot. She

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was dead, frozen just below the summit cross of Austria's

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highest mountain. Plamberger was safely off the mountain. He'd made

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it down six and a half hours after leaving her.

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He returned to find what he already knew, she was gone.

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The Innsbruck Prosecutor's office spent eleven months investigating. Examined cell phones,

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sports watches, laptop photographs, videos commissioned. An independent alpine mountaineering

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expert report identified nine critical errors Plamberger allegedly made starting

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two hours late, not accounting for Gertner's inexperience, allowing improper equipment,

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continuing past the turnaround point, failing to signal the helicopter,

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having his phone on silent, waiting too long to call rescue,

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not sheltering Gertner before leaving, not using available emergency equipment,

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nine chances to save her life. Nine decisions that, according

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to prosecutors, constituted gross negligence. The charge negligent homicide maximum

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penalty three years in prison. Three years for allegedly leaving

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someone to freeze to death on a mountain. Make it

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make sense? The defense sees it differently. Attorney Kurt Jelinek

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says this was a tragic, fateful accident. Says the couple

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planned the expedition together, both considered themselves sufficiently experienced and

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well equipped. Says Plamburger left by mutual agreement to get help,

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that Gertner understood and supported the decision. And here's the

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twist nobody expected. Kirsten's own own mother is defending Plamberger.

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Gertrude Girtner told German newspaper Deep Site. It makes me

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angry that Kirstin is being portrayed as a naive little

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thing who let herself be dragged up the mountain, said

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her daughter loved pushing her limits, was responsible and nature loving,

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prepared meticulously for her tours. About Plamberger, the mother said,

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I think it's unfair how Kirstin's boyfriend is being treated.

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There's a witch hunt against him in the media and online.

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Said the two of them always made decisions together that

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he didn't deserve to be held responsible as a guide.

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For us as parents, it's not about as signing blame,

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but about understanding, providing information and doing justice to our

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daughter and her dreams. Many people who blame Kirsten's boyfriend

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have never been in such a situation. Nobody knows how

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they'll react. Then it's easy to be a hero in

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the comfort of your own home. That's a mother defending

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the man prosecutors say killed her daughter. That's grief expressed

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as understanding rather than rage. Whether it's admirable or misguided

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depends on what the evidence proves at trial. But here's

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what bothers me. Plamberger was the experienced climber. Gertner trusted him.

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He planned the route, he chose the timing, he allowed

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inadequate equipment, he kept going past the turnaround point, and

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when she collapsed, he left her unprotected in the deadliest

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conditions imaginable. You can love someone and still fail them catastrophically.

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You can grieve genuinely and still be criminally negligent. Those

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things aren't mutually exclusive. After Gertner's death, Plamburger posted on Instagram,

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I miss you so much. It hurts so incredibly much

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forever in my heart Without you, time is meaningless. He

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co signed the obituary her parents wrote, then deleted his

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social media. Haunting webcam images tell the story better than

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any testimony. Two lights going up in the evening, one

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light coming down in the darkness. The other light never

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moved again. Kirsten Gertner was thirty three years old from Salzburg.

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Loved the mountains, called herself a winter child, described by

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friends as beloved, kind, joyful. Her funeral notice read, our

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lives are in God's hands. If it is his will,

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then do not grieve for me, but remember me with love.

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She should be planning her next climb, should be posting

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summit photos. Should be alive. Rest in peace, Kirsten. Someone

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has to say your name, We'll be right back. With

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the sentencing of Tyler Peterson, who helped starve his twelve

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year old brother Gavin to death while child protective services

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look the other way. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm

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Red Carter. Ninth, twenty twenty four, West Haven, Utah, small

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city north of Salt Lake. Twelve year old Gavin Peterson

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found unresponsive inside his family's home, rushed to the hospital,

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dead on arrival. Cause of death malnutrition. His organs had

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shut down completely. A twelve year old boy in America

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in twenty twenty four starved to death, not by accident,

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not by poverty, by deliberate, calculated, sustained abuse, three people

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were responsible, his father, Shane Peterson, his stepmother Nicole Lee Scott,

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and his older brother Tyler Peterson. The investigation revealed a

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house of horrors. Gavin was beaten, starved, given only small

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servings of water and a piece of bread. His family

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discussed the abuse on their phones, texting each other about

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beating the twelve year old and not feeding him. They

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documented their own cruelty in writing. And it wasn't just Gavin.

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His siblings were subjected to abuse use too. This was

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a household built on torture, and the adults and Tyler

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treated inflicting pain like a family activity. Shane Peterson and

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Nicole Scott pleaded guilty to first degree child abuse homicide

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in March twenty twenty five. Shane was sentenced in May

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to five years to life. Nicole got fifteen years to life,

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the harshest sentence of the three. She was the stepmother,

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the outsider who came in and escalated everything. Tyler Peterson

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also pleaded guilty child abuse homicide, two counts of aggravated

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child abuse obstruction of justice. Yesterday, he stood before Judge

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Camille Nyder in Salt Lake City for sentencing. The courtroom

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was divided, not in the way you'd expect. Both sides

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acknowledged the horror, but they disagreed about Tyler's culpability. Tyler's

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defense attorney Ryan Bushell, painted a picture of a troubled

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young man who grew up in the same abusive household.

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He told me the horrific nature of what occurred in

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that house. Bushell told the court said Tyler was a

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troubled child who didn't commit crimes outside the home, that

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the abuse wasn't limited to Gavin. Tyler and the other

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siblings suffered too. Tyler's mother, Melanie Peterson, submitted a letter

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through her attorney. She explained how the family separated after

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the divorce, how the problems escalated after Shane married Nichole Scott,

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how one of the children spoke out about the abuse

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and what followed was even worse abuse. I know Tyler

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would never do this on his own. He was brainwashed

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from a young age. The mother's letter read, I was

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their mother and I failed to protect all my kids.

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I respectfully ask you to allow Tyler to continue his

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treatment at home. Tyler was seen wiping tears after his

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mother's letter was read, but the prosecution told a different story.

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Attorney Kevin mcgahaw listed Tyler's accomplishments during high school. He

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earned an associate's degree. He was intellectually capable, He could

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think for himself. We are here today because Tyler Peterson

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participated in that torture, mcgaha told the court. Then he

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laid out the evidence text messages, Tyler texting Nichol Scott

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about what he'd done to Gavin, beating him, making him

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hold his bladder, tricking him into thinking he was going

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to school when he wasn't. And here's the detail that

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destroyed any sympathy. The family went on a trip to Disneyland,

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left Tyler and Gavin behind. While Shane, Nicole and the

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other kids were at the happiest place on Earth. Tyler

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was alone with his twelve year old brother, and during

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that time he reported incidents of mental and physical torture.

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Mgaha put it plainly, did he have the capacity to

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show mercy? He certainly had the opportunity. Tyler had two cars,

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a good job, and money. He wasn't a prisoner, he

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wasn't locked in that house. He chose to stay, he

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chose to participate. He chose to text his stepmother updates

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about the abuse he was inflicting. When given the chance

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to address the court, Tyler declined, said nothing. Judge Knider

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took her time, acknowledged the difficulty This case is hard,

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not because it is difficult to hear the facts. She said,

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I can say wholeheartedly that both sides are right given

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their recommendations. Then she delivered the sentence five years to

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life for the child abuse homicide charge, one to fifteen

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years on each count of aggravated child abuse, one to

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fifteen years for obstruction of justice, all sentences running concurrently,

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two hundred forty six days credit for time served. The

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Department of Corrections will determine the actual length and whether

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Tyler gets parole. The judge made one thing clear. I

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have no evidence that you didn't know right from wrong.

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Based on the circumstances, it's very clear you weren't the

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alpha in this relationship. Not the alpha, but still a participant,

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still a tort still responsible for a twelve year old

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boy's death. Community advocate Susan Phillips was in the courtroom,

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said this sentencing felt different from Shane's and Nichole's. Shane

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and Nicole, I was angry. That's a lot easier. She said,

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there is no justice in a case like this. You

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cannot bring that baby back, and I don't know that

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there will ever be justice. Here's what makes this case unforgivable.

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Beyond the family, the Utah Division of Child and Family

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Services received multiple reports of Gavin being abused, documented abuse

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going back to February twenty twenty four years of reports,

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four years of red flags. DCFS investigated and did nothing.

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An internal review later found that high turnover and overwhelming

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caseloads contributed to the failure. High turnover, overwhelming caseloads bureaucratic

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excuses for a dead child. Gavin Peterson was twelve years old,

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starved until his organs fail, beaten by his father, his stepmother,

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and his own brother. Reported to Child Protective Services multiple times.

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Nobody saved him. His father got five years to life,

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his stepmother got fifteen years to life, his brother got

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five years to life. The system that was supposed to

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protect him got nothing, No accountability, no consequences, just an

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internal review and a promise to do better. Your tax

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dollars at work. Gavin Peterson was twelve, should be in

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high school right now, should be worrying about homework and

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friends and what he wants to be when he grows up. Instead,

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he was starved to death in a house where the

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people who were supposed to love him texted each other

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about how to hurt him. Rest in peace, Gavin. Someone

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has to say your name. Welcome back to celebrity Trials.

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I'm Reed Carter Tuesday Morning, Fat two Day, Marty Gras,

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New Orleans, twelve forty five a m. Police receive a

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call about two adult males being assaulted near the fourteen

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hundred block of Royal Street, on the edge of the

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French Quarter. The suspect is Chia Leboeuf, thirty nine years old, actor,

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former child star, walking catastrophe. According to the New Orleans

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Police Department, Laboufe had been inside R Bar, a local

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favorite co owned by Greg Dully, frontmen of indie band

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The Afghan Whigs, causing a disturbance and becoming increasingly aggressive.

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Staff kicked him out. Once outside, Lebuf allegedly punched a

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man multiple times with closed fists, then left the area,

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then came back acting even more aggressive. Multiple people tried

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to restrain him and let him up, hoping he'd leave. Instead,

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he allegedly struck the same victim again and punched a

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second man in the nose. Bystanders held him down until

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police arrived. TMZ obtained video laboeuf shirtless back tattoo on display,

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facing off against a crowd outside the bar. Another clip

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shows him on the ground getting hit repeatedly in the

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face while people yell at him to chill and cut

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that out. Paramedics treated Lebeuf for unknown injuries. He was

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taken to a hospital, then upon release, arrested and booked

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on two counts of simple battery. Tuesday, at noon, Leboeuf

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appeared via virtual hearing before Judge Simone Levine at Orleans

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Parish Criminal Court. Released on his own recognisance, the judge

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made a point of reminding him he must attend future

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court dates. Next appearance March nineteenth, and here's the kicker.

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Hours after being released from jail, Leabeuf was spotted back

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on Bourbon Street partying with Marty Gras revelers like nothing happened.

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But this wasn't a one night incident. According to the

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Hollywood reporter, lebuff had been on an extended bar crawl

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through New Orleans since the previous Thursday, five days of

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drinking multiple bars across the city. Witnesses described him as

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inebriated and belligerent. Throughout the weekend. He was spotted at

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the Bacchus Super Crew Parade on Sunday, posing with fans,

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catching beads, having a great time. Then Sunday night, he

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showed up at Miss May's and Open twenty four hours

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dive bar without a shirt or cash. The doorman described

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him as inebriated and somewhat belligerent. One bartender who served

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him told the Hollywood Reporter five words, he is terrorizing

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the city. Lebouf is Louisiana Cajun on his father's side,

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has family in the area. Love's Marty Gras was spotted

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at the Slydelle Saint Patrick's Day parade last year posing

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with police officers. Clearly feels at home in Louisiana, but

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feeling at home doesn't mean you get to assault people.

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This arrest is the latest in a career defined as

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much by legal trouble as by acting talent. Let me

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run the list. Twenty fourteen arrested for disorderly conduct, criminal trespass,

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and harassment after disrupting a Broadway performance of Cabaret. Pleaded guilty.

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Twenty seventeen. Arrested in Savannah, Georgia for public intoxication, disorderly conduct,

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and obstruction while filming the Peanut Butter Falcon. Bodycam footage

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captured Leboeuf making racist comments to officers during the arrest.

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Sentenced to probation, court ordered rehabilitation. Twenty twenty, charged with

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misdemeanor battery and petty theft in Los Angeles. Pleaded not guilty.

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Also twenty twenty, his ex girlfriend, British singer and actress

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Fka Twiggs, filed a lawsuit alleging relentless physical and emotional

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abuse during their relationship. She said Lebuff put her in

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a constant state of fear and humiliation, choked her, slammed

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her into a car, and knowingly gave her a sexually

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transmitted disease. Le Bouf responded by saying he he had

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no excuses for his alcoholism or aggression, said he'd been

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abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. The

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lawsuit was settled in July twenty twenty five. After the

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Fka Twigs allegations, Lebouf publicly embraced sobriety, found religion converted

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to Catholicism, said he'd changed, said he was getting help.

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Twenty twenty five, Lebuff appeared in a documentary called Slawson

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Wreck that screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The film

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followed him running an experimental theater company. Variety's chief film

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critic described watching Leboeuf parade himself as a kind of

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acting guru and mentor, only to descend into an increasingly

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furious and abusive and unhinged place. The film showed him

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berating actors and crew members and instigating a fistfight. So

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the sobriety, the Catholicism, the personal growth, all of it

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leading to a week long bender in New Orleans, ending

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with two battery charges on Fat Tuesday. Labouf first became

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famous as a kid on Disney Channel's Even Stevens, went

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on to star and Transformers, Indiana Jones and The Crystal

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Skull Holes Dysturbia. Had a legitimate career, real talent, real opportunities,

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and he has systematically destroyed every bit of it. Arrest

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after arrest, lawsuit after lawsuit, apology after apology, rehab after rehab.

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The cycle never breaks. He says he's changed, then he

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proves he hasn't. Labouf shares a daughter born in twenty

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twenty two with actress Mia Goth. That little girl is

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three years old. Her father just got arrested for punching

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strangers during a week long binge. Representatives for Lebeuf have

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not responded to requests for comment. Two counts of simple

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battery minor charges. He'll probably plead to something, pay a fine,

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maybe get probation again, and in six months or a year,

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we'll be back here covering the next arrest, the next incident,

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the next apology. That means nothing. Some people just can't

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be helped. Some people have every resource available, money, therapy, rehab, religion, family,

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and still choose chaos, still choose violence, still choose destruction.

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Labouf is thirty nine years old, former child star, multiple arrests,

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abuse allegations, settled lawsuits, proclaimed sobriety, and a Mardi Gras

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mugshot to add to the collection. Make it make sense.

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That's celebrity trials for Thursday, February nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Thomas Plamberger's trial opened in Innsbruck for leaving girlfriend Kirsten

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Gertner to freeze to death on the gross Glockner. Prosecutors

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allege nine critical errors. Her own mother defends him. Maximum

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penalty three years. Tyler Peterson sentenced to five years to

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life for the starvation death of twelve year old brother Gavin.

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Father and stepmother already serving time. DCFS received abuse reports

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for four years and did nothing. And Shaya Laboufe arrested

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on two battery charges after a week long Marty Grass

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bar crawl in New Orleans. Released on his own recognizance

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back on Bourbon Street hours later. I'm reed, Carter, see

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you tomorrow. This is celebrity trials.