that neurologist from the childrens hospital is my IDOL. she didn't back down for one second, smiled in his face at his dumb questions, made him repeat himself over and over and showed how nasty he was being without understanding a single thing, she is an unshakable woman and i am so inspired by it
Defense Attorney's are just as scummy as their clients - I wanted to jump through the screen and strangle him! Who with any contious can defend a criminal, especially one who harms (or kills) a child! Innocent until proven guily my butt especially when it's plainly obvious! I love the fact that she made him dumb it down to his level.
This made my blood boil, how he was speaking to her. Kudos to her for keeping it professional, I wouldn’t have been able to keep calm. Such a vile person.
I was listening with one wireless earbud in while grocery shopping, and my hair was down, so no one could tell that I had an earbud in. I always keep one ear open so that I can hear people around me, but just having one in my ear is definitely good enough to hear Stephanie without missing anything. The way the attorney was speaking to this incredible surgeon had me so pissed off. In the freezer section I opened the door at a pivotal moment in her testimony to grab frozen fruit & I said “OH MY GOD, YOU CONDESCENDING JIZZ PUPPET!” It wasn’t loud, but it was definitely out-loud. A woman beside me looked at me like I was a lunatic, so I apologized & ran away. I really have to remember that other people exist, because it’s not cute when a random stranger thinks you called them a “jizz puppet” for no reason.
I LIVE FOR HER. She gave it RIGHT back, she was very obviously highly superior to him intellectually sorry I loved it and I live for her sturdiness and refusal to just back down and let the guy on stand (sorry I don’t know court lingo very well heh) was totally inspiring yes!!
Lord, that defense attorney talking to the doctor was infuriating. Talking over her, cutting her off, talking down to her... good on her for not caving to his bully tactics.
I’m sure he was doing his job on behalf of his client, but my goodness what an asshole he was! Hell he probably didn’t understand what the doctor was explaining! He was just a bit much!
@@317Dlove I'm not American so maybe the laws are different but he actually did an extremely poor job. As expert witnesses we have the right to say we can't answer a question if it doesn't relate to our area of expertise. I'm a forensic pathologist so if a lawyer tries to push me into answering questions about fingerprints or trace evidence for instance, I cannot answer the question or I lose credibility. He was very unprofessional.
at least he came off like a fool!! i think doc knew that he barely could string that sentence together and that's why she kept having him repeat himself
“I probably shook her” that’s the admission right there. She knows what she did. She’s just trying to cover her butt. What an evil vile woman. I’m gonna go hug my babies.
I love how the doctor called out that attorney's bullshit. "Answer my questions." Dude isn't asking questions. I used to do the same thing on the stand when I was a caseworker. They can never repeat the questions because they can't remember the way they tried to trip you up. She did so well.
@@mandalark Defense attorneys used to pull that shit with me all the time. Nope. I'm going to ask you to repeat the question and to clarify every damn time. Lol. I loved watching them get frustrated.
To me, whenever I hear a 911 caller basically speak their "innocence/alibi", rather than being completely focused on the resuscitation/care of injured person.... They're suspicious!
Wow I just have to comment that the way the defense lawyer is speaking to the neurologist on the stand makes my blood boil to no end. Her patience was inspiring!
The doctor at about 26 mins in has the patience of a Saint, she was so great while that attorney was doing his best (and failing miserably) to outsmart her. She's brilliant.
He was trying to confuse her to undermine her expertise. How she maintained her composure is admirable! I wanted to reach through my phone and shake him personally
@@dvanopynen88 He is not trying to confuse her, the doctor is not going to be confused in her area of expertise. He is trying to plant doubt in the mind of the jury. There may be degrees and nuances in what the doctor has to say, but lawyers will always say "it's a yes or no question."
@@EclecticDD Well it might not have been to confuse her per se. But he was asking for an absolute which she could not give him, and he knew she couldn't give him that. It was trying to cause reasonable doubt via asking her a question that she can't give a straight Yes/No answer to. It was frustrating to watch either way.
“Lindsey was an adult woman, beating the shit out of a little girl” that’s all you had to say. God every time I watched this women be interrogated and change her story it makes my blood boil.
I just don’t know how someone could do this to person let alone a poor small child. This shit disgusts me to my core I can’t believe such evil people exist. Why why why did she choose to work with children if she hates them so much? It’s so easy to go work at McDonalds but no she chose to work around something she absolutely despised and murdered her.
I cannot believe how hard Hannah’s father fought and how he felt he could be doing everything right and this happened. It’s so sad how unfair he was working so hard to make everything work that he looked past the bruises and believed this awful woman.
@@gwillikers2028 The experienced cynic in me can't help but think that if this had been a single mom instead of single dad situation, the social safety net for them would have been much, much larger.
@@ironwolf56 That's a sad possibility. I have a few guy friends who are single dads and my husband was single with two kids when I met him, a few decades ago, and I could get more help for things sometimes than what they have. 🙁
I know seriously. He seems like a great father. He did everything he could to make sure his child was taken care of while he went to work, and then this happens.. its heartbreaking. As far as this babysitter, she's acting so strange for someone that's witnessed a child basically die in her home.. I would be so traumatized and feeling horribly guilty if this happened on my watch on accident.. she just doesn't seem sad about this at all. Very nonchalant. And wth is up with all her charades?? AND THE KETCHUP STORY??? you smack a three year old upside the head I'm beating your ass!! And the shaking!? Now I know for a fact this bitch is guilty. She's exactly where she belongs.
I get that but still something bothers me about the thought of him ignoring bruises on his daughter. I get he didn’t have really any options in his situation though.
A child cannot give themselves a shaking injury. For these injuries to occur, the baby’s head must snap back and forth to a degree that it begins to separate the brain stem from the spinal cord. That’s how hard you have to shake them. You can’t cause this by tossing in the air and catching, the child falling, or swinging with your child. This is heartbreaking. Never, ever shake a child.
Yes. TKes LOT force. And uncontrolled adult. And previous bruises all in various states …… abuse. Sadly seen too many times and anyone medical works with kids knows. Have 6th sense about these cases. Adults non verbal give off SO much also - gut reaction doesn’t hold up in court but we KNOW
As soon as I heard the clip of Hannah's breathing I knew it was a traumatic brain injury. This hit me hard. And my heart is broken for Hannah's family. I had horrible flashbacks of my son when he was 5 years old. Although my son's injury was caused by a fall and a log swing crushing his head into the sidewalk. The back of his head was fractured all over and he had a severe TBI. He was unresponsive for 15 days. He had severe brain swelling and also needed to have a craniotomy (part of his skull removed) and also had a Glasgow score of 6. Those days in the ICU were incredibly difficult. Thank God, my son and my family were blessed with a miracle and he not only woke up, but re-learned how to talk, walk, run and everything. He is 13 now and you would never know what he went through, except for the large scar across his head from his 3 head surgeries.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing you story. That's heart breaking but I'm glad he is ok! My sister sustained a TBI when she was 17 (fall while intoxicated in the woods). My family and I went through it too! She was unresponsive in the ICU for a month. It's so hard. She is 29 now, alive but will always be cognitively impaired.
Oh my gosh, I am so sorry that happened, how scary! I didn't realize I was holding my breath with tears building until I saw the last part about your miracle and was able to breathe again....so happy he ended up being ok!!!! What a relief that must have been!!
Omg! That must have been horrible to go through! When my youngest son was 18 months old, he went down the basement stairs and ended up falling over the side of the stairs near the top of the staircase. He fell probably 8 ft. I found him laying face down on the concrete below. I rushed down the stairs and picked him up. When I turned him over, his nose and mouth were bleeding and his eyes were rolling back in his head. It was absolutely terrifying! He ended up having a small fracture on the back of his skull near the bottom and a concussion. I'm still not sure how he fractured the back of his skull since he was face down when I found him on the ground. Miraculously, he wasn't too badly injured. He came home from the hospital the very next day and was acting like his usual self. He'll be 5 in June. He's the youngest of our 5 kids. Having 5 kids, I've been through a lot with all of them. But, that incident was the worst of them all! I can't even imagine trying to go through my child suffering a TBI. I don't even want to think about it!
This is just heartbreaking. That poor father was trying so hard to make a good life for his daughter and for himself, despite all the hardships they had already faced. I hope to God this man has been able to find some peace. RIP Hannah. No one can hurt you now baby. ❤️
Surely the dad would have noticed the bruising all over her body. He also gave her permission to discipline Hannah. I believe he turned a blind eye due to the babysitting being so cheap and the fact that poor Hannah was asking for so many kisses and in distress when he was leaving. How can anyone miss so many red flags?!
@@jodifox9041 at the beginning it was stated that he asked the sitter about the bruising...I'm not excusing him because as a mother I would've dugged deeper...so I do understand your point!
@@jodifox9041 I agree that there were red flags but those tend to be so much more prevalent when you know what happened. Also with their situation I think he did try his best. He asked her about the bruises which in itself must have been not the easiest seeing the direct affiliation to his boss. Also had he outright accused her of abusing his child he would have most likely been out of work. And yes knowing what happened I think everyone would put their child’s safety over employment. But we have to understand that there was the fear of accusing her over nothing and losing both a babysitter and a job at once.
@@jodifox9041 I don't believe he gave her permission to carry out the sort of discipline she thought was acceptable. Also she was very quick to give him her made up stories for Hannah's bruises. I don't believe he deliberately turned a blind eye.
@@jodifox9041 A lot of children at that age and older can be distressed when a parent leaves them. It doesn't necessarily mean something bad is happening.
It is so sad that Hannah couldn't verbalize what was happening to her. Now I understand why people are hesitant about having others watch their children for them.
Some kids can’t speak at age 3-4 but My kid was very verbal and completely able to clearly communicate in complete sentences and hadn’t learned to lie yet. She was safe to tell me the truth-so she always did…and I picked her up from the daycare one day and the first thing she said to me was “Miss Gloria hit me!” I was so mad. I asked her what happened. And it was normal kid play and all were ignoring Miss Gloria so she grabbed my daughter and hit her 3 times on the leg. I spoke the next morning (phones were off at night) to the owner and demanded she fire her. Instead she said she would erase my small balance and we could just “start over.” I said no thanks and took my daughter and left. I called work and said I would be late-called a friend to watch her and I scrambled to find another daycare. the owner called me again a week later and said that Miss Gloria had quit because she hit another kid and she didn’t think she would be able to NOT hit the kids. Miss Gloria was gone so please come back- I again said “No thanks Denise, you should have stood up for the children the first time.”. She said she couldn’t fire her because of “numbers”…
Yup. My mom and father in law were the only people I allowed to babysit my kids until my son was 4 (our other son is still only 5 months). With our first I had to work to. I just got an evening job. While my husband was home, I was working and visa versa. Just so we could watch over him ourselves. It was a lot of work and my husband and I hardly had any time together but the peace of mind was totally worth it.
Childcare is often really expensive, and a lot of daycare centers are understaffed and overwhelmed with more children than they can handle. My husband and I decided to go the traditional route and I stayed home to take care of our daughter and the house, while he works. Our daughter was colic the first four months of her life and she screamed and cried what seemed like constantly. There's no way a stranger would be capable of keeping their composure with our infant daughter. Nobody is going to love and care for your baby/child like you. My friends who had no choice but to put their infants and toddlers in daycare told me some nightmare stories about their babies and toddlers being bitten, pinched and roughed up by other toddlers and children in the daycare. They are supposed to keep the little ones separated, especially the infants because they can't tell anyone if someone hurts them. I never trusted any daycare with my youngest. Besides, it just wasn't financially feasible for me to return to the workforce and put her in daycare, because my entire check would be paying for her care while I work. I would basically be working for free. This is a dilemma many couples and single parents face. When it comes to childcare, you get what you pay for. Cheap babysitting services does cause resentment towards the child in question, because they're barely making anything and babies, toddlers and children are frustrating and difficult at times. This poor single father trusted his neighbor with his little girl, and the unimaginable happened. Now he has to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. She shouldn't have been taking on toddlers she couldn't handle, especially for such little compensation. I'm pretty sure that the fact that she was providing all meals and snacks while not being paid much contributed to the stress of the situation and made her justify the abuse. There's literally no excuse to abuse children, especially toddlers and babies, but this happens more often than people realize. I feel bad for the parents that struggle to make childcare arrangements so they can work, having to entrust the safety and health of their children to sometimes unstable, unhinged caregivers.
This one got me girl. Hearing how this little baby asked her daddy for so many kisses before he left that day breaks my heart. She must have been so scared.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit. I know that when someone is being abused they desperately try to read cues and body language to try to assess their abusers mood. I wonder if poor Hannah had picked up on certain signals or could sense that Lindsay was in a bad mood and this is why she was more clingy than usual? I’m not sure if she was cognitively capable of this at only 3 but it makes me sad to think that she was scared and could tell that Lindsay was grumpy or cranky etc?
@@R.oxo.x this! That’s exactly how it is when you’re so little. I only have one single visual memory of literally less than a second of time of my experience with an abusive babysitter. I was sitting, gripping the staircase rail, and filled with absolute terror as some adult woman was screaming her head off. I don’t remember anything else at all. I don’t even remember (my grandmothers account of me) screaming and crying begging not to go back to that place when she went to drop me off instead of my mom dropping me off. I was filled with terror. I was so so scared. But I had and have no idea what was happening to me at the time. Hannah definitely knew without knowing and was scared everyday. It makes my blood boil.
Hi, Stephanie I have a friend that has been missing for a month her name is Monisha Leath. She has three beautiful little girls and family and friends that are absolutely devastated. Monisha would never leave her girls never by her own will, her husband is locked up but is not talking. We want to get her name and face out there, she was last seen between Polk and Floyd county Georgia. Thank you so much!
My thoughts and prayers with you, and her family. Is there a link to something that I can share around. A picture especially? I am in KY, but I can share in other places. Nationally.
Send Stephanie, Kendall Rae, and Danielle Hallen all an email. There are potentially millions of viewers. I know Danielle and Kendall always try to talk about these cases.
Who the hell feels like it’s okay to hit a child at all especially with a closed fist. That is ridiculous. If I was her father I would have lost my mind when I heard this.
I mean she lost everyone there. And she doesn’t even seem to realize what a horrific choice she has made in admitting this. So if that is what she feels is appropriate - what on earth does she do behind closed doors that she won’t admit to??? OMG, that just makes me shudder. Her girls are lucky that she is not their caregiver anymore, but this never should have happened
She shoved the little girl and she hit her head on that step...it wasn't from shaking her. And she has knocked her down multiple times...this was done out of anger including the incident on the driveway. This is why she demonstrated to the police the little girl going down with her arms out to her side.
@@boboosRoo that's not what happened. She didn't fall far or hard enough, out of that psycho's arms to sustain that type of brain injury. When she said she shook her for a minute or however long after slapping and punching her around etc for however many weeks prior is what killed that 3 year old. The medical examiner said it could only be one of two ways which he then said either a really bad impact accident or someone shaking the little girl to the point of her neck and head popping and jerking around. She had to have shaken her immediately and extensively for a minute or two after the dad left which is why the lil girl was basically knocked out. To move her brain in her skull to that point she more than slapped her in the head....
Excellent point! I am amazed at his restraint. She lived to the trial and if this was my baby... she would have to be in protective custody, name changed, the whole works AND I still might find her.
If she thought it was ok then why did she think Jason would get in trouble for doing the Samething , why would she not get introuble for abusing her if she thought Jason would ? She’s just either really dumb or a big fat liar
She did, but I am so grateful that she knew what it was to be loved. It seems like her Daddy tried so hard to give her the best he possibly could, and truly loved his daughter.
CHEFBETSY:NOT SAYING I agree with what I'm going to share, I'm repeating what I saw on a special approx a year ago. Several of the experts were ones I'd seen on a special with Candace DeLong and psychiatrists and other experts who felt there were people incarcerated for shaken baby syndrome that be.That it's hard to determine shaken baby syndrome .having just recently suffered a tramatic head injury and a stroke I think experts would know the difference between a fall and minutes worth of shaking a child. Hurting any child makes me nuts!!!!!!. There is no reasonable explanation for child abuse or abuse of a smaller person just because you can doesn't cut it and I know not one person who gives a babysitter permission to strike their children they do things that children do! I never did and I'm sure none of Stephanie's subs do either!
I wasn’t even 20 mins into this case and I already felt for the dad. He’s trying to make a better life for him and Hannah and yet this. And as a mom myself hearing about Hannah wanting more and more kisses and him not knowing the fate is what kills Me.Dr Kerry the neurologist , is absolutely amazing . To even have the idea to hurt a child is bizarre to me and I cannot fathom ever hurting a innocent child . I hope the father finds peace
Not even finished watching yet and I keep thinking about more and more kisses like she almost knew and didn’t want him to go. My daughter is currently with her dad and I can’t wait to give her all the kisses tomorrow. I pray for her dad.
@@arield1115 That kills me, too. She must have felt unwell or unsteady, and wanted her Daddy. That’s why she clung to him. 😞. My cat did that when she went into organ failure, and was dying, even though she couldn’t tell me. After a long battle with liver disease, I knew what she was trying to say. Hannah’s dad had no such warning. Kids are so innocent! Hannah didn’t even know to tell her dad she had been beaten. Little kids trust that if something happens to them, that’s what is supposed to happen. I was molested at age 4-5, and I just figured that happened to everyone. I didn’t want to hug or say hi to the perpetrator, and was scolded for that. Later, when asked by CPS if I was abused, I said no. Thankfully, my foster parent asked many pointed questions and explained that what I experienced was abuse. “Listen” to your child’s nonverbal cues, and if they shy away from someone, don’t force contact, and ask specific questions in a non-threatening way. (I completely understand Hannah’s dad not being alarmed by her clinginess. She was at that age. I was talking about my case, not hers, here).
@@sciencenotstigma9534 I am truly so sorry that you went through that when you were little. My child was abused by a man from my church, whom I trusted to give my daughter a ride. My ex knew of this man's history with his own three daughter, but didn't feel it was important to tell me. I hope you are okay. ☮️💜
For real though like I’m not even a mother myself but just hearing that fact that she kept asking for more hugs and kisses from her dad just shattered my heart. But it did make me feel at least a little better knowing he did give her those last kisses and hugs. :(
Omgsh, me too! I have seven kids and helped raise 02 others. Kids can be rambunctious, especially all our boys but when Trezelle chose that word as the very first he used to describe Classic and Cincere and his tone and the context in which he said it....immediately soured my stomach. 😢🙏💙
Want to know a sign that made me believe she was guilty?? When Hannah couldn’t breathe, she kept telling her I love you over and over. It reminded me of a domestic abuse situation when someone hurts their partner and they tell them they are sorry and they love them. When someone is upset and struggling to breathe you focus on keeping them calm and alert. Like how her father did. There was concern in his voice and his focus was in keeping her awake. When someone is hurt they don’t want to hear I love you. It just felt weird and forced. Just my opinion.
my ex would hurt me and apologize over and over but as soon as I'd tell him just how bad it hurt me or point out the injury he'd say "oh you're fine, I didn't do that" I can only imagine if that little girl had woken up and said "she hurt me" that the sitter would've reacted the same way.
I disagree to a certain extent. Parents or loved ones will often say, "It's okay, you're okay, I'm here, I love you, you're gonna be okay, I'm not going anywhere" etc. when a loved one is in distress or having a crisis. I'm not defending this woman by any means, just pointing out that this specific behavior isn't an indicator of malice or anything
it’s so frustrating to hear her say “i would never hit a child” earlier in the police interview just to then say she close fist uppercut hannah. i can’t believe this woman and feel so terrible for hannah’s father
I am so heartbroken by this. And when you said her dad slept in the car while she slept inside, that really made me so sad. They were just trying to make it against all odds. How DARE this disgusting woman take that away!!!😡😡😡
Right ! They’ve been through sooo much esp Hannah herself and she TOOK HER LIFE! For what?! Bc she’s “aggravated” bc she’s watching four children 2 of which aren’t hers?! SHES A *POS* !!!
@@katymarina i totally agree, if i were the family i wouldnt let that happen. but i also think about being the parent, as long as my baby had a warm place to sleep i wouldnt care for myself
The Mark Twain quote “ If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything” comes to mind here. I feel so bad for Hannah and her poor father. Heartbreaking.
Something happened the day before. Its stated that Hannah fell, but theres no way it was an accident. That poor girl wanted to be no where near that woman. She knew.
I don't have kids, but if my kid was fine with going to the daycare and then suddenly started to be clingy before leaving, i would started wondering what's going on.
Man, it’s almost like Hannah knew she was going to die. Giving her dad the extra kisses. How heartbreaking. Why wouldn’t Lindsey just tell her dad that she couldn’t watch her anymore??? Why!
That’s exactly what I was thinking. That sweet angel, knew she was going to die. May she fly with the angels in heaven. Rest in Peace, sweet baby girl.
Probably had been getting abused to a lesser degree for awhile from Lindsey, and knew she had to go back to the mean ass lady that was abusing her that day and wanted extra comfort and confirmation her dad was putting her in the care of a decent person. I'm obvs not victim blaming since her father could have had no idea, but just pointing out that Hannah probably thought, as a toddler, that her dad did know somehow (you know how you think your parents know everything and are doing everything right when you're a child and you trust them completely) and that everything was on the up and up and she would be safe despite her doubts about how the woman was treating her. That makes me so sad. I'd never put my daughter into daycare until she is able to answer questions such as "did (insert caretakers name here) hit/shake/hurt you or touch you somewhere bad today?" And I know that I am very fortunate to be able to even make that decision. A lot of parents aren't monetarily blessed enough to be able to do that...such as Hannah's father. $30 a day was all he could afford. I know that if you are on welfare they only charge you about $2 a day for daycare while you work in my county and state. The state will pay the daycare the rest, and if Hannah's father could only afford $30 a day, then it sounds like he was in a welfare income bracket. Its unfortunate that he was not able to access this resource...though who's to say the same thing wouldn't happen to her elsewhere in a daycare. Terrible situation. Anyone that murders a child, idc if it's 1st or 2nd degree, they should get the death penalty. Why does the death penalty even exist if not for people that murder children.
@@Janellabelle Exactly why I didn’t put my daughter into daycare until she started kindergarten! And although I wasn’t technically “lucky” by any sense of the word, since I was widowed when she was only 8 mos old, but I also lived with my mother at the time so the $850 per month my daughter received in Social Security death benefit payments was enough for me to afford to not work and then to only work part-time in the evenings. Many single parents HAVE TO work! Hell, even when there’s both parents, they BOTH need to work! Either way, it was still really tough living on such a small amount of money each month but being with my daughter during her formative years was extremely important to me!
Please, please, pleaseeee STOP apologizing for making long videos. We NEED all of the details, and the way you write the scripts and tell these stories is incredible, always does justice to the victims. The longer the better i say... Such frustrating case though, poor baby girl RIP :(
I have worked with preschool-age children for over 20 years, and this lady is full of it! There is NO WAY I would be so casual about a three-year-old child falling and getting so many bruises and scrapes. It is the caretaker's/teacher's job to provide a safe space for children to engage in all types of activities both indoors and outdoors. I have NO idea how this woman could be trusted with taking care of children. SHE IS LYING AND IT PISSES ME OFF!!!
Even just as someone who babysat when I was younger, I couldn’t get passed the train fall especially! Why would you be allowing children to do that? Obviously someone will get hurt like that! So I knew it was either her not paying attention or never happened the second she said that. Now I obviously know it’s all made up but the fact that she thought that didn’t make her look bad is scary in of itself.
Used to be a caretaker as well and yes sometimes accidents happen but the key word there is sometimes. You’ve got to pay attention. Arrange the play space so it’s as safe as possible. First thing I thought was why are they playing on a concrete floor with no padding? I may have been over cautious but had small children in my care so even the wall corners where padded. So sad.
Yeah kids get bruises and scrapes...but not that often. Also..I know that I am more careful with other people's children than my own. I wouldn't want to go pick my child up and wonder how they got bruised or hurt...but with my own I know they're ok.
I know. She's almost savagely gleeful describing how 'accident prone' this poor child apparently was. No, biotch, it's not normal or fine, what you're describing.
I worked in an in home childcare facility for years. The only accidents we ever had (besides playground scrapes) was one kiddo fell and TO THIS DAY I have no idea what he cut himself on, but he ended up needing stitches. He was off the floor before he could even drip blood onto the floor! It was a bathroom and he was on the stool washing his hands with me behind him, stumbled off the stool and next thing I know I have the toddler in my arms and he's bleeding. Weirdest fucking thing ever, but his parents were (gratefully) not upset because we literally could not see where it possibly could've happened. And then another one of my kiddos was playing on a big playground in the park, fell off in an awkward way. I saw him falling and caught him before he fell and called my boss and then his mom ASAP. His mom worked for the licensing board for home daycares in our state. She trusted us with her baby because she knew we were good teachers. All that to say, you know when kids have major accidents and it's very few and far between unless you intentionally cause them, or are just recklessly negligent. I LOVE children and could never sit and watch one hurting. This case pisses me off.
When the babysitter was still on the phone with 911, you can hear her saying, "it's okay, I love you buttercup." Absolutely sickening, when you realize that she is the one that did this to her.
same here! this lawyer either was trying to trip her up or was doing this and not caring how stupid he sounded. this doctor deserves a huge applause cause i would have done snapped. she is a legend.
She would try and respond and the guy would talk over her so she just sat there and smiled. I’m not too far into the video but man that made me annoyed
When Hannah was a bit "clingy" that morning and wanted to remain in the backseat reminds me of doing the same when not wanting to go to preschool due to bullying teachers. I used to pretend that I was asleep in the backseat hoping maybe I don't have to go in that day. That little girl was doing the same, heartbreaking.
I think that should be a red flag for parents. I remember crying and begging my mom to not leave me at the baby sitters house where I was being SA.. then when I went in the babysitters house and was crying and had to pretend my mom was being mean to me so they didn’t know how scared I was of them.
Omg! I don’t know how to @ all of you in the comment section here.. but my stomach just turned seeing how many of you have gone thru such trauma at your babysitters! How can there possibly be SO many evil, and vile people in the world? I’m so sorry! This is exactly why my own mother, and mother in law watched my kids when my ex husband and I couldn’t do opposite shifts for work! I’d left my teaching job so I could be home during the day, and waitress are nite when he could watch them! And this is why you never leave your kids if the sitter isn’t willing to be on camera all day! I’m so sorry for you all!
@@kristentrep5038 same...me and my husband do opposite shifts so no one has to watch our daughter but us...I couldn't imagine these awful things happening to my baby and I would be in prison for killing someone if they hurt her...so I'm not even considering a babysitter until she is atleast 6-8 and can understand more and tell me if somethings wrong and even then I'm not sure if I could leave her with anyone...
I used to be a nanny and now I work at a pediatric clinic and these stories hurt so deeply. My clinic has the child abuse response team that works with cyfd and it seeing these children up close is nothing short of gut wrenching. Caring for small children can be taxing but when you pour love into them they tend to love you back even harder, so the rewards of caring for kids are immense. To abuse that trust and that power over an innocent child is heinous and monstrous and incomprehensible.
There was a year when our pediatric hospital had more deaths due to child abuse than any other cause throughout the hospital. It’s scary how often it happens.
My 3 girls all get bruises all the time but people don't seem to understand when you fall you usually hit in certain places first. My oldest fell face first in our driveway on gravel and not one mark on her chest. Her nose had scrapes and her belly had a scrape and she fell hard running chasing the dog too.
@@Num1knyfan exactly, gravity is a thing and it works very predictably. And when I was a nanny if the kids fell I told the parents the same day exactly what happened and how. Kids fall all the time but those injuries are very specific to how gravity would have pulled them down!
@@ar235 I know, I’ve heard people say the cart team goes too far in depth with each kid but I’m glad they do because you’ll never regret over protecting a child from abuse. It could save their life.
“She tripped on her blanket.. I should have picked her up.” …… “I was holding her and fell.” “I’d never hit her, I don’t even discipline my own children.” …. “I uppercutted her” So many contradictory statements. This woman deserves the same treatment she gave this poor baby. Let karma handle her!
Yes, I hope karma gives her not only a kick in the ass but an uppercut underneath her chin. Then the nerve. The abusive, murderer couldn't even focus on what the prosecutor was saying. She was looking at her ñaìls. 😮. Stop it killer! Pay attention!!!
i agree she should receive the same treatment she gave Hannah. but what was that treatment? was it abuse, or was it care and love? was she in fact not the abuser after all? there is no actual evidence that she was, and a ton of evidence that she wasn't. see "You, the Jury" for more details
My child is outrageously clumsy and she's always hurting herself in gymnastics and we've never experienced injuries like this. It makes me so sad when people use that as an excuse. Children are rough but resilient if it is truly an accident.
Exactly. They fall so loosely without knowledge of what COULD happen (so aren't 'braced' for impact), it's actually more likely they'll pop up from most falls with just minor grazes.
Kids are literally BUILT for the normal wear and tear of being a rambunctious child. Unless there’s unsafe climbable furniture, they really can’t do much that puts them at this large of a risk.
Very true my nephew is always crashing n falling poor lil guy, but he has never been injured like this. My daughter was wild too she used to run around our living room /dining/ kitchen area that went In a circle. One day she ran straight into the corner of the wall ( that was n the middle of kitchen livingroom area) splitting her lil forehead. It was horrible I was freaking out so bad my uncle had to help me hold a cloth to it b4 going to the er. The doc felt worse for me than my kid 😂 he was telling me it will be ok while my daughter wasn't even crying. This lady caused this baby to die and has zero real emotion. I dnt get ppl like this !!! When I watch other ppls kids I treat them as my own, but even more gentle/compassionate.
I agree, I was a very adventurous child, climbed & jumped off everything. I've also got a connective tissue condition which means I bruise easily & often. being perposfully hit or shaken causes an entirely different set of injuries & I would never have all together. My sister was less adventurous but has dyspraxia, so she is very clumsy, it was a running joke from her school friends in gym class that they would kindly remind her to avoid taking sports balls to the face! She never had bruises or marks on the back of her knees, hardly even her bottom & never her sides as even being clumsy she naturally protects her torso with her arms; it's clearly deliberately caused injuries to this poor little child. She regularly drops things, tripps up (still does as an adult, she ripped her favourite jeans recently which she was upset about) etc, yet her worse injury has been a broken arm, which got broken again a week later when she tripped over a chair leg! Despite being so accident prone my sister has not experienced any injury this severe & as the Dr said "nothing else produces this type of hemorrhages."
I have 4 wild children (less so now that they're older but as toddlers they were all crazy) and they have jumped and fallen many many times sometimes about giving me a heart attack as I run to save them and the most they have gotten is scrapes, and minor bruises. And that's 4 different kids, 3 of them are boys who are super rough, even when they wrestle around and attack each other they have never seriously injured themselves or a sibling even when they aren't being careful. My husband's cousin's kid fell off the balcony 2 stories down and "only" broke both legs, he had no head injuries or any other injuries besides his broken legs and after having a cast on for a few weeks he was completely fine and is still a very active rambunctious little boy, so I really never buy the whole they were wild and rambunctious excuse for children getting serious injuries, they were/are being abused end of story.
For the life of me I cant fathom how a grown ass person could look at a small toddler- with all the trust and sweetness in the world, and choose to beat them. Lindsey and anyone who does this is a monster.
My son was abused by his babysitter when he was 3. She left deep fingernail wounds on his ears and bruises on his body. I noticed just days after he started going there. We pulled him out immediately and reported her to CPS. They took photos and interviewed my son. He could speak well at 3.He said she locked him in the bathroom, hit him with a broom and pinched and pulled his ears. They sent us a letter saying they had finished their investigation but couldn't tell us the outcome. We never put him or any of our other kids in any childcare after that. My husband and I worked alternating shifts for years to avoid childcare. I don't trust anyone other than family with my kids now. That was 9 years ago.
I was abused at my first 2 daycares like this. Wow, realizing my mom really didn't take care of me well. I was also abused by a neighborhood boy at age 3. Why was I so exposed?
Yeah my husband and I have NEVER left our daughter in the care of ANYONE besides our immediate family EVER… she’s almost 12 now and I will only let one of my best friends from work watch her for a couple hours here and there. Since the pandemic the kids haven’t hardly had any peer interaction. At 3???? OH NO! nobody besides family.
they couldn't tell you the outcome? what the actual fuck. that's your right to know. could you not press charges? you had the right to know if she is doing this to other kids with a legal licence to baby sit etc
I fell 12 feet and landed on the back of my head on solid gravel when I was four and still did not have anywhere near the injuries Hannah did…. This woman is hiding something so sinister and I’m so sorry that this innocent child lost her life for no apparent reason.
This makes me sick. I’ve been a frustrated babysitter before. I used to watch 3 kids + my own 2 for 10 hours a day and only earned $100/week. I was underpaid, heavily pregnant and absolutely emotionally/physically exhausted but I NEVER put a hand on those babies.. I simply admitted I couldn’t do it anymore after a year and their mom found a new babysitter.. If you’re overwhelmed or feel yourself becoming upset YOU STEP OUT! Ensure the babies are safe and step out of the room for 5 minutes to reset. That poor little girl died a needless death.
Yes, and if it is someone else's kid you can always tell the parent you need a break for a while if it is too overwhelming or if the kid is too much to handle. She just doesn't seem that upset when being questioned and that is what gets me. It seems suspicious.
I also watched my friends kids while I was pregnant and had a toddler of my own. I couldn't imagine putting my hands on someone else's child. Never. No matter how frustrated I may have been, I would never.
The worst thing about this case is if this poor baby had survived, that babysitter would barely do any time. We need to lock up abusers for LIFE, whether that child survives or doesn't. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.
Amen our justice system needs to be harsher on child abusers as well as pedophiles!! When drug dealers do longer time than people who directly harm children THERES A BIG PROBLEM!!
@@mamamickey2708 let’s talk about abusers in general. Let’s start taking it seriously and taking away their lives the way they take away their victims due to the trauma they inflict that haunts them for the rest of their lives. Lock them up and keep them up. They don’t need to be released to the public
@@gracerobertson5923 Let that be a reminder to call our Senators to ask them not to approve the current Supreme Court nominee who has been incredibly lenient in her sentencing of peed oh files.
The doctor who did the Autopsy - So well spoken and an excellent witness. You can tell from how she speaks about Hannah and her findings that she is passionate about her work. Such a sad tragic case, but excellently told as always Stephanie. Keep doing you, you are amazing 👏
I’m a mom and a babysitter. This is unthinkable and heartbreaking. A little girl I watched tripped and scraped her eyebrow on the couch. I told the parents immediately and took action. I couldn’t imagine not telling the parents even if there was an “accident”
I remember when I was in pediatric rotation 17yrs ago. They sent myself and another student (who I was & am very close with) to a day school for developmentally delayed children. We were told to bring our bathing suits-We were confused 😕. We ended up doing water therapy for 2 children that had "shaken baby syndrome" they had permanent trachs, and were in a persistent vegetative state. It was SO heart breaking 💔. We left, went to the nearest bar and got drunk AF. Our hubby's had to come pick us up. We were just so upset seeing those kids. That was the only way we could cope in that moment.
I dread my pediatric rotation (scheduled for this fall) for this reason. Any tips on how to hold your composure with a child patient who has suffered abuse? I'm afraid I'll burst into tears on the spot.
10 years ago I worked (not child care though) for a family that fostered a boy with this diagnosis (shaken as a baby). He was 9 years old at the time and acted about how my 5mo son does right now. He wasn’t able to move, and had to be fed baby purée. He loved lights and tickles and laughed a lot. I still think so much about him, especially being a mother myself now. It’s so heart breaking, how could someone use so much force on a tiny little body.
Was anyone else super on edge and terrified the dad would be the prime suspect? Because clearly he was trying to be a great parent. I was literally biting my nails waiting for the worst.
Oh my goodness this case resonates with me SO much. I’m crying. I was in almost this same situation. Single mom, looking for cheap daycare so I could go to work. Found someone who would watch my two children then 8 and 3 for $60 a day. At first, my 3 year old LOVED their house(they had a son the same age as my oldest and a daughter the same age of my youngest). Wouldn’t even noticed when I left because he was having so much fun. About 6 months later, my youngest started to act really strange when I was dropping him off in the morning. Super clingy, crying, and not wanting me to leave. He specifically didn’t like when the lights were off in the morning when I dropped him off. My oldest son was in school at this time so he was alone with the babysitter from 8am - 3:30pm. Shortly after the clinginess started, he would come home saying “Bryan hurt me” (not real name but just for reference, the dad’s name was Bryan and also the son who was 8 at that time). So I immediately called the babysitter who was like “oh him and Bryan Jr were fighting over a toy, that must be it.” So I was like okay.. kinda makes sense so I brushed it off. But my youngest kept acting weird and still coming home saying “Bryan hurt me” … so I asked my oldest if he knew what was going on, and my oldest being the super shy kid who never wants confrontation, was apprehensive about telling me but he broke down after a few minutes. The babysitter had been locking my youngest in a room with the lights off for hours while he screamed and not only that, but Bryan Jr would hurt him when my oldest told Bryan Jr he didn’t want to play. I immediately texted the babysitter and told her I was ceasing care because of what my oldest told me, she then preceded to call my children liars and threaten that if I didn’t pay her for the care that week she would show up to my work. I blocked her number and then she texted me off of 5 different text for free numbers harassing me. It was a very scary situation and I’ll never trust anyone outside of my family with my kids again. Thankfully I work from home now so I can be with my babies all the time. I’m so sad this happened to Hannah. This sweet baby didn’t deserve that.. it’s so hard to find good care as a single parent because it’s SO expensive. I couldn’t imagine how her father feels knowing he was just trying his best to provide for his daughter. My heart goes out to him.
Oh this hurts my heart!! 😭 I'm so sorry this happened 😢❤ I'm a fulltime mom and also do cheap childcare for our family members and some friend's kids, simply because they cannot afford childcare even with help from the state but I understand how careful people need to be as there are unfortunately so many disturbed people around 😔 I wish you lived near me! I send hourly updates to the parents (either a photo or text, and they can video call whenever throughout the day) I write a daily report of activities and what the kids eat, any accidents or concerns etc. I loosely follow a homeschooling curriculum for the kids who are a bit older but not yet at school and I also teach swimming in our pool if the kids haven't yet learnt. We do gardening, limited screen time, baking, outdoor play and learning as much as possible etc etc. I don't say all this to boast or because I think I'm anything amazing, but because it gives people an idea about what to look for when trusting anyone with their kids, even if they're family: How do we fill our days? How do we discipline? Do we have a routine and structure? Things like that. I wish all kids had a safe place to go to, raising them- even if only for a few days a week- is such an honor ♡
Omg... im so sorry. I hope they got in trouble. My eldest daughter had to go to daycare and she despised it, she would cling to me and cry everyday. Just thinking back to it makes my heart break all over again but thankfully i finally got her out of there and when she started kindergarten she absolutely loved it. Shes 16 now with a 4.0 gpa and i have an 8 yr old daughter as well who thankfully never had to go to daycare. Its so hard to find good ppl and good places to care for small children, especially kids who are too young to be able to tell on the ppl taking "care" of them. They're so vulnerable and these vile, pathetic POS take advantage of that fact... its vile.
I’m sorry, I can’t believe that a man who would sleep in his car outside just so his baby girl could sleep in a warm safe house, would also be the same man who would hurt her enough to kill her.
@@wzbng8122 nobody is going to take a word you say seriously after that weird ass “little swingy ponytail and training bra” - not that anyone believed you in the first place, but you’re clearly just some weirdo on the internet. Get help.
@@wzbng8122 oh yeah, the classic just because he's a man he must be the abuser and Lindsay was just the poor victim who got caught up in everything because of it.
The neurologist from the Children's hospital, Dr. Kerry, was so amazing when he was being disrespectful towards her.. I love her professionalism and how she never let him punk her
Well to be fair, she was busy raising some great kids and that is important too. If she had been a lawyer, she would either not have those kids or would have been having to leave her kids somewhere like this poor dad.
@@uwpride well sorry, but using my brain isn't something I do in my spare time. I was also complimenting her and I think she is a great mom and she chose well, even if she could have had other opportunities. Just like you are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine. Have a great day!
Her demeanor with the detectives while being questioned is so weird. If this had happened to a child I had been babysitting and they had to be rushed to the hospital and I had just witnessed her gasping for air like that to breathe, I would be absolutely traumatized. Not up talking and walking around, full of energy wanting to talk about everything. I would be freaking tf out
I'm not even at that part yet and just saw your comment... wtf? My ex used to threaten to uppercut me (hence ex)... to actually do it to a child? Or anyone for that matter? She's disgusting
Although she claimed to the detectives she didn't even hit her own kids. I guess she made poor Hannah be a scapegoat for her father paying such a small amount of money for 12 hours a day, getting up super early, missing payments and not providing meals/snacks. Although why she never complained to Hannah's dad, if any of this is true, is a mystery.
I’m heartbroken because Jason worked so hard to provide for Hannah and, although he wasn’t perfect, he seemed like a great father 😖 life is so unfair man! RIP to this sweet angel and prayers to her poor father 😔
As soon as you said she had bruises on her chest, I knew she'd been jabbed hard in the chest by an adult finger. My dad was a drug addict and physical abuser when not given his way. I remember the few times I had bruises on my chest as a small child came from when he would jab his finger into my chest when he'd be in my face "disciplining" me. I still remember how badly it would hurt. When Lindsay finally admitted that's how Hannah received those bruises on her chest, I wanted to pounce through this screen and strangle her. Bless that sweet baby... begging for more hugs and kisses from her daddy before he left. It breaks my heart.
As a 911 operator, the “breathing sound” she was making sounded like agonal respirations. If that had happened in the county I work in, she 100% would have been flown to the nearest trauma center from the scene.
I think it was to late for that I watched this case when the trial was on court tv. The medical examiner testified that Hannah would only live minutes after the blunt force trauma.
Respiratory Therapist… and totally agree. I can hear it. Respiratory is too slow for her age and she is definitely agonal. They should have had them start rescue breathing.
Nice to hear how educated you are about your job. That’s great to hear. I’m sure you save many lives! I could never handle the stress of that job so thanks for doing it
I'm an advanced EMT and agree with your statement completely. The "moans" sounded like brain injury sounds. Unfortunately, even being flown to a trauma center wouldn't have saved her life though.
That is heartbreaking hearing that she shook her because she was crying for her father. She was scared to stay there and was crying for her daddy. That woman is evil. She was clearly abusing her for so long and she killed her. Im sure killing her was an accident but she definitely killed her because she was abusing her. This story is so sad
This hits so close to home. I suffered a subdural hematoma at 15 months old. The fact that I was that young saved my life because my skull was able to expand with the swelling in my brain. I am so very blessed to be here...the only known damage was to my optic nerve. I still have sight, but do have some visual impairment. I was always told that I was running and fell and hit my head, but in my mid 20s, I started researching subdural hematomas and found out they are caused by Shaken Baby Syndrome-- not from common falls. I don't know fir sure who my abuser was. It could have been my aunt who babysat me, it could have been either of my very young and overwhelmed parents or it could have been someone I have no memory of. One article I read said approximately 1/3 of children who are shaken like this die, another 1/3 are brain damaged and another 1/3 survive. Praise the Lord that I am in the surviving 1/3.
I‘m so very sorry this happened to you! It’s probably impossible to get an answer today who abused you, but gladly you survived it and I hope you can celebrate every day (or at least most) of your life! ❤️❤️
I may be wrong, but I believe it's possible for subdural hematomas to occur from accidental injury, not just shaken baby syndrome. So, the story you were told may, thankfully, be true! So sorry you had to go through that, regardless and so glad you recovered.
Oh man that makes me scared. I had my brother hit his head when he was small (we were playing) and i always worry that he had something bad happen we never saw. Thankfully I think we got lucky and he seems okay today, except for being diagnosed with diabetes type 1 at age 22 😭 we are 35 and 23, love my brother so much he is awesome
@@BigDummyBeach shaken baby syndrome is applied to a lot of different incidents, some accidental and some intentional abuse. Babies heads are fragile and it's not hard for their clumsy bodies to fall easily especially because the head is the heaviest part of the body.
While listening to this story, specifically the 911 call, I got my two year old daughter out of her crib and held her tight. She's laying on my chest right now in our old nursing rocker and I don't want to let go of her. I cannot imagine anyone harming an innocent baby/child.
“I think we might be talking from two different worlds” “We are” 🤣 idk why but that part cracked me up. The lawyer sounded insufferable. That woman was so patient.
Only about 15 minutes in, but this is already suspicious to me. Babysitter calls 3 year old “rambunctious” (which is even weirder because of the last case Stephanie covered) and that’s why Hannah kept getting hurt...but then continued to not watch Hannah and make sure she wasn’t doing anything dangerous? How does that make sense?
That’s what I was thinking. It’s literally this lady’s JOB to watch kids. Not only hers, but others!!!! If I know a child is “rambunctious” I’m keeping a closer eye on them, not letting them “surf” on toy trains. The fuck.
That word “rambunctious” has gotten to me ever since the adopted “dad” , of the California city boys, said it . It’s just weird to say that word out of all the ones you use to describe kids 🥺
The moment she started explaining in detail what happened the day before, while a child was in a life threatening condition right next to her, all alarm bells started ringing. She was not trying to help Hannah, she was trying to help herself by telling the 911 operator that she had nothing to do with the girl's emergency situation.
Honestly I wish I had alarm bells but I didn’t until she started changing her story and confessing. I just couldn’t imagine someone getting frustrated enough to fatally injure a little girl within just a few minutes and thought there must be some kind of alternative explanation, those cops did so well getting her to confess.
I will never understand how anyone could shake a young child. Only a sick individual would intentionally hurt a young child and then love on them. Notice how the babysitter sits in her chair checking her nails. My heart goes out to the father. He will have to live with the guilt of not realizing Hannah was being abused. This is such a heartbreaking case.
I found it really suspicious how she recalled how all these bruises happened… when I find a bruise on myself I never know how it happened so I definitely wouldn’t be able to tell you how someone else got bruised… 😐
My five year old is so athletic and and adventurous she is also clumsy… she has bruises all over from climbing and falling. I could never tell you where they came from. Neither can she. I will see her and ask what happened? And she will say “I don’t remember” reciting all those things just makes her seem guilty.
As a former childcare worker, I watched my kiddos like a hawk. I knew when they were injured at home or on my watch because parents would let us know. And since I did bathroom and diaper changing, I mostly knee if my kiddos had random bruises anywhere. It is our job to know and to report if anything suspicious happens. You can't and shouldn't watch kids professionally if you aren't watching their every move. It's literally your job!
The defense lawyer grilling the medical professional was driving me CRAZY. He wouldn't let her finish speaking! How is she supposed to give a reasonable answer or complete a train of thought if he just keeps cutting her off and putting words in her mouth. LET HER SPEAK.
@@askinarslanbostan it is probably part of his strategy to limit what she says that could be used against his client but if I was on the jury it would just frustrate me and undermine the defense.
And he kept saying she would have her turn to talk, but I honestly wasn’t sure if he was going to let her. He would ask her a question and immediately cut her off
Honestly, the lawyer going over and over the whole “possibility” demarcation during the Dr’s defence (and doing it rudely) makes me think that his client is guilty more than anything that the Dr was saying. A) He’s insulting the jury, in that he doesn’t think that they can differentiate bw, the only answer and a possible answer and B) If your client isn’t guilty, you wouldn’t have to spend half of your cross, not-picking obvious stuff…. just my opinion. But I’d have been pissed at his behaviour if that was my lawyer…..sorry to clarify, I would be pissed at his lack of knowledge and his rude, cavalier behaviours….
“I slapped her upside the head” are you kidding me? I would NEVVVVVVER ever “slap my child upside the head” like WHAT?! And the way she says it like so nonchalant. This is nuts man. This lady has been abusing this child from the day she came into her house and the way she talks about it so calm and collectively is disgusting.
Jason Wesche was quick to swat his daughter without verbal discipline first. Hannah had a black eye that was green and close to healed, the last time I seen her, several Fridays before her being admitted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I believe both the father and babysitter were frustrated with Hannah, and both parties went too far in physically disciplining the baby. Terrible two's were an understatement when it came to Hannah. Lindsay was always ditsy in school. Jason was always trash. Hannah deserved better. The investigators and prosecutors definitely dropped the ball in this case
@@wzbng8122 more should have been done to rehabilitate her mother because no one, addict in recovery or not, is going to truly love her as much as her mother would. Her mother shouldn't have been deterred by CPS and encouraged to take her place in Hannah's life instead...her place that was being inadequately filled by these two.
The strength of an adult is 10 times that of a toddler. Imagine being hit by someone who has 10 times your strength. It is terrifying and unacceptable. But strangely enough, there are people who think it's acceptable for children.
I have a very shameful story about that 😔 but I got married young and started a family young and one day we were at my aunt and uncle house and my son had said something so dumb now and he was only 4 and as soon as it came out his mouth my hand went across it my uncle was so angry with me he acted as if he was gonna slap me and I coward down he said u feel that feeling that you have that is what you are doing to him 😢 😞 😔 I never hit him like that ever again
@@patriciaroberts5147 I’m so glad that you were open and willing to learn from your mistake! It takes a big person and a good parent to admit they were wrong and try to be better.
I am not pro physical discipline, however I think most supporters belive that the adult should only hit the child lightly, certainly not at full force. That is why they are not suppose to do it when they are angry, as the emotion will likely cause them to hit them too hard. So I think the amount of people who think an adult should hit a child at 10 times the strength is very small & those people are likely incredably abusive.
@@NotAnotherKuromii think tho that the people that justify hitting their children often do not understand just how much force it has on a small body of thin skin and tissue, muscle, and under developed bones. I think even the parents that genuinely think they arent "hurting" their children dont believe their kids tears are from pain - but because they "got in trouble". My mom was very abusive and i had friends and cousins that got spanked (or slapped) 1/10 of what I did and i believed them when they said it hurt. And i heard "that didnt hurt i barley touched you" ALOT from adults growing up.
@@patriciaroberts5147 I'm pleased your uncle knew better. Sadly there are children suffering where all the adults in the extended family think it is ok to hit kids.
I know these stories must be hard to cover but I can’t thank you enough for covering them. I see these precious babies faces and I can’t help but feel compelled to listen. Their stories deserve to be heard. Who they were deserves to be known.
Listening to these horrific story's are scary and sad but WE absolutely as family friends neighbors almost need to hear how much evil is hiding in plain sight
Guilty. Guilty! How dare she “upper cut” style hit her! As a mother, I know the feeling of being overwhelmed, dealing with a screaming baby… I cannot fathom hurting a baby or toddler or any child or person like this! To even see those bruises on poor Hannah, makes my blood boil.
That poor baby wasn't even there long enough that morning to have done anything to upset that monster 😭 not that there's anything that Hannah could have done to excuse what was done to her, but how could she have even possibly made that woman mad, in that short amount of time?
I had to take a break too. I feel so bad for Hannah’s dad; his heart must be broken! Mine is just knowing that sweet Hannah had to endure pain like she did. She’s an angel, flying high now, no more MONSTER hurting her! Prayers being sent to Hannah’s family.
Right! Good caretakers know that is a horrific way to respond. I've taken care of children who have been doing all sorts of things to provoke me (I.e. physical aggression, swearing, verbal abuse, etc) and I never ONCE thought about hitting them or retaliating in any way! Especially because I worked with kids who had been through a lot of neglect and trauma and plus, in general, kids can't always control what they're doing. This woman makes me sick too.
same....like I'm not good with kids at all. I don't have patience do deal with kids under the age of like 7 or 8. I don't want to have small kids, never did. I prefer having pets. But I would NEVER, EVER hurt a child. and this woman didn't have to deal with Hannah if she felt too overwhelmed. Hannah wasn't her own kid, she was babysitting her and not for a lot of money. If she felt tried and like it was too much all it took was to say to Jason "Hey, I'm sorry but I can't do it anymore, or at least not so often. With my own kids and house to take care of...it's just too much" and I'm sure he'd understand. and look for another/second sitter.
When the pictures of the bruises were shown I was shocked. That is outrageous! As a mother myself AND a former childcare provider for ages infant - school age I cannot believe a grown adult would do that to a child! A TODDLER. Absolutely disgusting.
My niece Amy Genesis was murdered by her babysitter (her aunt's boyfriend) is a similar manner. Her parents were inconsolable, however they bravely donated the organs of their 7 month old daughter. The man, referred to in news reports as her uncle was sentenced to 20 years. My prayers go out to Hannah's Daddy
I think it speaks volumes that she didn’t start crying until she was admitting guilt. Not crying while looking at pictures not crying while talking about what a silly girl she was ect ect
At 1:21:04 when they ask her if she caused harm to the child in court she literally shakes her head YES while saying “I did not”. After watching hundreds of thousands of crime documentaries and YT crime videos and podcasts we know from experts that when lying if they are shaking their head yes to a question while answering no, it’s their subconscious basically ratting themselves out. You don’t even realize your body just told on you. I’m so GLAD I got to see that because if I ever had a doubt, that action right there just convinced me that she did it.
Not only that but when asked if she thought she could shake her she shook her head no while saying yes which let's you know she knew better. Sick excuse of a women and mother.
My heart breaks for little Hannah. How someone could hurt a child is mystifying and disturbing. These cases are so difficult to listen to, but we need to know their stories.
It is so sad to hear her struggling to breath while this monster is whispering 'I love you' to her. What a horrifying ordeal this child went through. It takes a special kind of person to work with kids. Not everyone can do it. Those who don't have the patience and compassion should simply not put themselves near kids.
@@aoutsky yes, hearing sweet Hannah struggling to breathe in the background of the 911 call ripped my heart into a million pieces. I wanted to reach through the screen and hold her 😢
I agree, Hannah has a true story and we need to hear it. It's so hard and I cry every time. How can anyone punch a baby. I call her baby because, any child that can't defend themselves or doesn't have the words to tell is a baby still. Hannah was probably battered every day, while her dad worked. I pray, this woman gets the death penalty.
It’s taken me over 3 days to complete this video. It’s been so hard to watch that I’ve had to stop multiple times & take a break from it, so I can’t imagine how you feel having to go through the hours of research that you do for these cases. Thank you, Stephanie for bringing these cases to our attention. It takes special people to be able to do such extensive research & your delivery of these cases is immaculate. We appreciate you so much & we will fight, together, to bring justice to not just this poor baby girl, but to each & every victims case that you’ve shared with us. We sincerely thank you.
Amen! Exactly. I simply stand amazed at her continuous research and then being SUCH a good storyteller. She has created a fabulous niche and over half a million people agree! I can't wait for her to hit one million subscribers! She deserves it if anyone does!
As a human being this hurts my heart to hear. As a mother myself it hits very differently. The poor dad, I can’t imagine how he feels the fact that she wanted kisses and was clinging to him really weighs on me as a mom. May this precious baby Rest In Peace.
During interrogation after while the baby was in hospital dying, she seems perfectly chipper, happy, smiling, laughing, talking as if the baby simply had a scrapped knee. This is not normal. Definitely acts like the typical guilty person, babbling incessantly, giving more details than needed, and telling stories not needed
I used to watch a psychology channel here that would break down police interrogations, and one of the things that the person said who analysed these videos was that babbling the way this woman did is a huge giveaway to police that somebody is guilty or that they are trying to lie to them. Usually people who are honest are more straight to the point. Given what happened to Hannah in the care of this woman, one would assume she would have been upset... not happy.
Yeah and recreation of every incident, like how when she showed them how she called the daddy to tell him the baby had collapsed, she used the panicked tone and words like she was reenacting the call... she put that tone on real easy huh...
My favorite quote from her was this, “if you find a cut off hand on the top of your stairs. Don’t worry, its just a person in a parallel universe. Nothing to call the cops over”. Something to that effect & I just died!🤣🤣🤣
Haha, not going to lie... I always get My left and right messed up. I will be pointing to the left and say right, and vise versa. I definitely know the difference though 😅
What we're hearing in the 911 call is Hannah's agonal breathing. It means her brain is attempting one last ditch effort to get oxygen but it is too late at this point. Agonal breathing is very hard to listen to and a scary noise. She was already gone. That 911 call will haunt me. Poor little Hannah. May she rest in peace.
Terminal respiratory secretions. It happens because they are no longer able to swallow or cough, so saliva builds up in the back of the throat and upper airways. The fluid causes the rattling sound when air passes through. Brain trauma causes this.
When I heard her breathing, the first thing I said was that she had brain damage. I knew she was gone. I hope Hannah haunts her dreams every night for the rest o her life.
@@lindseyhendrix2405 No, the death rattle refers to pooling secretions in the mouth and throat that cause the noise. Agonal breathing is just struggling to breathe/gasping reflux from the brain desperate to get oxygen in.
I'm not sure about American courts but if that happened here in Europe he'd be thrown out. Him demanding she answer his question when it was unrelated to what she was there for was very unprofessional and he'd likely lose his job.
It's normal for lawyers to interrupt witnesses on cross examination. They're trying to control the narrative in their clients favour. I'm a paralegal in Canada and have heard lawyers do this many times.
The way that lawyer was talking to the doctor was absolutely infuriating. "Let me finish and then you can respond" well, you're asking her questions and not letting her talk!
After hearing the doctors' testimonies about seeing this type of injury in a car accident.... it just made me so sick to my stomach. A grown woman put her hands on that sweet baby with the force of speeding vehicles colliding? Electric chair.
It's surprising how she remembers everything she did to Hannah after she collapsed. I've had my fair share of little emergencies at home, being a mother of 4, but if you'd ask me what i did when i was trying to attend to my kids' emergency, i wouldn't have been able to tell you step by step. It will all be blurry in your mind because your focus is to just go ahead and make sure your kid is fine. Can't wait for part 2
As the oldest of 4, I know that when my brother broke his arm when he was like 8, my mom rushed to the school immediately from work to take my brother to the hospital.
Thank you for covering this case - it's so important to remember this poor little girl. How can anyone do this to a child? Thank you, Stephanie, for your amazing deep dives.
The 911 call, when Jason says , " Look up at Daddy,", is Heart Crushing!! Hannah's struggling for air is More than Heartbreaking! Poor , Defenseless, Little BABY!!💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Based on the sound and description of Hannah's breathing, her GSC score, and ocular bleeding, the shaking injury that this woman inflicted upon Hannah had to have been fairly powerful. The subdural bleed may have even started the day before with a less severe shaking episode, hence Hannah's clinging to her father that morning. Hannah would have had an excruciating headache, nausea, vision changes or blindness, eye pain, dizziness. No child deserves such a painful injury.
If she would have had an excruciating headache ,nausea,vision changes,blindness,eye pain and dizziness that would have been very obvious to ppl around her.There is no way a 3year old could have hid that and she would have said she was hurting. A baby who can’t speak or do anything wouldn’t be able to hide that. You can when a kid is sick.They also stated the subdural bleeding happened the day she did it wasn’t older, She would have shown signs of being shaken the day before,also. I agree no child deserves that.
@@keyanddracaryskillua6187 immediately after the catastrophic injury that caused the bleed that ultimately killed her, not earlier. She would have become unresponsive very quickly so the symptoms may not have been apparent before the 911 call was made.
I had a babysitter when I was really young that abused me and my sister relentlessly. It was torture being there. Our mom was a single mom working fast food to support us and couldn’t afford much better but we finally had enough and told my mom what had been happening and idk what happened after that but we never went back. My heart breaks for this poor baby girl.
My friend had an overnight female babysitter watch her and her younger brother. (Mom n dad were overnight nurses) the female sitter molested the little boy. He was quiet for a long time. Ruined his life.
@@blacknight2149 I’m so sorry that happened. Luckily nothing sexual happened but she was cruel to us for no reason and made us drink out of bottles we were like 7 and 10 and all she would feed us was dry cereal all day and lock us in rooms. It was better than when she hit us or made us clean her nasty house for her though.
My fiancé is friends with Jason. Jason is a good person, a good dad! That babysitter got tired of watching her. She was an active 3yr old that she just didn’t want to be patient with. The evidence speaks for its self. She admitted to abusing her, sadly the end result was death.
I hate people like her if $30 was not enough money don't agree to that. If Hannah was do much to handle say you can't watch her anymore. Don't abuse or kill the child.
Aww...I remember when my daughter was 3 years old. Her favorite phrase was always "I do it!" When it came to getting dressed, putting her shoes on, buckling her carseat belt... absolutely everything was, "I DO IT!" ❤
I've heard of this case, and now I'm more interested than ever to hear the next episode. I didn't feel like the babysitter did it after I first heard about this case, but your deep dive has information I've never heard. Side note: If you have a 3 year old child that is as accident prone as she says, why would you continue to have that child play in the garage with a concrete floor??
Idek. My son is nicknamed bonk. He's 16 months and a daredevil. We got rid of our couch because he thinks it's fun to jump off. Floor cushions for now. We also put foam tiles in our basement laundry room. I wouldn't let a kid play on concrete that is falling hard so often! My only answer is she wasn't really falling or if she was it wasn't as hard as Lindsey says.
@@jessikacreates right! Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't be comfortable with any baby in my care playing on gravel or concrete. Too much can go wrong. My 2 year old tripped in the kitchen a few months ago and busted his lip, I felt awful. I would really like to either wrap him in bubble wrap or pad every surface of our home. Lol
@@stacy6905 me either hence the foam tiles when he is rarely in our laundry room. My son fell face first into a play table on Christmas. We ended up in the er because he pushed his nearly erupted tooth back. It all turned out okay, but I'm paranoid now too!
@@jessikacreates my now 18 year old son was determined to destroy his two front teeth. Lol At around 3 he fell mouth first onto the corner of a coffee table at my ex-inlaws and pushed his them up into his gums. One had to come out. At around 14 he flew over the handlebars of his bike and finished them off. Now he has caps. Lol He's made it to adulthood, but mama had a few scares along the way. Lol
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that neurologist from the childrens hospital is my IDOL. she didn't back down for one second, smiled in his face at his dumb questions, made him repeat himself over and over and showed how nasty he was being without understanding a single thing, she is an unshakable woman and i am so inspired by it
Defense Attorney's are just as scummy as their clients - I wanted to jump through the screen and strangle him! Who with any contious can defend a criminal, especially one who harms (or kills) a child! Innocent until proven guily my butt especially when it's plainly obvious! I love the fact that she made him dumb it down to his level.
This made my blood boil, how he was speaking to her. Kudos to her for keeping it professional, I wouldn’t have been able to keep calm. Such a vile person.
I was listening with one wireless earbud in while grocery shopping, and my hair was down, so no one could tell that I had an earbud in. I always keep one ear open so that I can hear people around me, but just having one in my ear is definitely good enough to hear Stephanie without missing anything.
The way the attorney was speaking to this incredible surgeon had me so pissed off. In the freezer section I opened the door at a pivotal moment in her testimony to grab frozen fruit & I said “OH MY GOD, YOU CONDESCENDING JIZZ PUPPET!” It wasn’t loud, but it was definitely out-loud. A woman beside me looked at me like I was a lunatic, so I apologized & ran away. I really have to remember that other people exist, because it’s not cute when a random stranger thinks you called them a “jizz puppet” for no reason.
I LIVE FOR HER. She gave it RIGHT back, she was very obviously highly superior to him intellectually sorry I loved it and I live for her sturdiness and refusal to just back down and let the guy on stand (sorry I don’t know court lingo very well heh) was totally inspiring yes!!
"you're confusing me" lmao he freaked out when she said that
Lord, that defense attorney talking to the doctor was infuriating. Talking over her, cutting her off, talking down to her... good on her for not caving to his bully tactics.
I’m sure he was doing his job on behalf of his client, but my goodness what an asshole he was! Hell he probably didn’t understand what the doctor was explaining! He was just a bit much!
He made me livid. He kept cutting her off and was just being brash the entire time.
@@317Dlove I'm not American so maybe the laws are different but he actually did an extremely poor job. As expert witnesses we have the right to say we can't answer a question if it doesn't relate to our area of expertise. I'm a forensic pathologist so if a lawyer tries to push me into answering questions about fingerprints or trace evidence for instance, I cannot answer the question or I lose credibility. He was very unprofessional.
The mansplaining of this guy is so gross.
at least he came off like a fool!! i think doc knew that he barely could string that sentence together and that's why she kept having him repeat himself
“I probably shook her” that’s the admission right there. She knows what she did. She’s just trying to cover her butt. What an evil vile woman. I’m gonna go hug my babies.
Yeah she straight up just did that. Trying to cover her ass if they found out she had been shaken. She's a monster...
I yelled at my TV "you just admitted it dont back track now bitch!!"
@@13MorningStar666 me too!
I literally just kissed my sleeping 7 year old listening to this heartbreaking story…
Exactly. That was the bombshell.
Imagine being a lawyer and thinking you could argue with a highly regarded specialist about something within her own field.
Imagine having to defend someone that could've done something so horrible. That's why I'd never wanna be a lawyer
@@josiestyers5784 right? Like you have to try and diminish the expertise of an experienced specialist in order to defend absolute scum.
What was the year this happened?
@@daviddixon8878 sorry, what’s the relevance of this question?
@@MeckiiVg they’re likely tying to find court notes
I love how the doctor called out that attorney's bullshit. "Answer my questions." Dude isn't asking questions. I used to do the same thing on the stand when I was a caseworker. They can never repeat the questions because they can't remember the way they tried to trip you up. She did so well.
I was so aggravated for her, she handled his BS well.
@@mandalark Defense attorneys used to pull that shit with me all the time. Nope. I'm going to ask you to repeat the question and to clarify every damn time. Lol. I loved watching them get frustrated.
@@livin4jc3 same, we can't answer questions outside of our area of expertise. The amount of times I've had to say "I can't comment on that" 🙄
He was so freaking condescending, made me so mad. But yes she held together so well.
@@elinalukaziak693 They know damn well, too. Before they even ask the "question." Lol. The doctor in this video is amazing.
The doctor who did the autopsy did an amazing job of explaining Hannah's injuries and her findings. What a great witness she was.
And she had the most soothing voice
I actually like that they kept the camera on Lindsay because you can see on her face like "damn stop talking".
She should have received a Nobel peace prize for her patience.
That attorney was pissing me off so much “answer my question!” Bitch she’s trying if you would shut up damn
@@StephanieHarlowe i was thinking this too!
To me, whenever I hear a 911 caller basically speak their "innocence/alibi", rather than being completely focused on the resuscitation/care of injured person.... They're suspicious!
I agree
💯 exactly!!
She repeated the fall yesterday story so many times. Very suspicious.
EXACTLY!!!!
Very good point.
Wow I just have to comment that the way the defense lawyer is speaking to the neurologist on the stand makes my blood boil to no end. Her patience was inspiring!
The doctor at about 26 mins in has the patience of a Saint, she was so great while that attorney was doing his best (and failing miserably) to outsmart her. She's brilliant.
He was trying to confuse her to undermine her expertise. How she maintained her composure is admirable! I wanted to reach through my phone and shake him personally
@@dvanopynen88 He is not trying to confuse her, the doctor is not going to be confused in her area of expertise. He is trying to plant doubt in the mind of the jury. There may be degrees and nuances in what the doctor has to say, but lawyers will always say "it's a yes or no question."
@@EclecticDD Well it might not have been to confuse her per se. But he was asking for an absolute which she could not give him, and he knew she couldn't give him that. It was trying to cause reasonable doubt via asking her a question that she can't give a straight Yes/No answer to. It was frustrating to watch either way.
She looks amused by the ridiculousness.
@@dvanopynen88 I was yelling at my screen LET HER TALK
“Lindsey was an adult woman, beating the shit out of a little girl” that’s all you had to say. God every time I watched this women be interrogated and change her story it makes my blood boil.
🤬 agreed
Yep, almost broke a plate doing the dishes, had to step away at that part for a few minutes
I just don’t know how someone could do this to person let alone a poor small child. This shit disgusts me to my core I can’t believe such evil people exist. Why why why did she choose to work with children if she hates them so much? It’s so easy to go work at McDonalds but no she chose to work around something she absolutely despised and murdered her.
@@allfallonsfronds2863 never folded laundry so angrily in my life until today. 🤬
Truly does me to. Sickens me to my core
I cannot believe how hard Hannah’s father fought and how he felt he could be doing everything right and this happened. It’s so sad how unfair he was working so hard to make everything work that he looked past the bruises and believed this awful woman.
Absolutely, and for once why couldn’t this kind human get that well deserved break in life. My heart just breaks.
@@gwillikers2028 The experienced cynic in me can't help but think that if this had been a single mom instead of single dad situation, the social safety net for them would have been much, much larger.
@@ironwolf56 That's a sad possibility. I have a few guy friends who are single dads and my husband was single with two kids when I met him, a few decades ago, and I could get more help for things sometimes than what they have. 🙁
I know seriously. He seems like a great father. He did everything he could to make sure his child was taken care of while he went to work, and then this happens.. its heartbreaking. As far as this babysitter, she's acting so strange for someone that's witnessed a child basically die in her home.. I would be so traumatized and feeling horribly guilty if this happened on my watch on accident.. she just doesn't seem sad about this at all. Very nonchalant. And wth is up with all her charades?? AND THE KETCHUP STORY??? you smack a three year old upside the head I'm beating your ass!! And the shaking!? Now I know for a fact this bitch is guilty. She's exactly where she belongs.
I get that but still something bothers me about the thought of him ignoring bruises on his daughter. I get he didn’t have really any options in his situation though.
A child cannot give themselves a shaking injury. For these injuries to occur, the baby’s head must snap back and forth to a degree that it begins to separate the brain stem from the spinal cord. That’s how hard you have to shake them. You can’t cause this by tossing in the air and catching, the child falling, or swinging with your child. This is heartbreaking. Never, ever shake a child.
Exactly!!! Otherwise SBS would be common in younger kids and childhood but it’s not, it’s common in abuse
Yes. TKes LOT force. And uncontrolled adult. And previous bruises all in various states …… abuse. Sadly seen too many times and anyone medical works with kids knows. Have 6th sense about these cases. Adults non verbal give off SO much also - gut reaction doesn’t hold up in court but we KNOW
The deadly "falling off the couch" excuse is also common.
As soon as I heard the clip of Hannah's breathing I knew it was a traumatic brain injury. This hit me hard. And my heart is broken for Hannah's family.
I had horrible flashbacks of my son when he was 5 years old.
Although my son's injury was caused by a fall and a log swing crushing his head into the sidewalk. The back of his head was fractured all over and he had a severe TBI. He was unresponsive for 15 days. He had severe brain swelling and also needed to have a craniotomy (part of his skull removed) and also had a Glasgow score of 6. Those days in the ICU were incredibly difficult.
Thank God, my son and my family were blessed with a miracle and he not only woke up, but re-learned how to talk, walk, run and everything. He is 13 now and you would never know what he went through, except for the large scar across his head from his 3 head surgeries.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing you story. That's heart breaking but I'm glad he is ok!
My sister sustained a TBI when she was 17 (fall while intoxicated in the woods). My family and I went through it too! She was unresponsive in the ICU for a month. It's so hard. She is 29 now, alive but will always be cognitively impaired.
Thank God for that miracle, I am so happy for your son, you, and your family. That must have been the worst experience of your lives.
Oh my gosh, I am so sorry that happened, how scary! I didn't realize I was holding my breath with tears building until I saw the last part about your miracle and was able to breathe again....so happy he ended up being ok!!!! What a relief that must have been!!
Omg! That must have been horrible to go through! When my youngest son was 18 months old, he went down the basement stairs and ended up falling over the side of the stairs near the top of the staircase. He fell probably 8 ft. I found him laying face down on the concrete below. I rushed down the stairs and picked him up. When I turned him over, his nose and mouth were bleeding and his eyes were rolling back in his head. It was absolutely terrifying! He ended up having a small fracture on the back of his skull near the bottom and a concussion. I'm still not sure how he fractured the back of his skull since he was face down when I found him on the ground. Miraculously, he wasn't too badly injured. He came home from the hospital the very next day and was acting like his usual self. He'll be 5 in June. He's the youngest of our 5 kids. Having 5 kids, I've been through a lot with all of them. But, that incident was the worst of them all! I can't even imagine trying to go through my child suffering a TBI. I don't even want to think about it!
🙏 how scary, so glad he made a full recovery.
Hearing her say “I love you buttercup” and then admitting to uppercutting her makes me wanna take justice into my own hands
Absolutely !!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
ill be your alibi
Im right there with you!!!
This is just heartbreaking. That poor father was trying so hard to make a good life for his daughter and for himself, despite all the hardships they had already faced. I hope to God this man has been able to find some peace. RIP Hannah. No one can hurt you now baby. ❤️
Surely the dad would have noticed the bruising all over her body. He also gave her permission to discipline Hannah. I believe he turned a blind eye due to the babysitting being so cheap and the fact that poor Hannah was asking for so many kisses and in distress when he was leaving. How can anyone miss so many red flags?!
@@jodifox9041 at the beginning it was stated that he asked the sitter about the bruising...I'm not excusing him because as a mother I would've dugged deeper...so I do understand your point!
@@jodifox9041 I agree that there were red flags but those tend to be so much more prevalent when you know what happened. Also with their situation I think he did try his best. He asked her about the bruises which in itself must have been not the easiest seeing the direct affiliation to his boss. Also had he outright accused her of abusing his child he would have most likely been out of work. And yes knowing what happened I think everyone would put their child’s safety over employment. But we have to understand that there was the fear of accusing her over nothing and losing both a babysitter and a job at once.
@@jodifox9041 I don't believe he gave her permission to carry out the sort of discipline she thought was acceptable. Also she was very quick to give him her made up stories for Hannah's bruises. I don't believe he deliberately turned a blind eye.
@@jodifox9041 A lot of children at that age and older can be distressed when a parent leaves them. It doesn't necessarily mean something bad is happening.
It is so sad that Hannah couldn't verbalize what was happening to her. Now I understand why people are hesitant about having others watch their children for them.
Some kids can’t speak at age 3-4 but My kid was very verbal and completely able to clearly communicate in complete sentences and hadn’t learned to lie yet. She was safe to tell me the truth-so she always did…and I picked her up from the daycare one day and the first thing she said to me was “Miss Gloria hit me!” I was so mad. I asked her what happened. And it was normal kid play and all were ignoring Miss Gloria so she grabbed my daughter and hit her 3 times on the leg. I spoke the next morning (phones were off at night) to the owner and demanded she fire her. Instead she said she would erase my small balance and we could just “start over.” I said no thanks and took my daughter and left. I called work and said I would be late-called a friend to watch her and I scrambled to find another daycare. the owner called me again a week later and said that Miss Gloria had quit because she hit another kid and she didn’t think she would be able to NOT hit the kids. Miss Gloria was gone so please come back- I again said “No thanks Denise, you should have stood up for the children the first time.”. She said she couldn’t fire her because of “numbers”…
This is exactly why.
Yup. My mom and father in law were the only people I allowed to babysit my kids until my son was 4 (our other son is still only 5 months).
With our first I had to work to. I just got an evening job. While my husband was home, I was working and visa versa. Just so we could watch over him ourselves. It was a lot of work and my husband and I hardly had any time together but the peace of mind was totally worth it.
You do know that parents kill their kids right?
Childcare is often really expensive, and a lot of daycare centers are understaffed and overwhelmed with more children than they can handle. My husband and I decided to go the traditional route and I stayed home to take care of our daughter and the house, while he works. Our daughter was colic the first four months of her life and she screamed and cried what seemed like constantly. There's no way a stranger would be capable of keeping their composure with our infant daughter. Nobody is going to love and care for your baby/child like you. My friends who had no choice but to put their infants and toddlers in daycare told me some nightmare stories about their babies and toddlers being bitten, pinched and roughed up by other toddlers and children in the daycare. They are supposed to keep the little ones separated, especially the infants because they can't tell anyone if someone hurts them.
I never trusted any daycare with my youngest. Besides, it just wasn't financially feasible for me to return to the workforce and put her in daycare, because my entire check would be paying for her care while I work. I would basically be working for free. This is a dilemma many couples and single parents face. When it comes to childcare, you get what you pay for. Cheap babysitting services does cause resentment towards the child in question, because they're barely making anything and babies, toddlers and children are frustrating and difficult at times.
This poor single father trusted his neighbor with his little girl, and the unimaginable happened. Now he has to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. She shouldn't have been taking on toddlers she couldn't handle, especially for such little compensation. I'm pretty sure that the fact that she was providing all meals and snacks while not being paid much contributed to the stress of the situation and made her justify the abuse. There's literally no excuse to abuse children, especially toddlers and babies, but this happens more often than people realize. I feel bad for the parents that struggle to make childcare arrangements so they can work, having to entrust the safety and health of their children to sometimes unstable, unhinged caregivers.
This one got me girl. Hearing how this little baby asked her daddy for so many kisses before he left that day breaks my heart. She must have been so scared.
It’s like she knew without knowing being so little 😭 my heart literally aches rn
I’ve thought about this quite a bit. I know that when someone is being abused they desperately try to read cues and body language to try to assess their abusers mood. I wonder if poor Hannah had picked up on certain signals or could sense that Lindsay was in a bad mood and this is why she was more clingy than usual? I’m not sure if she was cognitively capable of this at only 3 but it makes me sad to think that she was scared and could tell that Lindsay was grumpy or cranky etc?
I cried
@@R.oxo.x this! That’s exactly how it is when you’re so little. I only have one single visual memory of literally less than a second of time of my experience with an abusive babysitter. I was sitting, gripping the staircase rail, and filled with absolute terror as some adult woman was screaming her head off. I don’t remember anything else at all. I don’t even remember (my grandmothers account of me) screaming and crying begging not to go back to that place when she went to drop me off instead of my mom dropping me off. I was filled with terror. I was so so scared. But I had and have no idea what was happening to me at the time. Hannah definitely knew without knowing and was scared everyday. It makes my blood boil.
I immediately started crying when I heard that…. Before the injuries… that alone I knew what was coming. Poor poor sweet baby Angel.
Hi, Stephanie I have a friend that has been missing for a month her name is Monisha Leath. She has three beautiful little girls and family and friends that are absolutely devastated. Monisha would never leave her girls never by her own will, her husband is locked up but is not talking. We want to get her name and face out there, she was last seen between Polk and Floyd county Georgia. Thank you so much!
You should send Stephanie an email, I think she takes requests there!
Your friend deserves to be found and have justice.
@@oren1305 I second this! Please email Steph. I am so sorry to hear about your Friend. She deserves justice and a voice.
My thoughts and prayers with you, and her family. Is there a link to something that I can share around. A picture especially? I am in KY, but I can share in other places. Nationally.
There are Facebook groups dedicated to missing people as well! Make sure to share on all of those. ❤️
Send Stephanie, Kendall Rae, and Danielle Hallen all an email. There are potentially millions of viewers. I know Danielle and Kendall always try to talk about these cases.
Who the hell feels like it’s okay to hit a child at all especially with a closed fist. That is ridiculous. If I was her father I would have lost my mind when I heard this.
I mean she lost everyone there. And she doesn’t even seem to realize what a horrific choice she has made in admitting this. So if that is what she feels is appropriate - what on earth does she do behind closed doors that she won’t admit to??? OMG, that just makes me shudder. Her girls are lucky that she is not their caregiver anymore, but this never should have happened
She shoved the little girl and she hit her head on that step...it wasn't from shaking her. And she has knocked her down multiple times...this was done out of anger including the incident on the driveway. This is why she demonstrated to the police the little girl going down with her arms out to her side.
@@boboosRoo I agree she deserves no mercy that little girl was barely 3 years old, tats a baby in my book.
@@wordsleuth992 agreed never.
@@boboosRoo that's not what happened. She didn't fall far or hard enough, out of that psycho's arms to sustain that type of brain injury. When she said she shook her for a minute or however long after slapping and punching her around etc for however many weeks prior is what killed that 3 year old. The medical examiner said it could only be one of two ways which he then said either a really bad impact accident or someone shaking the little girl to the point of her neck and head popping and jerking around. She had to have shaken her immediately and extensively for a minute or two after the dad left which is why the lil girl was basically knocked out. To move her brain in her skull to that point she more than slapped her in the head....
If Lindsey believed it was okay for her to physically discipline Hannah, why did she need to lie to Jason about the injuries? 🧐
Excellent point! I am amazed at his restraint. She lived to the trial and if this was my baby... she would have to be in protective custody, name changed, the whole works AND I still might find her.
If she thought it was ok then why did she think Jason would get in trouble for doing the Samething , why would she not get introuble for abusing her if she thought Jason would ? She’s just either really dumb or a big fat liar
Because she didn't wanted to lose her job or go to jail super quick she said she was forced to say does things
And even if you use physical discipline, in no way should it cause such severe bruising and trauma
Exactly.
This poor baby had such a hard life from the very beginning. I’m so sad for her going through so much at such a young age.
She did, but I am so grateful that she knew what it was to be loved. It seems like her Daddy tried so hard to give her the best he possibly could, and truly loved his daughter.
CHEFBETSY:NOT SAYING I agree with what I'm going to share, I'm repeating what I saw on a special approx a year ago. Several of the experts were ones I'd seen on a special with Candace DeLong and psychiatrists and other experts who felt there were people incarcerated for shaken baby syndrome that be.That it's hard to determine shaken baby syndrome .having just recently suffered a tramatic head injury and a stroke I think experts would know the difference between a fall and minutes worth of shaking a child. Hurting any child makes me nuts!!!!!!. There is no reasonable explanation for child abuse or abuse of a smaller person just because you can doesn't cut it and I know not one person who gives a babysitter permission to strike their children they do things that children do! I never did and I'm sure none of Stephanie's subs do either!
I wasn’t even 20 mins into this case and I already felt for the dad. He’s trying to make a better life for him and Hannah and yet this. And as a mom myself hearing about Hannah wanting more and more kisses and him not knowing the fate is what kills Me.Dr Kerry the neurologist , is absolutely amazing . To even have the idea to hurt a child is bizarre to me and I cannot fathom ever hurting a innocent child . I hope the father finds peace
Same, my heart was breaking for him..
Not even finished watching yet and I keep thinking about more and more kisses like she almost knew and didn’t want him to go. My daughter is currently with her dad and I can’t wait to give her all the kisses tomorrow. I pray for her dad.
@@arield1115 That kills me, too. She must have felt unwell or unsteady, and wanted her Daddy. That’s why she clung to him. 😞. My cat did that when she went into organ failure, and was dying, even though she couldn’t tell me. After a long battle with liver disease, I knew what she was trying to say. Hannah’s dad had no such warning. Kids are so innocent! Hannah didn’t even know to tell her dad she had been beaten. Little kids trust that if something happens to them, that’s what is supposed to happen. I was molested at age 4-5, and I just figured that happened to everyone. I didn’t want to hug or say hi to the perpetrator, and was scolded for that. Later, when asked by CPS if I was abused, I said no. Thankfully, my foster parent asked many pointed questions and explained that what I experienced was abuse. “Listen” to your child’s nonverbal cues, and if they shy away from someone, don’t force contact, and ask specific questions in a non-threatening way. (I completely understand Hannah’s dad not being alarmed by her clinginess. She was at that age. I was talking about my case, not hers, here).
@@sciencenotstigma9534 I am truly so sorry that you went through that when you were little. My child was abused by a man from my church, whom I trusted to give my daughter a ride. My ex knew of this man's history with his own three daughter, but didn't feel it was important to tell me. I hope you are okay. ☮️💜
For real though like I’m not even a mother myself but just hearing that fact that she kept asking for more hugs and kisses from her dad just shattered my heart. But it did make me feel at least a little better knowing he did give her those last kisses and hugs. :(
As soon as you said “rambunctious” my heart sank. Just like orson and Orin …. Thank you for your diligence to these cases, Stephanie!
Precisely my thoughts
Same
OMG YOUR SO RIGHT!!! This word will now have such an awful disgusting meaning to it….
Omgsh, me too! I have seven kids and helped raise 02 others. Kids can be rambunctious, especially all our boys but when Trezelle chose that word as the very first he used to describe Classic and Cincere and his tone and the context in which he said it....immediately soured my stomach. 😢🙏💙
@@AlphaMom55 I appreciate how you used the boys’ original names. Head nod to you!
Want to know a sign that made me believe she was guilty?? When Hannah couldn’t breathe, she kept telling her I love you over and over. It reminded me of a domestic abuse situation when someone hurts their partner and they tell them they are sorry and they love them. When someone is upset and struggling to breathe you focus on keeping them calm and alert. Like how her father did. There was concern in his voice and his focus was in keeping her awake. When someone is hurt they don’t want to hear I love you. It just felt weird and forced. Just my opinion.
This!!
As a dv and sa survivor I can concur and agree with everything you said. Thank you.
my ex would hurt me and apologize over and over but as soon as I'd tell him just how bad it hurt me or point out the injury he'd say "oh you're fine, I didn't do that" I can only imagine if that little girl had woken up and said "she hurt me" that the sitter would've reacted the same way.
I disagree to a certain extent. Parents or loved ones will often say, "It's okay, you're okay, I'm here, I love you, you're gonna be okay, I'm not going anywhere" etc. when a loved one is in distress or having a crisis. I'm not defending this woman by any means, just pointing out that this specific behavior isn't an indicator of malice or anything
im sorry but its naive of you to think this woman loved this girl at least a little bit...
it’s so frustrating to hear her say “i would never hit a child” earlier in the police interview just to then say she close fist uppercut hannah. i can’t believe this woman and feel so terrible for hannah’s father
Where did she say that i mustve missed it. My phone sucks
@@lansogle8080 somewhere around like an hour 10-15 or so.
1 hour 20 mins she says everything.
How an adult can get to some place where they feel a need to punch a child is beyond me 😢
@@capric0rpse ok thanks
I am so heartbroken by this. And when you said her dad slept in the car while she slept inside, that really made me so sad. They were just trying to make it against all odds. How DARE this disgusting woman take that away!!!😡😡😡
Didn't she say that the baby was at his brother's inside the house but the father in the car? That's so odd.
@@katymarina i dont think thats odd, i think he may not have wanted to feel that hes a nuisance so he slept in his car
Right ! They’ve been through sooo much esp Hannah herself and she TOOK HER LIFE! For what?! Bc she’s “aggravated” bc she’s watching four children 2 of which aren’t hers?! SHES A *POS* !!!
@@anjelinaah I understand but if it was my family I wouldn't allowed it.
@@katymarina i totally agree, if i were the family i wouldnt let that happen. but i also think about being the parent, as long as my baby had a warm place to sleep i wouldnt care for myself
The Mark Twain quote “ If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything” comes to mind here. I feel so bad for Hannah and her poor father. Heartbreaking.
I legit always thought that was a judge judy quote 😂😂😂
@@cait2538 😂 That’s the best!
So powerful
I swear that sweet, perceptive girl knew what was coming. She was clingy and wanted her father because she knew she wasn’t going to see him again 😢
She was terrified of that woman but couldn’t articulate it. So sad.
Something happened the day before. Its stated that Hannah fell, but theres no way it was an accident. That poor girl wanted to be no where near that woman. She knew.
Kids are more smart than adults give them credit for! 😢
I don't have kids, but if my kid was fine with going to the daycare and then suddenly started to be clingy before leaving, i would started wondering what's going on.
Probably she was being abused prior her death, 💔 💔
Man, it’s almost like Hannah knew she was going to die. Giving her dad the extra kisses. How heartbreaking. Why wouldn’t Lindsey just tell her dad that she couldn’t watch her anymore??? Why!
The extra kisses got me bad 😭😭😭poor baby
That’s exactly what I was thinking. That sweet angel, knew she was going to die. May she fly with the angels in heaven. Rest in Peace, sweet baby girl.
Probably had been getting abused to a lesser degree for awhile from Lindsey, and knew she had to go back to the mean ass lady that was abusing her that day and wanted extra comfort and confirmation her dad was putting her in the care of a decent person. I'm obvs not victim blaming since her father could have had no idea, but just pointing out that Hannah probably thought, as a toddler, that her dad did know somehow (you know how you think your parents know everything and are doing everything right when you're a child and you trust them completely) and that everything was on the up and up and she would be safe despite her doubts about how the woman was treating her. That makes me so sad. I'd never put my daughter into daycare until she is able to answer questions such as "did (insert caretakers name here) hit/shake/hurt you or touch you somewhere bad today?" And I know that I am very fortunate to be able to even make that decision. A lot of parents aren't monetarily blessed enough to be able to do that...such as Hannah's father. $30 a day was all he could afford. I know that if you are on welfare they only charge you about $2 a day for daycare while you work in my county and state. The state will pay the daycare the rest, and if Hannah's father could only afford $30 a day, then it sounds like he was in a welfare income bracket. Its unfortunate that he was not able to access this resource...though who's to say the same thing wouldn't happen to her elsewhere in a daycare. Terrible situation. Anyone that murders a child, idc if it's 1st or 2nd degree, they should get the death penalty. Why does the death penalty even exist if not for people that murder children.
@@Janellabelle this. She was likely being abused already which is why she had bruises and scratches
@@Janellabelle Exactly why I didn’t put my daughter into daycare until she started kindergarten! And although I wasn’t technically “lucky” by any sense of the word, since I was widowed when she was only 8 mos old, but I also lived with my mother at the time so the $850 per month my daughter received in Social Security death benefit payments was enough for me to afford to not work and then to only work part-time in the evenings. Many single parents HAVE TO work! Hell, even when there’s both parents, they BOTH need to work! Either way, it was still really tough living on such a small amount of money each month but being with my daughter during her formative years was extremely important to me!
Please, please, pleaseeee STOP apologizing for making long videos. We NEED all of the details, and the way you write the scripts and tell these stories is incredible, always does justice to the victims. The longer the better i say... Such frustrating case though, poor baby girl RIP :(
YES! WE NEED ALL THE INFO!
I have worked with preschool-age children for over 20 years, and this lady is full of it! There is NO WAY I would be so casual about a three-year-old child falling and getting so many bruises and scrapes. It is the caretaker's/teacher's job to provide a safe space for children to engage in all types of activities both indoors and outdoors. I have NO idea how this woman could be trusted with taking care of children. SHE IS LYING AND IT PISSES ME OFF!!!
Even just as someone who babysat when I was younger, I couldn’t get passed the train fall especially! Why would you be allowing children to do that? Obviously someone will get hurt like that! So I knew it was either her not paying attention or never happened the second she said that. Now I obviously know it’s all made up but the fact that she thought that didn’t make her look bad is scary in of itself.
Used to be a caretaker as well and yes sometimes accidents happen but the key word there is sometimes. You’ve got to pay attention. Arrange the play space so it’s as safe as possible. First thing I thought was why are they playing on a concrete floor with no padding? I may have been over cautious but had small children in my care so even the wall corners where padded. So sad.
Yeah kids get bruises and scrapes...but not that often. Also..I know that I am more careful with other people's children than my own. I wouldn't want to go pick my child up and wonder how they got bruised or hurt...but with my own I know they're ok.
I know. She's almost savagely gleeful describing how 'accident prone' this poor child apparently was. No, biotch, it's not normal or fine, what you're describing.
I worked in an in home childcare facility for years. The only accidents we ever had (besides playground scrapes) was one kiddo fell and TO THIS DAY I have no idea what he cut himself on, but he ended up needing stitches. He was off the floor before he could even drip blood onto the floor! It was a bathroom and he was on the stool washing his hands with me behind him, stumbled off the stool and next thing I know I have the toddler in my arms and he's bleeding. Weirdest fucking thing ever, but his parents were (gratefully) not upset because we literally could not see where it possibly could've happened. And then another one of my kiddos was playing on a big playground in the park, fell off in an awkward way. I saw him falling and caught him before he fell and called my boss and then his mom ASAP. His mom worked for the licensing board for home daycares in our state. She trusted us with her baby because she knew we were good teachers.
All that to say, you know when kids have major accidents and it's very few and far between unless you intentionally cause them, or are just recklessly negligent. I LOVE children and could never sit and watch one hurting. This case pisses me off.
When the babysitter was still on the phone with 911, you can hear her saying, "it's okay, I love you buttercup." Absolutely sickening, when you realize that she is the one that did this to her.
00:28:00 i love how the doctor testifying couldn't HELP but smirk because she KNEW how STUPID the defence attorney was being
I know!!! I was thinking the same thing
same here! this lawyer either was trying to trip her up or was doing this and not caring how stupid he sounded. this doctor deserves a huge applause cause i would have done snapped. she is a legend.
She would try and respond and the guy would talk over her so she just sat there and smiled. I’m not too far into the video but man that made me annoyed
I was getting so angry listening to him.
When Hannah was a bit "clingy" that morning and wanted to remain in the backseat reminds me of doing the same when not wanting to go to preschool due to bullying teachers. I used to pretend that I was asleep in the backseat hoping maybe I don't have to go in that day. That little girl was doing the same, heartbreaking.
I’m sorry you went through that ❤️
I think that should be a red flag for parents. I remember crying and begging my mom to not leave me at the baby sitters house where I was being SA.. then when I went in the babysitters house and was crying and had to pretend my mom was being mean to me so they didn’t know how scared I was of them.
@@Jarnierae Omg I did the exact same thing with my babysitters house! I would cry and cry hoping my mom would catch on, but nope!
Omg! I don’t know how to @ all of you in the comment section here.. but my stomach just turned seeing how many of you have gone thru such trauma at your babysitters! How can there possibly be SO many evil, and vile people in the world? I’m so sorry! This is exactly why my own mother, and mother in law watched my kids when my ex husband and I couldn’t do opposite shifts for work! I’d left my teaching job so I could be home during the day, and waitress are nite when he could watch them! And this is why you never leave your kids if the sitter isn’t willing to be on camera all day! I’m so sorry for you all!
@@kristentrep5038 same...me and my husband do opposite shifts so no one has to watch our daughter but us...I couldn't imagine these awful things happening to my baby and I would be in prison for killing someone if they hurt her...so I'm not even considering a babysitter until she is atleast 6-8 and can understand more and tell me if somethings wrong and even then I'm not sure if I could leave her with anyone...
I used to be a nanny and now I work at a pediatric clinic and these stories hurt so deeply. My clinic has the child abuse response team that works with cyfd and it seeing these children up close is nothing short of gut wrenching. Caring for small children can be taxing but when you pour love into them they tend to love you back even harder, so the rewards of caring for kids are immense. To abuse that trust and that power over an innocent child is heinous and monstrous and incomprehensible.
There was a year when our pediatric hospital had more deaths due to child abuse than any other cause throughout the hospital. It’s scary how often it happens.
Agreed!
My 3 girls all get bruises all the time but people don't seem to understand when you fall you usually hit in certain places first. My oldest fell face first in our driveway on gravel and not one mark on her chest. Her nose had scrapes and her belly had a scrape and she fell hard running chasing the dog too.
@@Num1knyfan exactly, gravity is a thing and it works very predictably. And when I was a nanny if the kids fell I told the parents the same day exactly what happened and how. Kids fall all the time but those injuries are very specific to how gravity would have pulled them down!
@@ar235 I know, I’ve heard people say the cart team goes too far in depth with each kid but I’m glad they do because you’ll never regret over protecting a child from abuse. It could save their life.
“She tripped on her blanket.. I should have picked her up.” …… “I was holding her and fell.”
“I’d never hit her, I don’t even discipline my own children.” …. “I uppercutted her”
So many contradictory statements. This woman deserves the same treatment she gave this poor baby. Let karma handle her!
Yes, I hope karma gives her not only a kick in the ass but an uppercut underneath her chin. Then the nerve. The abusive, murderer couldn't even focus on what the prosecutor was saying. She was looking at her ñaìls. 😮. Stop it killer! Pay attention!!!
i agree she should receive the same treatment she gave Hannah. but what was that treatment? was it abuse, or was it care and love? was she in fact not the abuser after all? there is no actual evidence that she was, and a ton of evidence that she wasn't. see "You, the Jury" for more details
My child is outrageously clumsy and she's always hurting herself in gymnastics and we've never experienced injuries like this. It makes me so sad when people use that as an excuse. Children are rough but resilient if it is truly an accident.
Exactly. They fall so loosely without knowledge of what COULD happen (so aren't 'braced' for impact), it's actually more likely they'll pop up from most falls with just minor grazes.
Kids are literally BUILT for the normal wear and tear of being a rambunctious child. Unless there’s unsafe climbable furniture, they really can’t do much that puts them at this large of a risk.
Very true my nephew is always crashing n falling poor lil guy, but he has never been injured like this. My daughter was wild too she used to run around our living room /dining/ kitchen area that went In a circle. One day she ran straight into the corner of the wall ( that was n the middle of kitchen livingroom area) splitting her lil forehead. It was horrible I was freaking out so bad my uncle had to help me hold a cloth to it b4 going to the er. The doc felt worse for me than my kid 😂 he was telling me it will be ok while my daughter wasn't even crying. This lady caused this baby to die and has zero real emotion. I dnt get ppl like this !!! When I watch other ppls kids I treat them as my own, but even more gentle/compassionate.
I agree, I was a very adventurous child, climbed & jumped off everything. I've also got a connective tissue condition which means I bruise easily & often. being perposfully hit or shaken causes an entirely different set of injuries & I would never have all together.
My sister was less adventurous but has dyspraxia, so she is very clumsy, it was a running joke from her school friends in gym class that they would kindly remind her to avoid taking sports balls to the face! She never had bruises or marks on the back of her knees, hardly even her bottom & never her sides as even being clumsy she naturally protects her torso with her arms; it's clearly deliberately caused injuries to this poor little child. She regularly drops things, tripps up (still does as an adult, she ripped her favourite jeans recently which she was upset about) etc, yet her worse injury has been a broken arm, which got broken again a week later when she tripped over a chair leg! Despite being so accident prone my sister has not experienced any injury this severe & as the Dr said "nothing else produces this type of hemorrhages."
I have 4 wild children (less so now that they're older but as toddlers they were all crazy) and they have jumped and fallen many many times sometimes about giving me a heart attack as I run to save them and the most they have gotten is scrapes, and minor bruises. And that's 4 different kids, 3 of them are boys who are super rough, even when they wrestle around and attack each other they have never seriously injured themselves or a sibling even when they aren't being careful.
My husband's cousin's kid fell off the balcony 2 stories down and "only" broke both legs, he had no head injuries or any other injuries besides his broken legs and after having a cast on for a few weeks he was completely fine and is still a very active rambunctious little boy, so I really never buy the whole they were wild and rambunctious excuse for children getting serious injuries, they were/are being abused end of story.
For the life of me I cant fathom how a grown ass person could look at a small toddler- with all the trust and sweetness in the world, and choose to beat them. Lindsey and anyone who does this is a monster.
My son was abused by his babysitter when he was 3. She left deep fingernail wounds on his ears and bruises on his body. I noticed just days after he started going there. We pulled him out immediately and reported her to CPS. They took photos and interviewed my son. He could speak well at 3.He said she locked him in the bathroom, hit him with a broom and pinched and pulled his ears. They sent us a letter saying they had finished their investigation but couldn't tell us the outcome. We never put him or any of our other kids in any childcare after that. My husband and I worked alternating shifts for years to avoid childcare. I don't trust anyone other than family with my kids now. That was 9 years ago.
Omg I'm so sorry
I was abused at my first 2 daycares like this. Wow, realizing my mom really didn't take care of me well. I was also abused by a neighborhood boy at age 3. Why was I so exposed?
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Yeah my husband and I have NEVER left our daughter in the care of ANYONE besides our immediate family EVER… she’s almost 12 now and I will only let one of my best friends from work watch her for a couple hours here and there. Since the pandemic the kids haven’t hardly had any peer interaction. At 3???? OH NO! nobody besides family.
they couldn't tell you the outcome? what the actual fuck. that's your right to know. could you not press charges? you had the right to know if she is doing this to other kids with a legal licence to baby sit etc
I fell 12 feet and landed on the back of my head on solid gravel when I was four and still did not have anywhere near the injuries Hannah did…. This woman is hiding something so sinister and I’m so sorry that this innocent child lost her life for no apparent reason.
This makes me sick. I’ve been a frustrated babysitter before. I used to watch 3 kids + my own 2 for 10 hours a day and only earned $100/week. I was underpaid, heavily pregnant and absolutely emotionally/physically exhausted but I NEVER put a hand on those babies.. I simply admitted I couldn’t do it anymore after a year and their mom found a new babysitter..
If you’re overwhelmed or feel yourself becoming upset YOU STEP OUT! Ensure the babies are safe and step out of the room for 5 minutes to reset. That poor little girl died a needless death.
Bless u. And amen!
Yes, and if it is someone else's kid you can always tell the parent you need a break for a while if it is too overwhelming or if the kid is too much to handle. She just doesn't seem that upset when being questioned and that is what gets me. It seems suspicious.
I also watched my friends kids while I was pregnant and had a toddler of my own. I couldn't imagine putting my hands on someone else's child. Never. No matter how frustrated I may have been, I would never.
$100/week???? Wow
Exactly right!
The worst thing about this case is if this poor baby had survived, that babysitter would barely do any time. We need to lock up abusers for LIFE, whether that child survives or doesn't. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.
Amen our justice system needs to be harsher on child abusers as well as pedophiles!! When drug dealers do longer time than people who directly harm children THERES A BIG PROBLEM!!
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@@mamamickey2708 let’s talk about abusers in general. Let’s start taking it seriously and taking away their lives the way they take away their victims due to the trauma they inflict that haunts them for the rest of their lives. Lock them up and keep them up. They don’t need to be released to the public
@@gracerobertson5923 Let that be a reminder to call our Senators to ask them not to approve the current Supreme Court nominee who has been incredibly lenient in her sentencing of peed oh files.
@@spiritmatter1553 as opposed to all of the supreme court that are already p3d0philes? you really could benefit from education.
The doctor who did the Autopsy - So well spoken and an excellent witness. You can tell from how she speaks about Hannah and her findings that she is passionate about her work. Such a sad tragic case, but excellently told as always Stephanie. Keep doing you, you are amazing 👏
I’m a mom and a babysitter. This is unthinkable and heartbreaking. A little girl I watched tripped and scraped her eyebrow on the couch. I told the parents immediately and took action. I couldn’t imagine not telling the parents even if there was an “accident”
I remember when I was in pediatric rotation 17yrs ago. They sent myself and another student (who I was & am very close with) to a day school for developmentally delayed children. We were told to bring our bathing suits-We were confused 😕. We ended up doing water therapy for 2 children that had "shaken baby syndrome" they had permanent trachs, and were in a persistent vegetative state. It was SO heart breaking 💔. We left, went to the nearest bar and got drunk AF. Our hubby's had to come pick us up. We were just so upset seeing those kids. That was the only way we could cope in that moment.
I dread my pediatric rotation (scheduled for this fall) for this reason. Any tips on how to hold your composure with a child patient who has suffered abuse? I'm afraid I'll burst into tears on the spot.
Omg that’s devastating. People are horrible
@@haleybabij419 i would google and listen or read cases in a multitude just to make yourself aware that this may be something that you happen to see.
That's horrific 😭
10 years ago I worked (not child care though) for a family that fostered a boy with this diagnosis (shaken as a baby). He was 9 years old at the time and acted about how my 5mo son does right now. He wasn’t able to move, and had to be fed baby purée. He loved lights and tickles and laughed a lot. I still think so much about him, especially being a mother myself now. It’s so heart breaking, how could someone use so much force on a tiny little body.
When he said “Hannah, look at daddy” that broke my entire heart.
Was anyone else super on edge and terrified the dad would be the prime suspect? Because clearly he was trying to be a great parent. I was literally biting my nails waiting for the worst.
Well done to the first responders to recognise something sinister had happened to Hannah and to call detectives right away. Poor dad, RIP Hannah.
Can’t believe people find her innocent. May Hannah Rest In Peace and I hope her dad finds peace as well thank you for covering this case Stephanie
Oh my goodness this case resonates with me SO much. I’m crying. I was in almost this same situation. Single mom, looking for cheap daycare so I could go to work. Found someone who would watch my two children then 8 and 3 for $60 a day. At first, my 3 year old LOVED their house(they had a son the same age as my oldest and a daughter the same age of my youngest). Wouldn’t even noticed when I left because he was having so much fun. About 6 months later, my youngest started to act really strange when I was dropping him off in the morning. Super clingy, crying, and not wanting me to leave. He specifically didn’t like when the lights were off in the morning when I dropped him off. My oldest son was in school at this time so he was alone with the babysitter from 8am - 3:30pm. Shortly after the clinginess started, he would come home saying “Bryan hurt me” (not real name but just for reference, the dad’s name was Bryan and also the son who was 8 at that time). So I immediately called the babysitter who was like “oh him and Bryan Jr were fighting over a toy, that must be it.” So I was like okay.. kinda makes sense so I brushed it off. But my youngest kept acting weird and still coming home saying “Bryan hurt me” … so I asked my oldest if he knew what was going on, and my oldest being the super shy kid who never wants confrontation, was apprehensive about telling me but he broke down after a few minutes. The babysitter had been locking my youngest in a room with the lights off for hours while he screamed and not only that, but Bryan Jr would hurt him when my oldest told Bryan Jr he didn’t want to play. I immediately texted the babysitter and told her I was ceasing care because of what my oldest told me, she then preceded to call my children liars and threaten that if I didn’t pay her for the care that week she would show up to my work. I blocked her number and then she texted me off of 5 different text for free numbers harassing me. It was a very scary situation and I’ll never trust anyone outside of my family with my kids again. Thankfully I work from home now so I can be with my babies all the time. I’m so sad this happened to Hannah. This sweet baby didn’t deserve that.. it’s so hard to find good care as a single parent because it’s SO expensive. I couldn’t imagine how her father feels knowing he was just trying his best to provide for his daughter. My heart goes out to him.
Please tell me you filed a report with police
Oh this hurts my heart!! 😭 I'm so sorry this happened 😢❤
I'm a fulltime mom and also do cheap childcare for our family members and some friend's kids, simply because they cannot afford childcare even with help from the state but I understand how careful people need to be as there are unfortunately so many disturbed people around 😔
I wish you lived near me! I send hourly updates to the parents (either a photo or text, and they can video call whenever throughout the day) I write a daily report of activities and what the kids eat, any accidents or concerns etc. I loosely follow a homeschooling curriculum for the kids who are a bit older but not yet at school and I also teach swimming in our pool if the kids haven't yet learnt. We do gardening, limited screen time, baking, outdoor play and learning as much as possible etc etc. I don't say all this to boast or because I think I'm anything amazing, but because it gives people an idea about what to look for when trusting anyone with their kids, even if they're family: How do we fill our days? How do we discipline? Do we have a routine and structure? Things like that. I wish all kids had a safe place to go to, raising them- even if only for a few days a week- is such an honor ♡
did you call the police ?
Omg... im so sorry. I hope they got in trouble. My eldest daughter had to go to daycare and she despised it, she would cling to me and cry everyday. Just thinking back to it makes my heart break all over again but thankfully i finally got her out of there and when she started kindergarten she absolutely loved it. Shes 16 now with a 4.0 gpa and i have an 8 yr old daughter as well who thankfully never had to go to daycare. Its so hard to find good ppl and good places to care for small children, especially kids who are too young to be able to tell on the ppl taking "care" of them. They're so vulnerable and these vile, pathetic POS take advantage of that fact... its vile.
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I’m sorry, I can’t believe that a man who would sleep in his car outside just so his baby girl could sleep in a warm safe house, would also be the same man who would hurt her enough to kill her.
Bro who r u 😭
@@wzbng8122 ew Lindsay...stop blaming everyone else.
@@wzbng8122 nobody is going to take a word you say seriously after that weird ass “little swingy ponytail and training bra” - not that anyone believed you in the first place, but you’re clearly just some weirdo on the internet. Get help.
@@wzbng8122 wtf is wrong with you..
@@wzbng8122 oh yeah, the classic just because he's a man he must be the abuser and Lindsay was just the poor victim who got caught up in everything because of it.
The neurologist from the Children's hospital, Dr. Kerry, was so amazing when he was being disrespectful towards her.. I love her professionalism and how she never let him punk her
Wish she would been even more full force. Brain and eye trauma both say - abuse
When he said something about not coming from the same world. Like yeah duh she’s a DOCTOR and he’s a slimy lawyer
It’s so weird how cheerful she sounds during the interrogation knowing that Hannah is seriously injured and in the hospital. This is just so sad
Yeah it's so weird shes just like "kids being kids haha lol" and you're just like what??
Yes. I thought the same.
That’s what I was thinking! How can she sound so cheerful looking at photos of Hanna in the hospital in critical condition!
she never even asks if Hannah is ok?
That is strange
Stephanie, it’s a crime that you never became a prosecuting attorney! You would be so great in a courtroom
Well to be fair, she was busy raising some great kids and that is important too. If she had been a lawyer, she would either not have those kids or would have been having to leave her kids somewhere like this poor dad.
She would be an incredible research attorney. We need people nwith her skills in the field for sure!
Or the husband could look after the kids? It doesn’t just have to be the mother looking after the children
@@crystalh450 it’s a simple compliment that doesn’t require a think piece
@@uwpride well sorry, but using my brain isn't something I do in my spare time. I was also complimenting her and I think she is a great mom and she chose well, even if she could have had other opportunities. Just like you are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine. Have a great day!
Her demeanor with the detectives while being questioned is so weird. If this had happened to a child I had been babysitting and they had to be rushed to the hospital and I had just witnessed her gasping for air like that to breathe, I would be absolutely traumatized. Not up talking and walking around, full of energy wanting to talk about everything. I would be freaking tf out
I'm sorry, who lies about uppercutting a child?!?!?! That honestly couldn't even cross my mind that that was something an adult would do.
A heartless angry individual, that's who!
Who shakes a child for missing their father? No wonder the defense attorney went ape shit At The Mention Of shaking!
I'm not even at that part yet and just saw your comment... wtf? My ex used to threaten to uppercut me (hence ex)... to actually do it to a child? Or anyone for that matter? She's disgusting
Although she claimed to the detectives she didn't even hit her own kids. I guess she made poor Hannah be a scapegoat for her father paying such a small amount of money for 12 hours a day, getting up super early, missing payments and not providing meals/snacks. Although why she never complained to Hannah's dad, if any of this is true, is a mystery.
I’m heartbroken because Jason worked so hard to provide for Hannah and, although he wasn’t perfect, he seemed like a great father 😖 life is so unfair man! RIP to this sweet angel and prayers to her poor father 😔
As a girl raised solely by my daddy this broke my heart 🥺 That little girl did not deserve what life gave her. Rest In Peace baby girl 💗
As soon as you said she had bruises on her chest, I knew she'd been jabbed hard in the chest by an adult finger. My dad was a drug addict and physical abuser when not given his way. I remember the few times I had bruises on my chest as a small child came from when he would jab his finger into my chest when he'd be in my face "disciplining" me. I still remember how badly it would hurt.
When Lindsay finally admitted that's how Hannah received those bruises on her chest, I wanted to pounce through this screen and strangle her.
Bless that sweet baby... begging for more hugs and kisses from her daddy before he left. It breaks my heart.
As a 911 operator, the “breathing sound” she was making sounded like agonal respirations. If that had happened in the county I work in, she 100% would have been flown to the nearest trauma center from the scene.
I think it was to late for that I watched this case when the trial was on court tv. The medical examiner testified that Hannah would only live minutes after the blunt force trauma.
@@debkb7 that’s what she’s saying. Agonal breathing means someone is near death.
Respiratory Therapist… and totally agree. I can hear it. Respiratory is too slow for her age and she is definitely agonal. They should have had them start rescue breathing.
Nice to hear how educated you are about your job. That’s great to hear. I’m sure you save many lives! I could never handle the stress of that job so thanks for doing it
I'm an advanced EMT and agree with your statement completely. The "moans" sounded like brain injury sounds. Unfortunately, even being flown to a trauma center wouldn't have saved her life though.
That is heartbreaking hearing that she shook her because she was crying for her father. She was scared to stay there and was crying for her daddy. That woman is evil. She was clearly abusing her for so long and she killed her. Im sure killing her was an accident but she definitely killed her because she was abusing her. This story is so sad
This hits so close to home. I suffered a subdural hematoma at 15 months old. The fact that I was that young saved my life because my skull was able to expand with the swelling in my brain. I am so very blessed to be here...the only known damage was to my optic nerve. I still have sight, but do have some visual impairment. I was always told that I was running and fell and hit my head, but in my mid 20s, I started researching subdural hematomas and found out they are caused by Shaken Baby Syndrome-- not from common falls. I don't know fir sure who my abuser was. It could have been my aunt who babysat me, it could have been either of my very young and overwhelmed parents or it could have been someone I have no memory of. One article I read said approximately 1/3 of children who are shaken like this die, another 1/3 are brain damaged and another 1/3 survive. Praise the Lord that I am in the surviving 1/3.
I‘m so very sorry this happened to you! It’s probably impossible to get an answer today who abused you, but gladly you survived it and I hope you can celebrate every day (or at least most) of your life! ❤️❤️
@@juliaspoonie3627 thank you!
I may be wrong, but I believe it's possible for subdural hematomas to occur from accidental injury, not just shaken baby syndrome. So, the story you were told may, thankfully, be true! So sorry you had to go through that, regardless and so glad you recovered.
Oh man that makes me scared. I had my brother hit his head when he was small (we were playing) and i always worry that he had something bad happen we never saw. Thankfully I think we got lucky and he seems okay today, except for being diagnosed with diabetes type 1 at age 22 😭 we are 35 and 23, love my brother so much he is awesome
@@BigDummyBeach shaken baby syndrome is applied to a lot of different incidents, some accidental and some intentional abuse. Babies heads are fragile and it's not hard for their clumsy bodies to fall easily especially because the head is the heaviest part of the body.
While listening to this story, specifically the 911 call, I got my two year old daughter out of her crib and held her tight. She's laying on my chest right now in our old nursing rocker and I don't want to let go of her.
I cannot imagine anyone harming an innocent baby/child.
“I think we might be talking from two different worlds”
“We are”
🤣 idk why but that part cracked me up. The lawyer sounded insufferable. That woman was so patient.
Yeah, she was like “I’m from a world of having a PhD and you’re from a world of being a dick” 🤣
@@StephanieHarlowe 💀💀💀
@@StephanieHarlowe OMG 🏆 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
He was really rude patronising and given a beautiful little girl died from serious abuse truly horrid .
@@andiejoanides9233 hes a lawyer that is his job.
Only about 15 minutes in, but this is already suspicious to me. Babysitter calls 3 year old “rambunctious” (which is even weirder because of the last case Stephanie covered) and that’s why Hannah kept getting hurt...but then continued to not watch Hannah and make sure she wasn’t doing anything dangerous? How does that make sense?
That’s what I was thinking. It’s literally this lady’s JOB to watch kids. Not only hers, but others!!!! If I know a child is “rambunctious” I’m keeping a closer eye on them, not letting them “surf” on toy trains. The fuck.
I thought the same! She called her uncoordinated and then seconds later tells how she let her surf on a train!!
That word “rambunctious” has gotten to me ever since the adopted “dad” , of the California city boys, said it . It’s just weird to say that word out of all the ones you use to describe kids 🥺
You know who else used that word? The West boys “dad” in that interview 😬
@@joceebarraza260 exactly
The moment she started explaining in detail what happened the day before, while a child was in a life threatening condition right next to her, all alarm bells started ringing. She was not trying to help Hannah, she was trying to help herself by telling the 911 operator that she had nothing to do with the girl's emergency situation.
Honestly I wish I had alarm bells but I didn’t until she started changing her story and confessing. I just couldn’t imagine someone getting frustrated enough to fatally injure a little girl within just a few minutes and thought there must be some kind of alternative explanation, those cops did so well getting her to confess.
I will never understand how anyone could shake a young child. Only a sick individual would intentionally hurt a young child and then love on them. Notice how the babysitter sits in her chair checking her nails. My heart goes out to the father. He will have to live with the guilt of not realizing Hannah was being abused. This is such a heartbreaking case.
I found it really suspicious how she recalled how all these bruises happened… when I find a bruise on myself I never know how it happened so I definitely wouldn’t be able to tell you how someone else got bruised… 😐
My five year old is so athletic and and adventurous she is also clumsy… she has bruises all over from climbing and falling. I could never tell you where they came from. Neither can she. I will see her and ask what happened? And she will say “I don’t remember” reciting all those things just makes her seem guilty.
Exactly..I see bruises on my kids and they have no clue and neither do I...because it's just from playing or normal everyday things.
As a former childcare worker, I watched my kiddos like a hawk. I knew when they were injured at home or on my watch because parents would let us know. And since I did bathroom and diaper changing, I mostly knee if my kiddos had random bruises anywhere. It is our job to know and to report if anything suspicious happens. You can't and shouldn't watch kids professionally if you aren't watching their every move. It's literally your job!
The defense lawyer grilling the medical professional was driving me CRAZY. He wouldn't let her finish speaking! How is she supposed to give a reasonable answer or complete a train of thought if he just keeps cutting her off and putting words in her mouth. LET HER SPEAK.
Omg yes I had to skip through it because it was pissing me off!!
@@askinarslanbostan it is probably part of his strategy to limit what she says that could be used against his client but if I was on the jury it would just frustrate me and undermine the defense.
@@amberwolf5371 💯💯
I am still seething! How she kept her cool, I have no idea but kudos to her.
And he kept saying she would have her turn to talk, but I honestly wasn’t sure if he was going to let her. He would ask her a question and immediately cut her off
Honestly, the lawyer going over and over the whole “possibility” demarcation during the Dr’s defence (and doing it rudely) makes me think that his client is guilty more than anything that the Dr was saying. A) He’s insulting the jury, in that he doesn’t think that they can differentiate bw, the only answer and a possible answer and B) If your client isn’t guilty, you wouldn’t have to spend half of your cross, not-picking obvious stuff…. just my opinion. But I’d have been pissed at his behaviour if that was my lawyer…..sorry to clarify, I would be pissed at his lack of knowledge and his rude, cavalier behaviours….
Agreed 👍🏾
I was literally thinking this exact same thing. If you actually have a good defense then you don’t need to nitpick and be petty.
I'm at this exact part and it made me so mad! I had to come look for a comment that validated my thought.
“I slapped her upside the head” are you kidding me? I would NEVVVVVVER ever “slap my child upside the head” like WHAT?! And the way she says it like so nonchalant. This is nuts man.
This lady has been abusing this child from the day she came into her house and the way she talks about it so calm and collectively is disgusting.
Jason Wesche was quick to swat his daughter without verbal discipline first. Hannah had a black eye that was green and close to healed, the last time I seen her, several Fridays before her being admitted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I believe both the father and babysitter were frustrated with Hannah, and both parties went too far in physically disciplining the baby. Terrible two's were an understatement when it came to Hannah. Lindsay was always ditsy in school. Jason was always trash. Hannah deserved better. The investigators and prosecutors definitely dropped the ball in this case
@@wzbng8122 stoppppp...seeing them at school and "hearing" stuff isn't actual facts to this case...
That was all she had to say for me.
@@wzbng8122 more should have been done to rehabilitate her mother because no one, addict in recovery or not, is going to truly love her as much as her mother would. Her mother shouldn't have been deterred by CPS and encouraged to take her place in Hannah's life instead...her place that was being inadequately filled by these two.
The only one that can rehabilitate and addict is the addict themselves. The mother made her choices.
The strength of an adult is 10 times that of a toddler. Imagine being hit by someone who has 10 times your strength. It is terrifying and unacceptable. But strangely enough, there are people who think it's acceptable for children.
I have a very shameful story about that 😔 but I got married young and started a family young and one day we were at my aunt and uncle house and my son had said something so dumb now and he was only 4 and as soon as it came out his mouth my hand went across it my uncle was so angry with me he acted as if he was gonna slap me and I coward down he said u feel that feeling that you have that is what you are doing to him 😢 😞 😔 I never hit him like that ever again
@@patriciaroberts5147 I’m so glad that you were open and willing to learn from your mistake! It takes a big person and a good parent to admit they were wrong and try to be better.
I am not pro physical discipline, however I think most supporters belive that the adult should only hit the child lightly, certainly not at full force. That is why they are not suppose to do it when they are angry, as the emotion will likely cause them to hit them too hard. So I think the amount of people who think an adult should hit a child at 10 times the strength is very small & those people are likely incredably abusive.
@@NotAnotherKuromii think tho that the people that justify hitting their children often do not understand just how much force it has on a small body of thin skin and tissue, muscle, and under developed bones. I think even the parents that genuinely think they arent "hurting" their children dont believe their kids tears are from pain - but because they "got in trouble". My mom was very abusive and i had friends and cousins that got spanked (or slapped) 1/10 of what I did and i believed them when they said it hurt. And i heard "that didnt hurt i barley touched you" ALOT from adults growing up.
@@patriciaroberts5147 I'm pleased your uncle knew better. Sadly there are children suffering where all the adults in the extended family think it is ok to hit kids.
I know these stories must be hard to cover but I can’t thank you enough for covering them. I see these precious babies faces and I can’t help but feel compelled to listen. Their stories deserve to be heard. Who they were deserves to be known.
Listening to these horrific story's are scary and sad but WE absolutely as family friends neighbors almost need to hear how much evil is hiding in plain sight
I can’t even imagine how the father feels… he put his trust into that evil woman and she ended up taking away the one purpose he had in life😞
Her dad was just trying his best to take care of her poor guy had no idea
It's interesting how during the trial she's saying "I did not" in regards to harming Hannah, yet nodding her head in a "yes" motion each time.
Her body is reveling the truth. Great catch.
Guilty. Guilty! How dare she “upper cut” style hit her! As a mother, I know the feeling of being overwhelmed, dealing with a screaming baby… I cannot fathom hurting a baby or toddler or any child or person like this! To even see those bruises on poor Hannah, makes my blood boil.
That poor baby wasn't even there long enough that morning to have done anything to upset that monster 😭 not that there's anything that Hannah could have done to excuse what was done to her, but how could she have even possibly made that woman mad, in that short amount of time?
I had to take a break too. I feel so bad for Hannah’s dad; his heart must be broken! Mine is just knowing that sweet Hannah had to endure pain like she did.
She’s an angel, flying high now, no more MONSTER hurting her! Prayers being sent to Hannah’s family.
Right! Good caretakers know that is a horrific way to respond. I've taken care of children who have been doing all sorts of things to provoke me (I.e. physical aggression, swearing, verbal abuse, etc) and I never ONCE thought about hitting them or retaliating in any way! Especially because I worked with kids who had been through a lot of neglect and trauma and plus, in general, kids can't always control what they're doing. This woman makes me sick too.
same....like I'm not good with kids at all. I don't have patience do deal with kids under the age of like 7 or 8. I don't want to have small kids, never did. I prefer having pets. But I would NEVER, EVER hurt a child. and this woman didn't have to deal with Hannah if she felt too overwhelmed. Hannah wasn't her own kid, she was babysitting her and not for a lot of money. If she felt tried and like it was too much all it took was to say to Jason "Hey, I'm sorry but I can't do it anymore, or at least not so often. With my own kids and house to take care of...it's just too much" and I'm sure he'd understand. and look for another/second sitter.
Yup may her rot in hell
When the pictures of the bruises were shown I was shocked. That is outrageous! As a mother myself AND a former childcare provider for ages infant - school age I cannot believe a grown adult would do that to a child! A TODDLER. Absolutely disgusting.
Yup. Those are NOT just normal toddler ones at all.
My niece Amy Genesis was murdered by her babysitter (her aunt's boyfriend) is a similar manner. Her parents were inconsolable, however they bravely donated the organs of their 7 month old daughter. The man, referred to in news reports as her uncle was sentenced to 20 years.
My prayers go out to Hannah's Daddy
7 months.....I'm sick. I just don't understand people, how can you hurt babies 😔
@@hunnybeezy Thank you.... she was my namesake
I'm so sorry 💔
I'm so sorry 💔
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I think it speaks volumes that she didn’t start crying until she was admitting guilt. Not crying while looking at pictures not crying while talking about what a silly girl she was ect ect
She seemed disappointed and sad that her lies weren’t getting her where she wanted.
Imagine thinking that being allowed to discipline a child means thinking that you can uppercut them??? What a disgrace honestly
At 1:21:04 when they ask her if she caused harm to the child in court she literally shakes her head YES while saying “I did not”. After watching hundreds of thousands of crime documentaries and YT crime videos and podcasts we know from experts that when lying if they are shaking their head yes to a question while answering no, it’s their subconscious basically ratting themselves out. You don’t even realize your body just told on you. I’m so GLAD I got to see that because if I ever had a doubt, that action right there just convinced me that she did it.
Shaking your head means no .. nodding means yes ..
Not only that but when asked if she thought she could shake her she shook her head no while saying yes which let's you know she knew better. Sick excuse of a women and mother.
My heart breaks for little Hannah. How someone could hurt a child is mystifying and disturbing. These cases are so difficult to listen to, but we need to know their stories.
It is so sad to hear her struggling to breath while this monster is whispering 'I love you' to her. What a horrifying ordeal this child went through. It takes a special kind of person to work with kids. Not everyone can do it. Those who don't have the patience and compassion should simply not put themselves near kids.
Thank you who in the hell would hit a three-year-old little girl my God
@@aoutsky yes, hearing sweet Hannah struggling to breathe in the background of the 911 call ripped my heart into a million pieces. I wanted to reach through the screen and hold her 😢
I agree, Hannah has a true story and we need to hear it. It's so hard and I cry every time. How can anyone punch a baby. I call her baby because, any child that can't defend themselves or doesn't have the words to tell is a baby still. Hannah was probably battered every day, while her dad worked. I pray, this woman gets the death penalty.
It’s taken me over 3 days to complete this video. It’s been so hard to watch that I’ve had to stop multiple times & take a break from it, so I can’t imagine how you feel having to go through the hours of research that you do for these cases. Thank you, Stephanie for bringing these cases to our attention. It takes special people to be able to do such extensive research & your delivery of these cases is immaculate. We appreciate you so much & we will fight, together, to bring justice to not just this poor baby girl, but to each & every victims case that you’ve shared with us. We sincerely thank you.
Amen! Exactly. I simply stand amazed at her continuous research and then being SUCH a good storyteller. She has created a fabulous niche and over half a million people agree! I can't wait for her to hit one million subscribers! She deserves it if anyone does!
As a human being this hurts my heart to hear. As a mother myself it hits very differently. The poor dad, I can’t imagine how he feels the fact that she wanted kisses and was clinging to him really weighs on me as a mom. May this precious baby Rest In Peace.
During interrogation after while the baby was in hospital dying, she seems perfectly chipper, happy, smiling, laughing, talking as if the baby simply had a scrapped knee. This is not normal. Definitely acts like the typical guilty person, babbling incessantly, giving more details than needed, and telling stories not needed
I used to watch a psychology channel here that would break down police interrogations, and one of the things that the person said who analysed these videos was that babbling the way this woman did is a huge giveaway to police that somebody is guilty or that they are trying to lie to them. Usually people who are honest are more straight to the point.
Given what happened to Hannah in the care of this woman, one would assume she would have been upset... not happy.
Yeah and recreation of every incident, like how when she showed them how she called the daddy to tell him the baby had collapsed, she used the panicked tone and words like she was reenacting the call... she put that tone on real easy huh...
@@TiffWaffles JCS? I’d love for him to analyze this case.
Redzgirl 24 god that was bizarre…. She was acting like this was some kind of school play or something. What a psycho
@@redzgirl2476 so true! Good acting…
Stephanie: “So apparently Lindsay’s never been good with the difference between left, and right, and right, and wrong-“
Me: *spits out my drink* 💀💀
What? Are you kidding me? We learn that in kindergarten. At 4-5 years old.
I was going to comment the same thing 👻
My favorite quote from her was this, “if you find a cut off hand on the top of your stairs. Don’t worry, its just a person in a parallel universe. Nothing to call the cops over”. Something to that effect & I just died!🤣🤣🤣
Haha, not going to lie... I always get My left and right messed up. I will be pointing to the left and say right, and vise versa. I definitely know the difference though 😅
We should all say a prayer for her poor Father, I cannot fathom his grief 💔
What we're hearing in the 911 call is Hannah's agonal breathing. It means her brain is attempting one last ditch effort to get oxygen but it is too late at this point. Agonal breathing is very hard to listen to and a scary noise. She was already gone. That 911 call will haunt me. Poor little Hannah. May she rest in peace.
Terminal respiratory secretions. It happens because they are no longer able to swallow or cough, so saliva builds up in the back of the throat and upper airways. The fluid causes the rattling sound when air passes through. Brain trauma causes this.
I had to stop listening for 2 days after hearing that clip. I had to go hold my 7-month-old baby and just cry.
When I heard her breathing, the first thing I said was that she had brain damage. I knew she was gone. I hope Hannah haunts her dreams every night for the rest o her life.
In an attempt to not be brash, but is that what’s also known as “the death rattle?” Or am I confusing the two? Respectfully, of course.
@@lindseyhendrix2405 No, the death rattle refers to pooling secretions in the mouth and throat that cause the noise. Agonal breathing is just struggling to breathe/gasping reflux from the brain desperate to get oxygen in.
The composure that that Dr. Carrie has with that lawyer is mindboggling. I wanted to throttle him.. I hate when people interrupt me though.. lol.
I'm not sure about American courts but if that happened here in Europe he'd be thrown out. Him demanding she answer his question when it was unrelated to what she was there for was very unprofessional and he'd likely lose his job.
Yes he was rude and talking to her like she is dumb when she is clearly not
That lawyer was trying to cause confusion for the jury. He did a pretty good job of it, but it made him look like an ass and an idiot.
It's normal for lawyers to interrupt witnesses on cross examination. They're trying to control the narrative in their clients favour. I'm a paralegal in Canada and have heard lawyers do this many times.
The way that lawyer was talking to the doctor was absolutely infuriating. "Let me finish and then you can respond" well, you're asking her questions and not letting her talk!
He means “answer the way I want you to answer”
After hearing the doctors' testimonies about seeing this type of injury in a car accident.... it just made me so sick to my stomach. A grown woman put her hands on that sweet baby with the force of speeding vehicles colliding?
Electric chair.
🙌yes.
Yeah I would be fine with vigilante Justice even
Evil ! I hope she gets what she deserves in prison
My heart goes out for the father. Hope he’s doing okay.
It's surprising how she remembers everything she did to Hannah after she collapsed. I've had my fair share of little emergencies at home, being a mother of 4, but if you'd ask me what i did when i was trying to attend to my kids' emergency, i wouldn't have been able to tell you step by step. It will all be blurry in your mind because your focus is to just go ahead and make sure your kid is fine. Can't wait for part 2
As the oldest of 4, I know that when my brother broke his arm when he was like 8, my mom rushed to the school immediately from work to take my brother to the hospital.
Thank you for covering this case - it's so important to remember this poor little girl. How can anyone do this to a child?
Thank you, Stephanie, for your amazing deep dives.
The 911 call, when Jason says , " Look up at Daddy,", is Heart Crushing!! Hannah's struggling for air is More than Heartbreaking! Poor , Defenseless, Little BABY!!💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Based on the sound and description of Hannah's breathing, her GSC score, and ocular bleeding, the shaking injury that this woman inflicted upon Hannah had to have been fairly powerful. The subdural bleed may have even started the day before with a less severe shaking episode, hence Hannah's clinging to her father that morning. Hannah would have had an excruciating headache, nausea, vision changes or blindness, eye pain, dizziness. No child deserves such a painful injury.
If she would have had an excruciating headache ,nausea,vision changes,blindness,eye pain and dizziness that would have been very obvious to ppl around her.There is no way a 3year old could have hid that and she would have said she was hurting. A baby who can’t speak or do anything wouldn’t be able to hide that. You can when a kid is sick.They also stated the subdural bleeding happened the day she did it wasn’t older, She would have shown signs of being shaken the day before,also. I agree no child deserves that.
Too bad we can’t repay the favor to her…. Let her go through all the pain and agony she put Hannah through.
@@keyanddracaryskillua6187 immediately after the catastrophic injury that caused the bleed that ultimately killed her, not earlier. She would have become unresponsive very quickly so the symptoms may not have been apparent before the 911 call was made.
@@heybea891 that is exactly wth im thinking she needs it badly too!!!!!
The ocular bleeding is the main sign of shaking
I had a babysitter when I was really young that abused me and my sister relentlessly. It was torture being there. Our mom was a single mom working fast food to support us and couldn’t afford much better but we finally had enough and told my mom what had been happening and idk what happened after that but we never went back. My heart breaks for this poor baby girl.
My friend had an overnight female babysitter watch her and her younger brother. (Mom n dad were overnight nurses) the female sitter molested the little boy. He was quiet for a long time. Ruined his life.
@@blacknight2149 I’m so sorry that happened. Luckily nothing sexual happened but she was cruel to us for no reason and made us drink out of bottles we were like 7 and 10 and all she would feed us was dry cereal all day and lock us in rooms. It was better than when she hit us or made us clean her nasty house for her though.
So sorry that person did that to y’all ❤
My fiancé is friends with Jason. Jason is a good person, a good dad! That babysitter got tired of watching her. She was an active 3yr old that she just didn’t want to be patient with. The evidence speaks for its self. She admitted to abusing her, sadly the end result was death.
I hate people like her if $30 was not enough money don't agree to that. If Hannah was do much to handle say you can't watch her anymore. Don't abuse or kill the child.
Aww...I remember when my daughter was 3 years old. Her favorite phrase was always "I do it!" When it came to getting dressed, putting her shoes on, buckling her carseat belt... absolutely everything was, "I DO IT!" ❤
I've heard of this case, and now I'm more interested than ever to hear the next episode. I didn't feel like the babysitter did it after I first heard about this case, but your deep dive has information I've never heard. Side note: If you have a 3 year old child that is as accident prone as she says, why would you continue to have that child play in the garage with a concrete floor??
Yeah why would you make the play room in a concert floored garage??
Idek. My son is nicknamed bonk. He's 16 months and a daredevil. We got rid of our couch because he thinks it's fun to jump off. Floor cushions for now. We also put foam tiles in our basement laundry room. I wouldn't let a kid play on concrete that is falling hard so often! My only answer is she wasn't really falling or if she was it wasn't as hard as Lindsey says.
@@jessikacreates right! Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't be comfortable with any baby in my care playing on gravel or concrete. Too much can go wrong. My 2 year old tripped in the kitchen a few months ago and busted his lip, I felt awful. I would really like to either wrap him in bubble wrap or pad every surface of our home. Lol
@@stacy6905 me either hence the foam tiles when he is rarely in our laundry room. My son fell face first into a play table on Christmas. We ended up in the er because he pushed his nearly erupted tooth back. It all turned out okay, but I'm paranoid now too!
@@jessikacreates my now 18 year old son was determined to destroy his two front teeth. Lol At around 3 he fell mouth first onto the corner of a coffee table at my ex-inlaws and pushed his them up into his gums. One had to come out. At around 14 he flew over the handlebars of his bike and finished them off. Now he has caps. Lol He's made it to adulthood, but mama had a few scares along the way. Lol