April 14, 2025 • 43 mins
Oscar Hernandez is out playing soccer at Whitsett fields when he meets Coach Mario Garcia-Aquino. Garcia-Aquino approaches Oscar about joining the Huacane Club, telling the boy he’s impressed with his skills. When Garcia-Aquino offers him one on one lessons without charge, Oscar jumps at the chance!
On a Friday afternoon, Coach Garcia-Aquino gives his star student a call, inviting Oscar Hernandez to make some money doing a few odd jobs at his Lancaster home. The teen is immediately interested. Before the 13-year-old gets permission from family, he grabs the next train to Lancaster, a 2-hour trip. Oscar facetimes his brother Josue from the train, telling him Coach will drop him back at home tomorrow morning.
Later that night, Josue tries to call Oscar again, but it’s not his little brother that answers, but Coach Garcia-Aquino. Coach tells Josue that Oscar can’t come to the phone because his hands are dirty. Josue tries to ask exactly what time he can expect Oscar home, but the coach waves him off, once again promising he’ll bring Oscar home at a reasonable time Saturday.
Saturday morning comes and goes, and Oscar still isn’t home. The teen isn’t answering his phone either. It’s already dark when the Hernandez family finally gets Coach Garcia-Aquino on the phone. The coach says he dropped Oscar off that afternoon in North Hollywood, but strangely, he claims he can’t remember exactly where Oscar got out of the car. The Hernandez’s pray Oscar will come home that night but when he does not, first thing Sunday morning, they report the teen missing.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
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Philip Dubé - Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law; Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy
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Caryn Stark - Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
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Moses Castillo - Private Investigator for the Dordulian Law Group, Former Supervisor Detective-Los Angeles Police Department
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Dr. Michelle Dupre - Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department
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Sierra Van Der Brug - Crime and Safety Reporter at the Los Angeles Daily News; IG: @sierravanderbrug
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A shocking roadside discovery. A
little boy last scene with a so called depraved illegal
youth soccer coach is dead. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oscar Omar Hernandez is a thirteen year old student and
soccer player in Sun Valley, California.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dedicated to his team and the sport.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oscar eagerly agrees to help his coach make jerseys one
Friday night, but concerns grow when the thirteen year old
boy doesn't return home.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Thirteen years old, just turned thirteen. He hadn't even lived
thirteen years yet, he had only lived twelve years and
some days. Why is this little boy dead and callously
thrown on the side of the road. According to witnesses,
(00:58):
he was the last seen with his youth soccer coach Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Mister Garcia a Keino was his soccer coach and on
that day Omar Hernandez went up to Lancaster to see
mister Garcia Alkeno. Two days later he was reported missing,
and on April second, twenty twenty five, last week, his
body was found in Oxnard, off the road near Leo
(01:27):
Correo State Beach.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oscar Omar is the baby of the Hernandez family.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Thirteen, Oscar has settled into his life in North Hollywood,
known as Omar to his seventh grade classmates at the
Sun Valley Magnet School, he gets good grades and is
well liked, but above all, he's a standout soccer player.
If Oscar isn't helping out at home or in school,
you can find him at the Whitst soccer fields.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This little boy just turned thirteen, lived and breathed soccer
just like my son. He was always at the soccer field,
and we believe that is how he met. According to
Homeland Security, a depraved illegal alien who was a youth
soccer coach listen.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Oscar is out playing soccer. Garcia Akino approaches Oscar about
joining the walking Club. When garcia Akino offers him one
on one lessons without charge, Oscar jumps at the chance.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
On a Friday afternoon, coach garcia Quino gives his star
student a call inviting Oscar to make some money doing
a few odd jobs at his Lancaster home. Oscar, a
hard worker who would love an addition to his allowance,
is immediately interested before the thirteen year old really gets
permission from his family, He grabs the next train to Lancaster,
a two hour trip oscar facetimes. His brother j sway
(02:45):
from the train, telling him coach will drop him back
at home tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Joining me an all star panel to make sense of
what we are learning tonight. But I know this much.
The body of a thirteen year old little boy who
trusted his soccer coach implicitly was found thrown by the
side of the road like trash. But how did he
get there? What led up to that? Joining me as
(03:12):
I said, an All Star panel. But first let me
go to Sierra VanderBrug, crime safety reporter at La Daily News. Sierra,
thank you for being with us. Tell me about this
soccer field and how is it that this little boy
is out there playing when he is approached and befriended
by an illegal alien soccer coach.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
We still have a lot of questions about the process
of Garcia Keno meeting Hernandez, but reports indicate that he
was his soccer coach on a travel boys team located
out here in the San Fernando Valley. Sheriff Robert Luna
here in Los Angeles told us that Garcia Keno worked
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as a coach for a youth travel soccer team called
Urancan Valley Boys Soccer Club, where he coached varying age groups.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, I'm very curious as to your take on this.
Most of Castillo joining me private investigator with the dor
Duelian Law Group, former supervisor detective with the LAPD. Mister Castillo,
thank you for being with us. It sounds like a
textbook case. A text book case. The boy lives, breathes,
(04:27):
and AATs soccer when he's not in school, he's at
the soccer fields, and he is approached by this youth
soccer coach and now he's dead. Moses, Yes, horrible.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Nancy.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
First of all, I want to tell you that these
groomers are great at what they do. Not only do
they earn the trust of the victims that they're targeting,
but they also gained the trust of their parents, their family,
to the point where they let them get on the
train and travel all the way two hours to where
he lives and spend the night. Unbelievable that this even happened,
(05:03):
but that's the reality that these groomors are so good
that they can convince a family to do just that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Another thing, Moses Castillo. They dangle in front of the
children and the family that the child has amazing soccer
skills or amazing fill in the blank skills, tennis skills,
football skills, basketball skills, and that they could get a
college scholarship maybe or maybe even play pro. And for
(05:32):
a lot of children, I mean, it would have been
a huge carrot if my family when we were growing up,
you know, nobody had ever been to college in our family.
If they thought, wow, she's so good at blank, we
can get her in college for free. She can get
tuition and a college education. I mean, that's the kind
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of lure that makes parents believe these coaches. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
They tell me Johnny's great player, he's going to be
a star, and so on and so forth. But I
gotta tell you, sources closer to the investigation have told
me that this was a self proclaimed coach. He wasn't certified,
He wasn't registered with any league as a coach whatsoever.
And when the authorities searched his residents, they did find
plato ID cards, They found registration forms, applications, which tells
(06:23):
me that some league gave them access to these children,
and they should never have done that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh my stars, how did he do it. You're telling
me that adults believed his scam and let him have
access to these children. I mean, we know that he
approached the little boy oscar and said, wow, you're amazing
(06:50):
and offered him private soccer lessons coaching for free. That
doesn't happen. My son is a as a soccer player
and he gets goalie lessons. But through the school, the
school has a goalie coach that is helping the goalies.
(07:11):
This guy just walks out onto a soccer field, approaches
a little boy and says, hey, you're awesome. I'm going
to give you soccer coaching for free. That's what happened, Moses.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That is crazy. That's bizarre that it went unchecked and
nobody stepped in and said, hey, show me your credentials.
You're not certified. Parents need to be more vigilant and
confirmed these things. Are you going to be the coach?
Show me your credentials, Show me that you've been certified,
that you've been life scanned, that you went through a
background check, that you've been through the training.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All that was missed, But you know what. You know what?
Let me go to Karen Stark Guys. Karen is renownedd psychologists,
joining us out of Manhattan, TV radio trauma expert, and
you can find her at Karenstark dot com. Karen. Parents
that are uneducated, and I don't mean didn't go to college.
(08:07):
I don't mean that, I mean parents like my parents.
Why would they question that someone's not a soccer coach? Right? Yes,
it's easy first to say why didn't the parents know?
Why didn't the parents check him out? But I'm thinking
back when we were growing up, we were exposed to
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all sorts of adults that didn't have a background check,
It didn't have credentials. So I don't really blame the
parents here.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
This is somebody who's come across so charismatic outwardly, and
he was considered trusted by these children, these boys, they
thought he was fabulous.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
How would they know anything else?
Speaker 10 (08:52):
And the parents believed him. They are so skilled. This
kind of guy is so skilled at coming across that way.
But underneath this is a predator. This is what he wants.
He wants psycho sexual fulfillment, and so he does the
best job he can to convince them they should trust
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him with their children.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You know, Sierra Vanderbrugg is joining us from Daily News.
You know, I'm looking at those photos, Sierra, take a
look at those photos we were just showing. It shows
the coach with a team. Now, explain to me he
was He approached a little oscar about joining the club.
(09:36):
What club?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
So we had Sheriff Robert Luna here in Los Angeles
confirming that Garcia Kino worked as a coach for a
youth travel soccer league called the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer
Club and that as a part of this club, he
coached various age groups.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh, a travel League's that's a lot different. Okay, Sierra,
explain what is a travel league?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
To my understanding, a travel league would be a competitive
team that I would travel around to multiple locations competing
in soccer games.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, man, And they're not school affiliated. Moses Castillo, my
son played with a similar league and they don't travel far,
but they do travel say an hour two hours max
to play basketball. So it's not really affiliated with a
school like you were saying. But it's a travel league.
(10:27):
And I find that really interesting because this coach, this
coach would then have access to these boys, many of
them very young and very small, away from the parents. Moses, Yes,
his move.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Is very, very specific and targeted. He would like to
get these kids alcohol, get them drunk, have them over, sleepovers,
that kind of thing. And some of them would wake
up the next morning feelings like something went wrong, something
happened to them, but they were just too afraid. Who
was shamed to speak up? But this went on for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And they may not have really understood what went wrong.
I mean, they wake up and their clothes may be misadjusted,
or they might feel queasy, but they don't really know
what happened. It's a nightmare scenario, especially for a little
boy like this who is just turned thirteen. So herera again,
how did this suspect meet little Oscar.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
It's unclear the specifics of how he exactly met Oscar,
but we've been told that he was his soccer coach,
so previous relationship established as a coach to Oscar.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Moses Castillo joining me private investigator with the Dordellian Law Group. Moses,
have you seen the image of the Whitst Park facility.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
It's huge, absolutely, That's why these predators they seek these
positions because that's a high victim target ridge environment. And
that's exactly it. I gotta tell you. On the fields
costs money. You have to give permits, you have to
pay for that. And he did this unnoticed, unchecked for years.
Speaker 11 (12:10):
Once you see the photos of this individual, that if
you may have been a victim, please come forward. I
know it's not easy. I know it could be either embarrassing,
you don't want to tell somebody, but it's very important
that we bring justice not only to the family here
(12:30):
to my left, but any families that may have been
victimized by this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
(13:01):
For an in depth look at the facts, see what
Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Thirteen year old Oscar Omar Hernandez eagerly takes the train
from his home in Sun Valley to Palmade California with
the hopes of helping out his coach make jerseys for
the team, But twenty four hours later, Oscar still hasn't
returned home, despite claims from his coach that he dropped
the team off.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
This is what we know right now. According to Homeland Security,
the coach is actually a quote depraved illegal alien. Their words,
not mine. Why do they say that? And how did
this little boy end up hours away from home with
the soccer coach? Listen?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Later that night, Hossway tries to call Oscar again, but
it's not his little brother that answers. Garcia Akino picks up,
saying Oscar can't come to the phone because his hands
are dirty. Ho Suay tries to ask exactly what time
he can expect Oscar home, but the coach waves him
off once again, promising he'll bring Oscar home in a
(14:15):
reasonable time Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, we were talking earlier, and I believe it was you,
Moses Castillo, And I understand why you said it that.
Why didn't the parents check this guy out? Why didn't
they ask for a background shit where he was certified? Well,
I don't know if you're going to remember the name,
Jerry said, Dusky that was ultimately accused of Oh, I
(14:39):
don't even know how many molestations, Listen, I.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Was kind of thinking that he was going to get
off scott free with this, and then I'm just going
to be another kid in the front page and the
newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his for him.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
The amount the damage he did and the number of
people that he arms is something that I don't know.
Speaker 12 (14:59):
I don't know that anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
From our friends at ABC and CBS. I mean, for
Pete's sake, Karen Stark, when Castillo rightfully is saying, well,
did the parents check him out? That would be an
obvious question. We parents trust the coach, We trust the school,
right they trusted the youth league as it is called.
(15:25):
Here you had Jerry Sandusky, the long time, renowned, venerable coach,
the winner, and all this time he had been raping
boys in his charge, and everybody was too afraid to
say anything about.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
It, especially especially when you think about it, Nancy. The
boys it's not just they weren't sure of what happened
in this case when they stayed overnight. It's also that
children are afraid to report these predators. They're in a
position of a started. We're talking about a coach. We're
talking about some someone who was very well known. The
(16:02):
parents completely trust them. Why shouldn't they, I mean everyone, you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Know, jumping off what you just said, Karen, coach Jerry Sandusky.
It wasn't that he was just a Pennsylvania state assistant
football coach, but he gave summer training to Pennsylvania's underprivileged
and at risk youth. That is where he met most
of his victims, right and they were about the age
(16:27):
of Oscar, the little boy Oscar that we're talking about
right now, Dubay forty five counts of sex abuse. And
look who he targeted. He targeted at risk little boys,
boys that were underprivileged boys whose parents were probably both
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working or had a one parent in the home who
was working and was just happy that their child had
been picked by Sandusky to go too. He is the
second mile sports camp for underprivileged use. They probably thought, debate,
they were so lucky to get their child in the
(17:09):
summer camp.
Speaker 13 (17:10):
Sandusky had a knack for picking out unsophisticated, uncultured people,
and he would also garner him the sympathy, the respect,
and the admiration of their parents, so nobody had a
problem with him being a part of their lives. But
unbeknownst to everybody, in a dark sort of hinter grund,
as we say, he was actually laying hands on these kids.
(17:32):
He had abnormal sexual perversions, and nobody really knew it
was going on. And these kids had a work sense
of achievement and accomplishment and kind of went along with it,
to get along, if you will. And it wasn't until
one kid cried foul and said, no, take your hands
off me, that the story blew wide open. So it
takes one kid for this whole thing to really come
(17:54):
to a halt. Unfortunately, there was a kid that was
courageous enough to come forward. Now Sandusky will spend the
rest of his life in prison.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I hope you're sitting down. He served in this capacity
twenty two years as the defensive coordinator twenty two years
assistant coach at Penn State. He received the Assistant Coach
of the Year twice. He authored multiple books related to
(18:23):
his football coaching experiences. He founded this nonprofit, The Second Mile,
for Pennsylvania's underprivileged children, and after he retired from Penn State,
he continued working with second Mile, on and on and on.
It took a grand jury, a secret grand jury, two
(18:44):
years to investigate him. He was charged with fifty two
counts of sex abuse over fifteen years that we know of.
The children were all afraid to come forward, much like this, listen.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
I was kind of thinking that he was going to
get off scott free with this, and then I'm just
going to be another kid in the front page of
the newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his forehead.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now from our friends at ABC twenty twenty and here
it seems as if history is repeating itself again. Two.
Doctor Michelle Dupree joining me, a renowned forensic pathologists, medical examiner,
former detective at Lexington County Sheriff's Department, author of a
brand new book, Money, Mischief and Murder The Murdock Dynasty
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the rest of the story, but from my purposes. She
is also the author of the Homicide Investigation Field Guide
and the Child Abuse Investigation Field Guide. I'm curious because
we see here doctor Dupree, according to investigative reports that
we've obtained, the coach and I'm saying that in quotes
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the illegal alien co coach first of all be friend
of the little boy at the Whitsit Park complex, offering
free soccer lessons. But then the lure went further. He
lured the little boy by saying he had odd jobs
for him at his place and that he would pay him.
(20:21):
So I understanding he was going to work on making
jerseys or monogramming jerseys, or something to do with the
soccer jerseys. So now you've got a little boy just
turned thirteen, alone on transit, going two hours away from
home to be alone with the coach at his house.
(20:43):
Quote making jerseys. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, doctor Michelle Dupree,
You've sadly worked on so many child on the side cases.
And that is the mo the modus operandi, the method
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of operation. You get the child alone, whether you like
I was talking to Sierra VanderBrug earlier, whether you get
them in your vehicle, your truck, your camper, whether you
lure them to your home. You get the child alone,
and that is where everything goes sideways. How many cases
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have you seen homicide cases where the child is lured away?
Speaker 14 (21:31):
Nancy, this is a common scenario. Is this is exactly
how they operate. They initially meet the child. They're very personable.
Most of these people are personable. They are liked by
the kids, they're liked by the families. They gain their trust,
and once they gain that trust, it's a little bit
out of time. They continue to befriend them, continue to
(21:52):
offer them a carot if you will, and a bigger
reward for something. And children are trusting, you know, children,
I don't think like adults. In most cases, they trust adults,
and oftentimes they won't tell if something is a little
bit suspicious because they don't know. And also this is
an adult. They wonder when anybody really believe me or not.
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So this is not uncommon. This is their method of operation,
and unfortunately it works way too many times.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Don't do dupree. I never cried, I never got sick.
I never vomited nothing at the site of a dead
body or on a homicide scene ever. But there was
one time I thought I was going to throw up.
I didn't, and it was when a child was on
the autopsy table. When you see children on the autopsy
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table over and over and over, it's like, I know
right now, I'm preaching to the choir, but parents don't
get it. I mean, my parents didn't get it. I
was left with adults and supervised that we really didn't know.
And through the grace of God, nothing happened to me
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or my brother or sister. But parents are trusting, especially
when the molester is clothed with clothed with the indisha
of reliability. He's wearing a soccer uniform. You've got to
see pictures of him with teams like we're showing you.
But he was not with a school, he was not sanctioned,
nothing like that. And I mean, do you ever get weary,
(23:30):
doctor Duprees seeing one child on the autopsy table after.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
The next all the time. Nancy. It's one of the
worst cases a medical examiner could ever have. Children and elderly.
You know, they're supposed to be protected, they're trusting, and
they should be, but it doesn't often work out well.
And this is one of the reasons why. And yes,
it gets to me and it gets to others every
single time. This should not be happening to our kids.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oscar's family is worried, sick after more than a day
with no sign of their thirteen year old son.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And soccer student.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The boys soccer coach promises he dropped the teen off,
but Oscar is nowhere to be found. Then a mysterious
text from Oscar's phone claiming the thirteen year old is
at a party with friends joining me.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Now is Anna sonoda clinical social worker who focuses on
forensic issues like this, and she's the author of Duck
Duck Groom. Anna, this is the textbook the seminal example
of luring. You heard me lay out. First, he was
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approached at a Whitst soccer complex which is huge, and says, hey,
free one on one coaching for soccer because you're so amazing.
Oscar just turned thirteen. Then he lures him to his house.
Then he won't respond appropriately to the family. Now we're
hearing about a text, a text from a little Oscar
(25:00):
that says he was going to a party with friends.
I mean, it would be a cold day in HG
double l that my children, who are now seventeen, would
just announce they were going to a party with friends.
That doesn't happen. I mean, I've got to know where
are you going with, who, who's driving, when you're going
to be home, what's the location? Have fun? Right? So
(25:25):
you know, Anna, I strongly believe that the coach was
texting as if he was Oscar, the little boy.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Absolutely, we have several examples here of a grooming situation.
What does that mean? What does that word grooming mean?
We've said it a few times already. This show grooming
is a perverse form of courtship. It convinces not only children,
but it convinces their caregivers that they are trustworthy, that
they're reliable, and that they're caring. This coach exploited his
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role as a sports youth individual in order to show
the parents and the kids, hey, you can trust me.
I want what's best for you. And to single that
child out as special and unique is classics favoritism that
we see in the stages towards the grooming process for
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sexual exploitation and in this horrific case, ultimately murder.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And of course, at this juncture, the family doesn't know
what to believe, even that they get this mystery text
of a little boy claiming, Hey, I'm going to a party?
What party? Mama heard anything about a party? Well, the
search is now on for little Oscar.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A desperate joint agency search for Oscar begins. Both the
LAPD and LA County Sheriff's Office scoured North Hollywood for
the boy. Their only lead was that he was last
seen on his way to Lancaster on the metrolink.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A massive search is on both LAPD and the La
County Sheriff's Office looking for little Oscar. Listen.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
On the fourth day of the investigation, a teen boy's
body is found over seventy miles away, dumped in a
wooded area off a road near Leo Carrillo State Beach.
The remains are confirmed to be those of thirteen year
old Oscar Omar Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I can't believe my son is dead. That is from
our friends at Katla five. And very quickly after the
body is discovered, the coach is tracked down.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
Why couldn't at least do anything upout my case? And
they just left it open and then they have to
get to a teenage boy getting killed.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
The same day Oscar's body is discovered, his soccer coach,
forty three year old Mario Garcia Akino, is arrested, but
not in connection to Oscar. Garcia Akino is accused of
attempting to molest a sixteen year old boy. The teen
also spent the night and felt extremely sleepy after drinking
an orange juice. Garcia Akino offered him old police. Garcia
Akino twice tried to pull down his pants, but he
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fought garcia Akino off and called nine one one. The
incident occurred more than a year ago in February of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oscar's family hasn't seen the boy in over twenty four
hours after he was.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Expected home Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
A text from his phone claims Oscar is at a
party with friends, but Oscar's friends don't have any knowledge.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Of a party.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The thirteen year old has reported missing, and an intense
search is launched for the boy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Karen Stark, don't you see the significance of this mysterious
text from the little boys and I'm going to a party?
And then can't you just say the mom and the
brother calling hey what party?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What party? To all the friends and they know nothing
about it. This means I believe that the coach was
using the little boy's phone to text as if he's Oscar.
That's a whole nother level of premeditation, and we're familiar
with it.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
Nancy, remember Brian Laundry, right, And he took the phone
and he made the mistake of calling the grand by
the name. People do that, Murderers do that. They take
advantage of whatever they can. I'm not the least bit
surprised because this guy needs to cover up. He's desperate
to make sure that nobody finds out what he did.
(29:17):
And I'm not surprised to happen because over time, in
this kind of situation, the person gets bolder and bolder
and bolder.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And that's exactly what happened here. Now you hear Philip
Dubay claiming that, oh, it was just a delight, b
s a delay that cost Oscar his life. Listened to
one of the first alleged victims.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
I go to sleep, I see him like trying to
pull down my shorts and I woke up. I proused
him and he told me it was all the Joe.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
In February of twenty twenty four, Garcia Aquino befriended a
Silmar family who allowed their juvenile son to stay with
him at his residence in Palmdale. The family subsequently filed
a criminal report with the Palmdale Sheriff's Station alleging sexual
abuse of their child, Moses Christilla.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I think my head's gonna blow off. That originally was
from our friends at NBC LA. Now you heard, But
I don't know what dog he's got in the fight
with skin in the game because normally he is on
LA law enforcement like a cheap suit. But today, when
it works in the defense's favor, it's like, oh, it
was just a mistake. Did you hear the first boy? Well,
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probably not the first one of the prior molestation victims.
I go to sleep, I see him trying to pull
my down my shorts. I woke up. I punched him,
and he told me it was a joke. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
As a sex crime detective I was for twenty years
with LAPD, this breaks my heart. We did drop the
ball on this poor victim. The case was submitted to
the d's office electronically and hist under queue, untouched for months.
That's what sources familiar with the investigation have told me.
And when the investigators called the disease office to follow up,
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they realized that nobody had looked at this case for
a long time. And that's where we dropped the ball.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Oh you know what, I don't like what you just said,
Castillo drop the ball. That's like oops, I dropped the ball.
This is abandoned and malignant heart dropped the ball. Oscar
is dead because somebody dropped the ball Ana Sonota. That's
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not all listen.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Detectives learned that there was another unrelated child sexual abuse
case being handled by the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill
Division involving Garcia Aquino. On April second, twenty twenty five,
the new information from both the Sheriff's Department and the
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Police Department cases, the District Attorney Office filed one felony
count of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense
on Mario Garcia. He was taken into custody in the
city of Los Angeles and he was then subsequently transferred
to the custody of the Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Teos here at Vanderbrook joining
us from the Los Angeles Daily News Sierra how many
at this juncture? How many young boy victims do we
know of? At this point?
Speaker 7 (32:43):
We know that there were two charges filed against Garcia A.
Keno now in relation to previous sex abuse cases, one
from twenty twenty two and one from twenty twenty four.
But during this press conference, we did hear. Sheriff Robert
Luna emphasized that police and sheriff department believe that there
may be more victims. They are searching for more victims.
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Anyone with information or who believes they've been a victim
of Garciaqino. They asked contact them and that they were.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Looking at everything.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Authorities believe there may be more assault victims or missing
persons connected to Garciaqino. They are open, they are looking
for both.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Okay, everybody sitting down, You may need to lay down
for this too. Listen to the La County Sheriff Robert Luna.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
Garcia Quino was a youth travel soccer coach with the
Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club in the Silmar area, working
with different age divisions. He had no reported criminal history.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
BS and you know, Sheriff Leuna, I like you, I
do anything against you. But why did you just say
that he had no reported criminal history? Did you not
just hear the boy victim? That happened over a year
ago and nothing was done. So while there's not a conviction,
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there is un arrest, there is an allegation let me rephrase,
fell on the assault with intent to commit a lude
act twenty twenty two felon the assault with intent to
commit rape lud act on a child age fourteen or fifteen.
Those are the ones that we have been able to
dig up. How many more are out there? I mean,
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you know, Moses Castillo, isn't it true step statistically when
a child molester is caught once that there are dozens
of prior undetected child molestations. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
That's why the message here today is if you're out
there and you're a victim of this evil monster, please
come forward. It was never your fault, and I want
you to know that one hundred percent, and you have
the support of the victim services that are going to
be coming for you and available to you.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Nothing was done on prior claims of child molestation against
the so called traveling coach. Nothing was done, The files
gathered dust, and now a little boy is dead and
his body thrown on the side of the road. Listen,
we don't.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Have the actual details of how he was killed at
this exact moment, nor do we have all the reports
that will come in when the coroner.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Produces his They've already performed an autopsy and it turned
out there was a lot of alcohol in his urine.
Speaker 12 (35:27):
This is a stable.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
That's the only thing left to investigate is whether he
was sexually imputed.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The things and my boys drink and I'm sure of
that why because he didn't resist, guys. That is from
our friends at Univision thirty four LA. It's almost more
than I can take in what we are hearing, Doctor
Michelle Dupree. The boy found on the side of the
road like his trash. I imagine days had passed. Are
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we going to be able to get a CEOD cause
of death and we'll be able to Will we be
able to tell had the boy been molested?
Speaker 14 (36:02):
Yes, Nancy, I think we will. We can often tell
so much even though time has passed, and in this case,
it's likely that we did find alcohol in the blood.
But we're also probably going to be able to tell
that he may have been strangled or certainly if there
was any type of blunt force trauma, which is typical
in cases like this, especially the strangulation.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So how long will alcohol still be in the victim's system.
Speaker 14 (36:26):
It can be in there for days, Nancy. If we
can't get it in the blood, we can take it
from the vitreous, which is an excellent long term way
to get this kind of toxicology report.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Vitreous is what.
Speaker 14 (36:38):
Vitreous is, the fluid inside the eyeball. It's well protected.
It gives us a very good pre mortem indication of
many things like electrolytes or alcohol content.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Okay, let me just warn the LA District Attorney, do
not jump on the bandwagon. But apparently he is listen.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
If he had been arrested on that earlier alleged defense,
he wouldn't have been on the streets, and he certainly
would not be working as a coach.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
In order to develop the evidence for any particular offense,
as we will be providing in court. It doesn't happen overnight.
So even though that original offense occurred back in February
of twenty twenty four, that investigated started approximately within I
forgot within weeks of that particular investigation. But you have
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to actually go through all the different parts of an
investigation before you ever get to it.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Why would the government, knowing he had such an accusation,
allow him to be free?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, why would they? That's where our friends at KTLA five.
You know, as much tap dancing as the DA's doing.
He need to just admit the truth. There's no way
to fix this now. They dropped the ball. As Castillo
said earlier, why is it that we so willingly trust
sports coaches named Larry Nasser? I wish I never heard it, sir.
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If what you did and touching these.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Victims in all of these accounts was ungloved.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Is that correct?
Speaker 12 (38:10):
Yes, you fear that her.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And it was not for any medical purpose? Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (38:16):
It was for your own purpose?
Speaker 15 (38:18):
Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I don't want another young gymnast, Olympic athlete, or any
individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of
others have endured. One of my heroes right there, Simone Biles.
That was from our friends at NBC. Just think about it.
At that elite level, an Olympic coach molesting scores of
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young girls, some as young as thirteen. I can hardly
stand to look at him. He makes me sick just
to look at him. Girls representing our country. This little
boy is dead, his body thrown on the side of
the road and behind bars. The description by Homeland Security
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is a depraved illegal alien. There's no telling how many
little boys were molested by him, and he had an
a sonoda unfattered access to them.
Speaker 15 (39:30):
Absolutely, predators run on gas, grooming access, and space. Coaches,
especially travel coaches, have an exceptional amount of gas. They
get time away with the child, they built trust with
the parents. In Nancy, parents are good, parents are doing
what they can. This family had high hopes for what
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this sports coach was going to be able to do
for their son. How many countless families are in the
same position, and predators, by golly, they know it and
they exploit that every time.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
You know, Karen Stark, I'm not sure if I told
you about this, but I remember a Methodist lay leader
who was a college professor came and spoke at our
church and promised to coach me free, because you know,
we were broke Spanish private Spanish coaching, and my parents
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let me, along with my sister go to this guy's
home with his family that was an hour away. And
I'm thinking about it. My parents were so happy that
I could get this private coaching in Spanish. Was taking
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Spanish at school. It's just like that point. It was
in the fifth grade and they thought, oh, something we
can't afford that we can give her. So it's it's
not the parent's fault, and I don't want to portray
that way.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
It's not the parent's fault, Nancy. That's so correct, because
we're talking about master manipulators. They are charming. Their exterior
is trusting. They act like you can trust them with
your children, and parents are looking for help. They're in
a position of authority in that way, and you can't
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count on the children. Unfortunately. Parents believe that maybe their
children would tell them that something was wrong, but the
children are afraid. They don't understand, they don't know how
to come forward, they don't even have the words for
it developmentally. So it is a terrible problem, really a
terrible problem that parents need to be aware of and
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investigate who's with your children beforehand.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Guys, let me announce that there is a gofund me
for Oscar Hernandez's family. They're just trying to get money
to pay off the funeral. It's at go fund me
dot com Oscar Omar Hernandez. Right now, the state is
building its case, and when I say building its case,
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I mean looking for other child victims. I believe that
these other child victims will testify in a court of
law under the theory of similar transactions to bolster the state's
case in the murder of Little Oscar. The state is
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also looking for these victims and looking for witnesses to
possibly seeing the coach with Little Oscar. If you know
or think you know anything about this case, please dial
eight one eight three seven four five to four one
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five or toll free eight hundred two two two A
four to seven seven repeat eight hundred two two two
eight four seven seven. I believe that's the number I
would use because the States already dropped the ball on
the case already. I would go with crime Stoppers. And
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now we remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway,
Lownes County Sheriff's Alabama, passed away in the line of duty,
survived by his wife after twelve years serving LA law enforcement.
American hero Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A shocking roadside discovery. A
little boy last scene with a so called depraved illegal
youth soccer coach is dead. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oscar Omar Hernandez is a thirteen year old student and
soccer player in Sun Valley, California.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dedicated to his team and the sport.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oscar eagerly agrees to help his coach make jerseys one
Friday night, but concerns grow when the thirteen year old
boy doesn't return home.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Thirteen years old, just turned thirteen. He hadn't even lived
thirteen years yet, he had only lived twelve years and
some days. Why is this little boy dead and callously
thrown on the side of the road. According to witnesses,
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he was the last seen with his youth soccer coach Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Mister Garcia a Keino was his soccer coach and on
that day Omar Hernandez went up to Lancaster to see
mister Garcia Alkeno. Two days later he was reported missing,
and on April second, twenty twenty five, last week, his
body was found in Oxnard, off the road near Leo
(01:27):
Correo State Beach.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oscar Omar is the baby of the Hernandez family.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Thirteen, Oscar has settled into his life in North Hollywood,
known as Omar to his seventh grade classmates at the
Sun Valley Magnet School, he gets good grades and is
well liked, but above all, he's a standout soccer player.
If Oscar isn't helping out at home or in school,
you can find him at the Whitst soccer fields.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This little boy just turned thirteen, lived and breathed soccer
just like my son. He was always at the soccer field,
and we believe that is how he met. According to
Homeland Security, a depraved illegal alien who was a youth
soccer coach listen.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Oscar is out playing soccer. Garcia Akino approaches Oscar about
joining the walking Club. When garcia Akino offers him one
on one lessons without charge, Oscar jumps at the chance.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
On a Friday afternoon, coach garcia Quino gives his star
student a call inviting Oscar to make some money doing
a few odd jobs at his Lancaster home. Oscar, a
hard worker who would love an addition to his allowance,
is immediately interested before the thirteen year old really gets
permission from his family, He grabs the next train to Lancaster,
a two hour trip oscar facetimes. His brother j sway
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from the train, telling him coach will drop him back
at home tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Joining me an all star panel to make sense of
what we are learning tonight. But I know this much.
The body of a thirteen year old little boy who
trusted his soccer coach implicitly was found thrown by the
side of the road like trash. But how did he
get there? What led up to that? Joining me as
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I said, an All Star panel. But first let me
go to Sierra VanderBrug, crime safety reporter at La Daily News. Sierra,
thank you for being with us. Tell me about this
soccer field and how is it that this little boy
is out there playing when he is approached and befriended
by an illegal alien soccer coach.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
We still have a lot of questions about the process
of Garcia Keno meeting Hernandez, but reports indicate that he
was his soccer coach on a travel boys team located
out here in the San Fernando Valley. Sheriff Robert Luna
here in Los Angeles told us that Garcia Keno worked
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as a coach for a youth travel soccer team called
Urancan Valley Boys Soccer Club, where he coached varying age groups.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, I'm very curious as to your take on this.
Most of Castillo joining me private investigator with the dor
Duelian Law Group, former supervisor detective with the LAPD. Mister Castillo,
thank you for being with us. It sounds like a
textbook case. A text book case. The boy lives, breathes,
(04:27):
and AATs soccer when he's not in school, he's at
the soccer fields, and he is approached by this youth
soccer coach and now he's dead. Moses, Yes, horrible.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Nancy.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
First of all, I want to tell you that these
groomers are great at what they do. Not only do
they earn the trust of the victims that they're targeting,
but they also gained the trust of their parents, their family,
to the point where they let them get on the
train and travel all the way two hours to where
he lives and spend the night. Unbelievable that this even happened,
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but that's the reality that these groomors are so good
that they can convince a family to do just that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Another thing, Moses Castillo. They dangle in front of the
children and the family that the child has amazing soccer
skills or amazing fill in the blank skills, tennis skills,
football skills, basketball skills, and that they could get a
college scholarship maybe or maybe even play pro. And for
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a lot of children, I mean, it would have been
a huge carrot if my family when we were growing up,
you know, nobody had ever been to college in our family.
If they thought, wow, she's so good at blank, we
can get her in college for free. She can get
tuition and a college education. I mean, that's the kind
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of lure that makes parents believe these coaches. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
They tell me Johnny's great player, he's going to be
a star, and so on and so forth. But I
gotta tell you, sources closer to the investigation have told
me that this was a self proclaimed coach. He wasn't certified,
He wasn't registered with any league as a coach whatsoever.
And when the authorities searched his residents, they did find
plato ID cards, They found registration forms, applications, which tells
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me that some league gave them access to these children,
and they should never have done that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh my stars, how did he do it. You're telling
me that adults believed his scam and let him have
access to these children. I mean, we know that he
approached the little boy oscar and said, wow, you're amazing
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and offered him private soccer lessons coaching for free. That
doesn't happen. My son is a as a soccer player
and he gets goalie lessons. But through the school, the
school has a goalie coach that is helping the goalies.
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This guy just walks out onto a soccer field, approaches
a little boy and says, hey, you're awesome. I'm going
to give you soccer coaching for free. That's what happened, Moses.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That is crazy. That's bizarre that it went unchecked and
nobody stepped in and said, hey, show me your credentials.
You're not certified. Parents need to be more vigilant and
confirmed these things. Are you going to be the coach?
Show me your credentials, Show me that you've been certified,
that you've been life scanned, that you went through a
background check, that you've been through the training.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All that was missed, But you know what. You know what?
Let me go to Karen Stark Guys. Karen is renownedd psychologists,
joining us out of Manhattan, TV radio trauma expert, and
you can find her at Karenstark dot com. Karen. Parents
that are uneducated, and I don't mean didn't go to college.
(08:07):
I don't mean that, I mean parents like my parents.
Why would they question that someone's not a soccer coach? Right? Yes,
it's easy first to say why didn't the parents know?
Why didn't the parents check him out? But I'm thinking
back when we were growing up, we were exposed to
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all sorts of adults that didn't have a background check,
It didn't have credentials. So I don't really blame the
parents here.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
This is somebody who's come across so charismatic outwardly, and
he was considered trusted by these children, these boys, they
thought he was fabulous.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
How would they know anything else?
Speaker 10 (08:52):
And the parents believed him. They are so skilled. This
kind of guy is so skilled at coming across that way.
But underneath this is a predator. This is what he wants.
He wants psycho sexual fulfillment, and so he does the
best job he can to convince them they should trust
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him with their children.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You know, Sierra Vanderbrugg is joining us from Daily News.
You know, I'm looking at those photos, Sierra, take a
look at those photos we were just showing. It shows
the coach with a team. Now, explain to me he
was He approached a little oscar about joining the club.
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What club?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
So we had Sheriff Robert Luna here in Los Angeles
confirming that Garcia Kino worked as a coach for a
youth travel soccer league called the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer
Club and that as a part of this club, he
coached various age groups.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh, a travel League's that's a lot different. Okay, Sierra,
explain what is a travel league?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
To my understanding, a travel league would be a competitive
team that I would travel around to multiple locations competing
in soccer games.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, man, And they're not school affiliated. Moses Castillo, my
son played with a similar league and they don't travel far,
but they do travel say an hour two hours max
to play basketball. So it's not really affiliated with a
school like you were saying. But it's a travel league.
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And I find that really interesting because this coach, this
coach would then have access to these boys, many of
them very young and very small, away from the parents. Moses, Yes,
his move.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Is very, very specific and targeted. He would like to
get these kids alcohol, get them drunk, have them over, sleepovers,
that kind of thing. And some of them would wake
up the next morning feelings like something went wrong, something
happened to them, but they were just too afraid. Who
was shamed to speak up? But this went on for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And they may not have really understood what went wrong.
I mean, they wake up and their clothes may be misadjusted,
or they might feel queasy, but they don't really know
what happened. It's a nightmare scenario, especially for a little
boy like this who is just turned thirteen. So herera again,
how did this suspect meet little Oscar.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
It's unclear the specifics of how he exactly met Oscar,
but we've been told that he was his soccer coach,
so previous relationship established as a coach to Oscar.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Moses Castillo joining me private investigator with the Dordellian Law Group. Moses,
have you seen the image of the Whitst Park facility.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
It's huge, absolutely, That's why these predators they seek these
positions because that's a high victim target ridge environment. And
that's exactly it. I gotta tell you. On the fields
costs money. You have to give permits, you have to
pay for that. And he did this unnoticed, unchecked for years.
Speaker 11 (12:10):
Once you see the photos of this individual, that if
you may have been a victim, please come forward. I
know it's not easy. I know it could be either embarrassing,
you don't want to tell somebody, but it's very important
that we bring justice not only to the family here
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to my left, but any families that may have been
victimized by this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
(13:01):
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Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Thirteen year old Oscar Omar Hernandez eagerly takes the train
from his home in Sun Valley to Palmade California with
the hopes of helping out his coach make jerseys for
the team, But twenty four hours later, Oscar still hasn't
returned home, despite claims from his coach that he dropped
the team off.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
This is what we know right now. According to Homeland Security,
the coach is actually a quote depraved illegal alien. Their words,
not mine. Why do they say that? And how did
this little boy end up hours away from home with
the soccer coach? Listen?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Later that night, Hossway tries to call Oscar again, but
it's not his little brother that answers. Garcia Akino picks up,
saying Oscar can't come to the phone because his hands
are dirty. Ho Suay tries to ask exactly what time
he can expect Oscar home, but the coach waves him
off once again, promising he'll bring Oscar home in a
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reasonable time Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, we were talking earlier, and I believe it was you,
Moses Castillo, And I understand why you said it that.
Why didn't the parents check this guy out? Why didn't
they ask for a background shit where he was certified? Well,
I don't know if you're going to remember the name,
Jerry said, Dusky that was ultimately accused of Oh, I
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don't even know how many molestations, Listen, I.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Was kind of thinking that he was going to get
off scott free with this, and then I'm just going
to be another kid in the front page and the
newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his for him.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
The amount the damage he did and the number of
people that he arms is something that I don't know.
Speaker 12 (14:59):
I don't know that anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
From our friends at ABC and CBS. I mean, for
Pete's sake, Karen Stark, when Castillo rightfully is saying, well,
did the parents check him out? That would be an
obvious question. We parents trust the coach, We trust the school,
right they trusted the youth league as it is called.
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Here you had Jerry Sandusky, the long time, renowned, venerable coach,
the winner, and all this time he had been raping
boys in his charge, and everybody was too afraid to
say anything about.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
It, especially especially when you think about it, Nancy. The
boys it's not just they weren't sure of what happened
in this case when they stayed overnight. It's also that
children are afraid to report these predators. They're in a
position of a started. We're talking about a coach. We're
talking about some someone who was very well known. The
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parents completely trust them. Why shouldn't they, I mean everyone, you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Know, jumping off what you just said, Karen, coach Jerry Sandusky.
It wasn't that he was just a Pennsylvania state assistant
football coach, but he gave summer training to Pennsylvania's underprivileged
and at risk youth. That is where he met most
of his victims, right and they were about the age
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of Oscar, the little boy Oscar that we're talking about
right now, Dubay forty five counts of sex abuse. And
look who he targeted. He targeted at risk little boys,
boys that were underprivileged boys whose parents were probably both
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working or had a one parent in the home who
was working and was just happy that their child had
been picked by Sandusky to go too. He is the
second mile sports camp for underprivileged use. They probably thought, debate,
they were so lucky to get their child in the
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summer camp.
Speaker 13 (17:10):
Sandusky had a knack for picking out unsophisticated, uncultured people,
and he would also garner him the sympathy, the respect,
and the admiration of their parents, so nobody had a
problem with him being a part of their lives. But
unbeknownst to everybody, in a dark sort of hinter grund,
as we say, he was actually laying hands on these kids.
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He had abnormal sexual perversions, and nobody really knew it
was going on. And these kids had a work sense
of achievement and accomplishment and kind of went along with it,
to get along, if you will. And it wasn't until
one kid cried foul and said, no, take your hands
off me, that the story blew wide open. So it
takes one kid for this whole thing to really come
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to a halt. Unfortunately, there was a kid that was
courageous enough to come forward. Now Sandusky will spend the
rest of his life in prison.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I hope you're sitting down. He served in this capacity
twenty two years as the defensive coordinator twenty two years
assistant coach at Penn State. He received the Assistant Coach
of the Year twice. He authored multiple books related to
(18:23):
his football coaching experiences. He founded this nonprofit, The Second Mile,
for Pennsylvania's underprivileged children, and after he retired from Penn State,
he continued working with second Mile, on and on and on.
It took a grand jury, a secret grand jury, two
(18:44):
years to investigate him. He was charged with fifty two
counts of sex abuse over fifteen years that we know of.
The children were all afraid to come forward, much like this, listen.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
I was kind of thinking that he was going to
get off scott free with this, and then I'm just
going to be another kid in the front page of
the newspaper that has a big liar stamped across his forehead.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now from our friends at ABC twenty twenty and here
it seems as if history is repeating itself again. Two.
Doctor Michelle Dupree joining me, a renowned forensic pathologists, medical examiner,
former detective at Lexington County Sheriff's Department, author of a
brand new book, Money, Mischief and Murder The Murdock Dynasty
(19:33):
the rest of the story, but from my purposes. She
is also the author of the Homicide Investigation Field Guide
and the Child Abuse Investigation Field Guide. I'm curious because
we see here doctor Dupree, according to investigative reports that
we've obtained, the coach and I'm saying that in quotes
(19:58):
the illegal alien co coach first of all be friend
of the little boy at the Whitsit Park complex, offering
free soccer lessons. But then the lure went further. He
lured the little boy by saying he had odd jobs
for him at his place and that he would pay him.
(20:21):
So I understanding he was going to work on making
jerseys or monogramming jerseys, or something to do with the
soccer jerseys. So now you've got a little boy just
turned thirteen, alone on transit, going two hours away from
home to be alone with the coach at his house.
(20:43):
Quote making jerseys. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, doctor Michelle Dupree,
You've sadly worked on so many child on the side cases.
And that is the mo the modus operandi, the method
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of operation. You get the child alone, whether you like
I was talking to Sierra VanderBrug earlier, whether you get
them in your vehicle, your truck, your camper, whether you
lure them to your home. You get the child alone,
and that is where everything goes sideways. How many cases
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have you seen homicide cases where the child is lured away?
Speaker 14 (21:31):
Nancy, this is a common scenario. Is this is exactly
how they operate. They initially meet the child. They're very personable.
Most of these people are personable. They are liked by
the kids, they're liked by the families. They gain their trust,
and once they gain that trust, it's a little bit
out of time. They continue to befriend them, continue to
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offer them a carot if you will, and a bigger
reward for something. And children are trusting, you know, children,
I don't think like adults. In most cases, they trust adults,
and oftentimes they won't tell if something is a little
bit suspicious because they don't know. And also this is
an adult. They wonder when anybody really believe me or not.
(22:12):
So this is not uncommon. This is their method of operation,
and unfortunately it works way too many times.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Don't do dupree. I never cried, I never got sick.
I never vomited nothing at the site of a dead
body or on a homicide scene ever. But there was
one time I thought I was going to throw up.
I didn't, and it was when a child was on
the autopsy table. When you see children on the autopsy
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table over and over and over, it's like, I know
right now, I'm preaching to the choir, but parents don't
get it. I mean, my parents didn't get it. I
was left with adults and supervised that we really didn't know.
And through the grace of God, nothing happened to me
(23:05):
or my brother or sister. But parents are trusting, especially
when the molester is clothed with clothed with the indisha
of reliability. He's wearing a soccer uniform. You've got to
see pictures of him with teams like we're showing you.
But he was not with a school, he was not sanctioned,
nothing like that. And I mean, do you ever get weary,
(23:30):
doctor Duprees seeing one child on the autopsy table after.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
The next all the time. Nancy. It's one of the
worst cases a medical examiner could ever have. Children and elderly.
You know, they're supposed to be protected, they're trusting, and
they should be, but it doesn't often work out well.
And this is one of the reasons why. And yes,
it gets to me and it gets to others every
single time. This should not be happening to our kids.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oscar's family is worried, sick after more than a day
with no sign of their thirteen year old son.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And soccer student.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The boys soccer coach promises he dropped the teen off,
but Oscar is nowhere to be found. Then a mysterious
text from Oscar's phone claiming the thirteen year old is
at a party with friends joining me.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Now is Anna sonoda clinical social worker who focuses on
forensic issues like this, and she's the author of Duck
Duck Groom. Anna, this is the textbook the seminal example
of luring. You heard me lay out. First, he was
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approached at a Whitst soccer complex which is huge, and says, hey,
free one on one coaching for soccer because you're so amazing.
Oscar just turned thirteen. Then he lures him to his house.
Then he won't respond appropriately to the family. Now we're
hearing about a text, a text from a little Oscar
(25:00):
that says he was going to a party with friends.
I mean, it would be a cold day in HG
double l that my children, who are now seventeen, would
just announce they were going to a party with friends.
That doesn't happen. I mean, I've got to know where
are you going with, who, who's driving, when you're going
to be home, what's the location? Have fun? Right? So
(25:25):
you know, Anna, I strongly believe that the coach was
texting as if he was Oscar, the little boy.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Absolutely, we have several examples here of a grooming situation.
What does that mean? What does that word grooming mean?
We've said it a few times already. This show grooming
is a perverse form of courtship. It convinces not only children,
but it convinces their caregivers that they are trustworthy, that
they're reliable, and that they're caring. This coach exploited his
(25:59):
role as a sports youth individual in order to show
the parents and the kids, hey, you can trust me.
I want what's best for you. And to single that
child out as special and unique is classics favoritism that
we see in the stages towards the grooming process for
(26:23):
sexual exploitation and in this horrific case, ultimately murder.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And of course, at this juncture, the family doesn't know
what to believe, even that they get this mystery text
of a little boy claiming, Hey, I'm going to a party?
What party? Mama heard anything about a party? Well, the
search is now on for little Oscar.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A desperate joint agency search for Oscar begins. Both the
LAPD and LA County Sheriff's Office scoured North Hollywood for
the boy. Their only lead was that he was last
seen on his way to Lancaster on the metrolink.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A massive search is on both LAPD and the La
County Sheriff's Office looking for little Oscar. Listen.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
On the fourth day of the investigation, a teen boy's
body is found over seventy miles away, dumped in a
wooded area off a road near Leo Carrillo State Beach.
The remains are confirmed to be those of thirteen year
old Oscar Omar Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I can't believe my son is dead. That is from
our friends at Katla five. And very quickly after the
body is discovered, the coach is tracked down.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
Why couldn't at least do anything upout my case? And
they just left it open and then they have to
get to a teenage boy getting killed.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
The same day Oscar's body is discovered, his soccer coach,
forty three year old Mario Garcia Akino, is arrested, but
not in connection to Oscar. Garcia Akino is accused of
attempting to molest a sixteen year old boy. The teen
also spent the night and felt extremely sleepy after drinking
an orange juice. Garcia Akino offered him old police. Garcia
Akino twice tried to pull down his pants, but he
(28:03):
fought garcia Akino off and called nine one one. The
incident occurred more than a year ago in February of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oscar's family hasn't seen the boy in over twenty four
hours after he was.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Expected home Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
A text from his phone claims Oscar is at a
party with friends, but Oscar's friends don't have any knowledge.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Of a party.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The thirteen year old has reported missing, and an intense
search is launched for the boy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Karen Stark, don't you see the significance of this mysterious
text from the little boys and I'm going to a party?
And then can't you just say the mom and the
brother calling hey what party?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What party? To all the friends and they know nothing
about it. This means I believe that the coach was
using the little boy's phone to text as if he's Oscar.
That's a whole nother level of premeditation, and we're familiar
with it.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
Nancy, remember Brian Laundry, right, And he took the phone
and he made the mistake of calling the grand by
the name. People do that, Murderers do that. They take
advantage of whatever they can. I'm not the least bit
surprised because this guy needs to cover up. He's desperate
to make sure that nobody finds out what he did.
(29:17):
And I'm not surprised to happen because over time, in
this kind of situation, the person gets bolder and bolder
and bolder.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And that's exactly what happened here. Now you hear Philip
Dubay claiming that, oh, it was just a delight, b
s a delay that cost Oscar his life. Listened to
one of the first alleged victims.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
I go to sleep, I see him like trying to
pull down my shorts and I woke up. I proused
him and he told me it was all the Joe.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
In February of twenty twenty four, Garcia Aquino befriended a
Silmar family who allowed their juvenile son to stay with
him at his residence in Palmdale. The family subsequently filed
a criminal report with the Palmdale Sheriff's Station alleging sexual
abuse of their child, Moses Christilla.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I think my head's gonna blow off. That originally was
from our friends at NBC LA. Now you heard, But
I don't know what dog he's got in the fight
with skin in the game because normally he is on
LA law enforcement like a cheap suit. But today, when
it works in the defense's favor, it's like, oh, it
was just a mistake. Did you hear the first boy? Well,
(30:37):
probably not the first one of the prior molestation victims.
I go to sleep, I see him trying to pull
my down my shorts. I woke up. I punched him,
and he told me it was a joke. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
As a sex crime detective I was for twenty years
with LAPD, this breaks my heart. We did drop the
ball on this poor victim. The case was submitted to
the d's office electronically and hist under queue, untouched for months.
That's what sources familiar with the investigation have told me.
And when the investigators called the disease office to follow up,
(31:09):
they realized that nobody had looked at this case for
a long time. And that's where we dropped the ball.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Oh you know what, I don't like what you just said,
Castillo drop the ball. That's like oops, I dropped the ball.
This is abandoned and malignant heart dropped the ball. Oscar
is dead because somebody dropped the ball Ana Sonota. That's
(31:35):
not all listen.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Detectives learned that there was another unrelated child sexual abuse
case being handled by the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill
Division involving Garcia Aquino. On April second, twenty twenty five,
the new information from both the Sheriff's Department and the
(31:57):
Police Department cases, the District Attorney Office filed one felony
count of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense
on Mario Garcia. He was taken into custody in the
city of Los Angeles and he was then subsequently transferred
to the custody of the Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Teos here at Vanderbrook joining
us from the Los Angeles Daily News Sierra how many
at this juncture? How many young boy victims do we
know of? At this point?
Speaker 7 (32:43):
We know that there were two charges filed against Garcia A.
Keno now in relation to previous sex abuse cases, one
from twenty twenty two and one from twenty twenty four.
But during this press conference, we did hear. Sheriff Robert
Luna emphasized that police and sheriff department believe that there
may be more victims. They are searching for more victims.
(33:05):
Anyone with information or who believes they've been a victim
of Garciaqino. They asked contact them and that they were.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Looking at everything.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Authorities believe there may be more assault victims or missing
persons connected to Garciaqino. They are open, they are looking
for both.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Okay, everybody sitting down, You may need to lay down
for this too. Listen to the La County Sheriff Robert Luna.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
Garcia Quino was a youth travel soccer coach with the
Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club in the Silmar area, working
with different age divisions. He had no reported criminal history.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
BS and you know, Sheriff Leuna, I like you, I
do anything against you. But why did you just say
that he had no reported criminal history? Did you not
just hear the boy victim? That happened over a year
ago and nothing was done. So while there's not a conviction,
(34:00):
there is un arrest, there is an allegation let me rephrase,
fell on the assault with intent to commit a lude
act twenty twenty two felon the assault with intent to
commit rape lud act on a child age fourteen or fifteen.
Those are the ones that we have been able to
dig up. How many more are out there? I mean,
(34:23):
you know, Moses Castillo, isn't it true step statistically when
a child molester is caught once that there are dozens
of prior undetected child molestations. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
That's why the message here today is if you're out
there and you're a victim of this evil monster, please
come forward. It was never your fault, and I want
you to know that one hundred percent, and you have
the support of the victim services that are going to
be coming for you and available to you.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Nothing was done on prior claims of child molestation against
the so called traveling coach. Nothing was done, The files
gathered dust, and now a little boy is dead and
his body thrown on the side of the road. Listen,
we don't.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Have the actual details of how he was killed at
this exact moment, nor do we have all the reports
that will come in when the coroner.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Produces his They've already performed an autopsy and it turned
out there was a lot of alcohol in his urine.
Speaker 12 (35:27):
This is a stable.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
That's the only thing left to investigate is whether he
was sexually imputed.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The things and my boys drink and I'm sure of
that why because he didn't resist, guys. That is from
our friends at Univision thirty four LA. It's almost more
than I can take in what we are hearing, Doctor
Michelle Dupree. The boy found on the side of the
road like his trash. I imagine days had passed. Are
(35:56):
we going to be able to get a CEOD cause
of death and we'll be able to Will we be
able to tell had the boy been molested?
Speaker 14 (36:02):
Yes, Nancy, I think we will. We can often tell
so much even though time has passed, and in this case,
it's likely that we did find alcohol in the blood.
But we're also probably going to be able to tell
that he may have been strangled or certainly if there
was any type of blunt force trauma, which is typical
in cases like this, especially the strangulation.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So how long will alcohol still be in the victim's system.
Speaker 14 (36:26):
It can be in there for days, Nancy. If we
can't get it in the blood, we can take it
from the vitreous, which is an excellent long term way
to get this kind of toxicology report.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Vitreous is what.
Speaker 14 (36:38):
Vitreous is, the fluid inside the eyeball. It's well protected.
It gives us a very good pre mortem indication of
many things like electrolytes or alcohol content.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Okay, let me just warn the LA District Attorney, do
not jump on the bandwagon. But apparently he is listen.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
If he had been arrested on that earlier alleged defense,
he wouldn't have been on the streets, and he certainly
would not be working as a coach.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
In order to develop the evidence for any particular offense,
as we will be providing in court. It doesn't happen overnight.
So even though that original offense occurred back in February
of twenty twenty four, that investigated started approximately within I
forgot within weeks of that particular investigation. But you have
(37:25):
to actually go through all the different parts of an
investigation before you ever get to it.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Why would the government, knowing he had such an accusation,
allow him to be free?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, why would they? That's where our friends at KTLA five.
You know, as much tap dancing as the DA's doing.
He need to just admit the truth. There's no way
to fix this now. They dropped the ball. As Castillo
said earlier, why is it that we so willingly trust
sports coaches named Larry Nasser? I wish I never heard it, sir.
(38:02):
If what you did and touching these.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Victims in all of these accounts was ungloved.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Is that correct?
Speaker 12 (38:10):
Yes, you fear that her.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And it was not for any medical purpose? Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (38:16):
It was for your own purpose?
Speaker 15 (38:18):
Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I don't want another young gymnast, Olympic athlete, or any
individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of
others have endured. One of my heroes right there, Simone Biles.
That was from our friends at NBC. Just think about it.
At that elite level, an Olympic coach molesting scores of
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young girls, some as young as thirteen. I can hardly
stand to look at him. He makes me sick just
to look at him. Girls representing our country. This little
boy is dead, his body thrown on the side of
the road and behind bars. The description by Homeland Security
(39:09):
is a depraved illegal alien. There's no telling how many
little boys were molested by him, and he had an
a sonoda unfattered access to them.
Speaker 15 (39:30):
Absolutely, predators run on gas, grooming access, and space. Coaches,
especially travel coaches, have an exceptional amount of gas. They
get time away with the child, they built trust with
the parents. In Nancy, parents are good, parents are doing
what they can. This family had high hopes for what
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this sports coach was going to be able to do
for their son. How many countless families are in the
same position, and predators, by golly, they know it and
they exploit that every time.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
You know, Karen Stark, I'm not sure if I told
you about this, but I remember a Methodist lay leader
who was a college professor came and spoke at our
church and promised to coach me free, because you know,
we were broke Spanish private Spanish coaching, and my parents
(40:25):
let me, along with my sister go to this guy's
home with his family that was an hour away. And
I'm thinking about it. My parents were so happy that
I could get this private coaching in Spanish. Was taking
(40:46):
Spanish at school. It's just like that point. It was
in the fifth grade and they thought, oh, something we
can't afford that we can give her. So it's it's
not the parent's fault, and I don't want to portray
that way.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
It's not the parent's fault, Nancy. That's so correct, because
we're talking about master manipulators. They are charming. Their exterior
is trusting. They act like you can trust them with
your children, and parents are looking for help. They're in
a position of authority in that way, and you can't
(41:23):
count on the children. Unfortunately. Parents believe that maybe their
children would tell them that something was wrong, but the
children are afraid. They don't understand, they don't know how
to come forward, they don't even have the words for
it developmentally. So it is a terrible problem, really a
terrible problem that parents need to be aware of and
(41:45):
investigate who's with your children beforehand.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Guys, let me announce that there is a gofund me
for Oscar Hernandez's family. They're just trying to get money
to pay off the funeral. It's at go fund me
dot com Oscar Omar Hernandez. Right now, the state is
building its case, and when I say building its case,
(42:10):
I mean looking for other child victims. I believe that
these other child victims will testify in a court of
law under the theory of similar transactions to bolster the state's
case in the murder of Little Oscar. The state is
(42:32):
also looking for these victims and looking for witnesses to
possibly seeing the coach with Little Oscar. If you know
or think you know anything about this case, please dial
eight one eight three seven four five to four one
(42:54):
five or toll free eight hundred two two two A
four to seven seven repeat eight hundred two two two
eight four seven seven. I believe that's the number I
would use because the States already dropped the ball on
the case already. I would go with crime Stoppers. And
(43:15):
now we remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway,
Lownes County Sheriff's Alabama, passed away in the line of duty,
survived by his wife after twelve years serving LA law enforcement.
American hero Deputy Sheriff Levy Petway
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