Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories,

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration

of how and why this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener suggestion.

Thank you to Adam for bringing Blue Story to my attention.

It is listeners like you that keep the podcast going.

This is an incredibly heartbreaking story, one we hear time and time again.

Why women, mothers, bring these monsters into their children's lives? It never ceases to anger me, how a mother could choose their new partner

over the safety and lives of their own children. December 2022. On what should have been his

sixth birthday, Blue's grandmother attended his mother's home in Morrow, Arkansas, to pick up Blue and his sister for a fun birthday weekend with her and their father, Dustin.

Unfortunately, Blue never got a sixth birthday. His mother's boyfriend had allegedly murdered him months earlier, and his beloved and protective big sister had been so

severely burnt and beaten she could no longer walk.

This is a developing story, and we're waiting for the trial of both Blue's mother and

mother's boyfriend.

And I hope that Blue's father, grandmother and sister will see some justice for Blue.

Whether that be the death penalty, that remains to be

seen, but nothing will bring their blue back. I will do an update episode at the end of the year

and post in the Facebook group to keep you all updated on what happens here. This is Blue's story.

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