8.16.24 CRU with Nancy Grace: 12-Year-Old Georgia Girl Found Safe

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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True Crime

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nancy and Sheryl open today’s CRU by discussing the arrest of a 34-year-old Guatemalan national who abducted a 12-year-old girl. The victim was kidnapped, held hostage, and subjected to repeated abuse before her eventual rescue. Nancy and Sheryl discuss the details of the case, emphasizing the dangers of online predators, the psychological impacts on victims, and the legal complexities surrounding the extradition and prosecution of the predator.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation. NCMEC offers online safety education programs and resources for parents and children.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
(0:30) The arrest of a child predator has been made
(3:00) “There ain’t no such thing as a part-time pedophile.”
(3:15) Discussion on the predator’s psychological profiling
(3:45) Predator's online tactics
(7:00) Legal complexities and charges
(12:30) Legal jurisdiction and extradition issues
(16:30) Psychological impact on victims of child molestation
(19:30) Discussion on the importance of parental awareness
(22:00) The case of Melissa Wolfenbarger

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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime-fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people, and shines a light on cold cases.

In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/

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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crime Roundup.
0:10.9	I'm Cheryl McCollum, and I am joined, as always, with the Queen of the True Crime Radio, Nancy Grace.
0:19.7	Nancy, we got one today.
0:22.9	He is hogtied meritorically, but we got a child predator arrested and jailed
0:30.0	after kidnapping a 12-year-old girl and holding her hostage for two months.
0:38.3	You know, I want to talk about this.
0:39.6	You're referring to Maria Gomez-Pattas and this little girl, just 12 years old,
0:44.3	just turned 12 years old.
0:48.0	You know, Cheryl, we don't get to report good news that often in our line of business. We're not the Avon lady,
0:56.4	okay? We're not party planners, you know, we're not artists or poets. We deal in the true life
1:09.6	suffering of those around us.
1:13.8	And Cheryl, when I have an outcome like this little girl, this 12-year-old girl,
1:20.0	when a child is taken by stranger on stranger abduction, I'm not talking about
1:25.9	custodial interference, where the mom is like, screw you, you're a bad dad, I'm not talking about custodial interference where the mom is like,
1:29.0	screw you, you're a bad dad, I'm taking her to Canada.
1:32.2	I'm not talking about that.
1:34.1	Talking about stranger on stranger.
1:38.5	A grown man, 34 years old, there was some speculation.
1:43.3	He was 31.
1:48.2	I believe we've confirmed he's 34. A Guatemalan National meets this little girl. If you can call it that online. You know what? Shame on me.
1:54.7	He didn't meet a little girl. That's like he was outside of Kroger and he bought her Girl Scout cookies.
2:01.3	No, he was online searching for a child victim.
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