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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Child 'Protection' leaves bruised, beaten 3-year old tot girl TO DIE

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Reports of child abuse prompt a welfare check by Children's Protective Services in Michigan. Agency reports note visible bruising on Trinity Chandler's face, but case workers decided against removing the 3-year-old from the home. Twenty-four hours later, the little girl's mother gets a text that Trinity is not waking up. The mother was working an overnight shift at a nursing home. Her boyfriend, Samuel Smart, was taking care of Trinity. Joining Nancy Grace today:Marc Klaas - Founder, Klaas Kids Foundation www.klaaskids.org Diamond Chandler - victim's AuntKathleen Murphy - North Carolina, Family Attorney, www.ncdomesticlaw.com Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.com Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute FounderJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Ray Caputo - Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO

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1:08.4

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:15.6

How does a beautiful little three year old girl named Trinity, three years old,

1:22.4

end up dead? She didn't have an asthma attack. She wasn't hit by a car. She didn't have a

1:32.5

congenital heart problem that nobody knew about. So how does this beautiful little three year old girl

1:41.7

end up dead? I want answers. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:57.8

Paul Minivus had Christmas break, New Year's Eve, were with our family loving every minute of being

2:11.6

together. The harsh reality is that deaths of children, children going missing, goes on year-round.

2:23.2

There is no weekend break. There's no Christmas break, no New Year's break.

2:29.1

So as much as we want to turn our gaze and focus on the Christmas tree or happy New Year,

2:37.0

Lady Justice never gets a rest. And one of the reasons she never gets a rest is because of children

2:46.0

like Trinity. First of all, take a listen to this. Three year old Trinity Chandler's family had

2:54.1

big plans for Christmas and this typical little girl was excited for the holidays. She loved

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