Children's Author Abuses Three Adopted Children | Crime Alert 6AM 04.14.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 14 April 2025
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A children's book author and her husband abuse and neglect their three adopted children. New York drug counselor is dealing crack under the table!
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Jennifer and John Wolfthol, adopted parents |
| 0:05.7 | to three young children, rushed their eight-year-old daughter to the hospital, unconscious, |
| 0:10.8 | in organ failure, and injured. The eight-year-old extremely malnourished doctors don't think the swollen |
| 0:17.1 | bruise on the back of her head and severe cuts are related to a fall. |
| 0:22.2 | On a visit to the home, police officers find their two older children 9 and 11, |
| 0:27.5 | also showing signs of neglect and abuse. |
| 0:30.6 | Nancy, Jennifer Wolfthall is a children's author, but her book, A Real Friend, |
| 0:35.3 | has now been ripped from shelves. |
| 0:39.0 | The Wolfthals adopted their children in 2014 and did not regularly feed or bathe them, spank them to the point of drawing blood, |
| 0:45.4 | and douse them in bed with cold water, leaving them to sleep in wet bedding. The little girl was |
| 0:50.8 | diagnosed with pneumonia and a staff infection, but is said to be doing better |
| 0:54.7 | after weeks of round-the-clock care. Jennifer and John Wolfthall convicted of aggravated child |
| 1:00.2 | abuse and neglect resulting in great bodily harm. Sentenced to 12 and 10 years in prison, |
| 1:06.4 | respectively. In a plea deal, prosecutors struck to avoid retramatizing the children at trial. |
| 1:12.9 | This dealer thought he had the perfect cover for his cocaine business. |
| 1:16.6 | Alvin Lewis works as a drug counselor at a New York rehab, all while distributing cocaine |
| 1:22.4 | under the table. |
| 1:24.0 | After multiple reports from the public, cops sent undercovers to visit Lewis, who happily collects their money. |
| 1:30.0 | Lewis shot when he's pulled over and arrested a few hours later, searches of his home and car reveal a large number of prepackaged baggies of crack. |
| 1:38.8 | Alvin Lewis, 54, charged with delivery and sale of a controlled substance. More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:49.4 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley. The man who shot and |
| 1:55.1 | killed a Kentucky sheriff's deputy during a routine traffic stop will spend the rest of his life behind bars. |
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