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He's been in this family's life for years. You know he's a patriarchal figure in these children's lives and he's been a family friend. So I'm going to give you a few more questions.

He's a patriarchal figure in these children's lives and he's been a family friend. So she's never had any reason to worry about her children's safety around him. She doesn't have any real concerns with just falling asleep and leaving your kids awake to play video games while he is in the house.

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Today on Small Town Dicks we have the usual suspects and it is very very good. We have Detective Dan. Good morning. Good morning. We have Detective Dave. Great to be here.

Good to have you. And Small Town FAM gets even better because this case comes to us from our favorite detectives, D&D. So gentlemen, take it away.

So this case occurred within the first year or two of my promotion to Detective and my specific case load was child abuse and sexual assault. That was 90 plus percent of what landed on my desk.

And Dan was still on patrol at the time. So Dan is actually the officer that gets called out in a patrol capacity out to an apartment complex in the east side of our town, middle of the night.

And he gets called out to a hit and run some driving complaint with a dispute attached to it. When he gets there, he finds out this is bigger than that.

So at the time I was working graveyard as patrol officer and dispatch was having a little trouble with the caller and her name is Diane. She was very emotional.

But some basic details that came out of the initial 911 call were that there was a dispute at Diane's house and the male who was involved in that dispute, a guy named Bradley, had left in a hurry, gotten his car and backed out of the driveway and committed a hit and run had actually run into part of the building when he was leaving in such haste.

When I arrived, what I found out from Diane was that she had some friends over, including Bradley and how old is Bradley, roughly.

Bradley's late 20s and then we have Lauren, who's maybe first, second grade. Her brother is a couple years older than her, but certainly will is also an elementary school.

Bradley's girlfriend's late 20s and then her son, Mandy brought her son to this party. He's infant toddler aged and Diane is in her 20s as well, a young mom.

Yeah, so will and Lauren's mom is probably early 30s.

Okay, got it.

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