Episode 26: James Biel

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children Pod

Social Sciences, True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Illinois mother Kara Witkowski, who joins me on today’s episode, spent months trying to protect her two young children from harm while in the care of their father. Thomas Biel had confessed to raping and abusing Kara and was under investigation for possessing child pornography. His father, Jerry Biel, was being investigated for allegedly molesting Kara’s 3-year-old daughter. Despite months of warnings from Kara, meticulous documentation backing up her claims, and the repeated hospitalization of her toddler son for a prolapsed rectum so severe that even surgery didn’t correct it, a family court judge granted full custody to Thomas Biel. Soon afterward, Kara’s 2-year-old son, James, died under suspicious circumstances while in the care of his father’s family, but police announced after less than 24 hours, even before an autopsy was performed, that there had been no foul play. Even though an independent second autopsy proved that spinal trauma caused James’s death, there has still been no investigation.
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0:00.0	Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.
0:10.0	He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.
0:15.0	Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.
0:19.0	All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm travelling find all the comfort you need in the quiet
0:25.5	lounge Piando ferries that is another way this podcast contains descriptions
0:31.8	of violence against children and adult language
0:34.4	and is not suitable for all audiences.
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1:22.3	voices back to the Victims of Child Abuse
1:24.4	And shining a harsh spotlight on the parents,
1:26.6	Guardians, and Caretakers who silence them.
1:29.9	I'm your host Lane, and this is episode 26, James Beal.
1:35.4	Illinois mother Kara Wutkowski who joins me on today's episode spent months trying to
1:39.7	protect her two young children from harm while in the care of their father.
1:43.0	Thomas Beale had confessed to raping and abusing Kara
1:47.0	and was under investigation for possessing child pornography.
1:50.0	His father, Jerry Beal, was being investigated for allegedly molesting Kara's three-year-old daughter.
1:56.0	Despite months of warnings from Kara, meticulous documentation backing up her claims,
2:02.0	and the repeated hospitalization of her toddler's son for a
2:04.6	prolapsed rectum so severe that even surgery didn't correct it, a family court judge granted full
2:10.5	custody to Thomas Beal.
2:13.2	Soon afterward, Kara's two-year-old son, James,
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