Familial Love : Sarah Barrass & Brandon Machin
This Is Monsters
Jiles
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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When police arrived at the home of Sarah Barrass and her six children, they found some of the kids unresponsive. Though that was shocking enough, when they learned who the childrens' father was, the who neighborhood would be disgusted.
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| 0:00.0 | In May of 2019, police in South Yorkshire, England, were called to a house to do a welfare check on six children. |
| 0:08.9 | When officers arrived at the scene, they found the children, some of whom were unresponsive, and took the two adults at the house into custody. |
| 0:17.0 | But it wasn't the attack on the children that would become the most shocking discovery that day. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Monsters. |
| 0:57.1 | Music It was 7.30 a.m. on May 24, 2019, when at least a dozen police cars arrived at Greg House Road in Northern Sheffield. Just a few minutes prior, a woman named Sarah Baris sent a text message to a friend |
| 1:03.9 | that read, quote, He's trying to kill us, and Tristan and Blake are already dead. At least 12 police cars, some reporting up to 15, arrived at the |
| 1:13.5 | property and officers stormed the house. Inside, they found two adults and six children aged from |
| 1:20.0 | seven months to 14 years old. Some of the children were unresponsive, and though some were not, |
| 1:26.2 | they were all rushed to the hospital. The two oldest children, 14-year-responsive, and though some were not, they were all rushed to the hospital. |
| 1:28.8 | The two oldest children, 14-year-old Blake and 13-year-old Tristan, were not able to be resuscitated, |
| 1:35.1 | but the other children recovered. Officers took both of the adults into custody as they investigated |
| 1:41.0 | the situation. 34-year-old Sarah Barris was the mother of all six children |
| 1:47.0 | and was believed by her neighbors to be a single mother |
| 1:49.9 | who was doing everything she could to raise her family |
| 1:52.7 | with the help of her 39-year-old half-brother Brandon Machen. |
| 1:57.2 | It was early in 2019 that Sarah went to child services and asked for help dealing with |
| 2:02.7 | autism and ADHD in some of her children. |
| 2:06.3 | That set in motion a series of visits from a social worker that would ultimately uncover |
| 2:10.8 | a dark secret that Sarah had been keeping from everyone. |
| 2:14.9 | She told people that all the children had the same father, but he wasn't involved |
| 2:18.8 | in their lives. She told the children that their father had died serving in the military. |
| 2:25.5 | During World War II, more than 50 years before the oldest child was even born. |
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