Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff, Real Crime Stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD sergeant, Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

You know, folks, as much as I cover this case and as many new things as we find out,

it hits me as to the fact that can we as a society, can we as a community?

And I'm not talking about the real crime community, I'm talking about

the community out there of moms and dads and baseball coaches and teachers and doctors and

lawyers, can we prevent the next Madeline Soto case?

And if so, how can we do that? And I chose as the title to today's show and someone in the

chat objected to it. Madeline Soto, why didn't mandatory reporters notice something suspicious?

And I'm not in any way pointing a finger at anyone.

However, what I am doing is trying to raise awareness so that there is no next

Madeline Soto.

There is not a little girl who, this, of course now finding out this abuse started out when she was 11 years old.

So why were there not signs of it, outward signs or signs when she went to school, signs when she went to see her doctor.

And I'm at this point not sure of the level of complicity of her mother, Jennifer Soto.

And I said it, and I'm not sure right now, I think she's still potentially considered by the police

a possible suspect.

And the other night when I had Professor Mike Girion, we spoke about a crime through omission.

And he explained, and I'll explain to you what omission is.

Omission is the failure to act when you have a legal obligation to act, as is the case here

that she had a legal obligation to act if she felt that her child was in danger.

And she obviously did not act.

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