Maliyha Hope Garcia: A child's death by starvation

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Maliyha Hope Garcia was 5 years old, but weighed only 24 pounds when paramedics found her dead in her adoptive parents home just before Christmas 2016. Estevan and Sacora Garcia allegedly starved the child to death, according to a grand jury indictment in Bend, Oregon. Court documents say an alarm on Maliyha’s bedroom door alerted the couple if the child tried to sneak a meal overnight. Nancy Grace and Alan Duke examine this disgusting child abuse murder case in this episode.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:34.8	A revenue couple faces charges of murder by abuse tonight in the death of a young child.
0:39.6	Sakura Korn Garcia and Esteban Garcia are facing five felony charges.
0:44.9	On December 21 last year 911 was contacted to report five-year-old Malia Garcia was unconscious
0:52.5	and not breathing. Esteban and Sakura are charged with murder by abuse, two counts of manslaughter
0:57.0	in the first degree, and two counts of criminal mistreatment in the first degree.
1:00.9	The criminal indictment claims the couple did unlawfully and intentionally withhold
1:05.2	necessary and adequate food from the girl, as well as necessary and adequate medical attention.
1:10.7	This is Korn Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:13.6	Neighbors say the parents treated Malia differently than other children in the house.
1:17.6	They had a lock on her door and whenever she would try to get out the alarm would go off.
1:22.2	District Attorney John Hummel said that the girl went through town.
1:25.6	Feel like they're trying to teach her a lesson.
1:28.4	A five-year-old little girl.
1:31.6	Dead. Malia died, weighing just 24 pounds.
1:38.2	Hold on let me let that sink in.
1:41.1	A five-year-old little girl Malia.
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