(Re-Release) Episode 146: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 1)
Suffer the Little Children
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4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In 2011, 19-year-old Josie Dikeman was accused of child neglect after her boyfriend’s one-year-old daughter suffered a skull fracture and a brain injury in her care. That charge was dropped. Two years later, she was convicted in a separate child neglect case regarding the same little girl, by then age three, who had been returned from foster care only to become malnourished and suffer fractured hands and feet while in Josie and her boyfriend’s care.
After Josie moved in with her new boyfriend, Derek Pedrin, forming a large, blended family with seven children, loved ones began reporting concerns that Josie was abusing or neglecting Derek’s son, Alexavier. Derek and Josie began refusing to let Alexavier’s maternal family see him. On February 10 of this year, police performed a welfare check at the family’s request, finding Alexavier asleep and very drowsy, but supposedly fine. Fifteen hours later, police returned to the home, where six-year-old Alexavier was pronounced dead.
This is part one of the infuriating story of Alexavier Pedrin.
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Anderson family GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rjfpz-justice-for-alex
Justice for Alexavier on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090123498090
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language |
| 0:04.1 | and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:06.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children. |
| 0:52.2 | The True Crime podcast, giving voices back to the victims |
| 0:55.0 | of child abuse and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, guardians, and caretakers who silence |
| 1:00.3 | them. I'm your host, Lane, and this is episode 146, Alex Xavier Pedron, Part 1. In 2011, 19-year-old Josie Dyckman was accused of child neglect after her boyfriend's |
| 1:14.6 | one-year-old daughter suffered a skull fracture and a brain injury in her care. That charge was dropped. |
| 1:21.9 | Two years later, she was convicted in a separate child neglect case regarding the same little girl |
| 1:27.2 | by then age three, |
| 1:28.9 | who had been returned from foster care only to become malnourished and suffer fractured hands and |
| 1:33.8 | feet while in Josie and her boyfriend's care. After Josie moved in with her new boyfriend, |
| 1:39.6 | Derek Pedron, forming a large, blended family with seven children, loved ones began reporting concerns |
| 1:45.4 | that Josie was abusing or neglecting Derek's son, Alexavier. |
| 1:50.1 | Derek and Josie began refusing to let Alexavier's maternal family see him. |
| 1:55.4 | On February 10th of this year, police performed a welfare check at the family's request, |
| 2:00.4 | finding Alexavier asleep and very drowsy, but supposedly fine. |
| 2:05.3 | Fifteen hours later, police returned to the home, where six-year-old Alexavier was pronounced dead. |
| 2:11.9 | This is part one of the infuriating story of Alex Xavier Pedron. |
| 2:16.4 | This episode is coming out several days later than I |
| 2:19.4 | planned, but there's a good reason for it. Alex Xavier's family reached out to me earlier this month |
| 2:24.9 | and asked me to cover his case because there seemed to be no movement in the investigation. |
| 2:29.5 | The police weren't releasing any information about it, and the media wasn't responding to the |
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