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S3 Ep349: Justice for A’Marie Jones | Cleveland Case Raises Outcry

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

**UPDATE** 2 children, a boy aged 9 and a girl aged 10, are now facing several charges, including attempted murder and rape of 5-year-old A'Marie Jones: https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/10/15/2-children-ages-9-10-charged-with-attempted-murder-rape-brutal-attack-5-year-old-girl-prosecutors-say/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNcwNdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHs5gBqKp9xgz8_vRJBiLIMZLy0lNGNovjzGFKfun8MYfjkqSyFCE3TTX7nyg_aem_TOAMXfs2MY0tSW4RTV8QRA

Sign the petition to change Ohio's Juvenile Justice Loophole here: https://www.change.org/p/change-ohio-s-juvenile-justice-loophole-for-young-offenders

Donate to A'Marie's GoFundMe here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-amarie

5-year-old A’Marie Jones of Cleveland, Ohio, was found brutally beaten, sexually assaulted, and nearly killed after a group of children, aged 8, 9, and 10, allegedly lured her into a field and assaulted her. Now, her mother is reaching out for help, claiming that some of the boys can't be prosecuted due to their ages, and there have been no arrests.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levaser. And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:18.5

And today's case has not been getting a lot of mainstream media attention and is mostly

0:22.9

being discussed on social media.

0:24.6

So we wanted to talk about it here and use our platform to raise awareness and hopefully

0:28.3

get Amari's story out there so that people are aware this is happening and it doesn't

0:32.6

just slip through the cracks.

0:33.9

There's currently an online campaign seeking justice for Amari Jones, a five-year-old girl out of Cleveland, Ohio, who was allegedly brutally assaulted by three older children in September of 2025.

0:45.4

Now, the graphic details have been shared by her mother and Tavia Kenabrew on social media, so we're not putting anything out there that the mother hasn't already essentially approved for it to be out there.

0:55.9

And I think with what we're reading here and what we're learning about, as hard it is to hear these details, it's important because it has that shock value to it, which I think will resonate with people and allow it to stick so that we don't forget about it.

1:08.9

Yeah.

1:09.2

So like I, we, we have not seen a lot about this on social media. So I didn't know about it to stick so that we don't forget about it. Yeah. So like I, we, we have not seen a lot about this on

1:12.8

social media. So I didn't know about it till you just told me about it 20 minutes ago. Well, you know,

1:17.3

I'm on, I'm on TikTok. Obviously more than you, I'm on TikTok. And so these developing true

1:24.1

crime stories, they're coming to my attention pretty quickly while they're developing. This one absolutely, it stunned me. It had me just completely speechless. I was

1:34.1

disgusted, horrified. So I'm going to read Amari's mother's Facebook post. And then we're

1:42.7

going to kind of discuss. Antavia Kennebrew posted on Facebook, quote,

1:46.4

On September 13th, 2025, my daughter resided at a trusted family members' residence around the area of 145th in St. Clair,

1:54.5

while I underwent a medical procedure.

1:57.3

While she was away, I got a phone call for my family member stating that my daughter

2:00.6

walked out of her house and she couldn't find her anywhere and that the authorities were contacted.

2:05.3

I immediately was filled in panic. I rushed out of my house and arrived to the scene.

2:10.0

Soon as I got there, I ran to the EMS truck where I found my daughter unresponsive, bloody with her hair pulled from her scalp, her body covered in bruises,

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