Social workers ignore years of red flags before Adrian Jones death?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Unsealed records reveal Kansas social workers and police were suspicious about how Adrian Jones’s stepmother abused the child for years before he was starved to death and fed to pigs. In this episode, Nancy Grace speaks to Kansas City TV reporter Jessica McMasters about the case and urges you to pressure Kansas and Missouri prosecutors to consider charges against officials who might have ignored warning signs that should have saved the boy.

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0:00.0	41 action news digs deeper and gets to answers about what happened to Adrian Jo.
0:08.7	Investigators just had to make master now uncovered exclusive evidence.
0:12.3	He was just a typical little boy, just full of life.
0:15.7	Adrian's dad and stepmom abused him for months.
0:18.8	He just had the most amazing smile.
0:20.9	Never before seen video takes us inside Adrian's last moment.
0:24.7	You can see the look of nothing in his eyes.
0:27.8	This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:30.6	So you eat out the trash because you keep on getting cold because you're outside.
0:33.6	In this video, you can hear Heather's harsh words towards Adrian
0:36.8	in a lack of compassion for a desperate little boy.
0:39.6	The last days and hours of Adrian's life spent stripped and confined to a shower stall,
0:44.0	left outside overnight to stand in a filthy pool.
0:47.2	A new record show with the state of Kansas new before the death of little seven-year-old Adrian Jo.
0:52.5	We learned as early as 2011, DCF had allegations of Adrian's abuse.
0:56.7	Hundreds of red flags.
0:58.5	They should have known.
1:01.2	That's just not good enough.
1:02.5	They should have known.
1:04.5	Oh no, they knew.
1:07.4	Kansas Department of Children and Family Services records show that police, doctors,
1:14.0	social workers, they were all aware of the horrific abuse.
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