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🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Monso Business Banking. It just works. So you can too. Join businesses like Target |
0:05.7 | to Wishing by opening a Monso Business account. |
0:07.7 | What I love about Monso Business account is how easy everything is. It can be filtered, |
0:12.8 | it can be tagged. We thought we'd have to manage our business around our banks, but that's |
0:17.3 | not the case for Monso. |
0:18.4 | My name is Shun. I am the Founder of Target Trition. |
0:21.6 | Apply in minutes at Monso.com slash business. To apply you must be a sole trader or director |
0:26.6 | of a limited company, UK businesses only, terms and conditions apply. |
0:34.2 | Last spring, police in Norfolk, Nebraska got a tip that a pregnant teenage girl had miscarried |
0:40.2 | and that she and her mother had secretly buried the stillborn fetus. After an investigation, |
0:46.1 | the police charged Jessica Burgess, who was 41, and her 17 year old daughter Celeste with |
0:52.4 | removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body, a felony. It was an upsetting case. Celeste |
1:00.7 | reportedly said she'd given birth unexpectedly in the shower and said her mother helped her |
1:05.4 | put the fetal remains in a bag, drive them out of town and bury them. There was also |
1:10.8 | some evidence the remains had been burnt. |
1:15.3 | But this is where the case takes an important technological turn. According to court documents, |
1:20.8 | Celeste had been roughly 28 weeks pregnant. And when the detective on the case asked Celeste |
1:26.6 | to pinpoint exactly when the miscarriage occurred, she turned to her Facebook account because |
1:32.6 | she'd been messaging her mom that night at exactly 3.38 a.m. That gave the detective an idea, |
1:40.3 | just her Facebook with a search warrant to get Jessica and Celeste's messages. |
1:45.4 | And what he found dramatically changed the case. |
1:48.6 | Back in April, prosecutors say Burgess ordered abortion pills on the internet for her then 17-year-old |
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