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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

A precious teen girl in a vegetative state, like a coma, tortured relentlessly by a nurse. And lucky for me, it's all caught on camera. I'm

Nancy Grace. This is crime stories, and I want to thank you for being with us.

The patient couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't defend herself, but a camera caught it all, and now this home health nurse is behind bars.

Home health, my rear end. Talk about a felony defendant. That's what I'm talking about, joining me an all-star

panel to make sense of what we know tonight. But first, before I even get into the facts,

I want to go out to a special guest joining us who's taking time from solving crimes right now

and answering calls, Chief Douglas

Gerke, joining a St. Cloud Police Department in Florida, Chief. Thank you for being with us.

You know what, Chief, do you ever get tired of the most vulnerable, the most defenseless, the weakest people in our society,

getting preyed upon and mistreated.

Just for the fun of it, do you ever get exhausted and go home and say, I give up.

I quit.

You know, Nancy, I appreciate that.

And I appreciate you having me on the show.

And, you know, every day we come to work every single day to ensure that our community is you having me on the show and you know every day we come to work

every single day to ensure that our community is not preyed on and you know some of the things I've

seen in my career almost 25 years is just it's shocking to see the videos of what occurred in this

case specifically it reinvigures our mission every single day to come out. And again, protect those

that are unable to protect themselves. And that's exactly what happened in this case.

But there was a lot of things that came together to make this work. And I give a lot of credit to our detectives,

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