The Girls, Part 3: ‘If it was your daughter’

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4.6 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

17-year-old Aryalle Stoner runs away from home and tells the police that her father, Ronnie Stoner, has been sexually abusing her for years. The cursory investigation that follows is representative of a larger issue with child sex abuse investigations in Louisville.Hearing stories like this one can bring up painful feelings and memories, especially if you're a trauma survivor yourself. If you need to talk, you can reach the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-HOPE, or visit RAINN.org and click get help now for free, 24/7 support. If you’re experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text 988.Learn more about preventing sexual misconduct and abuse by K-12 school employees (PDF)If you have information about this case, or you think there’s something we should know that we haven’t reported here, please contact Jess Clark at [email protected] or 502-814-6541.Our work is community funded. To help us keep digging, visit kydig.org and click donate.

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0:00.0	From LPM, Louisville Public Media.
0:04.3	Support for this podcast comes from LG&E,
0:07.7	with a reminder that the warning signs of a gas leak
0:10.0	are the smell of rotten eggs,
0:12.0	dead plants near healthy plants,
0:13.8	or a hissing sound.
0:15.5	Leave immediately and call 911.
0:18.3	More gas safety tips at LGE-k-U.com slash gas safety.
0:24.0	A listener note, this story contains accounts of child sex abuse.
0:31.2	This is Dig from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.
0:35.8	I'm Jess Clark. In the last two episodes, you heard about how Ronnie and Donnie Stoner allegedly abused a student
0:43.2	at a small Christian school in Louisville, Kentucky, and then moved on to the public school
0:48.5	district, Jefferson County Public Schools.
0:51.6	Donnie got a teaching job at a top middle school and became football coach at one of the
0:56.4	most prestigious high schools in the state. And Ronnie was recognized with a district-wide award for his
1:02.9	work with vulnerable youth. But the shiny exterior did not reflect what several teen girls say was
1:09.7	happening behind closed doors,
1:11.8	that in reality, these twin brothers were allegedly predators
1:15.8	who used their positions to get close to their female students,
1:20.1	groom them, and abuse them, causing life-changing trauma.
1:24.1	At least two girls went to school administrators about Ronnie, but JCPS continued to promote him.
1:31.7	In this episode, you're going to hear from another alleged survivor who went to police
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