Twin Teen Boys Weigh Less Combined Than Each Should | Crime Alert 03.14.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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Summary
Police say emaciated twin teen boys have gained less than 10 pounds each in the last eight years. Thief attacks store employee over $6 steal.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.0 | A Pennsylvania woman calls 911 telling the dispatcher an emaciated boy in nothing but underwear is asking for food and hasn't stopped eating since she let him in. |
| 0:12.0 | Cops determined the boy who just weighs 55 pounds is actually 15. |
| 0:17.0 | He says his mom and stepfather with whole food and water as punishment, as well as taking |
| 0:22.2 | away his and his twin brothers' clothes, forcing them to stand outside and freezing temperature. |
| 0:27.9 | Cops find the twin boy in worse condition, two pounds lighter than his brother, in Joshua |
| 0:34.5 | and Tracy Deschant's home. |
| 0:36.8 | Nancy, the 15-year-old twins should have weighed about |
| 0:39.4 | 143 pounds each. Police believe the boys had only gained about 10 pounds each over the last |
| 0:45.9 | eight years. Officers found that the twins slept on the floor with one blanket to share and were |
| 0:51.5 | also subjected to physical abuse like tackling and hitting. When the boy |
| 0:55.6 | escaped from his home in just his underwear, temperatures were in the single digits and there was |
| 1:00.3 | snow on the ground. Joshua Deschante 36, Tracy Deschant 42, now facing a long list of charges |
| 1:07.1 | including endangering welfare of children. North Carolina family dollar employee |
| 1:11.9 | Deja Pierce sees a customer head toward the door without paying. Pierce tries to stop her from leaving, |
| 1:18.0 | but Lakeena Stanley fights for her stolen item, slaps Pierce with a $6 pack of toilet paper, |
| 1:24.1 | and yanks Pierce away from the door by her hair. |
| 1:30.2 | Cops find Stanley still in the area with her TP. |
| 1:36.0 | Lekeena Stanley now charged with assault and attempted larceny a TP theft. |
| 1:36.6 | Wow. |
| 1:39.3 | I hope that's worth doing hard jail time for. |
| 1:41.8 | More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice news after this. |
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