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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Melissa and Dillon believe if they just tell the truth, Child Protective Services will see they aren’t a danger to their children. But the state of Texas isn’t just going to take their word for it. Not after the horror story that unfolded in another family a year earlier.
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0:16.4 | Inside a windowless conference room at Texas Children's Hospital, Melissa Bright set facing |
0:21.7 | Lovar Jones. |
0:22.7 | We went back and forth, and I think that they wanted to both hear the sides of story from |
0:27.1 | Dylan and myself and asked very questions. |
0:30.1 | Melissa's husband, Dylan, was down the hall with another child protective services investigator, |
0:35.1 | answering questions about what happened a day earlier to their infant son, Mason. |
0:39.1 | Make sure that we had the same story and similar answers and how we described who Mason |
0:44.6 | was as a child, how we described our marriage, how we described each other as a mom or a dad. |
0:51.1 | Melissa told Lovar the same story she told Dylan a day earlier. |
0:55.2 | While she left Mason on a lawn chair and turned away for just a moment before hearing his |
1:00.4 | scream, as she spoke, Lovar scribbled notes to be typed up later and added to the Bright's |
1:06.4 | official case file. |
1:08.6 | Worker spoke with Melissa Bright. |
1:10.7 | She states that while changing Charlotte, she heard Mason screaming to the top of his lungs. |
1:15.5 | She states that she would never do anything to harm her children. |
1:19.4 | After an hour of questioning, Lovar told both Melissa and Dylan this was just the beginning |
1:24.0 | of their investigation. |
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