Episode 158: Christian Crossland
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children Pod
4.6 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This is the story of a little boy with a bright smile and a personality to match. It’s also the story of the woman who gave birth to him, let another family raise him, and then spent 74 days systematically starving and ultimately beating him to death.
This is the tragic story of Christian Crossland.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm travelling find all the comfort you need in the quiet |
| 0:25.5 | lounge Piando ferries that is another way this podcast contains descriptions |
| 0:31.8 | of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children, the True Crime Podcast, giving voices |
| 1:24.4 | back to the victims of child abuse and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, |
| 1:28.8 | guardians, and caretakers who silenced them. I'm your host Lane and this is episode 158 Christian |
| 1:36.7 | crossland. Christian crossland spent most of his short life in the care of family |
| 1:42.3 | friends Brittany and Trevor Easton, who took Christian into their Indiana home and loved him like their own. In January of 2022, Christian's biological mother, Chelsea Crossland, took him back from the family In This is the story of a little boy with a bright smile and a personality to match. |
| 2:06.0 | It's also the story of the woman who gave birth to him, let another family raise him, and then |
| 2:10.7 | spent 74 days systematically starving and ultimately beating him to death. |
| 2:16.6 | This is the tragic story of Christian Crossland. |
| 2:20.8 | Just one quick patron shout out today. Thank you so much Malia N from Vancouver, Washington for your pledge. |
| 2:27.0 | I appreciate you so much. To make a pledge, you can visitreon.com slash STLZ pod. |
| 2:35.8 | I've been watching this case since I first learned about it last year |
| 2:38.9 | and now that the legal case is wrapped up, |
| 2:40.9 | I thought it was time to share Christian's story with you. |
| 2:50.0 | Christian Ray Crossland was born on July 12th, 2016 in Muncie, Indiana to 21-year-old |
| 2:56.1 | Chelsea Crossland, who had two older daughters. |
| 2:59.9 | According to a few news sources, Christian's father is a man named Nicholas Riddle, who was 24 when Christian was born. |
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