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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In 2022 Leilani Simon and her then boyfriend made a frantic 911 call reporting her twenty-month-old son Quinton Simon was kidnapped. A weeks-long search for little Quinton tragically ended when his body was found in a landfill. Nearly two years after little Quinton’s remains were discovered, Leilani stands trial for her son’s murder. This episode of the Court TV Podcast features opening statements from 10/14/2024.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that opinions all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law

0:09.7

Sensitive topics are discussed discretion Discretion is advised.

0:14.0

We'll begin now with opening statements.

0:17.0

This is quite decided at about a year and a half old a little bit over that 20 months.

0:29.0

Like all children, he was blameless

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was innocent

0:36.0

and he was beautiful

0:38.0

and like all children he was totally defenseless

0:42.0

totally incomplete children he was totally defenseless, totally and completely dependent on the

0:46.7

adults in his life to take care of him and to look out for his safety.

0:54.0

And the evidence in this case will show that the defendant violated that trust,

1:01.0

that most sacred

1:03.0

sacred sacred trust of the parent in the most horrible way.

1:08.0

In the middle of the night, she killed him, her own son, got in her car with his body, drove to a dumpster, and threw him away like a piece of trash.

1:30.0

She would go home, go to sleep like everything was normal, and wake up the next morning and report it to the police as an abduction.

1:34.0

I woke up, my front door was open and my child was missing.

1:40.0

Now the story started to fall apart pretty quickly because of good solid police work.

1:47.0

But she would go on to tell a series of evolving lies over several weeks.

1:57.0

Only moving from one lie to the next

2:01.8

is the police picked apart the first lie and presented her with the evidence that

2:07.9

made the first lie on town.

2:10.0

So now it's time to move on the line of the two, three, and four.

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