He wants something. And the guy told us
that he's going to have his dinner at
home.
>> Okay.
>> But the boy is with bruises over here.
Over here.
>> Okay.
>> And I show him a paper.
>> Okay.
>> Asking him if he needs help.
>> Okay.
>> Or he denied.
>> Okay.
>> And the second time that I showed him a
paper, he said that he needs help.
>> Okay.
>> I don't know what to do. So,
>> okay. Yeah, we'll talk to him.
>> Okay,
>> let's speak with
>> that.
>> He's inside.
So, it's the the boy with the jacket
with the hoodie.
>> The the guy the the big guy right there.
>> Yeah. So, it's not family. It's the kid
with the hoodie on that they think is
having an issue.
>> Um so, yeah. It's
>> still not enough though, bro.
>> No. Bruis on the face, bruis on the the
forms that he's going to have dinner at
home.
You want to talk to the kid then?
>> Uh, you got to talk to them and see if
they allow you to ask some questions.
>> Yeah.
>> No.
>> Hello.
>> How's it going, guys?
>> Doing all right. Great. Good. This must
be like a little area where everybody's
hungry.
>> Man, the sheriff's office was here and
they had like
you.
>> Uhoh. So, um Okay. All right. You want
to go come outside with me for a little
bit?
>> Yes.
>> Not.
>> Good. How you doing, boss?
>> Pretty good.
>> What's going on? Um,
not that there really much. Uh,
so I actually
>> if you just I'm sorry.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
I actually
So one night I accidentally roll out of
bed
>> um
>> and
actually hit the table right here. Okay.
>> Uh, my nightstand is literally right
behind my bed. Uh, we're living in a
hotel.
>> Okay.
>> We need some help getting a house.
>> You need help getting a house?
>> Yeah, we need we need help getting a
house.
>> Okay. So, you guys got kind of like in a
struggle right now
>> with money.
>> Yes. My dad
>> My dad is uh not working and furoughed,
>> but
>> he can't look for work.
>> Uhhuh.
>> But he can be asked to come to work.
Right.
>> Uh my mom's working. She's the one who's
paying all the bills.
>> Right.
>> We're in a tough situation.
>> Okay.
>> Why aren't you eating, boss?
>> Do what?
>> Why aren't you eating? You don't want
food or anything? You're not hungry?
>> Uh no, not really.
>> You sure? Cuz I can buy you something if
you guys need some food.
>> I'm good.
>> Your skin and bones?
>> I know.
I've been trying to work out, but
>> Yeah.
>> Not helping.
>> How old are you?
>> I'm 11.
>> You're 11?
>> Yeah. Uh
for if you need my birthday, I can tell
you.
>> Oh, no.
>> Do you know how I receive the injuries
to his first? Um, well, the nose he was
exceed military. We're having trouble
behaving at home. And so, I've been
having do some planks for for
punishment. And when he goes to do the
planks, what he does is he lays on the
carpet at the hotel room and he'll just
rub his head there and tell you to head
up and carpet. Oh, you guys are busy.
>> No, we've moved down in Maine. We're
trying to get out of um the hotel. We're
living in a hotel right now. We're
trying to get a house. I actually just
got approved for the VSSs of veterans.
It's like uh section 8 HUD, but it's for
military members. And so what they do is
uh they help get people homeless vets
off the streets and they come out here.
And so I just got to get a house and
we'll get moved out the
>> hotel. I actually started working at
Disney in February and then
>> they laid us off. They furled us in
March.
>> You only got like a month out a month of
work.
>> Well, I came down as an intern in August
and then I got hired. My hire date was
in February. So, my program was up in
February. Got hired looking for a house.
I was 2 days away from signing the
contract on a lender when they backed
out cuz Disney
>> Yeah. I'm I'm here because we got people
that are worried about you.
>> Yeah. So, um, what happened to your
cheek? Like the side of your head right
there. Is that the same thing from the
table?
>> Uh, yeah. On the other side of my bed,
you got another nightstand.
>> Okay. It's like no one's like hitting
you or anything?
>> No.
>> You're going to lie to me, right?
>> Yeah. No, I I don't lie to the law.
>> To the law? Good. So, everything good
within the family? You're like, you have
any trouble with your dad or anything
like that?
>> No.
>> No. Your dad is headed there? No, we
just moved down here uh back in like May
or April.
>> Okay.
>> Uh our family was back in Alabama.
>> Okay. Is that where your accent's from?
You got a little accent to you? A little
southern accent?
>> Yeah. I actually got uh this and this
down here.
>> Okay. So, pretty pretty recent.
>> Yeah.
>> You mind if I see it real quick? Have to
take your hood off?
>> Sure.
>> Take your mind. Take your mask off, too.
I'll stay away from you, but I just want
to look at it. So, that's a pretty big
hit.
>> Yeah.
>> So, it's just from the nightstand.
>> Yeah, just from the nightstand.
>> Okay.
>> All right.
>> Does he have any other injuries?
>> Not that I'm aware of.
>> Any reason why he wasn't eating right
now?
>> Well, um he had ate earlier. He had
pizza and so we come in cuz we're
getting ready for bed, but it's dinner
time. So, we come in to eat and he just
already ate. So,
Like they even ask the problem that they
don't think he's dark.
>> You sure you don't want any food?
>> I'm sure.
>> All right, boss. Let me talk to your dad
real quick. All right.
>> All right.
>> You can come back. You can come back
inside.
>> Come on.
I'll talk to you real quick.
>> All right. So, what how old your son?
>> He's 11.
>> He's 11. Okay. And you guys right now?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> What What happened to his face?
>> All right. So, all this right here is
like I was telling them, I'm I'm
exmilitary. Okay.
>> We're having a lot of trouble out of
misbehaving and and not minding. He's um
you ask him to do a chore, he wasn't
feed, don't do it. We asked we got a
lizard.
>> He's not feeding the lizard, but he's
telling us he's feeding the lizard. So,
we're trying to teach him responsibility
and how not feeding it can cause
problems to death. I'm sorry. I'm out of
breath. I'm a little fat. I just got
stuck.
>> Um so, instead of disciplinary actions
and things like spankings and
punishments and groundings ain't
working, I've started doing exercises.
And so, he's been doing planks on the
floor at the hotel. Okay.
>> He's got carpet.
>> Well, he's laying down. He's He's doing
his planks, but he's not doing them. He
keeps putting his head down on the
carpet,
>> okay?
>> Laying it down up cuz he's he's laying
down. Get up. Get the head up cuz you
got to do a plank.
>> Okay.
>> And so he's got carpet burn right here.
>> Okay.
>> It's right here on the side. He was
sitting on the floor beside the table.
The tables are high like a roller under
the desk table.
>> Mhm.
>> And I went to tell him to do something
and he got smart with me. And so I
jumped up. I went to yell at him and
tell him it's not you don't back talk
this that and the other. And when I did,
he jumped back under the table and his
head caught the leg of the table.
>> Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, his his story is a
little different.
>> So,
and you're sure that's what happened?
>> I'm You can ask my wife. I mean,
>> Okay.
>> I I'm not the best dad in the world, but
I try to do what I can,
>> right?
>> Um, we I was telling them I'm actually
been trying to get help with military
services so that we can get off the
streets cuz in Florida, we're
technically homeless, right?
>> Cuz we're living in the hotel. We just
moved to it and so we're trying to get a
house.
>> Okay.
>> The biggest problem I'm sorry.
>> The biggest problem we're having is
trying to get into an apartment or a
house. They require three times the rent
for income.
>> So what? Yeah. Why would his story be
different from yours?
>> Did you tell him? Did you tell him like
have a different story?
>> No, sir. I haven't told him anything as
far as I know. Like I don't know what
would be the problem or issue. I know
that he's been lying a lot. Like today
we we're trying to figure out what's
going on. He took out the trash today.
>> Okay.
>> Right. Well, he has ADHD
>> and he has um
>> transitional disorder. Supposed to be
being treated through psychologist, but
since we've been in Florida, we had got
him set up on a medical plan to have all
care or whatever.
>> And so he hasn't been to therapist since
May.
>> Okay.
>> So he hasn't had any of his medication.
He's lack of focus. He's not doing good
in school. Teachers, you know, obviously
it's online. Take the trash out. Yeah.
>> Which is weird cuz we're having to tell
him how to do everything and when to do
it because he's not doing his job.
>> So he goes to take the trash out, comes
back when he goes to do his planks.
>> Uhhuh.
>> They sit there and had a crunch bar
wrapper in his pocket.
>> Okay.
>> Where'd you get the crunch bar? Cuz he's
not allowed to have processed sugars
because the ADHD counteracts not work
with his medicine. away.
>> He wants to tell us that he it picked it
up off the ground outside and ate it
when he was coming back in from the
trash. You mean to tell me you picked
the candy bar up off the ground, opened
it and ate it.
>> We're trying to be safe and stay away
from things like that cuz of CO 19.
You're telling me that you've done that
>> when I know that he got it out the
little container in the closet full of
all the Christmas candies and stuff,
>> right?
>> But he wants to lie about it. So, he's
been doing a lot of lion and
storytelling. Anyway, like I said, he'll
tell you, "You fed the crickets from
Hatton, breakfast, school supplies,
breakfast, and lunches." Right now,
>> we go pick them up. You have seven
apples. You have so many of this, that
the other.
>> All right. Let me let me ask you cuz
we're now we're getting a little off
track.
>> All right. So,
>> obviously he's your child, your dad,
right? Okay. So, when he does something
wrong, like what is what what is it that
you do as far as like reprimanding him?
Well, we started off talking to him,
talking it didn't do it. I've been a
stepdad for 5 years. I talked to him.
>> So, he's not yours like blood. Your step
your stepdad. Okay.
>> She's mine. And then we have one on the
way.
>> Okay.
>> Um but we start talk to him talk to him
talk to him and it it never got any
better. It just progressively got worse.
So then he started getting grounded from
things. Um
>> you make him do planks for punish.
>> We do planks and push-ups, jumping
jacks, mountain climbers.
>> Okay. things like that.
>> So, you said the carpet burn on his nose
is from planks
>> and the bruising is from you jumped up.
Y
>> I jumped up to yell at him. I was going
to have him do some mountain climbers.
>> Did you used to beat him? Like did you
like ever like punch him by like hitting
him and stuff?
>> No. No, no, no. I've used a belt on him
before.
>> Let me ask you, what happened to his
entire right arm?
>> I'm not sure. Like I don't know. I mean,
he's got bruises and stuff on it. We've
noticed it. We've seen it, but we don't
know what's going on. Um he's sleep. We
have two hotel rooms. So, he sleeps in
one at night by itself and we sleep in
the other in the beds cuz we had a
double bedroom, but uh on Thanksgiving,
the guys up above us, they fell asleep
and all the water flooded. So, they
moved us out the room and split us up.
So, we got two rooms. So, we got two
different beds now. So,
>> so neither you nor wife stays with your
11-year-old child.
>> Not at night. We make sure that he's
asleep before we leave. But it's no
different like it's a hotel and a locked
door. It's no different than a bedroom
in our house.
>> I was curious. That was awesome.
>> And that's that's one of the concerns
we're having. Is he is he over there
getting up in the middle of night doing
something or not doing something?
>> How how long has it how long So you said
you noticed he's bruises. How long has
it been since you noticed his bruising
on his the entirety of his right arm?
>> Well, I mean, I don't know if it's like
the actual entirety. He's got spots of
bruis.
>> It It's literally all the way up. Well,
I didn't know it was that bad, but as
far as noticing it, it's been about a
week, week and a half, and he's gotten
more and more.
>> Did you Did you ask him about it?
>> He never knows. Like, and it's not just
that. You can ask him why he didn't load
the dishwasher or start the dishwasher
before he went to bed. And it's always,
well, I didn't know whether I was
supposed to start it or not.
>> You know, he's 11, right?
>> Yes. And I understand that. Like, that's
why we we try to talk to him and explain
things and this that and the other.
There's it's just not a good look that
your 11-year-old son Brent calls with
bruising.
>> Absolutely. I also we had a problem. Um
so for 5 years he had another dad that
wasn't his.
>> Okay.
>> All right. So his dad left before he was
born. The other guy raised him for 5
years. So that's all he knew was a dad.
The guy had diabetes and wasn't properly
taking care of himself. Lost both of his
legs. So me and her met at work. I was
working at Olive Garden with her and and
I was working there. she started.
>> Okay.
>> And uh so therefore I then uh I became
part of their life and like so the
transitional disorder part he just
started acting out more I think.
>> Right. So you're saying that you've
never never hit the kid?
>> Not never physically hit him. I have
spanked him and whooped him before.
>> Right. But the bruising on him
>> the bruising on his face and his arms is
not from me.
>> Okay.
>> Well, she's on the way now. She want to
see. All right, little man. One more
time.
>> Hey, buddy. Can you just roll up your
sleeve again, please?
>> If you can help, cuz I'm hurting.
>> It's
okay,
>> bro. Like, that's not
>> That's a hand right there, right? That's
somebody's hand.
>> Oh, that that's from what?
>> Probably from when we're wrestling.
>> Wrestling?
>> Who are you wrestling with?
>> My dad.
>> Your dad?
>> My mom's always at pretty much always at
work. Probably off like one day a week.
>> Why are you guys wrestling?
>> Uh, we play wrestle.
>> Play wrestle.
>> Yes.
>> How often do you guys do that?
>> Not very often. We just did it
yesterday.
>> Yesterday
>> and today.
Now, which is your left arm fine? Is
your left arm?
>> Um, I'm not really sure cuz this one
started hurting when I rolled up my
sleeves.
>> Yeah, I still got a few on there.
>> Yeah.
>> One more time with what happened to your
face. Cuz I'm getting two different
stories. So, does your dad make you do
planks and stuff like that?
>> We just got there. You know, we know
they live
>> 56
major.
>> Yeah,
>> that's the one.
>> It's crazy this week. Never got
>> Damn. You know what I mean? We're always
getting colder. Uh
he used to make at first I was doing
this exercise and
>> I'm always
seeated
too like when you asked I'm not sure
>> and she's like
>> well
I'm not
>> okay cuz what your dad told me is that
He didn't do something and he went to go
jump up and yell at you and said you got
scared, jumped off the bed and hit the
the table. Is that what really happened?
>> Yeah, pretty much.
>> So, why you lying to me?
>> I'm not. I just can't remember cuz of my
head.
>> Okay. Do you have a headache?
>> Okay.
>> Pretty bad.
>> Yeah. He's I said he was hungry.
>> If you wanted to write it down, I can.
It felt probably different that you're
going to feel it.
>> Write it down. Yeah.
>> Go ahead. Write down.
>> Can you write down your birthday too?
>> Yes.
>> Say how far she is.
>> Just just get get a phone number for
them.
>> Yeah.
>> Hello.
>> Hi.
>> That's my birthday and my
>> fantastic bud. I need to take pictures
of his whole arm, his face with and
without the mask and the glasses.
>> Okay.
>> And uh put that in. Uh I'm going to talk
to mom for a second and then I'll be
back. Where's mom though?
>> All right, boss man. Come take a few
pictures. All right.
Taking your mask off for me and your
glasses.
>> I'm start from the bottom.
It's all the way up to the front.
>> Do you have a shirt underneath there?
>> I do.
>> You want to take the jacket off? Might
be make it easier for you.
>> She told me not to take my coat off.
>> Okay, that's fine. Then don't do that.
Um, can you just roll like over your
shoulder? Can you roll this over your
shoulder?
So, I just get that. Perfect. Yeah.
>> But I can't tell if that's all of it cuz
I see some right here, too.
>> Okay. Yeah, I got most of it.
>> And then is there anything else? Um, I
don't think so, but right here I'm
hurting.
>> Do you have a bruise there in your
chest?
>> Um, I actually don't know.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Oh, yeah. I've got one right in the
middle.
>> Yeah, I'll do that.
>> Right there. And more down.
>> All right. Look up for me. Perfect.
And there's more down, you said?
>> Yeah, there's more down right there.
>> Okay. Do you know where that's from?
>> Probably where he punched me this
morning. where he punched you this
morning.
>> Yeah, he kept punching you in the
morning.
>> He just got punched you in the chest.
>> So, how what really happened to the side
of your face?
>> Yeah. Everything you told the lady over
there, go ahead and tell me what what
you told her.
>> Um, honestly, she didn't ask me about my
face.
>> Okay.
>> Or right here?
>> She just
asked me about my arms.
>> Okay.
>> Told her the truth.
>> I've been getting hit with a broom. I've
been getting hit with a back scratcher.
I've been getting hit with fists.
>> Okay.
>> And I told her it's not it's not uh my
mom. She's pregnant. She can't really
lift anything, do anything. Um but it
it's just my dad.
>> Okay.
>> He's pretty hard on.
>> You say with the broom with his face
>> and a back scratcher.
>> And a back scratcher.
>> Yeah. Um, we had it together, but uh, it
was Oh, I've also got one right here I
forgot to tell you about.
>> Uhhuh.
>> Um,
face was the back scratcher that hurt,
too. Sorry. Um, yeah. Um, I've been
getting hit with all the things. It was
back scratcher was together, but it had
cracked. Um, so
And when he hit you, it cracked.
>> No. Uh, it was cracked for a long time.
He literally just broke it apart. He
said he was super glued, but he hasn't
yet. So, he literally just hit me with
the side of one. Hit me right under my
nose and hit me right here.
I think right there. But I'm pretty sure
you hit me right back
>> in the face. That's when with the back
scratcher.
>> Yeah.
Thank you for being honest.
>> Mhm.
>> No. All right. I'll be right back with
you. All right. Actually, come over
here. Can you hang out with my partner
over here?
>> Yeah.
>> Can I stand up for me?
>> Yeah. Can I ask a favor? What's up?
>> Not to do it in front of my kids, right?
>> And I'm also supposed to have surgery so
on my shoulders, so I'm not supposed to
walk out for a second.
Like say I'm supposed to have surgery on
my shoulders, so it's going to be really
hard. All right.
>> Go.
>> Do I need any of that?
>> Do you want it?
>> I mean, I don't need the phone or the
keys, but do I need ID or anything? I
don't know how the
>> You don't need anything. Unless you want
it, you don't need anything. Okay.
>> Will you just lock the car up?
>> She'll All right. She'll also need a
ride home cuz she can't drive.
>> Place the car. Oh,
>> put your hands down. You're good.
>> What's up?
>> Pants.
>> She'll have all the information she'll
need to
>> contact me or find out.
>> Yeah, we should get all that.
>> All right.
>> You grab all his stuff?
>> Yeah. from inside.
>> Okay.
>> This is a search warrant in reference to
OPD case number 20 21.
Um I'm one of the detectives that's
working um the case over here. Yes.
>> Did you guys ever hear anything, suspect
anything? Did anything like stand out to
any of you guys with them?
>> I mean like what what exactly?
>> Like anything involving like the
11-year-old boy?
>> Yeah. So, I mean,
I know he told me some stuff, but I I
don't know. I never physically saw
anything.
>> The boy told you stuff?
>> No, the Mr. Wilson.
>> Oh.
>> Um,
>> did you ever see any marks or bruises on
the boy?
>> No, that's the thing. I I've talked to
them. They um they came out and talked
to us a couple times and they would get
their room clean. We see the little
girl. Um we would just talk to him. I've
seen him in the morning when I'm coming
in cuz he sleeps in 1:25.
>> Um he would just come out and say hey or
ask for like sheets and blankets.
>> Um nothing too crazy.
I mean like the other day I think Mr.
Wilson was talking to me. He had um and
I I mean I just just because he said it
I had to say it cuz it was like he was
saying that um
they like I guess he had like marks from
like martial arts or something like this
and then he also said like they would
spar
>> um like fist fight each other playfully.
Um so I I mean he said that to us he
said that to me yesterday. Um, so he
might have like some bruises on him, but
uh, nothing. I never physically saw
anything.
>> And you never heard anything?
>> No, I never physically heard anything
cuz they originally went down this way
and recently moved this way cuz it was
like a leak in the room.
>> Okay.
>> The boy's stepfather was arrested. His
mother was also taken into custody for
failing to protect him.
>> I was working at the histo night and a
family came in like a family. I observed
that everyone received the food but not
the kid. This kept my attention and I
went to the table to ask if was
something wrong with the food and the
man told me that no that was everything
fine and that the boy is going to have
his dinner u at home that night. And in
this time the boy was using a hoodie, a
mask and a glass. So we was not able to
see much of his face. But I could see
that he had a scratch, a big scratch on
between his eyebrows. And couple minutes
later I saw some bruise on his uh the
side of his eyes. I feel that something
really wrong was happened there with the
kid. I start think what I should do and
what I could do. So, thank God he was
sitting in the only chair that I was
able to uh show him a sign because he
could see me but the parents don't. I
wrote a sign asking him if he was okay
and he nodded no. I knew it that he is
afraid or he's not comfortable saying
that he needs help. Couple minutes uh
later I wrote another sign asking him if
he needs help. And this is when he
nodded yes and make a movement with his
hand like he like that showing that he
didn't know what to do and was when I
called 911.
>> Wilson faced multiple charges including
aggravated child abuse, false
imprisonment, and child neglect. Swan
was charged with child neglect. In
August 2022, Wilson was sentenced to
life in prison. The boy was removed from
the home and placed in safe