Lori Day Vallow Trial Updates & Letecia Stauch trial updates

First report :: Educators forced 7-year-old boy to eat his own vomit: Police Five educators face charges after at least two of them forced a 7-year-old boy to eat his vomit, according to cops in Brownsburg, Indiana

The allegation stems from an incident in February when Sara Seymour, 27, a life skills teacher at Brown Elementary School, allegedly told the victim that if he vomited, he would have to eat it up, officials said. Life skills teacher Julie Taylor, 48, allegedly gave a tray for the child to vomit on.

He vomited, and life skills instructional aid Debra Kanipe, 63, gave him a spoon, officers wrote. The 7-year-old was allegedly forced to consume some of what he retched up.

“Both Seymour and Kanipe stood at each side of the child while he consumed a portion of the vomit,” officers said.

The child was also forced to clean the rest with paper towels.

Life skills instruction aid Kristen Mitchell, 38, and Megan King, 24, a registered behavioral technician working for the company K1ds Count Therapy, were also allegedly there and saw the incident happen, police said.

All five women are charged with failure to report, a misdemeanor. Seymour and Kanipe also face a count of neglect of a dependent.

According to city police, school district cops contacted them on the evening of April 12 regarding a report of Seymour and Kaniple mistreating the child during lunch in February 2023.

Cops noted that four other people were potentially involved. All six were put on administrative leave on April 13 before they had further contact with kids, according to officers.

The school district told K1ds County Therapy they could not be on school district property pending the investigation.

“Ultimately, the termination process for Seymour and Kanipe was initiated while the others remain on administrative leave pending the BCSC School Board rulings,” police said.

The K1ds County employee still cannot be on school district property.

“The BCSC, the third-party contractor, Kids County, and all involved individuals have been cooperative during the course of the investigation,” officers said.

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CO v. Letecia Stauch: Daily Trial Updates

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Court TV) — Letecia Stauch, a woman accused of brutally murdering her young stepson and disposing of his body, is standing trial after several years of delays.

Letecia was married to Gannon’s father, Eugene “Al” Stauch, and in 2020 was stepmother to his two children: Gannon, 11, and Laina, 8. Stauch also had a 17-year-old daughter, Harley Hunt.

Gannon Reported Missing
Letecia called 911 at 6:55 p.m. on Jan. 27, and told investigators that Gannon was supposed to be home an hour prior, but she could not find him. When police came, they found that Letecia had not gone to any neighbors’ homes to look for the child, and was unable to name any friends or parents of Gannon’s friends.

In an affidavit obtained by Court TV, detectives listed several factors that led to her arrest.

ID v. Lori Vallow Daybell: Daily Trial Updates

BOISE, Idaho (Court TV) — Lori Vallow Daybell is facing life in prison if convicted of murdering her two children and conspiring to kill her fifth husband’s previous wife.

The so-called ‘Doomsday Cult Mom’ has pleaded not guilty to six charges in Idaho, including two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

An indictment accuses Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell of espousing religious beliefs to justify the Sept. 2019 murders of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old “JJ” Vallow and the Oct. 2019 murder of Tammy Daybell. Vallow Daybell is also accused of grand theft by deception for allegedly pocketing her children’s Social Security benefits after their deaths.

JJ and Tylee’s remains were found on Daybell’s property in June 2020, several months after JJ’s grandmother contacted police looking for him. By then, Vallow Daybell was sitting in an Idaho jail on charges stemming from the children’s disappearance. She was arrested in Hawaii in Feb. 2020, where she and Daybell had relocated amid a cloud of suspicion.

Vallow Daybell’s alibi notice says she was in her Rexburg apartment when the children died in the home of her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox, who the indictment describes as a co-conspirator. The notice also claims Vallow was in Hawaii when Tammy Daybell died in her home in October 2019 from what were determined to be natural causes.