We lived in an apartment when my oldest was about that age, and one night, he was teething and completely inconsolable. After a few hours of us trying to calm him, giving him tylenol and cuddles,we decided that he was probably overstimulated, and we lay him down in his crib. He really fussed for a few minutes and then finally fell asleep. Somone called the police on us, and I was annoyed. I showed them our sleeping baby and explained that he was teething and that we had had a hard time getting him off to sleep. I was irritated because I knew that we weren't abusing or neglecting him, but after watching this, I'm glad we had neighbors who cared enough to call!
I think we have to use common sense; if you hear a baby crying hysterically once, or over a couple of nights, they are probably ill/ teething. It’s when it’s a regular occurrence it needs attention. You can’t have police turning up every time a baby has a bad night; your neighbour did overreact. It’s the neighbours who *knew* this woman was habitually neglecting her child and did not alert authorities that behaved unforgivably. They have a level of culpability.
@@daisyproud110 I agree on the neighbors overreacting to one bad night (in many areas, police and CPS already don’t have time to take appropriate action on actual abuse, and stretching the thinner means faster reaction times in cases that end up with dead people), but disagree that Crystal’s neighbors are to blame. Crystal’s established pattern was asking a neighbor to babysit before ditching her, and the crying was caught on a Ring doorbell outside, not by people outside. Given the nature of this, and Jailyn’s age being an age where kids will scream like they’re being skinned alive over not getting ice cream for dinner, it makes sense that the neighbors had no idea Jailyn was alone, or that anything out of the ordinary was going on. What was ordinary there wasn’t great, but the ordinary wasn’t going to result in a dead baby. This wasn’t ordinary for Crystal.
Omg....how heartbreaking. And that medical examiner could barely talk about her findings. So so very sad. I can't even imagine...this case is unfathomable.
Omg yesss, I was just going to comment this! Why didn’t anyone call??? Even if the mother was there and the baby was crying like that, why didn’t the neighbors call the cops?
Doing that job takes a strong mind and a strong heart. To speak for a mistreated and neglectfully lost baby must have killed her inside. But she wanted to help, so she did. Thankful for people who can do that job.
Can we lock this woman in a cell for 2 weeks and just completely ignore her like she did to her daughter? No food, no water, in a small cell with no toilet where she can barely move.
Right, but it's an insane one. Like, it would require total mental and cognitive instability to do this and assume you won't get caught. This case truly is weird. If she wanted to kill her baby, she could have done it much more intelligently than this. Not that I would ever support such a thing, but I'm a true crime fan, and these videos outline clever murder plots all the time. I don't understand her logic here, even if she was intentionally trying to kill her kid. It's the worst plan ever. Childrens' cartoons come up with better schemes than this. I'm a mother who is in 24/7 adoration of my little one, so that was hard to type. But I'm also a data analyst, and I know an edge case when I see it.
That lady who did the autopsy was FIGHTING for baby girl. Her voice was breaking but stayed so professional to make sure nothing was left out. I can’t even begin to imagine the long lasting trauma having to work over a tiny baby body who was so devastatingly lost to her caregiver. Her mother. I cried so such during this video.
@scorpionic-night same. I've heard so much worse than this - also from Ohio which doesn't surprise me as someone born and raised there. I am disgusted. I am sickened. I am angry. This woman is beyond evil. But almost nothing surprises me or makes me cry anymore. 💔
Yes, I had to stop watching at this part. I will return later, but this is so horrible to think what that baby went through leading up to her death. Her Mom is a disgusting excuse of a human being.
My 16 month old is napping curled up in my arms right now as I watch this. So vulnerable, so attached to me. I can’t go to another room without her following me. I can’t imagine how much this little angel suffered. Wish she had been mine 🥲💔
IKR? I had my daughters two year apart and hardly peed without an audience from the time my oldest could walk to the time my youngest was big enough for me to feel comfortable shutting the door for a minute. We are their whole world when they're that little. And God made them to be that way, because they need us to take care of them. This story breaks my heart.
This is not only a case of abuse and neglect, but community failure as well. It is a perfect example of the bystander effect “ Someone else will handle it, I don’t want to get involved.”
I mean, in the recording of the ring camera tbh i don’t hear much? People work, they don’t spend a ton of time outside, when they’re inside they can’t hear what’s outside because of tv, whatever they’re watching on the internet, music, headphones and some houses are far apart. Tbh i doubt the neighbors but two and together the baby was actually being neglected alone
Not necessarily. There's a woman living behind my place of work who is constantly screaming at her kids who are all 3 under about 6 1 still in a pram is barely a toddler. I reported to social services, police and MASH (multi agency safeguarding hub) at least once a week, usually more, for almost a year! My colleagues also reported. Nothing got done we were just ignored for all that time until I told my friend who's an officer that of something didn't get done soon I would confront the woman myself, take the kids to country hall and drop them off at social services and he'd be arresting me what I go back to do to the mother. That afternoon 2 social workers visited and a few weeks later there started being weekly visits from ss checking in n the mum calmed her shit down. The point being, perhaps people did report and try and sort something out, maybe even many times and were just ignored.
Surely to goodness a child’s cries would have echoed throughout the apartment for hours. Where were the people that lived there ????? No calls to 911!!!!
did u catch the side eye she was throwing 😒 daggers. maintaining her professionalism while describing those details in front of the person who committed said atrocities a super power. she should be knighted.
If the neighbors could hear her crying as much as she was, they should have called for a wellness check. This is a PSA to everyone. Do not be more afraid of offending someone than protecting someone. Such an unbelievably heartbreaking case.
Exactly! If my child was having a meltdown and someone (or even officers) showed up just to make sure everything was okay, I would be happy to know that my neighbors cared enough.
Exactly, I called for a wellness check on my son who I suspected was about to unalive himself and knowing that they would probably cut me out of their life for it, and they did for a year. I don't regret it as they are alive today, got the help they needed and a year later thanked me.
@@little78luckywell shoot I thank you for your child as well. Good reminder that even adult children need checking on let alone a child who wasn’t even a year.
My mom told me a story from when she was in her late 20s and living in a crappy apartment with paper thin walls: her neighbor was in a _very_ abusive relationship, and my mom called the police every time she heard him starting to attack her. The woman eventually found out it was her and flipped out on her, and my mom just told her if she heard it, shed be calling, every time. And she did. The lady never pressed charges, but after like a year the guy skipped out on her. She said one day the lady stopped her in the hall and thanked her, because if she hadn't called she was sure hed have killed her Which yeah, probably. The guy kept attacking her _knowing_ the police would be coming. Thats a crazy amount of rage to have
Ikr?!! What did she THINK would happen??! That the baby would make itself 3course meals and watch cartoons??! Is this woman stupid?! Or evil??! Ohmygod that poor baby...that woman should not have a mother to begin with, a dog treats it's children better😠😢
When she said “It’s not like I shot her or beat her with a bat”, my immediate thought was, “actually, that would have been more humane”. Thats says a lot. Secondly, as a person with ADHD and long term depression, I take major objection to people who use mental illness as blanket defense to explain away acts of violence. Most of us who suffer with mental health illness don’t harm others, and if there be neglect or harm, it is often done to one’s self. This was a truly horrifying case and I thank Stephanie for using her platform to bring it to a larger audience.
I also had the thought that it would have been less cruel for her to kill that baby quickly before her trip than leave her there to starve and suffer. How heartbreaking. 💔
I agree with you! I had to turn this off during the Ring footage of that sweet baby crying and gone back to it later because it was so devastatingly hard to listen to. I burst into tears and my husband was like “what is it?” And I said it’s a case involving a 16 month old and he said “oh no, did the parents kill the child?” And I said “it’s worse” I omitted the scarring facts, but simply said “the mom left her baby home alone in a pack n play for 10 days”. I can’t get the image of the fecal matter in her little nails and in her mouth out of head. 😭💔💔 I’ve been cuddling and loving on my 7 year old & 2 year old baby girls even more than usual.
I do not leave my 2-year-old CAT alone for more than 12 hours, and even when I'm struggling I make sure he has food in his bowl and a clean litter box. How on earth did she think leaving a baby alone for even 10 minutes was ok? She deserves life imprisonment and constant fasting for good measure.
Exactly what I was thinking! I was worried leaving my cat for two days with a friend checking in on her a couple times a day. I can’t imagine how that “mother” was able to eat, sleep or anything knowing that she left her baby alone!
Let’s not forget about this women but let’s Also talk about LACEY CLANCY. I am so disappointed on Stephanie. Make a vid about her like you made a vid about this woman.
@@ciara-wx4bydo you mean lindsay clancy? the mom who killed her kids? she did a multi part series on that on Crime Weekly. her podcast with derrick levasseur. she did that months ago.
Exactly I’m literally stressing about my vacation because of my pets my mom is taking care of them because I don’t want them alone! I told her I’m dropping them off at her house because I can’t do it.
Yes! My dog especially. I take my lunch hour to drive home and feed her and the cat their lunch, let the dog out to potty and get some fresh air, and there's about 5 while minutes for my actual lunch preparation, but those things are more important. I actually have NIGHTMARES about my animals dying because of neglect which I've never ever done. They are never dead and I'm always shocked in my dreams that they're not dead, an if course EXTREMELY relieved. I'm not sure what those dreams mean but they are recurring over decades, and sometimes involve animals I've never even owned or seen before. I'm sure there's some deep reason for them but they're very upsetting.
This is hard to watch. But my question is, why wouldn't the neighbors call police? People will call police for a trapped dog, but not a child? My heart just breaks for this child.
We have to get over this “I don’t want to get involved” or “I don’t like the police” and think about what is at stake. In this case, the very life of a helpless child.
As a mom suffering 20 years with severe depression and crippling anxiety, my 2-year-old son is the top priority in my life. I work a job against my agoraphobia to take care of him and make sure he is with people I TRUST to watch him while I have to be gone. I use THE PHONE THAT I HATE to make his medical appointments and then TAKE HIM TO THEM when doctors terrify me. Mental health is no excuse. Looking into my son's eyes every day, I see a person that deserves respect and care. He NEEDS ME. I can't understand how this THING could do this to her own flesh and blood.
Wow… my anxiety isn’t so severe that I struggle to leave my house-but it’s bad enough that I would never wish it on anyone…. Your boy is very blessed to have you Mama
I don't. What a shitty defense attorney. If you can't handle yourself that's fine - some of us are sensitive. But everyone deserves a decent defense, not "well...I'm also mentally ill (?) so I guess her awful actions were kind of justified?"
yet these are the exact kinds of people who dont feel a shred of guilt. I bet they sleep quite soundly. I bet they have erased baby Jailyn from their memories. A heartless bunch.
Yeah, it can definitely take that long to die of starvation...... dehydration however? That can be as little as 3 days.l, and death from dehydration is BRUTAL. I won't state here exactly what the body goes through in that type of death, because we are talking about a baby.....but, yeah, it's horrifying. That woman (don't even want to call her woman.....more like a demon) doesn't deserve any kindness or compassion for the rest of her time on earth. Edit to say sorry for the long comment ....just thinking about that evil person gets me fired up. @bellatheb3autiful835
She was upset that her parents wouldn’t take both kids, so she said, “eff em, im going on vacation too!”. I was disgusted by the amount of women who were excusing her behavior. Her desperation to be with a man drove her behavior. Not PPD, not mental illness, etc. She got home and went straight to covering up her crimes.
Did the parents not have social media & not question why all of a sudden their daughter was out of the country on vacation?! What about the friends and family that knew this baby had been left before & they see pictures on Facebook of the birth giver (she isn’t a mom, I won’t call her that) out of the country & on a beach, no one texted or called one another to wonder what was going on?!
Yes, I agree. She is one cold blooded bitch. She’s crying on the 911 call & when the police come she’s lying, acting like she was home all those days and really calm. If I woke up & my baby was dead, I wouldn’t be able to stop screaming and crying. I’ve heard of women who had PPD who heard voices, one woman found herself staring over her baby’s crib for hours & she was struggling so bad but she didn’t murder her baby. I can’t believe there are women on here defending Kristel. Who is the other child? I think Kristel just wanted to be rid of Jalyn. This was pre-meditated. In her mind she seems to think it’s okay to do this because afterwards she can say, God forgives & Jailyn forgives me too. What a mentality she has.
@@nikkydalby7126I’m sure NO ONE thought she’d go for that long without a babysitter. They probably thought other people were watching the baby! It’s the neighbors who really should be side eyed considering the screams they heard!!
The people blaming the neighbors (who among us sits outside listening to our neighbors’ houses, and who among monitors, in real time, our neighbors’ comings and going, and so who among us would realistically know that two cars being gone means three adults are gone and that a crying baby is a baby who is alone when the idiot mother has, at least, asked to leave the baby with someone else before bailing?) are basically removing some blame from her and saying some of the blame is on the neighbors? Her own parents are idiots who seem to have spoiled her, but the choice was still 100% on her.
I called my neighbor when I heard her usually quiet dogs barking for 10 minutes straight while she was at work. How on earth do u hear a baby crying, agonizing wails, for DAYS and do absolutely nothing???
@@nowherenothere tbh my neighbor and I don't even particularly get along, but we *DO* contact one another if we see or hear something weird going on when one of us isn't home. She's called me already about a "strange" girl leaving my house...it was my work daughter who I gave a key lol. But I appreciated her letting me know even tho our neighbor relationship is a bit strained
When my friend died in her apartment her dogs were barking ALL WEEKEND & NONE of her neighbors knocked on the door or called or anything! My friend had gone out of her way to introduce herself to her neighbors and would constantly ask if the dogs were too loud. All of a sudden they’re barking non stop for hours & no one did anything 💔 My friends body was found DAYS later.
So much respect for that homicide detective who wrote her the poem. Im so happy they came together and became her family when her own blood wouldnt. 🥺💜💜
That's when my rage turned to grief and my tears unleashed. My heart hurts for this poor innocent angel. To think of the horror she went through tears my heart to shreds.
Lacey Clancy needs to be talked about the way this woman was covered. She doesn’t get a pass for being mentally I’ll and white. She killed her kids. Talk about her more. Break the case down like you did here Stephanie.
Personally, I think Casey gave Cayley Xanax, (and God knows what else) often and used the "Zanny the nanny" expression before fully thinking it through, and kinda slipped up there.
To be fair, I hear baby’s cries from my neighbors houses sometimes. I don’t assume the baby is alone. My second child cried nearly every waking moment for the first 3 months. I held him and sang to him and nursed him but he was either sleeping, eating, or crying. Doctors didn’t know why. I still don’t. He’s fine now and taller than me! BUT, I think the neighbors also knew the baby was often left alone. If I heard a baby crying for days and I didn’t see any evidence of an adult coming or going when I knew the baby was often left alone, I’d check. If no one answered the door, I’d call the police.
I have a ring doorbell but I have the sound turned off-I only hear something when the doorbell rings and I turn it on. It’s easy to hear things after the fact when you go back to listen that you wouldn’t hear at the time. Also, the mic is outside and captures sounds that you may not hear inside unless you have a live feed going with audio constantly, which is hard to do.
From what I understand the neighbors have spoken to the mom about her leaving the baby alone before so hearing the screams should of been a red flag in my opinion.
@@nerdyninjatemptress Agreed. And these people who don't even want their babies could have given them up for adoption, but all they really care about is appearances and control.
Or folks like me who had a child, but sadly, he passed from health issues he was born with. I've seen so much of that in the groups for families with children with significant terminal health conditions. We wanted our children in the group to survive knowing that it's unlikely. Often, in one group I'm in, the mom's are not able to conceive again or won't try because of the likelihood of having another child with the same incurable conditions. It's really sad, and folks like in this video I just have no words for.
If I found out one of my kids basically tortured my grandchild to death, the cops would have to peel my boot from my kid's butt before they even made it to jail. I would not be in court begging for mercy for my kid... some things are just unforgivable.
I think this is how this woman turned out so entitled; having a mother who excuses her bad behavior. You can tell she’s never been held accountable for her actions in the past and didn’t expect to be now.
Worse thing that wasn’t mentioned: when Crystal was giving that first, calm, interview in her home with detectives-her dead baby was under a sheet right at her feet. She doesn’t look down or shed a single tear. The wide shot of that video is truly shocking.
They have to take pictures and do a preliminary investigation. The paramedics were probably just leaving, the ME Still has to pronounce her gone. The body can stay for a couple hrs after someone dies... my fil died in his house and we found him... its a whole process @@TheQueenOfSheba
When my daughter was 19 months old, she threw herself out of my arms and fell face first onto the floor, knocking out a tooth and almost losing another one. I was inconsolable for three hours, even though she had stopped crying within 45 minutes and the doctor at the ER said she was going to be fine, thank god. I still can't forgive myself and I feel sick when I think about it. How this monster is living with herself is beyond me. Lock her up snd and throw away the key.
When my oldest was around 2 years old, I opened our bedroom window without realizing my husband had taken out the screens. A few minutes later, I saw my son halfway out the (second story) window and I never moved so fast in my life. I hysterically called my husband to yell at him (sorry, Paul), and then was sobbing on and off for hours. I still think about it when I lay in bed at night sometimes. Something much worse could have happened and it makes me sick to think about it. I can't even allow myself to visualize poor Jailyn in the pack in play because it will also keep me up at night. I skipped over the audio of her crying. Ugh, I am just so upset and disgusted by this case. I cannot imagine intentionally inflicting such distress and torture to a little baby.
I've had similar inconsolable moments with my pets, I can't even imagine those moments with a child. Truly heart wrenching and crazy that this woman didn't care at all...
When my toddler was about 12 months old I left the room for a few minutes. In that time he managed to tip a large, heavy piece of furniture over on himself. Luckily there was a large toy of the floor that took the brunt of it, but it was so scary! I rushed him to ER where they checked him over and said he was fine, just keep an eye out for signs of internal bleeding as a precaution. I felt so scared and so guilty that I hadn’t baby proofed my home as well as I thought I needed to. That piece of furniture is now anchored to the wall with a very sturdy bracket, as we now have a 16 month old as well.
I accidentally slammed my daughter's fingers in a door. She had them in the side that didn't have the doorknob, she was standing behind me when I shut the so I didn't see them there. I immediately took her to the doctor and cried when I told the nurse what happened and again when I told the doctor. The whole time my daughter who was around 3 kept patting my arm and saying, " I ok mommy, I ok." It makes me cry now just typing this.
My daughter's 9 months and she fell out of her crib a few weeks ago when I went downstairs to get her Tylenol in the middle of the night. Miraculously, she wasn't injured, but the sound of that thud over my head haunts me day and night!
It’s just unimaginable. My daughter is 17 years old now but I think back to when she was 1/2/3 years old and we lived in a third floor apartment and I wouldn’t have even left her while I took the bins downstairs!! 10 DAYS???? What the hell is wrong with this woman
Our communal glass recycle is 3 houses away from mine - small adjoined houses - and my daughter was 4 before she could cope with me doing recycle without her coming with me for prob less than 2 mins all told. You have a little person wholly reliant on you for everything giving you unconditional love. This excuse for a mother just sickens me!
@@kirstywhyte3496 it really is just disgusting. And the more of the video I watched, the more my heart broke thinking about little Jailyn, starving, not knowing what was happening or why she was alone 😔
@laurahawkins6712 I feel guilty leaving my cats home alone while I’m at work! And they have three floors, many beds, towers, toys, and magic refilling cat fountains. I still feel terrible that they are alone for 10 hours.
Agreed! I lived in an apartment when my son was a baby, too, and he went with me to the mailbox, the dumpster, the laundry room, everywhere! I never would have dreamed of leaving him for a second!
As someone who raised 2 babies alone with several severe mental illnesses and couldn't take drugs because I needed to be alert, it never stopped me from doing what I needed to always put my children's needs first. I was never tempted to leave my children alone. I have bipolar, ADHD, PTSD and agoraphobia and anxiety attacks. My children were always first. This woman needs no pity. She knew every moment. She needs to not forgive herself. What she did was so horrific. She should have given that baby up. Bless this baby and may her next life be better. ❤ Thank you for doing this case Stephanie. Shame on the neighbors and today's society for doing nothing when they see or hear something wrong. As a society we need to do better. ❤
Crystal could have left that baby at any fire station or with any ambulance, no questions asked. Yes, she would be giving up her child but that's much better than the awful existence Jailyn had to endure with Crystal
@@stephaniwagner637 very true! There is zero excuse for her. She could've left Jailyn at a safe haven location like a hospital or even a police dept! The aunt said she did not get along with Crystal, but she would've taken Jailyn. Neighbors had watched Jailyn and loved her and would've taken her. This sorry excuse of a mother had so many options and instead of leaving Jailyn with someone who would've cared for her, she left her alone to suffer and starve. She's a sociopath and she got exactly what she deserved which is life in prison, although that's still a far better existence than what her poor precious baby endured the last days of her life.
Similar case here - I have a spouse with severe depression and anxiety and I also struggle with major depression, panic disorder, social phobia, ADD, borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety - my daughters are my sole concern. I’ll starve before they will. I HAVE. I’d die before I’d let them hurt. This woman deserves agony for the rest of her days.
Who said it was days? The only video we saw was the middle of the night. I mean, I'm sorry this is horrible to think about, but she is getting weaker and weaker, she can't maintain constant screaming the whole time.
I feel guilty leaving my kids with my parents while I go out for a date night. Which doesn't happen often. I know the kids are having a blast, but they are all we talk about when we are out. This makes me feel sick to my stomach. I wish it was legal to put her through the same thing that poor baby went through. Absolutely disgusting.
Same, every time my husband and I go out we end up talking about the kids, I can feel their absence deep in my being, I can't understand how a mother could just walk away from her precious baby 😭 horrifying
Yes, 25 mins into a date night we’re both like “wonder what the kids are doing?” And we usually go home early. I couldn’t imagine leaving my child for days and days knowing they are alone. Unimaginable
Every single one of those neighbors deserve charges also. I hope they hear her cries in the nightmares for the rest of their lives. How you can admit ignoring this sweet angels misery blows my mind.
The neighbour texted her asking if everything was ok and she said yes that’s why the neighbor didn’t do anything they tried and mum said they were fine
That a police officer wrote a poem for Jailyn and that the police and laywers were there to repesent Jailyn....really touched me. That family is disgusting not just that women (she has no right to be called Jailyn's mother). I hope so much when Jailyn is reborn she gets placed into a loving family.
I don’t have kids but I have a dog and I’m trying to imagine walking out of my house with a suitcase and a plane ticket and him alone in there. Are you kidding??? I obsessively check my cameras when I’m gone a few hours. A BABY?!? I find it incredibly hard to fathom how someone could be this sick. This is a baby who already can’t fully comprehend the world around them, dying a slow painful death. I can’t imagine what kind of torture that would be for anyone, let alone a baby or a dog or some type of living being who can’t fully comprehend what is happening to them. Just UNFATHOMABLE. I am FURIOUS
There were so many options. Her child would have literally been safer if she dropped her off in the middle of town at 3AM. Whatever happened to leaving babies in baskets on people's doorsteps? If you don't want to care for your child anymore, there are so many things you can do other than this. It's mind boggling.
I totally agree! It would have been better to abandon her in a bathroom at a restaurant or a hospital anything is better than what she did! so terrible and sad. She prevented others from saving her. Sick twisted disgusting person.
she's said she left the baby with neighbors previously but this time she had no concerns for the little baby 😢😢 I think she was sick in the head and was not wanting the baby to live, and she was doing this on purpose. to get rid of her baby. bc she left and came back and left again! like she wanted to come home and the baby be gone.
I live in a state with extreme abortion bans and so they decided to make these boxes to put babies in at the fire departments and police stations and I think even the ER. People use them. 2 babies were left around the corner from my house in the last 3 months. The box is climate controlled and an alarm goes off when a baby is left. This woman might not have been mentally fit but she knew to feed herself clearly and how to navigate airports and such. She could have left this poor baby anywhere but an ER or fire department or even wal mart would have been better. This is such a sad and disgusting story. I cried a lot listening and just will never understand psychopaths like this. Wild animals don't even do this.
Exactly. I know the majority of strangers would have stepped up if they knew that baby was alone. How many of us would? Poor helpless child. She had so many options and she selfishly ignored them and let her baby die; it’s unforgivable.
When Stephanie Harlowe said someone is worse than Casey Anthony, I knew to buckle up. But I was not prepared for THAT. I’ve been on Effexor since I was 13. The withdrawals, even after just missing 1 day, are pretty severe and uncomfortable, but not enough to make someone become straight up evil?! I don’t think the death penalty would even be enough in this case, at least not in its current form. She should be placed in a tiny cell alone with a few glasses of milk, no toilet, no extra clothes, and no food or water for 10+ days.
Agreed. I was on off-brand Effexor. Went off it on my own. It made me dizzy and sleepy with wild vivid dreams, sometimes disturbing... But I was still pretty functional. It can definitely effect people differently, but some people just look for excuses for their own irresponsibility. We choose what substances we do or do not put in our body. We choose to accept the possible outcomes of those choices.
During the interview with the detective, where she's shrugging and super casual, her dead toddler is lying 10 feet away, covered by one of those white sheets. This case made my stomach turn. Poor baby girl
I may need to sit this one out. I've heard all the sickening details of this case already and it's one of the worst I've ever, ever heard of. It hurts my heart too much to think of what this little baby went through, no one hearing her cries. Absolutely beyond revolting. RIP sweet baby Jailyn. 🕊️💖
Same here. I know the case already because of a short summary. I can't watch this (although I'm glad of the awareness being created) - simply TOO upsetting. I'd be in absolute ribbons. Too many shitty parents, too many innocent babies suffering. It's soul destroying... 💔
I just want to know since the neighbors knew this was something this woman did regularly (leaving her child unattended) and they could hear this baby screaming, and crying for days. Why did not a single person call for a welfare check?
This was an immigrant community and many immigrants do not like getting involved with authorities for whatever reason. Hence, they never contacted CPS or the police when the mom would fail to pick the baby up from babysitting. Jaylin was described as a very easy going baby and if she was being left alone she learned crying wouldn't illicit a response so her crying may have been very little during the abandonment. It's terrible that no one in the neighborhood could have put the crying plus the absence of Kristels car together and do a welfare check.
I'm from Cleveland and what a terrible blemish on our town. But what an honor to have such wonderful public servants working in our town. Props to them! What a horrible case.
I grew up up in Fairview Park and agree this lady’s story is so sad. That plus the recent North Olmsted stabbing and the Strongsville teen who crashed her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend.
You have my sympathies dear one. Years ago a work friend suffered this same loss & trauma. Not easy to recover from & I bet you weren't happily planning your next vacay immediately afterwards either.
@nickieellison190 I am so sorry for your loss. Please know that there was nothing you could have done. We still don’t understand what causes SIDS but babies don’t die without reason, there is strong evidence that there may be a part of the brain that functions to regulate automatic bodily functions that is defective in these babies. It’s little comfort to their families but terrifyingly unpredictable and difficult to prevent. My mother has been a NICU nurse for almost 50 years and has watched premature babies time and again forget to breath, that part of the brain has not fully developed yet and it often takes considerable time for that function to finish maturing. We have come so far in science but still have so much to learn. Again I am sorry for your loss and pray that the memory of your child is a blessing to you.
This officer that wrote that poem , broke my heart. What an officer and what a great group of officers in Cleveland! Thank you for taking care of Jaylen to making sure she gets/got the justice she deserved !
All of the neighbors who KNEW she left the baby abandoned with them; how could they not have heard her screams the neighbor beside her home or across street. The mother is the culprit, but we ALL have a responsibility to protect the defenseless baby that many KNEW was left alone on more than a couple of occasions. EVERYONE FAILED THIS BEBE. The mother did not want her.
I’ve seen this case come up in a lot of channels but I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of them. I just knew it would hit me deeply and I was right. Oh God bless that sweet child. I could cry just imagining her wanting to be loved and taken care of. No living being should ever be ignored or left to suffer, especially the helpless and innocent ones.
stephanie i’ve watched you since i started highschool and now im 21 with a new born, thank you for your videos and bringing light to these stories. this one hit home
Poor baby was failed by so many people (her horrible selfish “mother”, her family who took her mothers side, the neighbours who heard her cries for help) but I am so glad that at least the people in the justice system did right by her. Hopefully Crystal never sees the light of day again.
I pray that if I’m ever in a similar situation, hearing a baby scream and cry non stop, that I keep my eyes out and look for the mother, knock on their door, and call for a wellness check. It’s so easy to “mind our own business” out of fear of being seen as nosy or prying. I can’t say what I would’ve done if I was a neighbor, but I pray if it ever happens to me I do something about it
Lacey Clancy needs a vid made about her like this. Who cares if she was a proper white wife with kids. She killed them. Talk about her like you talked about this woman
Babies can be colicky but I like to think that after a day or two I’d at least check if the baby and/or mother was ok. Even if it is colic, dealing with a colicky baby as a single mother is incredibly stressful and difficult and I’d want to offer that mother my help, make sure she’s coping, see if she needs anything. There’s a single mother with a tiny baby living in the apartment upstairs from me and my daughter. The baby can get colicky and loud. I’ve told her many times: If you need ANYTHING, if you EVER feel overwhelmed, I’m literally right downstairs and I’m here for you!
Though her parents are fucking idiots, her history of ditching Jailyn with the neighbors probably made them think she’d do that instead of leaving Jailyn home entirely alone. I want to know who the fuck leaves somewhere with a kid, then doesn’t have that kid call and talk to their parent for so long. Remember they had Crystal’s older daughter, and they apparently didn’t know Jailyn wasn’t in the US.
I know, right?!? They took her other child and left the toddler??? Then didn't show in court for that poor murdered toddler, but came to plead for their daughter's (the murderer's) sake??? What about your Granddaughter Jailyn?!? Their daughter more than deserves to spend life locked up, the poor baby didn't but had to! It's completely backwards. What is wrong with these people?!?
They didn't. They enabled Kristels behavior. Her mother is raising her oldest. THEY TOO Took care of Jailyn. They just didn't think her daughter was too lazy to take care of Jailyn for 10 days all by herself.
It makes me so angry that not one person thought to call for a wellness check. Not one. After days of hearing crying and no indication of anyone coming and going. How did not one person just feel like there could be something severely wrong?
I know RIGHT? And anyone with ears knows those are not regular cries of a collicky baby, they were TORTURED howls of a starving child. Shame on them, shame on the grandparents, and most of all Crystal. There is no punishment that is enough for this crime.
There is no justification for abusing a child this way. Cutting out effexor cold turkey is scary it makes you feel awful, but it doesnt make you mentally impared enough to say "yea let me abandon my baby for over a week"
Inwas thinking about that but I wonder at the sametime they didn't come because the girl's mother. They probably didn't want to look like they were supporting the mom instead of the baby. I'm trying to looknat it from all sides.
Yeah, I agree. Only those who knew her after death sat on her side, literally and figuratively, it seems. My mother always told us that if we ever _really_ hurt someone then she would completely disown us (except for self defense or protecting another). In my opinion, there is *no* good reason to defend her. Excuses like, "But it's their daughter" do *not* cut it for me. That baby was their _grandbaby_ , and that *grown woman* chose a *vacation* (that she seemingly had planned and carried out every detail for, without issue) over her own _daughter_ . How do they not see that what she did (or FAILED to do) shows _exactly_ what kind of demonic nature _really_ lurks inside of that woman? The question the court always asks is not, "Are they mentally ill." It is, "Did they know right from wrong" because you can have issues mentally and *still* know full well what you're doing is _beyond wrong_ - it's *evil* . Just like someone who is mentally ill can choose to do good. I hope they don't think she loves them either, because she had to have known it would hurt them if something happened to that baby. She'd starve them if she felt the need to just the same as the baby.
@@karentucker2161 They showed up and spoke or wrote letters on behalf of the mother. They were def there sitting on the defenses side of the court. I get looking at things from all sides, we truly need more of that. I also think how most normal families would be horrified. Probably condemn the deplorable act their loved one committed while also saying they still love them. I’ve seen that in other cases but def not this one.
It really touched me that they all showed up to support this baby girl and speak for her. Different offices and professions, all there for her to speak for what happened to her. It’s unbelievable that every single person in her whole miserable extended family didn’t give the slightest crap. This poor poor angel.
Me too. The coroner's office and police dept showed up in Jailyn's honor. I loved how the female investigator looked at Krystal and told her how even the animals take better care of their young!
I am currently on both EFFEXOR XR and ATARAX, and have been for several years now. Speaking mainly to the Effexor, if I forget my medication my mind is all whacked out. Things don't feel real, I'm crying for no reason hysterically, all sorts of crappy things. But never have I ever forgot that I had 8-12 PETS that needed care, let alone a CHILD. Infact, if anything I'm a wreck feeling like I've forgotten someone or something important and there's gonna be devastating results. NEVER am I ready for a photo-op or a vacation.
When the police officer read the poem. I lost it you can tell how it destroyed him. ❤ God bless the police 👮🏻 Thank you officer for your service! Rest in peace sweet baby.
I hate everyone involved. The neighbors knew she had a habit of doing this and didn't call the cops when they heard this baby scream. And grandparents took up for 'mom' EVERYONE failed this child. And I hope none have peace over it
Same here. So many people could have helped Jailyn. I would have broken into the house myself if I'd heard her crying even for 5 minutes!! The grandparents had taken the older sibling of Jailyn on holidays...why did they not take Jailyn too!!! It's infuriating that they actually still support that POS.. I hope to hell that they don't have custody of this older child after raising such a monster.
@@wldncrzy1971 The neighbors knew this shit was going on and did nothing. Evil does not persist in the world only because someone does evil, it persists because people allow it.
How could so Many of them listen and not call the police or go over and break the door down to save that little darling. She could have lived. She could have been placed in another home where that baby could have been loved and raised by people who deserved her and the baby deserved them. Every person that heard that baby crying is partially responsible for her death.
I lost it when the male detective read that poem. Also he is a Cleveland homicide detective, and this is the worst case he seen. Cleveland. There are parts of Cleveland that are worse than Detroit used to be. That says a lot.
I live in Cleveland. Our biggest export is generational poverty and untreated mental illness. It's horrific how many people hear suffer in silence either from shame or ignorance.
@@anniemcmillen940 and I mean no disrespect. I’m a Cleveland fan through and through. My best memories are going to baseball games at Jacobs field with my dad. And I live in Toledo. It’s a shit hole as well.
I live in Cleveland, also. I cried this morning after learning a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head, laying in a ravine for days on the opportunity corridor highway. A few weeks ago a guy I went to high school with was a shot in the head on East 49th for no reason. Things are crazy out here.
I, and I'm sure everyone who has watched this video, stand with Jailyn in that courtroom. Many of us would have jumped at the *privilege* of welcoming her into our families with love and warmth and the nourishment she needed and deserved. Crystal and the family who support her can rot. God may be forgiving, but I am not.
I’m a new mom, and I have anxiety leaving my baby in the crib while I go to take a shower for ten minutes. I just can’t imagine how confused and scared and hurting that poor baby was, wondering where her carer was.
my son is 3 and super smart and relatively independent and i won’t even take the trash out or get the mail when my husband is at work because i can’t fathom leaving my precious child alone in our home ??? like wtf is wrong with people
I used to bring my babies in the bathroom with me when I took a shower, I put them in their bouncer because with the shower water running you can’t hear them if they start crying and in another room
I truly feel like something permanently broke in me when I first learned of this story. I pray for the first responders and every professional who attended to the details of this sweet baby's tragic end.
I normally have pretty thick skin when it comes to these cases… but this one… this one made me sick to my stomach and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the suffering that poor baby went through. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I wonder if there was more footage of other incidences of Jaylins cries from this time? Kristel is reported to have left Jaylin alone for days in the past as well, so it's possible Jaylin.knew that her cries were unfruitful and only cried as death was setting in?? So tragic.
Oh, this case hurts my heart so much! I currently have a 16 month old. I am a struggling single mother, struggling to pay rent, bills and buy food. But I would and WILL sacrifice anything and everything to look after my little one and love them dearly. This is so messed up and she deserves nothing less than what she received. Put her in solitary confinement for the first whole year, so she has to go through even a fraction of psychological trauma and abandonment that she put her child through.
I babysit my 17 month old granddaughter and if she isn't within my eyesight, I go look to see what she's doing. How can you expect a baby to survive alone for 11 days? Bury her under the jail.
WHY DID NO ONE CALL THE POLICE WHEN HEARING HER CRY IN THAT HOUSE FOR HOURS? WHY DID NO ONE MAKE A POLICE OR CPS REPORT KNOWING THIS "MOTHERS" PATTERN? Prison is too good for this sick excuse of a human. She should get capital punishment. What an absolutely heartshattering case. This woman is a selfish, heartless monster. Pathetic excuse for a "mother". Rest in Peace, Jailyn. 💔
I hope the appeal against Krystal's sentence fails. I feel like mental illness shouldn't be allowed to be taken into account. In fact, I personally feel like that using mental illness as an excuse for something so inhumane, barbaric, unimaginable, disturbing, selfish, and unforgivable, by all accounts, should be illegal.
Typical depression and anxiety should never be an excuse for harm of any kind. People live with it every day and don't harm anyone else, just themselves. I do believe the insanity defense should still exist, but depression and anxiety do not equate to insanity.
@Denise_2262 exactly. Me neither. She was actually sane when she committed this unimaginable act. She intends to appeal her sentence as she wants her so-called "mental illness" to be taken into account. Honestly, cases like this among countless other unimaginable acts is exactly why the mental illness defense shouldn't be allowed. I mean, it is absolutely disrespectful towards those who are suffering from mental illness and are actually good people. Kristel narcissistic, insensitive, and manipulative.
I've written and deleted several comments. At the end of the day, there are no words to adequately express what I'm feeling and honestly, other viewers have said it much more eloquently than I ever could. What I can add is directed at Judge Sheehan: 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽. Thank you sir, for salvaging some modicum of justice for this sweet angel. ❤
I almost didn’t watch the full CCT but when I saw the support from the community especially police and judiciary I stayed to watch to honour this little life, God Bless her and keep her 😢
I came to give you a like Stephanie. But, my heart can't handle this listen today. Bless this little soul and I appreciate all you do to bring light to these important cases. 🙏🏼
"At least the prison will feed you." Fucking. Savage. That judge is a legend.
💔 I'm all for the inmate justice!
Sad part is they’ll put her in protective custody where she’d be kept away from the general population
I hope they feed her crap.
@@MissSassy79oh, believe me, that's coming
@@JoJoGranumwe can't all be vigilantes, now. There's a reason we have criminal institutions, in the first place.
If the cries were so loud that you could hear it in the surveillance video why on earth did no one think to call for help SMFHHHH
I know! It just blows my mind how detached some people can be
Especially over a period of time!
Especially when you know the Mother is known for leaving the baby alone.
Like at least go over and knock and see if anyone answers.
This is because our society is so far detached from each others social media and electronics are a major factor
I was thinking the same
We lived in an apartment when my oldest was about that age, and one night, he was teething and completely inconsolable. After a few hours of us trying to calm him, giving him tylenol and cuddles,we decided that he was probably overstimulated, and we lay him down in his crib. He really fussed for a few minutes and then finally fell asleep. Somone called the police on us, and I was annoyed. I showed them our sleeping baby and explained that he was teething and that we had had a hard time getting him off to sleep. I was irritated because I knew that we weren't abusing or neglecting him, but after watching this, I'm glad we had neighbors who cared enough to call!
Thank you so much for posting this.
I think we have to use common sense; if you hear a baby crying hysterically once, or over a couple of nights, they are probably ill/ teething. It’s when it’s a regular occurrence it needs attention. You can’t have police turning up every time a baby has a bad night; your neighbour did overreact. It’s the neighbours who *knew* this woman was habitually neglecting her child and did not alert authorities that behaved unforgivably. They have a level of culpability.
Any time someone cares enough about my child to send for investigation, that person is now my friend, for we have the same goals.
@@daisyproud110 I agree on the neighbors overreacting to one bad night (in many areas, police and CPS already don’t have time to take appropriate action on actual abuse, and stretching the thinner means faster reaction times in cases that end up with dead people), but disagree that Crystal’s neighbors are to blame. Crystal’s established pattern was asking a neighbor to babysit before ditching her, and the crying was caught on a Ring doorbell outside, not by people outside. Given the nature of this, and Jailyn’s age being an age where kids will scream like they’re being skinned alive over not getting ice cream for dinner, it makes sense that the neighbors had no idea Jailyn was alone, or that anything out of the ordinary was going on. What was ordinary there wasn’t great, but the ordinary wasn’t going to result in a dead baby. This wasn’t ordinary for Crystal.
I would rather have false negatives and the few who are really being abused get saved, than all be ignored…
Sorry you went through that…😢
That detective who wrote a poem for baby Jailyn is a national hero
I cried hearing his poem
Omg....how heartbreaking. And that medical examiner could barely talk about her findings. So so very sad. I can't even imagine...this case is unfathomable.
The neighbors knew this was a habitual thing. I just wish ONE person would have called for a wellness check
That was my thought. Why not call authorities?!?!
That's what I don't get!
Omg yesss, I was just going to comment this! Why didn’t anyone call??? Even if the mother was there and the baby was crying like that, why didn’t the neighbors call the cops?
Same! She was absolutely failed 😢
I'd have gone 1 step further and risked legal trouble by breaking into that house to get that baby.
You can tell that Dr Mooney cared more about Jailyn in death than the mother ever did while that poor baby was alive
I thought she did an excellent job.
I was listening to it and you could hear her voice breaking. I could even hear it in the bitch faces lawyers voice.
Her voice hurt my soul. She was so strong for Jailyn 😢
Doing that job takes a strong mind and a strong heart. To speak for a mistreated and neglectfully lost baby must have killed her inside. But she wanted to help, so she did. Thankful for people who can do that job.
Can we lock this woman in a cell for 2 weeks and just completely ignore her like she did to her daughter? No food, no water, in a small cell with no toilet where she can barely move.
While hearing two weeks of a loop of her baby crying for help.
Sadly the 8th amendment forbids that but I wish it didn’t for people like this
I was thinking the same thing. I feel nothing for this monster.
No. For the rest of her life. THATS what she did to her daughter.
I have a feeling the guards in the prison will be EXTREMELY ACCOMMODATING 😏
There’s no way she did this to her own daughter and thought she would survive. This wasn’t just neglect. This was a sadistic act of murder.
Right, but it's an insane one. Like, it would require total mental and cognitive instability to do this and assume you won't get caught.
This case truly is weird. If she wanted to kill her baby, she could have done it much more intelligently than this. Not that I would ever support such a thing, but I'm a true crime fan, and these videos outline clever murder plots all the time.
I don't understand her logic here, even if she was intentionally trying to kill her kid. It's the worst plan ever. Childrens' cartoons come up with better schemes than this.
I'm a mother who is in 24/7 adoration of my little one, so that was hard to type. But I'm also a data analyst, and I know an edge case when I see it.
That lady who did the autopsy was FIGHTING for baby girl. Her voice was breaking but stayed so professional to make sure nothing was left out. I can’t even begin to imagine the long lasting trauma having to work over a tiny baby body who was so devastatingly lost to her caregiver. Her mother. I cried so such during this video.
im here like "😐" but im angry ... bad parents dont surprise me or make me cry anymore
@scorpionic-night same. I've heard so much worse than this - also from Ohio which doesn't surprise me as someone born and raised there. I am disgusted. I am sickened. I am angry. This woman is beyond evil. But almost nothing surprises me or makes me cry anymore. 💔
Right! This was hard for her I'm sure. It was hard to listen to it.
@@krisdiane yes. I'm still in Cleveland. no where near the baby in this case home, but we have so many cases here, idk what's wrong with our area 😢😢
Yes, I had to stop watching at this part. I will return later, but this is so horrible to think what that baby went through leading up to her death. Her Mom is a disgusting excuse of a human being.
This woman makes me understand countries that still do public hangings, what an absolute monster.
True justice would be if this monstrous "human" was made to suffer the EXACT same fate. In prison she still has food, water, exercise time, LIFE.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
After she is starved to death and nothing to drink for two weeks isolated in cell
No guys, you shouldn't think like this.. we are better than monsters ❤
@@jessica_schrecklich Wanting retributive/proportional justice doesn’t make someone a monster. What a silly thing to say.
When you said move over Casey Anthony.... I didn't know how bad it would get. This poor baby girl deserved so much better. RIP sweet girl.
I agree, I thought how is that possible, but I think this might be the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard
Lacey Clancy. Let’s not let her go on without being talked about. She had no excuse. Mental health or not. She is just as bad as this woman.
@@ciara-wx4byi can’t believe people defended her.
My 16 month old is napping curled up in my arms right now as I watch this. So vulnerable, so attached to me. I can’t go to another room without her following me. I can’t imagine how much this little angel suffered. Wish she had been mine 🥲💔
It has to be something wrong with the mind the people who heard the baby crying should have done something 😢😢
IKR? I had my daughters two year apart and hardly peed without an audience from the time my oldest could walk to the time my youngest was big enough for me to feel comfortable shutting the door for a minute. We are their whole world when they're that little. And God made them to be that way, because they need us to take care of them. This story breaks my heart.
This is not only a case of abuse and neglect, but community failure as well. It is a perfect example of the bystander effect “ Someone else will handle it, I don’t want to get involved.”
So true thats what I was thinking too
Remember, this is Cleveland where a 12 year oldTamir Rice was shot by police. There is not a good community relationship with police.
I mean, in the recording of the ring camera tbh i don’t hear much?
People work, they don’t spend a ton of time outside, when they’re inside they can’t hear what’s outside because of tv, whatever they’re watching on the internet, music, headphones and some houses are far apart. Tbh i doubt the neighbors but two and together the baby was actually being neglected alone
Not necessarily. There's a woman living behind my place of work who is constantly screaming at her kids who are all 3 under about 6 1 still in a pram is barely a toddler. I reported to social services, police and MASH (multi agency safeguarding hub) at least once a week, usually more, for almost a year! My colleagues also reported. Nothing got done we were just ignored for all that time until I told my friend who's an officer that of something didn't get done soon I would confront the woman myself, take the kids to country hall and drop them off at social services and he'd be arresting me what I go back to do to the mother. That afternoon 2 social workers visited and a few weeks later there started being weekly visits from ss checking in n the mum calmed her shit down. The point being, perhaps people did report and try and sort something out, maybe even many times and were just ignored.
Surely to goodness a child’s cries would have echoed throughout the apartment for hours. Where were the people that lived there ????? No calls to 911!!!!
The forensic pathologist about to cry had me about to cry. You know it’s beyond horrible when someone who has seen it all reacts like that.
did u catch the side eye she was throwing 😒 daggers. maintaining her professionalism while describing those details in front of the person who committed said atrocities a super power. she should be knighted.
If the neighbors could hear her crying as much as she was, they should have called for a wellness check. This is a PSA to everyone. Do not be more afraid of offending someone than protecting someone. Such an unbelievably heartbreaking case.
Exactly! If my child was having a meltdown and someone (or even officers) showed up just to make sure everything was okay, I would be happy to know that my neighbors cared enough.
Exactly, I called for a wellness check on my son who I suspected was about to unalive himself and knowing that they would probably cut me out of their life for it, and they did for a year. I don't regret it as they are alive today, got the help they needed and a year later thanked me.
@@little78luckywell shoot I thank you for your child as well. Good reminder that even adult children need checking on let alone a child who wasn’t even a year.
Completely agree. You can easily call anonymously and request a wellness check.
My mom told me a story from when she was in her late 20s and living in a crappy apartment with paper thin walls: her neighbor was in a _very_ abusive relationship, and my mom called the police every time she heard him starting to attack her. The woman eventually found out it was her and flipped out on her, and my mom just told her if she heard it, shed be calling, every time. And she did. The lady never pressed charges, but after like a year the guy skipped out on her. She said one day the lady stopped her in the hall and thanked her, because if she hadn't called she was sure hed have killed her
Which yeah, probably. The guy kept attacking her _knowing_ the police would be coming. Thats a crazy amount of rage to have
I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact that she thought her child would be okay? There has to be something wrong with her mentally.
Mentally or not it’s wrong I’m tired of people claiming this she killed her child 😢
Ikr?!! What did she THINK would happen??! That the baby would make itself 3course meals and watch cartoons??! Is this woman stupid?! Or evil??! Ohmygod that poor baby...that woman should not have a mother to begin with, a dog treats it's children better😠😢
@@bekkilammers5977exactly. I think she wanted her kid dead. She knew what she did was wrong that's why she lied from the beginning.
@@LaylaOlsenIt's just hard to fathom that somebody can be *this* evil
Stupidity and arrogance. Her needs were more important.
When she said “It’s not like I shot her or beat her with a bat”, my immediate thought was, “actually, that would have been more humane”. Thats says a lot. Secondly, as a person with ADHD and long term depression, I take major objection to people who use mental illness as blanket defense to explain away acts of violence. Most of us who suffer with mental health illness don’t harm others, and if there be neglect or harm, it is often done to one’s self. This was a truly horrifying case and I thank Stephanie for using her platform to bring it to a larger audience.
Same!!!!
Just absolutely disgusting.
I also had the thought that it would have been less cruel for her to kill that baby quickly before her trip than leave her there to starve and suffer. How heartbreaking. 💔
I agree with you! I had to turn this off during the Ring footage of that sweet baby crying and gone back to it later because it was so devastatingly hard to listen to. I burst into tears and my husband was like “what is it?” And I said it’s a case involving a 16 month old and he said “oh no, did the parents kill the child?” And I said “it’s worse” I omitted the scarring facts, but simply said “the mom left her baby home alone in a pack n play for 10 days”. I can’t get the image of the fecal matter in her little nails and in her mouth out of head. 😭💔💔 I’ve been cuddling and loving on my 7 year old & 2 year old baby girls even more than usual.
Same same same.
Here here
I do not leave my 2-year-old CAT alone for more than 12 hours, and even when I'm struggling I make sure he has food in his bowl and a clean litter box. How on earth did she think leaving a baby alone for even 10 minutes was ok? She deserves life imprisonment and constant fasting for good measure.
Exactly what I was thinking! I was worried leaving my cat for two days with a friend checking in on her a couple times a day. I can’t imagine how that “mother” was able to eat, sleep or anything knowing that she left her baby alone!
Let’s not forget about this women but let’s Also talk about LACEY CLANCY. I am so disappointed on Stephanie. Make a vid about her like you made a vid about this woman.
@@ciara-wx4bydo you mean lindsay clancy? the mom who killed her kids? she did a multi part series on that on Crime Weekly. her podcast with derrick levasseur. she did that months ago.
Exactly I’m literally stressing about my vacation because of my pets my mom is taking care of them because I don’t want them alone! I told her I’m dropping them off at her house because I can’t do it.
Yes! My dog especially. I take my lunch hour to drive home and feed her and the cat their lunch, let the dog out to potty and get some fresh air, and there's about 5 while minutes for my actual lunch preparation, but those things are more important. I actually have NIGHTMARES about my animals dying because of neglect which I've never ever done. They are never dead and I'm always shocked in my dreams that they're not dead, an if course EXTREMELY relieved. I'm not sure what those dreams mean but they are recurring over decades, and sometimes involve animals I've never even owned or seen before. I'm sure there's some deep reason for them but they're very upsetting.
This is hard to watch. But my question is, why wouldn't the neighbors call police? People will call police for a trapped dog, but not a child? My heart just breaks for this child.
Some people are scared of the police but still, they don't see the mother for this long why not check?
really good question...
We have to get over this “I don’t want to get involved” or “I don’t like the police” and think about what is at stake. In this case, the very life of a helpless child.
@@auntkaz815 Exactly especially if this is repeated behavior.
Exactly! People NEED to step in and stop with this, "I'm gonna mind my own business" garbage. Not when it comes to suffering! What the heck!
God bless that detective and the entire law enforcement community who sit up for this precious little angel.
As a mom suffering 20 years with severe depression and crippling anxiety, my 2-year-old son is the top priority in my life. I work a job against my agoraphobia to take care of him and make sure he is with people I TRUST to watch him while I have to be gone. I use THE PHONE THAT I HATE to make his medical appointments and then TAKE HIM TO THEM when doctors terrify me. Mental health is no excuse. Looking into my son's eyes every day, I see a person that deserves respect and care. He NEEDS ME. I can't understand how this THING could do this to her own flesh and blood.
So proud of you, Mamma ❤
Wow… my anxiety isn’t so severe that I struggle to leave my house-but it’s bad enough that I would never wish it on anyone….
Your boy is very blessed to have you Mama
This is me too! I can’t look after myself but my son is treated like a prince.
You got this!
You’re amazing your little boy is so lucky to have such a determined mom! 🤎
I also love that her lawyer could barely stand his client
I don't. What a shitty defense attorney. If you can't handle yourself that's fine - some of us are sensitive. But everyone deserves a decent defense, not "well...I'm also mentally ill (?) so I guess her awful actions were kind of justified?"
@@diyadasgupta63 okay
All these mum who starve their kids always look like they themselves never missed a meal, that poor baby
Yes! I saw a case with a baby who was one a few months old who died of starvation and the dad was morbidly obese! It’s just disgusting!!
I’d be in therapy if I were one of the people who heard her cries and did nothing. I don’t know how I would be able to overcome the guilt.
yet these are the exact kinds of people who dont feel a shred of guilt. I bet they sleep quite soundly. I bet they have erased baby Jailyn from their memories. A heartless bunch.
@@massivelThis is terrible but so very true.
Yeah, it can definitely take that long to die of starvation...... dehydration however? That can be as little as 3 days.l, and death from dehydration is BRUTAL. I won't state here exactly what the body goes through in that type of death, because we are talking about a baby.....but, yeah, it's horrifying. That woman (don't even want to call her woman.....more like a demon) doesn't deserve any kindness or compassion for the rest of her time on earth.
Edit to say sorry for the long comment ....just thinking about that evil person gets me fired up. @bellatheb3autiful835
God forbid if I hear this disturbance and not do anything.
She was upset that her parents wouldn’t take both kids, so she said, “eff em, im going on vacation too!”. I was disgusted by the amount of women who were excusing her behavior. Her desperation to be with a man drove her behavior. Not PPD, not mental illness, etc. She got home and went straight to covering up her crimes.
Did the parents not have social media & not question why all of a sudden their daughter was out of the country on vacation?! What about the friends and family that knew this baby had been left before & they see pictures on Facebook of the birth giver (she isn’t a mom, I won’t call her that) out of the country & on a beach, no one texted or called one another to wonder what was going on?!
Yes, I agree. She is one cold blooded bitch. She’s crying on the 911 call & when the police come she’s lying, acting like she was home all those days and really calm. If I woke up & my baby was dead, I wouldn’t be able to stop screaming and crying. I’ve heard of women who had PPD who heard voices, one woman found herself staring over her baby’s crib for hours & she was struggling so bad but she didn’t murder her baby. I can’t believe there are women on here defending Kristel. Who is the other child? I think Kristel just wanted to be rid of Jalyn. This was pre-meditated. In her mind she seems to think it’s okay to do this because afterwards she can say, God forgives & Jailyn forgives me too. What a mentality she has.
@@nikkydalby7126I’m sure NO ONE thought she’d go for that long without a babysitter. They probably thought other people were watching the baby! It’s the neighbors who really should be side eyed considering the screams they heard!!
The people blaming the neighbors (who among us sits outside listening to our neighbors’ houses, and who among monitors, in real time, our neighbors’ comings and going, and so who among us would realistically know that two cars being gone means three adults are gone and that a crying baby is a baby who is alone when the idiot mother has, at least, asked to leave the baby with someone else before bailing?) are basically removing some blame from her and saying some of the blame is on the neighbors? Her own parents are idiots who seem to have spoiled her, but the choice was still 100% on her.
She in her 30’s but still an entitled, selfish narcissist. I wonder what happened for her parents to baby her so much as a grown woman.
I called my neighbor when I heard her usually quiet dogs barking for 10 minutes straight while she was at work. How on earth do u hear a baby crying, agonizing wails, for DAYS and do absolutely nothing???
Exactly, idk how in the fk no one did anything ??
@@nowherenothere tbh my neighbor and I don't even particularly get along, but we *DO* contact one another if we see or hear something weird going on when one of us isn't home. She's called me already about a "strange" girl leaving my house...it was my work daughter who I gave a key lol. But I appreciated her letting me know even tho our neighbor relationship is a bit strained
They were probably happy when the crying stopped... The "mother" is a monster but those folks are heartless to not even call 911...
It would drive me CRAZY so I would absolutely have called the police at the very least ffs
When my friend died in her apartment her dogs were barking ALL WEEKEND & NONE of her neighbors knocked on the door or called or anything! My friend had gone out of her way to introduce herself to her neighbors and would constantly ask if the dogs were too loud. All of a sudden they’re barking non stop for hours & no one did anything 💔 My friends body was found DAYS later.
So much respect for that homicide detective who wrote her the poem. Im so happy they came together and became her family when her own blood wouldnt. 🥺💜💜
Brought tears to my eyes 😭 poor baby deserved better than that. That woman is NOT a mother. Period.
That's when my rage turned to grief and my tears unleashed. My heart hurts for this poor innocent angel. To think of the horror she went through tears my heart to shreds.
🥺 exactly
I’m local and he really cares for this community
Lacey Clancy needs to be talked about the way this woman was covered. She doesn’t get a pass for being mentally I’ll and white. She killed her kids. Talk about her more. Break the case down like you did here Stephanie.
“Zanny the nanny” I totally forgot about that wild story
Personally, I think Casey gave Cayley Xanax, (and God knows what else) often and used the "Zanny the nanny" expression before fully thinking it through, and kinda slipped up there.
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@jessicawoods3142 she said the quiet part out loud🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Wait a minute people HEARD the baby for DAYS? Ugh. I knew there was a reason I avoided this atrocious case.
To be fair, I hear baby’s cries from my neighbors houses sometimes. I don’t assume the baby is alone. My second child cried nearly every waking moment for the first 3 months. I held him and sang to him and nursed him but he was either sleeping, eating, or crying. Doctors didn’t know why. I still don’t. He’s fine now and taller than me!
BUT, I think the neighbors also knew the baby was often left alone. If I heard a baby crying for days and I didn’t see any evidence of an adult coming or going when I knew the baby was often left alone, I’d check. If no one answered the door, I’d call the police.
But she's known to leave her baby alone, they failed that sweet angel 😢@@Andreamom001
We don't usually check our ring camera so I can understand the neighbors missing that. But I can't fathom ignoring cries heard in person for days.
I have a ring doorbell but I have the sound turned off-I only hear something when the doorbell rings and I turn it on. It’s easy to hear things after the fact when you go back to listen that you wouldn’t hear at the time. Also, the mic is outside and captures sounds that you may not hear inside unless you have a live feed going with audio constantly, which is hard to do.
From what I understand the neighbors have spoken to the mom about her leaving the baby alone before so hearing the screams should of been a red flag in my opinion.
Meanwhile my husband and I have been trying for a baby for 2 years…I cried when I heard about this. I wish I could have loved and held that baby.
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It’s deeply unfair that some people have babies they don’t care about and others with so much love to share are left with empty arms.
@@nerdyninjatemptress Agreed. And these people who don't even want their babies could have given them up for adoption, but all they really care about is appearances and control.
Or folks like me who had a child, but sadly, he passed from health issues he was born with.
I've seen so much of that in the groups for families with children with significant terminal health conditions. We wanted our children in the group to survive knowing that it's unlikely.
Often, in one group I'm in, the mom's are not able to conceive again or won't try because of the likelihood of having another child with the same incurable conditions. It's really sad, and folks like in this video I just have no words for.
Right it pisses me off these types of people reproduce w no issue. Absolutely foul
If I found out one of my kids basically tortured my grandchild to death, the cops would have to peel my boot from my kid's butt before they even made it to jail. I would not be in court begging for mercy for my kid... some things are just unforgivable.
I think this is how this woman turned out so entitled; having a mother who excuses her bad behavior. You can tell she’s never been held accountable for her actions in the past and didn’t expect to be now.
Ultimately, Crystal’s parents coddled her.
@@bridony225you can tell crystal is a narcissistic. That term is overplayed sometimes, but the only person who matters to her is herself.
Her parents are loathe some creatures as well.
She probably inherited her traits from them, you know.
They need to lock her up with no food or water or contact with another human for 10+ days and see how her mental health is after that 😡
Nah she’s bigger so 10 days will be nothing she should be in that state for 2 months
We recently had a similar case in Italy. A woman left her little girl home alone, in her crib, for 6 days. She got life in prison.
Did the baby survive?
@@gopelicans no, she died 24 hours prior to the mother's return
@@missglossy2040😢what is wrong with people.. why have kids if you aren’t going to watch them
Worse thing that wasn’t mentioned: when Crystal was giving that first, calm, interview in her home with detectives-her dead baby was under a sheet right at her feet. She doesn’t look down or shed a single tear. The wide shot of that video is truly shocking.
Omfg.
They don’t take the body away!? No paramedics!? Why was the baby left at her feet!?
They have to take pictures and do a preliminary investigation. The paramedics were probably just leaving, the ME Still has to pronounce her gone. The body can stay for a couple hrs after someone dies... my fil died in his house and we found him... its a whole process @@TheQueenOfSheba
@@TheQueenOfShebabc they saw a homocide
She didn't care. The boyfriend was upset and couldn't eat but the mom sure ate
When my daughter was 19 months old, she threw herself out of my arms and fell face first onto the floor, knocking out a tooth and almost losing another one. I was inconsolable for three hours, even though she had stopped crying within 45 minutes and the doctor at the ER said she was going to be fine, thank god. I still can't forgive myself and I feel sick when I think about it. How this monster is living with herself is beyond me. Lock her up snd and throw away the key.
When my oldest was around 2 years old, I opened our bedroom window without realizing my husband had taken out the screens. A few minutes later, I saw my son halfway out the (second story) window and I never moved so fast in my life. I hysterically called my husband to yell at him (sorry, Paul), and then was sobbing on and off for hours. I still think about it when I lay in bed at night sometimes. Something much worse could have happened and it makes me sick to think about it. I can't even allow myself to visualize poor Jailyn in the pack in play because it will also keep me up at night. I skipped over the audio of her crying. Ugh, I am just so upset and disgusted by this case. I cannot imagine intentionally inflicting such distress and torture to a little baby.
I've had similar inconsolable moments with my pets, I can't even imagine those moments with a child. Truly heart wrenching and crazy that this woman didn't care at all...
When my toddler was about 12 months old I left the room for a few minutes. In that time he managed to tip a large, heavy piece of furniture over on himself. Luckily there was a large toy of the floor that took the brunt of it, but it was so scary! I rushed him to ER where they checked him over and said he was fine, just keep an eye out for signs of internal bleeding as a precaution. I felt so scared and so guilty that I hadn’t baby proofed my home as well as I thought I needed to. That piece of furniture is now anchored to the wall with a very sturdy bracket, as we now have a 16 month old as well.
I accidentally slammed my daughter's fingers in a door. She had them in the side that didn't have the doorknob, she was standing behind me when I shut the so I didn't see them there. I immediately took her to the doctor and cried when I told the nurse what happened and again when I told the doctor. The whole time my daughter who was around 3 kept patting my arm and saying, " I ok mommy, I ok." It makes me cry now just typing this.
My daughter's 9 months and she fell out of her crib a few weeks ago when I went downstairs to get her Tylenol in the middle of the night. Miraculously, she wasn't injured, but the sound of that thud over my head haunts me day and night!
It’s just unimaginable. My daughter is 17 years old now but I think back to when she was 1/2/3 years old and we lived in a third floor apartment and I wouldn’t have even left her while I took the bins downstairs!! 10 DAYS???? What the hell is wrong with this woman
Our communal glass recycle is 3 houses away from mine - small adjoined houses - and my daughter was 4 before she could cope with me doing recycle without her coming with me for prob less than 2 mins all told. You have a little person wholly reliant on you for everything giving you unconditional love. This excuse for a mother just sickens me!
@@kirstywhyte3496 it really is just disgusting. And the more of the video I watched, the more my heart broke thinking about little Jailyn, starving, not knowing what was happening or why she was alone 😔
@laurahawkins6712 I feel guilty leaving my cats home alone while I’m at work! And they have three floors, many beds, towers, toys, and magic refilling cat fountains. I still feel terrible that they are alone for 10 hours.
Agreed! I lived in an apartment when my son was a baby, too, and he went with me to the mailbox, the dumpster, the laundry room, everywhere! I never would have dreamed of leaving him for a second!
Me too,people offered to babysit but l wouldn't go out
So sickening my feral cats are better mothers. This infuriates me why didn't the neighbors call the police
Most animals are better mothers than this woman :(
@@Princeofithilien The ones who try to eat their young are still better role models than this particular parent...
So many humans make me sick
As someone who raised 2 babies alone with several severe mental illnesses and couldn't take drugs because I needed to be alert, it never stopped me from doing what I needed to always put my children's needs first. I was never tempted to leave my children alone. I have bipolar, ADHD, PTSD and agoraphobia and anxiety attacks. My children were always first. This woman needs no pity. She knew every moment. She needs to not forgive herself. What she did was so horrific. She should have given that baby up. Bless this baby and may her next life be better. ❤ Thank you for doing this case Stephanie. Shame on the neighbors and today's society for doing nothing when they see or hear something wrong. As a society we need to do better. ❤
Crystal could have left that baby at any fire station or with any ambulance, no questions asked. Yes, she would be giving up her child but that's much better than the awful existence Jailyn had to endure with Crystal
@@stephaniwagner637 very true! There is zero excuse for her. She could've left Jailyn at a safe haven location like a hospital or even a police dept! The aunt said she did not get along with Crystal, but she would've taken Jailyn. Neighbors had watched Jailyn and loved her and would've taken her. This sorry excuse of a mother had so many options and instead of leaving Jailyn with someone who would've cared for her, she left her alone to suffer and starve. She's a sociopath and she got exactly what she deserved which is life in prison, although that's still a far better existence than what her poor precious baby endured the last days of her life.
u are truly amazing.. thank u for doing right by ur children
If we were all like you, we would be living in a utopia. Imagine…
Similar case here - I have a spouse with severe depression and anxiety and I also struggle with major depression, panic disorder, social phobia, ADD, borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety - my daughters are my sole concern. I’ll starve before they will. I HAVE. I’d die before I’d let them hurt. This woman deserves agony for the rest of her days.
the poem the homicide detective recited had been bawling. HE WILL NEVER LET THEM FORGET.
The mom is a horrible monster but WHY did not one neighbor go get that baby! 10 days of painful agonizing screams and not one of them checked ?
I think I'd have broken in.
I would definitely broken in. I climbed over a neighbours fence to give water to their dog they left in a hot garage all weekend.
Or call the police for a welfare check.
Who said it was days? The only video we saw was the middle of the night. I mean, I'm sorry this is horrible to think about, but she is getting weaker and weaker, she can't maintain constant screaming the whole time.
@@Because-rt8qs it was 10 days she left that baby.
That poem from the officer.... Absolutely heart shattering. Oh my god.
This whole case just.... Wow. Speechless.
He has more thoughts about her life than her own mother! And the others that worked on this case.
I feel guilty leaving my kids with my parents while I go out for a date night. Which doesn't happen often. I know the kids are having a blast, but they are all we talk about when we are out. This makes me feel sick to my stomach. I wish it was legal to put her through the same thing that poor baby went through. Absolutely disgusting.
Same, every time my husband and I go out we end up talking about the kids, I can feel their absence deep in my being, I can't understand how a mother could just walk away from her precious baby 😭 horrifying
Yes, 25 mins into a date night we’re both like “wonder what the kids are doing?” And we usually go home early. I couldn’t imagine leaving my child for days and days knowing they are alone. Unimaginable
Every single one of those neighbors deserve charges also. I hope they hear her cries in the nightmares for the rest of their lives. How you can admit ignoring this sweet angels misery blows my mind.
The neighbour texted her asking if everything was ok and she said yes that’s why the neighbor didn’t do anything they tried and mum said they were fine
Allegedly, don’t come for me, but when Stephanie posts it’s the best part of my day!!
I will not come for you!
@@StephanieHarlowe good to hear LOL
Yes!!!
I need this on a shirt
You could hear the pain Dr Mooney had while explaining Jailyn, she fought for her like a mother should!
That a police officer wrote a poem for Jailyn and that the police and laywers were there to repesent Jailyn....really touched me. That family is disgusting not just that women (she has no right to be called Jailyn's mother). I hope so much when Jailyn is reborn she gets placed into a loving family.
I don’t have kids but I have a dog and I’m trying to imagine walking out of my house with a suitcase and a plane ticket and him alone in there. Are you kidding??? I obsessively check my cameras when I’m gone a few hours. A BABY?!? I find it incredibly hard to fathom how someone could be this sick.
This is a baby who already can’t fully comprehend the world around them, dying a slow painful death. I can’t imagine what kind of torture that would be for anyone, let alone a baby or a dog or some type of living being who can’t fully comprehend what is happening to them. Just UNFATHOMABLE. I am FURIOUS
There were so many options. Her child would have literally been safer if she dropped her off in the middle of town at 3AM. Whatever happened to leaving babies in baskets on people's doorsteps? If you don't want to care for your child anymore, there are so many things you can do other than this. It's mind boggling.
I totally agree! It would have been better to abandon her in a bathroom at a restaurant or a hospital anything is better than what she did! so terrible and sad. She prevented others from saving her. Sick twisted disgusting person.
she's said she left the baby with neighbors previously but this time she had no concerns for the little baby 😢😢 I think she was sick in the head and was not wanting the baby to live, and she was doing this on purpose. to get rid of her baby. bc she left and came back and left again! like she wanted to come home and the baby be gone.
I live in a state with extreme abortion bans and so they decided to make these boxes to put babies in at the fire departments and police stations and I think even the ER. People use them. 2 babies were left around the corner from my house in the last 3 months. The box is climate controlled and an alarm goes off when a baby is left. This woman might not have been mentally fit but she knew to feed herself clearly and how to navigate airports and such. She could have left this poor baby anywhere but an ER or fire department or even wal mart would have been better. This is such a sad and disgusting story. I cried a lot listening and just will never understand psychopaths like this. Wild animals don't even do this.
Exactly. I know the majority of strangers would have stepped up if they knew that baby was alone. How many of us would? Poor helpless child. She had so many options and she selfishly ignored them and let her baby die; it’s unforgivable.
@@deniecemcelhinney8185 Apparently not the neighbors who knew how she is and heard the baby crying but did nothing.
When Stephanie Harlowe said someone is worse than Casey Anthony, I knew to buckle up. But I was not prepared for THAT.
I’ve been on Effexor since I was 13. The withdrawals, even after just missing 1 day, are pretty severe and uncomfortable, but not enough to make someone become straight up evil?!
I don’t think the death penalty would even be enough in this case, at least not in its current form. She should be placed in a tiny cell alone with a few glasses of milk, no toilet, no extra clothes, and no food or water for 10+ days.
Agreed
Agreed. I was on off-brand Effexor. Went off it on my own. It made me dizzy and sleepy with wild vivid dreams, sometimes disturbing... But I was still pretty functional. It can definitely effect people differently, but some people just look for excuses for their own irresponsibility. We choose what substances we do or do not put in our body. We choose to accept the possible outcomes of those choices.
During the interview with the detective, where she's shrugging and super casual, her dead toddler is lying 10 feet away, covered by one of those white sheets. This case made my stomach turn. Poor baby girl
Absolutely sickening 🤬
The detective reading the poem made me cry
I may need to sit this one out. I've heard all the sickening details of this case already and it's one of the worst I've ever, ever heard of. It hurts my heart too much to think of what this little baby went through, no one hearing her cries. Absolutely beyond revolting. RIP sweet baby Jailyn. 🕊️💖
Shanda Vander ark or whatever her name is, was the worst case for me so far. But this one is really, really bad as well😢
@@Maybe.later1 That one is horrendous as well. So many horrible parents 😢
@@boobookitty21 Yes, that's true😔
They did hear them. That’s the worst part.
Same here. I know the case already because of a short summary. I can't watch this (although I'm glad of the awareness being created) - simply TOO upsetting. I'd be in absolute ribbons.
Too many shitty parents, too many innocent babies suffering. It's soul destroying... 💔
I suffer from depression and anxiety. My children were ALWAYS taken care of! There wellbeing alway came before mine!
you are doing great mama. I don't know you but I'm proud of you
I just want to know since the neighbors knew this was something this woman did regularly (leaving her child unattended) and they could hear this baby screaming, and crying for days. Why did not a single person call for a welfare check?
This was an immigrant community and many immigrants do not like getting involved with authorities for whatever reason. Hence, they never contacted CPS or the police when the mom would fail to pick the baby up from babysitting. Jaylin was described as a very easy going baby and if she was being left alone she learned crying wouldn't illicit a response so her crying may have been very little during the abandonment. It's terrible that no one in the neighborhood could have put the crying plus the absence of Kristels car together and do a welfare check.
I'm from Cleveland and what a terrible blemish on our town. But what an honor to have such wonderful public servants working in our town. Props to them! What a horrible case.
I grew up up in Fairview Park and agree this lady’s story is so sad. That plus the recent North Olmsted stabbing and the Strongsville teen who crashed her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend.
As a mother of a child who has passed from SIDS this breaks my heart to hear that her mother had not a care in the world about her.
You have my sympathies dear one. Years ago a work friend suffered this same loss & trauma. Not easy to recover from & I bet you weren't happily planning your next vacay immediately afterwards either.
Oh I'm so sorry. You have really suffered, haven't you. Sending you love from England.
@nickieellison190 I am so sorry for your loss. Please know that there was nothing you could have done. We still don’t understand what causes SIDS but babies don’t die without reason, there is strong evidence that there may be a part of the brain that functions to regulate automatic bodily functions that is defective in these babies. It’s little comfort to their families but terrifyingly unpredictable and difficult to prevent. My mother has been a NICU nurse for almost 50 years and has watched premature babies time and again forget to breath, that part of the brain has not fully developed yet and it often takes considerable time for that function to finish maturing. We have come so far in science but still have so much to learn. Again I am sorry for your loss and pray that the memory of your child is a blessing to you.
I am sorry. A parents worst nightmare 😢 Sending you ❤
You have a guardian angel now
This officer that wrote that poem , broke my heart. What an officer and what a great group of officers in Cleveland! Thank you for taking care of Jaylen to making sure she gets/got the justice she deserved !
All of the neighbors who KNEW she left the baby abandoned with them; how could they not have heard her screams the neighbor beside her home or across street.
The mother is the culprit, but we ALL have a responsibility to protect the defenseless baby that many KNEW was left alone on more than a couple of occasions.
EVERYONE FAILED THIS BEBE.
The mother did not want her.
I’ve seen this case come up in a lot of channels but I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of them. I just knew it would hit me deeply and I was right. Oh God bless that sweet child. I could cry just imagining her wanting to be loved and taken care of. No living being should ever be ignored or left to suffer, especially the helpless and innocent ones.
Ugh. When you said this is a hard one, that doesn’t even come close enough. This baby deserved better. From the neighbors. Her mother. Everyone.
stephanie i’ve watched you since i started highschool and now im 21 with a new born, thank you for your videos and bringing light to these stories. this one hit home
Awww! Thanks for being here for me always!
I also started watching you, when you did skin care, and you asked us what we thought about you doing true crime 💖
Poor baby was failed by so many people (her horrible selfish “mother”, her family who took her mothers side, the neighbours who heard her cries for help) but I am so glad that at least the people in the justice system did right by her. Hopefully Crystal never sees the light of day again.
What kind of neighbors talk to the mother of a baby she's been neglecting? Only to hear the baby crying for days and does nothing about it!
I pray that if I’m ever in a similar situation, hearing a baby scream and cry non stop, that I keep my eyes out and look for the mother, knock on their door, and call for a wellness check. It’s so easy to “mind our own business” out of fear of being seen as nosy or prying. I can’t say what I would’ve done if I was a neighbor, but I pray if it ever happens to me I do something about it
Yes! I was also wondering if anyone called after hearing a baby cry for that long. Obviously babies cry but how long was she crying for?!?
Lacey Clancy needs a vid made about her like this. Who cares if she was a proper white wife with kids. She killed them. Talk about her like you talked about this woman
Babies can be colicky but I like to think that after a day or two I’d at least check if the baby and/or mother was ok. Even if it is colic, dealing with a colicky baby as a single mother is incredibly stressful and difficult and I’d want to offer that mother my help, make sure she’s coping, see if she needs anything.
There’s a single mother with a tiny baby living in the apartment upstairs from me and my daughter. The baby can get colicky and loud. I’ve told her many times: If you need ANYTHING, if you EVER feel overwhelmed, I’m literally right downstairs and I’m here for you!
If the mother of Crystal knew, that her daughter was struggling, why the hell had they left her alone with Jaylin?!
Though her parents are fucking idiots, her history of ditching Jailyn with the neighbors probably made them think she’d do that instead of leaving Jailyn home entirely alone. I want to know who the fuck leaves somewhere with a kid, then doesn’t have that kid call and talk to their parent for so long. Remember they had Crystal’s older daughter, and they apparently didn’t know Jailyn wasn’t in the US.
I know, right?!? They took her other child and left the toddler??? Then didn't show in court for that poor murdered toddler, but came to plead for their daughter's (the murderer's) sake??? What about your Granddaughter Jailyn?!? Their daughter more than deserves to spend life locked up, the poor baby didn't but had to! It's completely backwards. What is wrong with these people?!?
They didn't. They enabled Kristels behavior. Her mother is raising her oldest. THEY TOO Took care of Jailyn. They just didn't think her daughter was too lazy to take care of Jailyn for 10 days all by herself.
It makes me so angry that not one person thought to call for a wellness check. Not one. After days of hearing crying and no indication of anyone coming and going. How did not one person just feel like there could be something severely wrong?
I know RIGHT? And anyone with ears knows those are not regular cries of a collicky baby, they were TORTURED howls of a starving child. Shame on them, shame on the grandparents, and most of all Crystal. There is no punishment that is enough for this crime.
There is no justification for abusing a child this way. Cutting out effexor cold turkey is scary it makes you feel awful, but it doesnt make you mentally impared enough to say "yea let me abandon my baby for over a week"
I expect the mother to not give a rats but her extended family too? There are no words. It’s just sick. That poor precious baby.
Inwas thinking about that but I wonder at the sametime they didn't come because the girl's mother. They probably didn't want to look like they were supporting the mom instead of the baby. I'm trying to looknat it from all sides.
Yeah, I agree. Only those who knew her after death sat on her side, literally and figuratively, it seems. My mother always told us that if we ever _really_ hurt someone then she would completely disown us (except for self defense or protecting another). In my opinion, there is *no* good reason to defend her. Excuses like, "But it's their daughter" do *not* cut it for me. That baby was their _grandbaby_ , and that *grown woman* chose a *vacation* (that she seemingly had planned and carried out every detail for, without issue) over her own _daughter_ . How do they not see that what she did (or FAILED to do) shows _exactly_ what kind of demonic nature _really_ lurks inside of that woman? The question the court always asks is not, "Are they mentally ill." It is, "Did they know right from wrong" because you can have issues mentally and *still* know full well what you're doing is _beyond wrong_ - it's *evil* . Just like someone who is mentally ill can choose to do good.
I hope they don't think she loves them either, because she had to have known it would hurt them if something happened to that baby. She'd starve them if she felt the need to just the same as the baby.
@@karentucker2161 They showed up and spoke or wrote letters on behalf of the mother. They were def there sitting on the defenses side of the court.
I get looking at things from all sides, we truly need more of that. I also think how most normal families would be horrified. Probably condemn the deplorable act their loved one committed while also saying they still love them. I’ve seen that in other cases but def not this one.
@@k_3911 I completely agree for sure.
It really touched me that they all showed up to support this baby girl and speak for her. Different offices and professions, all there for her to speak for what happened to her. It’s unbelievable that every single person in her whole miserable extended family didn’t give the slightest crap. This poor poor angel.
Me too. The coroner's office and police dept showed up in Jailyn's honor. I loved how the female investigator looked at Krystal and told her how even the animals take better care of their young!
I am currently on both EFFEXOR XR and ATARAX, and have been for several years now. Speaking mainly to the Effexor, if I forget my medication my mind is all whacked out. Things don't feel real, I'm crying for no reason hysterically, all sorts of crappy things. But never have I ever forgot that I had 8-12 PETS that needed care, let alone a CHILD. Infact, if anything I'm a wreck feeling like I've forgotten someone or something important and there's gonna be devastating results. NEVER am I ready for a photo-op or a vacation.
Yes, when you're operating on reduced expectations, the feeding of others is the main priority even if you can do nothing else.
When the police officer read the poem. I lost it you can tell how it destroyed him. ❤ God bless the police 👮🏻 Thank you officer for your service! Rest in peace sweet baby.
I hate everyone involved. The neighbors knew she had a habit of doing this and didn't call the cops when they heard this baby scream. And grandparents took up for 'mom'
EVERYONE failed this child. And I hope none have peace over it
Same here. So many people could have helped Jailyn. I would have broken into the house myself if I'd heard her crying even for 5 minutes!!
The grandparents had taken the older sibling of Jailyn on holidays...why did they not take Jailyn too!!! It's infuriating that they actually still support that POS.. I hope to hell that they don't have custody of this older child after raising such a monster.
Same sister. Same, every single person that could have helped did nothing. I hope they hear her cries in their sleep at night forever
At least neighbors could have called the police for a welfare check; what if that b…ch had heart attack, OD or stroke.
The blame is hers alone. Not the neighbors’. HERS.
@@wldncrzy1971 The neighbors knew this shit was going on and did nothing. Evil does not persist in the world only because someone does evil, it persists because people allow it.
What a gorgeous little baby girl thousands of couples would’ve loved to adopt.😢
That's what everyone says but there are hundreds of thousands of children that need adoption. Some people don't want older children either.
missing the point @@dianedavidson7977
@@dianedavidson7977 that's also because adopting a child isn't an easy process
The neighbours should be held accountable. Quite happy to be apart of this case now.
How could so
Many of them listen and not call the police or go over and break the door down to save that little darling. She could have lived. She could have been placed in another home where that baby could have been loved and raised by people who deserved her and the baby deserved them. Every person that heard that baby crying is partially responsible for her death.
I lost it when the male detective read that poem. Also he is a Cleveland homicide detective, and this is the worst case he seen. Cleveland. There are parts of Cleveland that are worse than Detroit used to be. That says a lot.
I teared up listening to that
I live in Cleveland. Our biggest export is generational poverty and untreated mental illness.
It's horrific how many people hear suffer in silence either from shame or ignorance.
@@anniemcmillen940 and I mean no disrespect. I’m a Cleveland fan through and through. My best memories are going to baseball games at Jacobs field with my dad. And I live in Toledo. It’s a shit hole as well.
I live in Cleveland, also. I cried this morning after learning a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head, laying in a ravine for days on the opportunity corridor highway. A few weeks ago a guy I went to high school with was a shot in the head on East 49th for no reason. Things are crazy out here.
@@bebee216 omg I am so sorry. That is terrible!! 14?!?? Man
I, and I'm sure everyone who has watched this video, stand with Jailyn in that courtroom. Many of us would have jumped at the *privilege* of welcoming her into our families with love and warmth and the nourishment she needed and deserved. Crystal and the family who support her can rot. God may be forgiving, but I am not.
You got that right!
I’m a new mom, and I have anxiety leaving my baby in the crib while I go to take a shower for ten minutes. I just can’t imagine how confused and scared and hurting that poor baby was, wondering where her carer was.
my son is 3 and super smart and relatively independent and i won’t even take the trash out or get the mail when my husband is at work because i can’t fathom leaving my precious child alone in our home ??? like wtf is wrong with people
I used to bring my babies in the bathroom with me when I took a shower, I put them in their bouncer because with the shower water running you can’t hear them if they start crying and in another room
This was not her first time leaving that beautiful baby alone 😢😢😢😢😢
I'm a fairly new mom and this case horribly triggered me i was sobbing listening to the video of this poor baby's cries.
I can’t stop sobbing
She was so adorable. She looked like a little Cabbage Patch doll. Rest in peace sweetheart.
The poem that the detective wrote made me teary eyed. What a good man.
I cannot stop thinking of that dear baby crying out for food, drink, cuddles or any kind of care…..and no one came.
Me too, that poor little angel. This case is so, so disturbing. I hope you're okay.
I truly feel like something permanently broke in me when I first learned of this story. I pray for the first responders and every professional who attended to the details of this sweet baby's tragic end.
@@gigidayz6936 oh my gosh, that’s the perfect way to word it. Just destroys me at how alone, scared and sick this little one must’ve been.
😢😢😢
I haven’t stopped thinking about this ever since i saw it on TikTok. Absolutely HEARTBREAKING 💔
I normally have pretty thick skin when it comes to these cases… but this one… this one made me sick to my stomach and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the suffering that poor baby went through. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Her baby cries in the CCTV footage broke my heart into a million pieces.
Me too I couldn’t handle it
First time I’ve ever had to turn off a video. Horrific.
I wonder if there was more footage of other incidences of Jaylins cries from this time? Kristel is reported to have left Jaylin alone for days in the past as well, so it's possible Jaylin.knew that her cries were unfruitful and only cried as death was setting in?? So tragic.
THE POEM 26:50 The poem breaks my heart. Beautiful
Thank you to the officers and medical examiners and court for being Jailyn's voice and family.
Oh, this case hurts my heart so much! I currently have a 16 month old. I am a struggling single mother, struggling to pay rent, bills and buy food. But I would and WILL sacrifice anything and everything to look after my little one and love them dearly. This is so messed up and she deserves nothing less than what she received. Put her in solitary confinement for the first whole year, so she has to go through even a fraction of psychological trauma and abandonment that she put her child through.
I babysit my 17 month old granddaughter and if she isn't within my eyesight, I go look to see what she's doing. How can you expect a baby to survive alone for 11 days? Bury her under the jail.
lol literally!
WHY DID NO ONE CALL THE POLICE WHEN HEARING HER CRY IN THAT HOUSE FOR HOURS? WHY DID NO ONE MAKE A POLICE OR CPS REPORT KNOWING THIS "MOTHERS" PATTERN?
Prison is too good for this sick excuse of a human. She should get capital punishment. What an absolutely heartshattering case. This woman is a selfish, heartless monster. Pathetic excuse for a "mother". Rest in Peace, Jailyn. 💔
crying for days actually
I’m sorry, not NOBODY thought to call for a welfare check after hearing that poor baby cry on their Ring cameras??!!!😡🤬
Depression and/or anxiety will never ever be an EXCUSE to harm your child.
I hope the appeal against Krystal's sentence fails. I feel like mental illness shouldn't be allowed to be taken into account. In fact, I personally feel like that using mental illness as an excuse for something so inhumane, barbaric, unimaginable, disturbing, selfish, and unforgivable, by all accounts, should be illegal.
Methods take better care of their babies while being homeless than this mom. Never thought those words come out of my mouth.
Typical depression and anxiety should never be an excuse for harm of any kind. People live with it every day and don't harm anyone else, just themselves. I do believe the insanity defense should still exist, but depression and anxiety do not equate to insanity.
No she knew to feed herself and navigate airports and such. She is a psychopath. I will never understand this
@Denise_2262 exactly. Me neither. She was actually sane when she committed this unimaginable act. She intends to appeal her sentence as she wants her so-called "mental illness" to be taken into account. Honestly, cases like this among countless other unimaginable acts is exactly why the mental illness defense shouldn't be allowed. I mean, it is absolutely disrespectful towards those who are suffering from mental illness and are actually good people. Kristel narcissistic, insensitive, and manipulative.
I also thought she was flipping-off the camera, but if you look closer, it’s actually the string from her swimsuit hanging down.
I've written and deleted several comments. At the end of the day, there are no words to adequately express what I'm feeling and honestly, other viewers have said it much more eloquently than I ever could. What I can add is directed at Judge Sheehan: 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽. Thank you sir, for salvaging some modicum of justice for this sweet angel. ❤
I sure missed your excellent coverage of such difficult cases. TY God Bless❤❤❤
I almost didn’t watch the full CCT but when I saw the support from the community especially police and judiciary I stayed to watch to honour this little life, God Bless her and keep her 😢
Wow, the respect that Dr. Mooney and the officers had for Jailyn and the justice they seek was moving. May Jailyn rest in peace🙏
I came to give you a like Stephanie. But, my heart can't handle this listen today. Bless this little soul and I appreciate all you do to bring light to these important cases. 🙏🏼
Even with the rage you are actually adorable. I love your content.
My feet, my favorite crime channel ever.
How beautiful is Dr Moonie. Thank you Stephanie for your coverage. We need to keep shining a light,Peace and love for those who have suffered.