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How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Own Children Begged the Court to Keep Them Safe From Her?

Three boys told a judge they’re terrified of Kouri Richins. They asked for one thing: never let her out. Her answer was a promise to come back for them — and it’s one of the most chilling things you’ll ever hear a convicted defendant say to her own children.

Those boys didn’t speak for themselves. They couldn’t. Their therapists carried their words to the podium — words about locked bedrooms, starving animals, a brother smuggling food, and a woman prosecutors say was too drunk or too absent to function as a parent. Every child asked for the same outcome. Life. No release. Because the moment she walks free, the safety they’ve finally found disappears.

Kouri heard all of it. Then she stood up and spent fifteen minutes talking about her love story, her marriage, her view of the case — without addressing a single thing her children described. She told them to “be like your dad.” She suggested their father was in physical pain. She told them to stop trusting the family keeping them safe. And she told boys who are scared of her that she’s on her way home.

Tony Brueski plays back every word and takes it apart.

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