Suffer the Little Children Podcast - Episode 100: Sterling Koehn (Part 1)

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  • @bbjjbb61
    @bbjjbb61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    This story is so desperately sad. I was a single and extremely lonely mother of 4. I grew up in a horrible home and could barely manage as an adult. One thing I never did was hurt, neglect, or allow anyone else hurt my kids.
    I struggled with su*cidal ideation, horrific depression, and for a few years an opiate addiction. Not that my addiction didn't affect my kids but I can honestly tell anyone who reads this none of them knew or suspected. Why? Because I was always there, they were cuddled, smooched, fed, kinda spoiled in whatever way I could given my limited means. Im not saying that I am somehow better than other addicted parents but those kids were always my priority.
    It was a hard balance but in the end, recognizing that I was lying to everyone (including myself) and am now 8 years sober. I talked to them about my struggles as they became adults because I wanted them to know the dangers.

    • @MusicLeeSarah
      @MusicLeeSarah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Congratulations on your sobriety Mama!!!

    • @TheTeganOsmondChannel
      @TheTeganOsmondChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      because you are a decent person who doesn't have a personality disorder. Not everyone who struggles with addiction has a personality disorder at all, and in fact usually have underlying trauma that can be healed. However, people with severe personality disorders are usually often addicts as well, and use that to excuse their behavior. Even if they get sober, they will not change. The real issue is a character pathology, not addiction

    • @TheTeganOsmondChannel
      @TheTeganOsmondChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      congratulations on getting sober. Keep it up girl

    • @lifeisshort..1685
      @lifeisshort..1685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      8 years, Woohoo!! Great job. Honesty is the best policy with our children.

    • @BeckBeckGo
      @BeckBeckGo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheTeganOsmondChannel
      You don’t know if she has a personality disorder or not. Many personality disorders don’t result in abuse. There are at least 9 of them, as well as varying combinations, and children raised in abusive or neglectful environment are going to have damaged personalities. Stop speculating.

  • @m.brooks7776
    @m.brooks7776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    sterling's case has always hit me particularly hard and in fact is what got me into researching cases like these. fly high baby sterling. you were too beautiful and pure for the rotten circumstances and world you were born into and if I could've taken your place I would've. 💔💔💔💔

    • @Bays1985
      @Bays1985 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This one gets me because I was with a very bad man for 3.5 years. I was not allowed to comfort my son for the first 2.5, almost 3, years of his life. I would sneak moments of cuddling with my son when my exhusband wasn't home. I will never forget when we were at the DV shelter and he fell off the slide. All the other women looked at me and for the first time I was allowed to rush to him and comfort him. I cried harder than my son did with the booboo on his leg. I will never forget that feeling of being able to freely comfort him. Other moms started crying too, lol. I still feel it.

    • @tracimghernandez974
      @tracimghernandez974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed.. I wld have taken his place too.. this was so heartbreaking.. she just didnt give a shit about him.. its just mindblowing!!

    • @lindsaycrites2789
      @lindsaycrites2789 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes me to

  • @rainbow_lorelei
    @rainbow_lorelei 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This case has always hit me so hard. Just imagining him staring at that wall alone and confused and crying for someone to just do the bare minimum. This baby did nothing wrong and it breaks my heart that he likely never felt loved in his entire short life.

  • @abbidolan2903
    @abbidolan2903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh God. The description of how he was found just physically winded me. I have two kids and remember when they were babies and they'd stretch their arms up and clench their fists when stretching after a nap and it just made me weak at the knees with love for them. Rest peacefully baby Sterling, I cannot comprehend that this happened to you xxx

  • @westofthewicky2960
    @westofthewicky2960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the worst cases I have ever heard, poor little mite abandoned in that swing, it really hurts to think how he must have felt emotionally and the pain he was in. I have four kids and the sheer thought of anything like that happening to any child makes me feel physically sick. Another innocent pure life lost at the hands of the people who should have loved and protect him and that’s the part that is the most upsetting, the thought of him wondering why his mummy never came when he needed him.
    Thanks for telling Sterling’s story there isn’t a lot out there about what this baby went through and he deserves to be heard as do they all.
    My love and kisses to you baby Sterling I’m sorry this was your life 💙🕊

  • @protectyourself33
    @protectyourself33 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This case and the case of Sylvia Likens have always been the stuff of nightmares to me. It is hard to fathom so much pain in an infant from his own parents, that death becomes the tiny speck of mercy shown in his entire life. I can't even begin to imagine his suffering. I don't want to.

    • @janetrawlings1691
      @janetrawlings1691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree these two are the worst I have ever heard 🙏💔

  • @renatewoerner3298
    @renatewoerner3298 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You do a GREAT job!

  • @yourMoMisWoW.
    @yourMoMisWoW. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have been WAITING for you to bring justice to little Sterling's name. This case horrified me in a way no other could. The poor ppl that were first on scene are still traumatized by what they saw. So many ppl were affected by this case. It's unreal. I would have gladly had Sterling to love and cherish beyond his wildest dreams. Rest in Peace, Sterling. You are very missed, and very loved 💚💙🧡

  • @ashlynndavis4126
    @ashlynndavis4126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh god....im used to listening to a LOT of true crime cases and this one is one of the worst ive ever heard of. Thank you for being a voice for these children

    • @awkwardautistic
      @awkwardautistic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Takoda Collins is the one that got me.. it's hard to say which is the worst...but in my opinion..Takoda's case takes the cake.

    • @MusicLeeSarah
      @MusicLeeSarah 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've researched a couple, like literally two, other cases and in my opinion, they are worse than both of those cases but I don't share what cases they are because they are just so completely horrific.
      Luckily information on them is really hard to find.
      When people ask me what's the worst true crime case involving a child my answer is always like a let that be my burden type of answer. Just to think there's even worse evil out there. and then there's the cases that we don't even know about because the perpetrators have gotten away with it. 😭😭😭
      At least with Sterling and Takoda's cases even when one day their perpetrators walk free and even as they still live and breathe today no one will ever EVER let them forget the horrible atrocities that they committed against those beautiful children. They will forever carry that lable of disgusting pathetic vile worthless piece of crap.
      And now both precious children are experiencing the love, times a million, that they were denied in this life and they will experience that love for all of eternity.

  • @KT27RN
    @KT27RN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I couldn’t believe the depravity of what the “parents” let this poor child go through. And the father tried to act as if he had played no part in his death during the trial. Ridiculous. He deserved so much better. Rest In Peace sweet Sterling.

  • @LisaLaRue
    @LisaLaRue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am so so happy you did this case. I remember mentioning it before. One of the WORST cases of child neglect, abuse ever. Baby sterling needs to be remembered. He was so innocent and precious.

  • @shelbybeech705
    @shelbybeech705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I hope his parents feel every pang of agony, hunger, fear, loneliness, and confusion Sterling felt. What a miserable short life this boy had. Rest easy sweetie, this will be your only taste of hell- your heavenly father has you in His arms today.

  • @irlande22aca
    @irlande22aca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So... They let their 4 month old baby die a horrible, painfull death but they still deem they shouldn't have lost their daughter's custody? Poor Sterling never stood chance being born to such people.

  • @anablackwood6141
    @anablackwood6141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember the first time I ever heard of this case. I have a baby of my own and I had to go and hug her even though she was sleeping. Of course when you have a baby, you imagine their faces in horrible situations like this.

  • @pixiechick4367
    @pixiechick4367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ma'am your show is invaluable.a nugget of gold.i hope you and yours are well.many blessings and thank you for your loves labours.deeply appreciated.

  • @awkwardautistic
    @awkwardautistic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I hope you cover Takoda Collins one day...there hasn't been too much coverage. I'm not sure why out of all the evil that was one that really affected me.

    • @lifeonwheels5756
      @lifeonwheels5756 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look at blu dot…everything is there, it’s sickening

    • @awkwardautistic
      @awkwardautistic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh I did watch it all.

    • @moniquebalmer9390
      @moniquebalmer9390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That case tore me up for a long time. I just can't understand what's happening today with all of these parents abusing & killing their children. It's every single day you hear of at least three new cases. It's sickening. I just can't wrap my head around what's happening to our children. Our future generations have to be so much smaller because they're all dying before they have the chance to grow up. Is it related to the addiction epidemic? I think about this so much & I truly just don't get it.

    • @lifeonwheels5756
      @lifeonwheels5756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moniquebalmer9390 yes i think it isn’t helped by it that’s for sure, but honestly children were killed back when spanking was a thing, we just didn’t learn about it except locally bc lack of technology back then..

    • @moniquebalmer9390
      @moniquebalmer9390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lifeonwheels5756 I understand that. It just seems like these cases have increased over the past decade or so. I can't watch the news or read anything that isn't full of children being abused or killed by someone in their family. Maybe you're right & the numbers haven't changed much. Maybe I'm just paying closer attention the older I've gotten. Either way, such a shame. I'm a mandated reporter & I can't tell you how many times abuse (legitimate, blatant abuse) has been reported & nothing has been done about it. As long as a parent has running water, milk in the refrigerator, & the house is in livable conditions, the cases are "unfounded" & closed. Nobody cares until it's too late. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
      Sorry for the little rant.

  • @jeneenakers8273
    @jeneenakers8273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In my opinion their punishment should be exactly the same as what they put Sterling's thru ... Lock them in a hot room with a diaper on and no food or water and cover them in a bunch of nasty clothes and dare them to have any human contact !!! If the courts would dole out harsher punishments these kind of crimes might stop... R.I.P sweet baby Sterling

    • @tracimghernandez974
      @tracimghernandez974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100% agree with you, every single thing that baby went thru, they shld have to go thru too.. ALL OF IT..

  • @conniecatlege9476
    @conniecatlege9476 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I know you tube producers put a lot into their podcasts but I wish u could put the pictures and such here instead of Facebook which I do not use

    • @SuffertheLittleChildrenPodcast
      @SuffertheLittleChildrenPodcast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe someday when it’s not just me handling all aspects of the show’s production! If I was just a TH-cam channel, I could more easily add photos, but my podcast is mainly an audio medium on various other platforms; the TH-cam channel is just for convenience for those who prefer to listen here.

  • @krazykrazykrista
    @krazykrazykrista 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is such a heartbreaking case, that poor beautiful babe, all the love to everyone who had to work this case.

  • @dianeblyth
    @dianeblyth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am sorry Laine I cannot help with funding,but I L❤VE your compassion in your readings,Thank You🌈😍

  • @gailkelly6154
    @gailkelly6154 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you.
    REST IN PEACE STERLING 🙏🙏

  • @darlisataylor2764
    @darlisataylor2764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, sweetie. This case has broken my heart since day one.

  • @MusicLeeSarah
    @MusicLeeSarah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm not sure why but I thought you had covered Sterling already. Maybe I'm thinking of This is monsters. I think I am. (You two are the only podcasters that can do child abuse cases in a way that is respectful to the victims.)
    Oh Jesus this case... Oh my God this case... Laine, this case... 😭😭😭😭 The woman first responder, her testimony, I've heard it probably a dozen times and I still cannot make it through without crying. There's only a handful of cases or testimony that cause me to in some way get physically upset about and this is one of them. The first time I heard about this case though it wasn't until I heard her testimony that everything really sunk in and I found myself reduced to tears.
    I know this had to be a difficult case for you to cover and research. I know that all of their cases you do are difficult but I can only imagine the dark places this one forced you to go in your research. But I thank you for covering this case because like I said in my opinion only you and Jiles can cover child abuse cases in a respectful manner to where the victims and their surviving loved ones can listen to your podcasts and feel like you did their babies justice. Thank you for covering this case and for doing baby Sterling Justice. Sending you huge hugs!!!

  • @Laura-tp8wz
    @Laura-tp8wz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rest in peace Sterling. 🙏❤️

  • @schwubs
    @schwubs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Editing has really improved. Thanks for covering this horrific story. Well done.

  • @pharmakon551
    @pharmakon551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sterling, you are loved ♥

  • @Bays1985
    @Bays1985 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel could focus solely on the past 2 years alone and have enough material for the next 10 years

  • @nancypeterson1032
    @nancypeterson1032 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This poor baby. These people are killers straight up. IF YOU CAN NOT CARE FOR YOUR BABY give them up for adoption to a family who would love them! This beautiful innocent baby who suffered so badly, who couldn't move or do anything but cry did NOT DESERVE this. The moment I even think about how he must've been feeling I choke up it breaks my heart. These parents who know they can't or won't or just don't want to care for a baby refuse to let someone else care for them and instead let their babies die and suffer. Rest in heavenly peace baby

  • @angelaarcher7781
    @angelaarcher7781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’ve of course heard of this case and it is the absolute most horrific one I’ve heard and that is saying a lot considering what so many of these children go through.

  • @andreaturnquist3345
    @andreaturnquist3345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for covering this case. So heartbreaking 😭

  • @Ruth78620
    @Ruth78620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This case breaks my heart. That incubator was able to get up at 4am and make herself, the sperm donor and daughter grilled cheese at 4am knowing my other baby was being eaten alive by maggots in the other room. Sadly severely neglected babies learn not to cry because nobody comes so he may not have made a sound. It takes 20 minutes to feed and change a baby and they couldn't even be bothered to do that. Meth seems to be a recurring theme in these horrific child abuse cases. If your baby test positive for drugs when they're born they should be removed from the parents immediately.

  • @m.brooks7776
    @m.brooks7776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    if I were Zachary I would think I wasn't the father too... look at how absolutely precious and BEAUTIFUL baby sterling is and look at his monster- I mean 'father.' I usually don't go for looks but the people who did this are just the ugliest human beings you can find on this earth, ugly and corrupted inside and out.

  • @Lindsay-ke5ov
    @Lindsay-ke5ov ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy facts, one of the officers was just about Zach's age with a child sterlings age, how another life could be so indifferenced from another, God bless ❤️

    • @adamwood8323
      @adamwood8323 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes he did and also had the exact same swing as the one they found sterling in. I couldn't imagine how much this affected him.

    • @Lindsay-ke5ov
      @Lindsay-ke5ov ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adamwood8323 absolutely, have a great day 😊

    • @adamwood8323
      @adamwood8323 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Lindsay-ke5ov you too thanks for the comment back

    • @Lindsay-ke5ov
      @Lindsay-ke5ov ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adamwood8323 your welcome, anytime, thank you too ❤️❤️❤️

  • @lisadempsey9259
    @lisadempsey9259 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing this poor little babies story 💞

  • @maddmaxx9077
    @maddmaxx9077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Sterling I’m sorry this happened to you.. that the ones that were supposed to care for you failed you.. Fly with the angels sweet baby😢

  • @tracimghernandez974
    @tracimghernandez974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is so sad.. this poor baby didnt get love, didnt get held, didnt get anything but a nasty swing looking at a corner.. she just forgot about him, and so did Zach.. how can you sleep at night like nothing while a precious little baby is dying in the nxt room.. why the hell don't these people give these children to someone who will love them .. she didnt even know anything about him.

  • @balticdemon
    @balticdemon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This f*cking case... I'm not sure there are words to describe the horror of it.

  • @CherryPi314
    @CherryPi314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This case is so heinous & awful. His parents are shameful louses & cannot even qualify as care givers. Discusting. That poor baby. The ambulance worker showed more emotion than his parents at the trial. So sad. May he Rest In Peace now that he’s an angel. 😔

  • @cherylsimmondsday9380
    @cherylsimmondsday9380 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤The lowest form of humanity is to harm an innocent baby

  • @jenniferbanks2836
    @jenniferbanks2836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve been waiting to hear this one.

  • @selfesteem3447
    @selfesteem3447 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Think about how one day Sterling's older sister who was 2 years old at the time will have access to all this information and know the truth. Heartbreaking. I hope she'll come forward and join us in dealing with this and let us into her heart.
    I grew up in a home where my brother was chained to his bed up until the 10th grade but it was much worse when he, my brother Chuck, was a baby but never as bad as what Sterling suffered, and I have never recovered.

    • @selfesteem3447
      @selfesteem3447 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I studied this case not completely thoroughly but pretty darn good for 2 full days and I am hearing stuff that I have not heard before. You are extremely thorough. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to have these babies heard. Subscribed. 🤍love to you.

  • @awkwardautistic
    @awkwardautistic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Again...addiction is not an excuse. Some people are just awful parents..drugs or no drugs. Addiction is rough...if you're that bad off...tell someone...get help and make sure your kids are safe. It isn't easy...but if you can get and stay clean you will get your kids back.

  • @aleisaetheridge8682
    @aleisaetheridge8682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'll never forget this precious little baby boys smiling face even looking at his horrible disgusting Parents ,He smiling at them .This precious Darling suffered one of the worst deaths and most horrific child abuse I've ever heard and is so sickening ,there's no punishment the law can give these two monsters that's enough unless they r tied to a chair and suffer the same fate they gave their precious baby boy ,that would be a little bit of justice but still not enough .

  • @katrinamathis9091
    @katrinamathis9091 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's cool 1 of the people you mentioned at the beginning is from Middletown Ohio cause I'm from Hamilton which is very close

  • @lindsaywright3999
    @lindsaywright3999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm sorry but wtf you were told a baby hadn't been changed for a whole week like wtf even half a day, this is shocking and horrendous. God bless ❤

  • @sandysouth5706
    @sandysouth5706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That poor baby...

  • @AnimalLover-is2fc
    @AnimalLover-is2fc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The father was such a nasty human being but what was the mothers excuse. No motherly instinct for the boy at least, like wow.

  • @olivedog1880
    @olivedog1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This reminds me of a cousin of mine

  • @Theirtherethere.
    @Theirtherethere. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How as a mother .. or anyone in that home ..did they naturally feel ok with ignoring that baby's on going cry's .. so long till death and not expect they would be caught n sent to prison .. how even high AF on drugs that give way to much energy .. so much energy and time yet still sterling stayed alone .. neglected
    .the drugs didn't make that possible to happen .. no drugs did not make that comfortable .. theres no way drugs are the bad guy here

  • @aleisaetheridge8682
    @aleisaetheridge8682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another failure of someone other than the awful parents that could have kept a child out of a horrible situation but didn't .Ofcourse CPS would have probably just given him back to these two monsters but We'll never know if This precious little boy could have been saved .

  • @Post-Beak-Break_Ortega
    @Post-Beak-Break_Ortega ปีที่แล้ว +1

    💙💔💙💔

  • @arcticfox7153
    @arcticfox7153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🤬🤬🤬😱😢. R.I.P. STERLING🥰

  • @Post-Beak-Break_Ortega
    @Post-Beak-Break_Ortega ปีที่แล้ว +1

    💔💙♥️💙💔

  • @ClarissaMaeDme
    @ClarissaMaeDme ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought the guy advertising the addicted podcast was Zachary Koehns voice at first wth

  • @BeckBeckGo
    @BeckBeckGo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This case is particularly fucked up.

  • @ilovemyboyfriend5425
    @ilovemyboyfriend5425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    new sub here

  • @elizabethsalvatore1633
    @elizabethsalvatore1633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pure EVIL 👿

  • @adsromek
    @adsromek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    14 inches long? Is that an error? How?

    • @SuffertheLittleChildrenPodcast
      @SuffertheLittleChildrenPodcast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know, it's crazy. I double, triple, and quadruple checked my sources, and that's what they all said. I can only assume they measured him crown to rump and not crown to heel.

  • @B-licious619
    @B-licious619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm not sure who is worse them or the mcnabb

    • @HereticInTheHills
      @HereticInTheHills 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm thinking Baby Caliyah was at the very least able to die a bit more quickly.

    • @HereticInTheHills
      @HereticInTheHills 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But on the other hand Baby Sterling was the victim of depraved negligence while Baby Caliyah was intentionally killed by most assumptions.

    • @kellybugful
      @kellybugful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very similar to baby Benjamin Sergent. Pretty much died the exact same way baby Sterling died.
      A side note, while yes these people are horrible evil beings, that baby no doubt belonged to Zachary. The sweet little baby looked just like him

    • @MusicLeeSarah
      @MusicLeeSarah 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Okay pause. Unpopular opinion but McNabb and Bell, they are innocent. I'm not saying that they are not neglectful I'm not saying they're not meth heads I'm not saying McNabb is not a complete and utter freaking douchebag! But being a neglectful not smoking douchebag does not make one a murderer. There was not one shred of hard and or physical evidence in that case that even pointed to either of them. That jury convicted on emotion which they were directly instructed not to do. That judge but so much crap in that trial fly it's in itself a judicial atrocity. And mcnabb's lawyer... Jesus Christ was that his first day on the job? And I'm not being sarcastic I mean I seriously think that was his first day on the job and the judge should have stopped the trial and given him new counsel. There were so many times that there should have been a mistrial it was painful to watch. There were so many times judicial procedure was blatantly disregarded that it was nauseating. But none of that changes the fact that the prosecution did not bring one not one piece of physical forensic DNA or even hard evidence against either defendant.
      Let me regenerate, McNabb is 100% a crap ass person a shitty father a shitty boyfriend and a douchebag... but he's not a murderer.

    • @B-licious619
      @B-licious619 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MusicLeeSarah if that's how u feel, we all have our definition of evil, im glad u weren't a juror in my opinion, if there's no evidence in ur opinion, but what's the explanation on a 2 week angel ending up in a bag underneath leaves and branches etc....since there's no evidence then she must have done it herself, just like baby Sterling could have fed himself and changed his diaper