The South Texas Crime Stories team revisits the disappearance of 8-month-old King Jay Davila and the cover-up that landed multiple family members in jail.
“It’s one of the saddest things that I think a lot of us have covered in our time here,” Collier said. “Turned into one of the most horrific child abuse cases that I think Bexar County has seen probably the last 30 years... “I got involved when it became more than just a search for a child and really an investigation of this family.”“The scrutiny of this case was incredible. If you remember, every time they would search a house related to the family, the neighbors would tip off the media.
“Also as a father to hear that that must be hard to report on something like that and to see the whole public image of this family shift. That’s not something we normally see.” Leigh said. “No and again, it was odd to see how angry the public acted towards his family before any of them had ever been criminally charged. And I think, you know, it’s tough not to get angry as someone in the media. We’re supposed to be unbiased. We’re supposed to sort of stay out of it emotions-wise. But when you start realizing that something terrible happened to this kid and this family has gone out of their way to try and hide that, it’s tough not to get upset about it.
Torres took a plea deal as well. But Sampayo, his mother, is still scheduled to go to trial later this year. “And I try not to cast too many aspersions on her. She’s in enough trouble as it is. But if you recall, she carried herself as being terminally ill with cancer. So here we are now three and a half years later. And I guess, you know, she has a different definition of terminal cancer than what I would, because, you know, we are years and years removed from her arrest and she is still healthy enough to go to trial at this point,” Collier said.
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