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00:06What I thought I was getting into in the very beginning was a group of African-American people
00:13who were no longer interested in the desires of the traditional world.
00:21Look at how beautiful your people is.
00:23We cared not for monetary gain. We didn't care about houses or flashy cars or shoes, clothes, those types of
00:34wealth.
00:35We weren't going to protest.
00:37This is a culture. This is a movement.
00:39We weren't going to invoke physical violence on anybody.
00:44Build your tribe off grid. We family here, bro.
00:47We wasn't even going to take the judicial approach.
00:49We were going to start our own from scratch like people have done before.
00:57That was not the case.
00:58Fuck this world. Fuck everything in.
01:02It's supposed to make you go insane.
01:05It's gaming time!
01:06Nature Boy has always told every member,
01:08if you denounce me, you will be condemned from eternal life.
01:12And if he can make you believe that, then he has conquered your soul.
01:18The black man is gone!
01:20He needs everybody right now!
01:21Only people!
01:22Only people!
01:23I can't take a walk around the neighborhood without having to ask permission.
01:26I can't even leave the house.
01:28And that's how a kid is supposed to be treated.
01:30A lot of abuse happened.
01:32I would hear a lot of screams.
01:34Here comes the police.
01:36Helicopter circling.
01:37SWAT team in the back.
01:39They're breaking the door open.
01:41Yo!
01:41Don't shoot me!
01:43What are you trying?
01:43And your fight!
01:44Yeah!
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02:13I don't believe cult leader is something that you pick up from a manual.
02:20I think that cult leader has to be accompanied by some type of mental disorder and your only
02:30agenda. The only thing you can process in your mind is yourself. What made it start escalating
02:39was that Velvet left. Bitch, then she left. When Velvet left, it just seemed like the dynamics
02:48of the cult changed. I miss my fucking daughter so fucking much, I'm hurting. I proceeded to
02:56get protection orders to keep me and my children safe from him. I'm not entirely sure where
03:02he is now. The reason for traveling was to stay outside of the United States jurisdiction
03:08so that he can get away with what he did. However, the last thing that I heard, he was in
03:14Atlanta,
03:14Georgia.
03:26Living in Atlanta, they were on a downward spiral. Honestly, living with Nature Boy was like living
03:33with like 14 different people. You never knew who you were going to get. He would assert his
03:40dominance in many ways. And one of them is just to heal me and lead us. You're automatically
03:45his slave now. So get with the program. Bitch, what did I tell you? Stay in the camp,
03:49bitch.
03:53The only reason why I'm staying is because I wanted to keep my family together, but I really
03:57don't like this guy. Smack him.
04:01It was honestly heartbreaking to see so many young people being controlled by a monster.
04:10My name is Jinye and I am from Las Vegas, Nevada. Jinye is someone who had been watching Carbonation
04:21for quite some time. She was someone who was very proactive, I will say. Boots on the ground.
04:28He really had them believing that he was God. On your knees. Who is your God? You are
04:37our three. I just felt like I have to do something about this. I thought that I could just create
04:44a community to help. I created this Instagram page named Carbonation is Falling. I created
04:52her alias Asian Angelina. I would post about the fact that they're a sex cult, post videos of like
04:59the behavior, specifically the abuse. I created some flyers to post on people's like mailboxes
05:05and stuff and on their windshields so they'll know it's a cult in your community.
05:12It was a lot of work. It took a lot of sleepless nights, but I don't regret it because Carbonation
05:18is a sex cult ran by a monster who gets pleasure out of destroying other people's lives.
05:28It was a video specifically where he was having someone feed him strawberries and then he ended
05:34up slapping them.
05:48And I was like, this is just too much now. So I decided to call the police.
05:54I just knew like I couldn't give up until I seen him go to jail because that would be the
05:59only thing
06:00that would give these people a chance at life again.
06:04Police showed up every single day. It was almost on cue.
06:08Here comes the police.
06:10Like clockwork.
06:11Clockwork. Boom.
06:12Y'all can't fuck with the police. They can watch me. I'm not doing anything illegal.
06:16I'm going to be very honest. Seeing the police presence showing up, it was heart racing.
06:21What's up, dude?
06:25Oh, yeah.
06:25That's why I record everything.
06:27Oh, I'm recording this. Are you good?
06:28Every time they would come, we would just say like, oh, yes, would you like anything?
06:32Nature Boy would be like, hey, officer, yeah, come right on in.
06:35Everybody's cool.
06:35Okay. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.
06:37It's all good.
06:38After they would leave, we'd be online and we'd be like, see y'all, nothing's going on here.
06:42Is everything okay?
06:44Everybody good?
06:44You answer to their authority or my authority?
06:47Your authority.
06:47Outstanding.
06:48Outstanding.
06:50Nothing would ever stick. He really felt like he was just completely invincible.
06:53Listen, I let you in to let you know nothing was going on. I didn't have to do that. You
06:58work for me.
06:59I work for the states.
06:59And I pay taxes, so I pay your bills.
07:02Okay, have a nice day.
07:03We're going to keep on pushing. We're going to do whatever we have to do to see him go to
07:07jail.
07:17In the cold, there's a lot of ups and downs. There's a lot of ins and outs.
07:20The thought stopping cliches weren't even working no more.
07:23I think it was always a lot of inconsistencies, but I think that the ridiculousness was so in our face.
07:29Jenay wanted to leave. She was hit that night because she was supposedly disrespecting Nature Boy.
07:40We're just hearing her getting slapped over and over again.
07:43And next thing you know, they're having sex.
07:50I was assaulted that night by the women on his orders.
07:55When I tried to get out to my Uber, he calls me back inside.
08:00And he tells me, just let me come inside of you one last time.
08:08I just froze.
08:16I didn't know what rape was, because within the cult, rape was a culture.
08:26It was so scary. It was so scary.
08:32It was so scary. I didn't know what to do, but to just pray to God, the real God.
08:45The next day, it was a lot of confusion. It felt like a lot of pain, a lot of hurt.
08:51I wanted to just heal. That's what I wanted.
09:00Eligio and his nature decided to broadcast that Jenay was beat up and, you know, she ended up leaving the
09:06cult.
09:06I was forced in it, but I was kind of slacked her pretty hard.
09:13We had sex, and then I woke up. She was gone.
09:21Along the years, me and Jenay, we've had, like, a relationship online.
09:26I tried to call her. Her phone was disconnected and everything, like all her social media.
09:32The only thing that was still open was Facebook Messenger.
09:37And I messaged her, but I was like, hey, where are you? Are you good?
09:41Give me a call when you can't.
09:43My biggest thing was I just didn't want her to go back.
09:47And so I ended up telling her about the videos that he put of her on Twitter, where they were,
09:52like, engaged in sexual acts.
10:07When I saw those sexual videos of me, it made me feel, like, humiliated.
10:13It made me feel like I would never have a life without Nature Boy.
10:17I never consented for them to be posted when I left.
10:22I Googled. I was like, is it against the law to post pictures and videos of people doing sexual acts
10:30without their consent?
10:32And it came up, like, revenge porn. I was like, oh, this is the crime, so you should press charges.
10:38I told her I had been talking to the detective, but they said that they would need a victim.
10:46Initially, you know, she was heavily, heavily indoctrinated with, like, that cult program.
10:51And she was like, man, I don't want to be the cause of, like, a black man falling.
10:54But it's about the fact that you deserve justice.
10:59We didn't know it was bad. We didn't know any of the sexual assaults were actually sexual assaults.
11:05We just went with it, and he would sodomize us and tell us that he can do anything to us.
11:14Jenny helped me understand, like, but it was hard me taking on all that.
11:21It's hard me taking on that title of me bringing down Nature Boy.
11:28And I'll never forget it.
11:32She called me, and she's like, I'm ready.
11:35So the first step was she went to the precinct, and they took a general police report.
11:46So my name is Jenny .
11:48I was recently, or is he got an ID, a part of a cult that's known as a sex cult.
11:55And they're located here in Atlanta.
11:58The person who runs it, his name is Elio Bishop.
12:01What happened is he's doing revenge cards, and he has a big presence online.
12:05So he's posting cards of me and him without my consent.
12:17I first heard about Nature Boy, Elio Bishop, when a report was assigned to me.
12:24I am Sergeant Monica Panosian.
12:26I work for DeKalb County Police Department.
12:31Once I started investigating it and speaking with the other detectives,
12:35oh, well, that's the sex cult, and everybody in the unit pretty much knew about it.
12:40There were a lot of welfare checks done before I got involved.
12:46We couldn't force anybody to come forward.
12:49We couldn't force anybody to claim to be a victim.
12:53So we would get stuck.
12:57Janae's case came across my desk, so we drove to have that initial interview with her.
13:04Our interview initially started with the allegations of the revenge porn.
13:08But as we spoke with her, we found out the allegations of rape and false imprisonment.
13:14Can you just give me a little background on what's going on?
13:17Okay, well, I just got out of a cult.
13:23The cult leader, his name is Elio Lee Bishop.
13:27I decided I wanted to leave.
13:30When I tried to leave, I went to say goodbye.
13:33He said, you're not going anywhere.
13:36I'm not letting you go.
13:37You know, takes my hand, and he's taking me to the other room.
13:41He's telling me, let's have sex.
13:43He's not going to really let me go at this point.
13:46We make love, and at this point, I'm like, okay, I'm not going to get out,
13:50so I'm going to have to sneak out.
13:53Interviews concluded at 12.28.
13:57I felt almost excited because we had enough foreign arrest warrant, but the scale was huge.
14:11It was surreal.
14:12This was a major thing for us.
14:15There's a history in the U.S. with cults going bad.
14:18Tragedy tonight in Waco, Texas.
14:20At least four federal agents and a member of a cult group are dead after an hour-long gun battle
14:26at the cult's ranch.
14:27Fourteen other agents were wounded in the shootout that started when law officers tried to enter the compound.
14:32The last thing I wanted was anything to go bad.
14:36We had to properly identify him.
14:39He wasn't going by Elysio Bishop.
14:41He always went by Nature Boy.
14:43Me, I am Master Teacher, Nature Boy.
14:46So now we have to figure out, okay, do we have the proper identification on him?
14:50Then we started to identify the other people in the cult.
14:54Everybody goes by a different name.
14:56Tell them your name, Reflection.
14:58I'm EJ.
14:59I'm Master True.
15:00Captain Solar.
15:02After that, we had to start on the history.
15:07The main person I worked with was the T.
15:10She had documented his journey.
15:12She had a history that was very important for us.
15:18It was a whirlwind of emotions.
15:23When the detectives reached out to me to ask for videos of the abuse,
15:29it's become something greater than what I ever thought.
15:35So it was a huge relief when I knew that I wasn't going to have to document abuse anymore.
15:46Elysio promised spiritual enlightenment that turned into an environment that he used to have sex with women.
15:56You must connect back to nature.
15:57To lure men to protect him.
16:00To be the fall guy when needed.
16:04Carbonation is a sex cult.
16:07A dangerous and destructive sex cult.
16:12Once we started watching the videos, we focused on his behavior.
16:17One of the limitations we had with the evidence was, where did it occur?
16:24Most of the stuff didn't happen in DeKalb County.
16:27So there were crimes we had no right to press charges on.
16:31We also needed a search warrant.
16:33There were all of these electronics in that house.
16:37Angels of the Mozart!
16:38How did we discern that this was a cult?
16:41That this is someone who is controlling these people?
16:44Who's manipulated these people?
16:47Elysio, he's not a stupid person.
16:49I think he knew the signs that something was coming.
16:59In the house, we're doing lives.
17:01He's not telling us anything about what happened that night.
17:04Just calling Janae crazy.
17:06He's not really telling us a story.
17:08Next thing you know, we do indeed get a warrant in the mail.
17:12But when I showed it to him, they said,
17:14Man, throw that away, man.
17:15And so I'm like, it's a real warrant.
17:17And they're just like, throw it away, that's trash.
17:20We all forget about it.
17:22He's making fun of the police.
17:26Next thing you know...
17:27Police cars all in the front yard.
17:31Helicopter circles.
17:32Everybody right here.
17:34SWAT team in the back.
17:35Helmet, Kevlar, with shields.
17:38Vast battering ram.
17:39Everything.
17:40Hey, we're good. We're good.
17:41Then they knocked down the door.
17:44They breaking the door open.
17:45Yo!
17:45Coming out! Coming out!
17:47We're good!
17:47Don't shoot!
17:49They came in there.
17:51Searched the house.
17:52They arrested him.
17:53They arrested everybody, technically.
17:55Put your hands behind your back.
17:56He's in cuffs.
17:57He's walking to you. I got it.
17:58But they really only wanted him.
18:00Y'all, it's going down. It's going down.
18:02We're live here.
18:03Channel 12 Bego News, y'all.
18:05Charlie with the mother...
18:06He is here, does.
18:07The court has been turked around,
18:09hanging for the good and for the better.
18:13All of y'all need to take this as an opportunity
18:16to get out and get to packing.
18:19Aligio Bishop, a.k.a. Nature Boy and Guy himself,
18:22a whole lot of hot water.
18:24It's boiling, you understand me?
18:28DeKalb County police raided a home
18:30after a three-week investigation.
18:32Bishop was taken to the DeKalb County jail
18:34on charges of rape, false imprisonment,
18:36and sharing sexually explicit content on social media.
18:40Some officers, detectives, and a tactical team swarmed them.
18:42Several people were led away in handcuffs
18:44and put into squad cars.
18:46He controls them.
18:47Lately, it's been turned into abuse
18:48from what the neighbors been complaining about
18:50from what I hear.
18:51Police would only tell us
18:52that Bishop was taken to the DeKalb County jail.
18:55I first found out he was arrested through social media
18:58because everything went viral.
19:00I was very shocked.
19:02You know, those people pried my child out of my arms
19:04to allow him to abuse me,
19:06and they knew that I wasn't in the wrong.
19:09Go!
19:10Go!
19:15I was happy.
19:16I was happy.
19:20When I found out that he had charges,
19:23initially, I was only aware of the revenge porn charges.
19:28So when we found out that rape charges
19:31and false imprisonment charges were added,
19:33I was surprised.
19:36Police arrested him here at this home
19:38in the neighborhood in DeKalb County.
19:40When he was arrested, honestly, it felt surreal.
19:43In my mind, he's not locked up.
19:45In my mind, I keep the thought frequency
19:47that he is free.
19:49From that point, everybody's released except for Nature Boy,
19:52literally the only person that's not released is him.
19:54Certain people choose to leave.
19:57Four years of indoctrination.
20:01What in the world just happened?
20:08Is this gonna be another situation
20:10where he's gonna escape the system?
20:28Bishop is on trial for rape
20:30and is said to be the leader of the electrical carbonation.
20:33He's accused of raping a female member
20:35as she tried to escape
20:36and then posting revenge porn online.
20:43So it was about two years
20:46since I pressed charges on Nature Boy
20:49and a lot happened.
20:51I was definitely harassed
20:53and very much abused by online critics.
20:58The whole world is looking at Mr. Bishop
20:59like he's a bad guy.
21:01Because these news channels
21:02and these trolls from the internet,
21:04they defame his character.
21:06A lot of people called me a liar.
21:09The alleged victim never, ever used the word rape.
21:15I don't know about the rape charge.
21:19Obviously, it's always gonna be her word against his,
21:22especially when there's not that physical evidence.
21:30I'm gonna tell my truth.
21:32People are gonna know our stories.
21:34And I think that, ultimately,
21:38justice will be served.
21:40I think that he will end up in jail
21:43because I feel like he doesn't know when to stop.
21:49I was a bit nervous.
21:51I was just glad just to get it out
21:53because a lot of people didn't know
21:55exactly what happened that night.
21:58We raise your right hand
22:00and I will swear you in
22:01as the official trial jurors in this case.
22:04Between the state of Georgia
22:06and Elegio Bishop.
22:11The threat that runs through this entire story
22:15is a desire for spirituality.
22:18What you will hear from all of the former members
22:21Aaron from Kendra, from Janae, and Velvet.
22:25Young people longing for a kind of knowledge.
22:31March 24, 2022,
22:34Janae alleges that this young man here,
22:37Elegio Bishop, raped her.
22:39She also was falsely imprisoned by Elegio Bishop,
22:43meaning that she was not allowed to leave.
22:46She gives an interview to law enforcement.
22:48She never actually tells law enforcement
22:50that Mr. Bishop raped her.
22:52She described making love.
22:55Big point in this case is whether or not
22:58she decided to make love to him or not.
23:01That's what the state has to prove to you.
23:04All right, call your first witness.
23:08It felt good to speak up against my abuser.
23:11He felt small to me.
23:14It felt like, now you listen.
23:23I want to take you to the night of March 24, 2022.
23:28Do you remember that day?
23:35March 24.
23:38He basically was trying to convince me to sleep with him.
23:42How did you respond to that?
23:44I said, no.
23:45I said, I don't want to.
23:47I kept rejecting him, actually.
23:49And he kept telling me,
23:51let me come inside you one more time.
23:53And I asked him, why would you want to do that?
23:56He puts his hands up.
23:58He told me, I'm not going to rape you.
24:01And when he said that, I froze.
24:04He's never said that word with me before.
24:07He's never even told me he's never going to rape me before.
24:11So when he had said that, I froze.
24:14I didn't know what to do.
24:16Why did you feel like he couldn't leave in that moment?
24:20He had his arms around me and my legs around him.
24:25And I felt like I couldn't resist him anymore.
24:29And I kept telling him, no.
24:32So I said to myself, I'm going to do it one more last time.
24:36And he insisted and he said, OK.
24:39And I said, all right, OK.
24:41He went ahead and proceeded to do it.
24:46You started having sex at that point?
24:49What happened next?
24:52My body started to shut down and I felt like my body started to reject him.
24:58At this point, I'm crying to myself.
25:02So after that, after he was done and he finished, I told him, I still want to leave.
25:10And he interrupts me and says, shut up.
25:14You're my bitch.
25:16You're my property.
25:18You're not going anywhere.
25:20You're not going nowhere.
25:24I felt powerful in some type of way.
25:26I also felt vulnerable.
25:29I had a mission.
25:30I had a purpose to do.
25:32I felt like I was the only one that could do it in that moment.
25:40Good afternoon, Miss.
25:41My name is Robert Book.
25:43I represent Mr. Bishop.
25:44I just have a few questions for you, OK?
25:45Yeah.
25:46OK.
25:46So he's asked you a bunch of times, have sex with me, have sex with me.
25:50And your response is no.
25:51No, no, no.
25:52And then eventually, he says just one more time and you say, OK.
25:57After he said, I'm not going to leave you.
26:00Mm-hmm.
26:02Which means he's not going to, he's not going to force you, right?
26:05I didn't know that.
26:08Watching the trial was actually crazy.
26:11Listening to his attorney, I'm like, wait, he might, he's actually sounded pretty good.
26:15Like, he might have a chance.
26:16So your response was, OK, right?
26:20I was scared after he used the word rape.
26:24You were so scared that you left the Uber outside and came back inside the house and went to the
26:28second floor.
26:29I was confused.
26:30I was vulnerable.
26:32And I was being reminded.
26:34You know, they had this whole plan.
26:36I'm like, dang, like, what if he actually gets out?
26:41All right.
26:42It's been a long day.
26:48I'm feeling pretty positive about it.
26:50When Booker got up and he got a chance to cross-examine, I feel like it went pretty good.
26:54More of the facts are coming out.
26:57We are live in DeKalb County this afternoon.
26:59With this court case now paused until Thursday at 9 a.m., the judge says everyone will come back then
27:05and they will continue this trial.
27:19Today, I will be giving my testimony.
27:25I'm looking forward to it.
27:27I don't want to carry this over any more than we already have.
27:31Me and Kendra are married.
27:33So there's a level of mutual understanding between us.
27:37I think because we have each other, it's not as hard, but it is a hard thing.
27:45Dealing with the feelings of being here and not knowing what to expect.
27:50I was thinking, oh, snap, what if I stumble?
27:53Then I'm like, oh, they're going to think I'm lying or they're going to think I'm like, you know, trying
27:58to dodge the question.
27:59The thing is that you're human. We're human.
28:02They're not going to be judging you to that degree, that you judge yourself.
28:16Were folks able to say no to a lead Jehovah Bishop?
28:20No.
28:21Not without some form of reprise or some type of reprimand.
28:25What would happen if someone said no?
28:27That varied.
28:28So I've seen people be put in closets.
28:31I've seen people be kicked, slapped, hit.
28:38So the main points with this was the history of his behaviors that we saw from not only Mr. Bishop,
28:47but also his followers.
28:50Mr. Bishop would often refer to women as not having their own mind.
28:58He said we were his property and that he could do anything he wanted to us.
29:03No one was coming to save us in this foreign country.
29:07He said no one cared about black girls like us.
29:13All of you bitches belong to me.
29:15The abuse that was inflicted upon them was actually not even looked at as abuse, but in fact it was
29:21considered to be disciplinary.
29:24And I will have not wait with you as I seem with it.
29:27When I want to.
29:30Where I want to be.
29:32How I want to.
29:33And if any one of you disrespect me.
29:37And to the honorable bless you, girl.
29:43When I finally testified I felt like war, like it was like war.
29:49Like that's how I felt, I felt like I was here to protect my bloodline.
29:55I've literally witnessed Elegio Bishop threatening to kill me and my child on multiple occasions.
30:04He said that my life is over if he ever saw me again.
30:09And I have to not protect my family, my child, from himself.
30:15And that's all I have to say.
30:19I had heard that the defense had had some trouble with Elegio Bishop.
30:25Do you want to talk to your client in that?
30:29Okay, let's take five minutes.
30:32He had expectations that couldn't be met because they're not legally viable.
30:39And so instead of having an attorney who was able to control his client, his client was trying to control
30:45him.
30:46Okay, I would like to fire my attorney and find new counsel.
30:50Okay, that is not an option.
30:51We're not stopping the trial for you to get a new lawyer.
30:54That's not how this works.
30:56It got shut down.
30:58Mid-trial, you cannot stop and fire your attorney without a just cause.
31:03The options are proceed with Mr. Booker or proceed without an attorney.
31:10He wanted more of his followers to testify.
31:14But if you put all those people out there, they're then subject to a cross-examination by the prosecution.
31:22You just testified on direct that you had never seen Mr. Bishop be violent with anyone in the group.
31:28That's a fact.
31:38I didn't know how the judge felt about Nature Boy.
31:42By the end of the trial, you could figure it out and you could tell she was not his biggest
31:48fan.
31:48She was, um, as frustrated probably as his defense attorney with him, if not more.
31:57Mr. Bishop, do you want to be heard?
32:02You swear to test the test when you're about to get to the joke?
32:05For sure.
32:07At all times.
32:09All right, what is it you'd like me to consider?
32:13I just want to say something to all of them.
32:17I forgive you.
32:18I forgive you and I still love you.
32:21I forgive you and I still love you.
32:25All right, I just needed the courtroom.
32:27We're done with that.
32:28What is the recommendation from the state?
32:32You've watched the defendant laughing in court as these young women are telling their stories of your honor again.
32:37And, um, he does not believe he did anything wrong.
32:41And he will be a danger to this community and a danger to any women he encounters.
32:47As a defense attorney, you know, my job and my obligation is to zealously defend my client.
32:53There's only one true God and it's not Elagio Bishop.
32:57Um, and he knows that.
32:59Um, and I'm sorry with everything these folks have had to go through, um, in this case.
33:04Uh, I do think Mr. Bishop, though, judge, is redeemable.
33:11In all honesty, I wasn't sure on how the outcome could go because it's up to a jury.
33:16So you just never know what they're going to decide.
33:21And those jury deliberations are underway right now.
33:24As soon as there's a verdict, we'll let you know.
33:34Guilty or not guilty, it's in the hands of the citizens of DeKalb County and how they feel about the
33:43nature of this case.
33:44And if they feel like this person belongs back in their community.
33:57Do we have Mr. Bishop in courtroom seat?
34:01Yes, sir.
34:01Okay.
34:05I understand the jurors have reached the verdict.
34:18This is the verdict of the jury in indictment number 24, CR 1183, state of Georgia versus Elagio Bishop.
34:30Count one is raped.
34:38On count one, how does the jury find?
34:44Guilty.
34:49And count two, false imprisonment.
34:55Guilty.
34:57Count three, count four, and count five.
35:10When I heard them say all guilty, I was just like, wow, finally, someone believes me.
35:21I would have been inclined to exercise some discretion had Mr. Bishop shown any remorse,
35:28guilt or regret throughout this process.
35:33Mr. Bishop, you're a master manipulator.
35:37You took advantage of
35:40these folks who were looking
35:42for some guidance,
35:45looking for some
35:46connection or looking for some
35:49comfort.
35:51And you were able to fill a void for them.
35:54You don't want to let me out.
35:55But in the process,
35:56you completely
35:57took advantage of them
35:59and have caused
36:02a potentially irreparable harm.
36:08He'll be sentenced to life
36:10without the possibility of parole,
36:12followed by 10 years
36:13consecutive
36:14for the false imprisonment.
36:26I have to be completely honest.
36:30It was very emotional.
36:34I'm going to get emotional now.
36:36But
36:37it was like
36:38my work paid off.
36:40So.
36:47When the judge had
36:49announced the verdict,
36:52I was
36:55I was so
36:57happy.
37:00Like,
37:00people look down on me
37:02for being this happy,
37:03but I don't care.
37:05I'm happy.
37:08So the moment she was like
37:10life plus 10
37:12no parole.
37:15I get to live my life in peace.
37:20I do
37:21feel like I missed out
37:23on a lot of time
37:24that I can't get back.
37:26Sometimes your family
37:28never come back around
37:29after stuff like that.
37:31Sometimes your friends
37:32never come back around
37:33after stuff like that.
37:35I've watched people
37:36who were in carbonation
37:37go back home
37:38and their family
37:39does not accept them
37:40anymore.
37:41They are completely alone.
37:42I've watched people
37:43crash out.
37:46What do I do?
37:47Go out into the world
37:48and
37:49people are going to be like,
37:49hey,
37:50I haven't seen you around
37:51in a long time.
37:52Where have you been?
37:55What am I going to say?
37:56I was in a cold.
37:58I'm just going to tell them
37:59like I was out here
38:00running behind
38:00some guy named Nature Boy
38:01and I thought that
38:02I was living,
38:03you know,
38:04going to have eternal life
38:05in the jungle
38:06with this guy.
38:07Like,
38:07it's life destroying.
38:10You know,
38:11like my whole life
38:12felt like
38:12it was just like
38:13shattered.
38:16I feel guilty
38:17for everything
38:17that we didn't do.
38:19You got to know
38:21exactly who you are,
38:23what the truth is
38:23or you lead yourself
38:25to anybody.
38:25They can potentially
38:26mislead you.
38:29so much richness
38:31that was in carbonation
38:33that was taken away.
38:35Golden people
38:36covered in dust,
38:38battered, bruised.
38:39It had to be dismantled.
38:41It had to be destroyed
38:43so people can resurrect
38:45and be the people
38:46that they're meant to be.
38:49He will continue
38:50to maintain
38:51his innocence.
38:52He will continue
38:53to blame
38:54the system
38:56and white supremacy.
38:58He will blame
38:59the victims
39:00and that will be
39:02his story
39:02more than likely
39:03until the day
39:04he dies.
39:08everything that I
39:09talk about
39:10I love this shit, man.
39:12I don't think
39:13it is the complete
39:14end of Nature Boy
39:15unfortunately.
39:17He'll try to revive
39:18something.
39:20So
39:22Nature Boy
39:23may live on.
39:30This is a prepaid call
39:32from Nature Boy.
39:34An inmate
39:34at the DeKalb County
39:35Jail.
39:38You ain't never
39:39been the one
39:41like me
39:41never will, baby.
39:43No.
39:44You don't make history.
39:46You ain't never
39:47more than me.
39:49I can promise
39:50you again.
39:51Don't promise
39:53you again.
39:53I can promise
40:18you again.
40:45Transcription by CastingWords
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