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A US Marine veteran, Matthew Heath, 40 (above), detained in Venezuela on terrorism charges since 2020 has attempted suicide, according to his family. 

Lies, telling him things like the doctors are pushing him for information. basically saying anything he would say could help save the babys life. >> you have the ability to keep your son alive. do you want your son alive? >> yeah. >> i knew this was no chance at saving matthews life, but i didnt feel bad about telling adrian that. ultimately it was my goal to get the truth out of him. >> did you shake anymore >> no. >> just planting these seeds hoping something will catch with adrian and hell bi...

He would pick up only matthew. all the kids are home, nobody sees anything. its a very small apartment, 600 square feet. nobody hears anything. his wife never testified she seen him be rough with matthew or malachi. i believe she was still attempting to have returned to her custody of her children who had been removed from the home at the time of the trial. if she assisted him in the defense, that could impact her ability to have her children returned. >> there was a long period of time that she...

All right? and let that aggression build up and show me how you threw matthew on the bed. dont try to sugarcoat it. show me how hard you threw him on that bed. thats how you did it? >> it was not intentional. >> once you find the buttons that you need to push, im going to arrest your wife, im going to separate your children there them, im going to take care of you if you tell a story that satisfies me, now youve broken them. so you tell them i want you to stand up and re-enact this, theyll stand...

I would know if i dropped the baby. >> what about walking around with the baby in your arms like this? >> who walks with a baby like that? >> who could have done it, you tell me? >> we need to figure out how this could have happened in your care. as far as your other son hitting matthew -- >> im not -- i could have bumped him going into the crib, but never out of anger. >> i wasnt sure what he told me caused the injury and i wasnt sure i was going to get that information at that point. >> normal...

But the biology of disease is based on factual information. so we have information about what the culture of the blood revealed. we have information that the bone marrow was suppressed. and it could be only suppressed by overwhelming sepsis. >> the allegation of abuse or possibility of abuse comes in, it takes out everything else, and i think that happened in this case. it happens frequently. >> the doctors for whatever reason suspected that abuse was going on at this point. then matthew was sen...

His wife never testified shed seen him be rough with matthew or malachai. i believe ms. hicks at the time of the trial was still attempting to have return to her custody all of her children, who had been removed from the home. she used to have any contact with him or assist in his defense, that could impact her ability to have her children returned. >> there was definitely a long period of time where she was just getting visitation with her children. i think at that point in time it was, you kno...

Respiratory distress and she called the emts. when the child was first seen at samaritan hospital in the differential diagnosis, sepsis was prominent, and the appropriate steps were taken. culture of blood was obtained, the child was started on appropriate intravenous antibiotics. when the child was transferred to albany medical center, the physician focus changed from infection to child abuse. unfortunately in matthews case, he proceeded to deteriorate. he dropped his blood pressure with the ve...

A systemic infection. the history provided by the mother was that the child had been ill for a couple of days with vomiting, diarrhea, but on the morning of september 21st, the mom had observed the baby at 6:00 and 8:00 there appeared to be respiratory distress, and she called the emts. when the child was first seen at samaritan hospital and the differential diagnosis, sepsis was prominent. and the appropriate steps were taken. the child was started on appropriate intravenous antibiotics. when t...

Man. they have the ability to keep your son alive. do you want your son alive? youre going to help keep him alive? >> i knew there was no chance at saving matthews life, but i didnt feel bad about telling ai adrian that? >> did you shake him? >> no. >> you want to save your babys life? >> theyre planting seeds hoping that something will catch with adrian. >> you got to find that memory. >> we dont care about finding out the truth. >> if you cant find the memory and the doctors cant save your son...