Paul was sentenced to 30-100 years today, February 26, 2024. Thank God for that judge who wasn't fooled by either of those two EVIL MONSTERS.

It drives me crazy that Paul felt he was being abused by his father.. but he couldnt see that the abuse he and his mother were inflicting on Timothy was 1000x worse

UPDATE!!!! Shonda received life in prison without parole. Paul was just sentenced! He asked for mercy and compassion so that he "might learn" but that he'd still be sad that Timothy is gone. Judge Kacel sentenced him to 30 to 100 years!!!! (with 592 days counted as time served, but who cares) Judge stated "I think you're just as bad."🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

The thought of the teachers stuffing Timothy's backpack with so much food just so he had something at home made me cry. Thank u to those teachers 😢

Unbelievable. I can't believe that while he was actively DYING they kept acting like he was being a brat and faking it. Absolutely disgusting.

The only thing that made this bearable is hearing how that judge took absolutely no shit and used her own words against her. I just hope that the people in jail with them know what they did. Justice will truly be had then

When she said "I'm sure y'all have seen a lot worse" and the cop just says "Okay..." I laughed out loud at how absurd it was

I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for naming her for what she is and not saying "killer mom" or giving her any title of a parent!!!! Shes a murderer not a mother.

AINT NO WAY HE SAID HE RELEASED HIS ANGER IN “the right ways” 😭

How was Timothy faking seizures. How was Timothy dying and Paul and his mom believed that he was faking it. That's just pure evil. Disgusting.

I hope the inmates in prison steal her food and water from her. Still couldn't hold a flame to what poor Timothy went through 🕊❤

I sincerely hope that the prison inmates show these two as much compassion as they showed Timothy, forever

As a mom with a non verbal child with autism, this absolutely breaks my heart for Timothy. Instead of the help and love he needed, she ridiculed, starved,tormented,and tortured him. May he rest in peace now.

That 'mothers' face is so so so hittable.

My grandmother actually worked on this case. I'm not sure exactly what position she was in but she works in family court and she told me that she worked on this case. She told me that Shanda would feed him bread with hot sauce and that in court she told everyone that Timothy liked bread with hot sauce and people's response was "then why did you use it as a punishment"

It is so heartbreaking that Timothy lived his whole life never knowing love. Never knowing protection or warmth. I wish Timothy was saved so that he had a chance to recover, heal, and live a good life.

I love the prosecuter. "Did it ever occur to you in your BRILLIANT legal mind......." "So that's gonna be in the 'I don't remember category?'"

I remember when this happened and I found it beyond pathetic how the “mom” was wearing braided pigtails with crocodile tears only for herself. She is one of the people that the electric chair should still be an option.

Her parental rights to her 7 year old were recently terminated. Shanda actually had the gall to protest the termination thinking she could "become a positive person in her son's life". She can have no contact with him until he's 18. I feel so sorry for that little boy.

It’s wild how your reenactment of Shonda talking to the police at her house was better acting than even she could do pretending to be sad about her child.

"He could have killed himself "he was on a hunger strike"while slowly torturing and killing her son and the nerve of fake crying is mind blowing

And none of her coworkers thought this was suspicious

How DARE they have the nerve to have BIBLE verses in a house filled with disgusting actions like this I’m so disgusted

this woman really painted her 15 year old son as a villain in her mind, and she definitely doesn't seem like she even thinks she did anything wrong. the shame here definitely is that the justice was only brought after he'd already passed. so many people had the opportunity to save him, cps, her coworkers, paul who apparently 'loved his brother and hated what he was doing.' rest in peace timothy :(

Bless the judge for choosing not to release the photos of poor Timothy.

This is sickening. He is in a better place now, free from all the abuse. Kids deserve all the best in this world. She deserves that life in prison.

I wish i could give poor Timothy the biggest hug, poor baby, what a miserable last months of life. Those people are pure evil

Hearing some of the same "punishments" this poor kid was subjected to and remembering so clearly that my siblings and I faced the same shit (heavy on the wall squats, I was up there for an hour at a time, or until my legs gave out) did a lot to help hold my own parents accountable. I hope no one who grew up thinking this treatment was normal or deserved grows up to do the same. Wishing us all a very "healing from the things we never got apologies for"

Her STRAIGHT UP DEMONIC TEXTS are being read in court... and she's STILL fake crying acting like a "grieving mother" 🤨 as if ANYONE in that court room, including her own lawyer, is falling for it. Tf. It's like these people were literally living in their OWN hellish world. Too far gone to even realize how evil and sick they are. The fact she was EMPLOYED by the same courthouse the entirety of the crime... is the biggest twist in this story.

Paul should've gotten charged with murder. With the text messages and video that was more than enough to convict her with out making any type of deal. He was just as responsible in my eyes.

You know what's so fucked up, his dad said she could either take him or he'd end up in foster care! If she was so fed up, she could've kicked him out or gave him up to foster care... But no, she chose torture and abuse.

Before you mentioned adhd and autism I knew timothy had it from the behaviours you were explaining. My son has autism, adhd and spd and is considerably more vulnerable than other children because he doesn’t understand the world like a neurotypical. It hurts so much to hear someone could hurt one of these special children, let alone by their own family. I will revisit this when my mental health is better, I really hope Timothy gets justice 💔💔

the fact that the abusers claim they didn’t know he was so bad is an absolute disgusting lie. Any normal person who saw him would have called an ambulance immediately. Which is why they hid him away.

is it only me who finds judicial system extremly unfair? She gets to eat plenty of food, buy extra food if she wants something specific, chat with her fellow inmates, watch tv in a warm cell, shower with warm water... things her son never had. And you call it fair? The world where offenders live better lives than victims?

Hearing him call out for help broke me. I am SO glad I watched this video, because the first one I saw totally depicted Paul as innocent. The poor boy was DYING. And they were shit talking and abusing him until the very end…

A social worker needed to have been involved in Timothy’s life the second his teachers described him as having no one who loved him. Horrible oversight, that poor poor baby

the fact that she has the nerveeeeee to gag and throw up showing the pictures when she saw him every. single. day.

He was just 15... this is horrific

Hearing the behaviors that Paul complained about.... Those are weren't signs of a bad kid or a problem child. They were signs of Timothy's autism. Heart breaking. That boy deserved so much more. Everyone in his life failed him.

the fact that the abusers claim they didn’t know he was so bad is an absolute disgusting lie. Any normal person who saw him would have called an ambulance immediately. Which is why they hid him away. so sad

So convenient that she can't remember her horrendous text messages, but she could remember everything that Timothy had done to "deserve" being "punished". Disgusting. How she can think anyone would believe such an obvious tactic is ridiculous.

Saddest part of him reaching for the pizza role is when you think about it he probably hadn't given up, he wanted to eat and probably still wanted to live 💔

Yeah, "sorry guys, that was my little brother crying from being tortured. Give me a minute to let it continue while I play video games, in comfort, with pizza bites by my side, and just ignore absolute cries of desperation. " He knew better.

we need to all sit for five minutes. doing nothing. alone. maybe even in an uncomfortable position. we need to understand how long five minutes really is when youre alone with nothing. when we feel so hungry were keeling over, we need to remember that it never ended for him. every spicy thing we cant handle, the spice that we run to the kitchen for milk for, is only a fraction of what he experienced. we need to remember just how long this went on for. where were you a few years ago? how long has it been? how many things youve done and places youve been have you experienced since then. you cant even remember. even if stories like this make us sick, its still just words. we can only handle 5% of what he went through

What baffles me is why they choose to spend so much time and commitment on torturing their own flesh and blood? How do they even get anything done?

he was “chubby” when he left his dad’s care… this is so sickening, he was 15.

my brother and i are both autistic and so many of the things listed about timothy are super common autistic behaviors, especially in males. unfortunately, it's very common for autistic children to be abused by siblings, peers, and adults responsible for them, being seen as "disobedient" when they really just don't understand or have full autonomy over their emotions and urges. i pray things like this will stop happening one day and that all people seeking to raise a child are aware and prepared for the fact that the child may be neurodivergent and thus need to be raised in a less by-the-book way.

It’s so insanely frustrating that they had the privilege of diagnoses AND a sustainable job to support the needs of those diagnoses, yet chose to try and torture them out of that poor baby for years instead 💔💔 evil evil people stuck in their own worlds, and a corrupt system that can’t help the victims of those people until too late…. We collectively need to do better for kids

Shanda terrifies me, the evidence speaks for itself , recordings, texts. They say "behind closed doors" but it seems like she wouldve tortured him in broad daylight. Truly horrific.

I watched the brother's sentencing hearing yesterday. That Judge pulled no punches and gave him 30 to 100years in prison. I'm glad his abusers are getting the punishments they deserve.

The prosecutor did an excellent job questioning her, and also, not verbally attacking her for the evil actions she made Timothy endure. I would’ve lost it on her. And you are correct!! She hated every 2nd of it.. not bc she started seeing how wrong her actions were, but bc he made the “genius” feel stupid. She literally makes me sick.

7 or 8 years ago I pushed my little sister a little bit hard and she fell, scratched her knee and was very upset. I still think of this very moment frequently, it’s one of those memories that comes back at night and make you feel like the worst person in the world. I love my sister with all of my heart and I still feel so shitty that I hurt her unintentionally. I can’t even begin to comprehend putting your younger sibling through something like this. Paul was clearly suffering from some sort of mental illness, but it would never be an excuse. You can’t call him a brother, he had no love for this poor kid.

One of the most frustrating stories I've ever heard.. the failure of CPS, the failure of bystanders, the failure of the law, the failure of the mother, brother, and father. The poor child literally had no one. :/

The moment I heard the word “homeschool,” so much clicked. Most homeschoolers aren’t evil, but I encounter so many people who pull their kids from school just to abuse them without anyone to notice. We need better oversight - by which I mean ANY oversight.

As an update of this case, Paul was sentenced to 30-100 years in prison Edit: Minus the time (592 days) he already spent in jail waiting for sentencing

She was practicing her puking theatrics way before this. On the officers cam she is shown to be “puking” the drink she was given when she was first taken in. I can’t imagine being that smart and doing everything she did to that child. Also, why didn’t her boss ever tell anything about being on the computer at work? The amount of sympathy she was looking for from others is disgusting.

To know that she was a dog trainer for emotional support and disabilities is astounding. She has a video on her dog training channel here on YT where she is holding her dog and cuddling it and talking about how she couldn’t let the dog go into a lake because it was just too cold. She could never do that to her baby. All the while her own son is in a closet only a few feet away in agony from emotional trauma, physical pain and starvation

I don't know if it was intentional or not on the judge's part, but I take a tiny bit of consolation in him making it a point to say "Timothy won." in the sentencing statements. All of her disdain for this poor boy came from her belief that he was getting over on her or somehow "winning".

this is genuinely so sickening. thats all there is to this. sickening, sickening, demented people.

I have severe ADHD as well, I have depression, I have trauma and I was abused as a kid. I would never in my life harm a child. Ever. I would never starve a child or punish them to death. I would never lay my hands on my child. I would love my child, I would do everything I wish my family had done for me for my child. I would teach and learn together with my child. And it wouldn't matter to me if that child was biologically related to me or not. Mental illness and Neurodivergence is NEVER an excuse. We are still responsible for our actions! Cases like this always get to me. I watched a case about another kid once who was beaten and tortured and starved to death by his mum and step father after being sent to her by his father to protect him from legal issues in their country. They also filmed everything, and they did show the videos during trial. the jury needed to go into therapy because many of them ended up being traumatized by the images shown to them. There is a special place in hell for child abusers, if hell is real. I do want to say that I have a nuanced take on Paul as well. I know what his siblings said and we don't know the full story. All I know is how my sister and I grew up. We grew up with a mother that had never been allowed to be a child and developed quite a narcisisstic personality because of it. My dad had grown up with a violent drunk as a father. My parents didn't love each other. My mother had met my father very shortly after divorcing her first husband. She had a still birth and he wasn't there. He was out drinking with friends. She and hospital staff notified him multiple times, but he only showed up 4 days later. She seperated right then and there in her hospital bed. My mum had us pretty late at 39, she knew her clock was ticking and my father was there. But she wasn't willing to be there for him, so he fell into alcoholism, just like his dad. He started calling us names. I'd space out a lot and daydream as a child (I had severe ADHD) and I was often non responsive or unwilling to study. I would get screamed at, shouted at, shoved to gain my attention. My mother would have us do school work before we even entered school, I was jot allowed to do anything else until I had done every exercise she had given me that day. I would get so stressed out I'd start talking to a tree that was growing outside my window. She'd close the curtains then. As time went on my dad started hitting us. On the back of the head at first, but it got worse. He choked me once and threatened to break my arm. My mother would tell on us if we did something wrong, too. My parents also beat our family dog and to this day one of my biggest regrets is imitating them and doing it, too. My sister and I also started insulting each other during fights and actually getting physical with each other, until one day we just looked at each other and pretty much said:"What are we even doing?". Eventually, my parents have taken more or less accountability for their actions, and our family is slowly healing. I am very fortunate to be in that position, and I still love them. But for years after that I had trouble accepting and feeling negative emotions such as anger or frustration. I was scared I'd become like my dad or mum. But I didn't. Of course I didn't. I have pets of my own now and I love them to bits. I have never hit them or screamed at them. But living with parents like that does something to you. And if you have a predisposition or certain temperament it might affect you differently. What I'm saying is that parents have a hold on you. Well beyond your teenage years. And maybe if Paul had had a chance at a different life as possoibly an only child with parents who would have known what they were doing, he would have had a chance at a normal life eventually. This is just a tragic case and I am so sorry that Timothy is never going to experience all the things that he should have had the chance to experience. There needs to be more emphasis on child protection! We're still not doing enough by a long shot! Our systems still care too little.

The way they talk about him as if the victim is some horrible, attention-seeking kid instead of…well, a victim of their torture is unreal. They genuinely thought that and it’s insane.

The mindset of these two is insane. The fact that they thought he was faking and did not think for one minute that he actually felt pain and hurt is insanity. The brother keeps saying “he took food” - like this was not Timothy’s house too and getting food is not a normal thing kids do. Also the audacity to get mad at Timothy for “breaking rules” when they forced him into these situations and abused him. They treated him like he is an animal or something beneath them that is disgusting

This case is beyond disgusting..It is absolutely unbelievable that both the perpetrators were stuck in their sick delusion,treating someone like an enemy..when it was a fragile defenseless kid in the verge of death..psychopaths?..devils?..demons?..idk how to describe them..Rip Timothy🥀

Man how could anyone treat a child like this. I'm glad she had all those stupid cameras to capture everything she did to that poor kid

I dunno why but her opening a water bottle to drink while she is talking about feeding Timothy hot sauce ABSOLUTELY ENRAGES ME

A jury deliberated for a little more than an hour on Dec. 15, 2023, before finding the 43-year-old mother on trial guilty of the murder of her teenage son with special needs. A judge sentenced Shanda Vander Ark on Jan. 23, 2024, to 50 to 100 years in prison for child abuse and life without parole for her son's murder.

I've been watching true crime for a couple years but this case is the one of the few that disturbed me this badly. I feel so sorry for that poor boy and thinking of how wronged he was from the beginning makes me want to cry. At the very least we can say he's in a better a place :(

Lying that ur brother was stealing food, while the poor kid died of starvation is a level of evil my brain cannot comprehend.

with every parent-child case i remember "every child deserves a parent but not all parents deserve children" she is literally evil not even human she doesn't deserve to be a mom nor alive anymore after what she did

How inhumane and messed up can you be to fake a reaction in front of a whole court just to hope diminshing your time in jail ??? I feel so bad for what the victim's family had to witness... [EDIT] : Plz don't come at me guys. I'm so sorry, I made a huge mistake. I meant the victim only. Not their family because obviously the family is so sick.

i'm crying, Timothy has gone through so much at a young age?? everyday?? i can only imagine how horrible life was for Timothy :(( i've been a victim to only a fraction of what they did to Timothy and it makes me even more angry how they could do that to him, he's a child... what the actual fck

34:18 the "I'm sure you've seen a lot worse!" Cop: "mmm, okay 🤨🤨"

My grandson is 7 and diagnosed with mild autism and ADHD. The ADHD meds speed up his metabolism and he's hungry all the time. He HAS to eat to maintain weight. If Timothy was taking medication when he kept getting food he was probably just hungry all the time. Poor baby. This mother and brother deserve to be treated the same way. Our justice system is too kind sometimes.

1:15:28 i heard his "Heeeelp...Hellow?" That sounded so precious...how can you hear a voice like that and answer with violence, abuse and torture? Its heartbreaking.

In the UK, there's a couple who starved their daughter (under 10) to death. They also had a locked fridge and plenty of food in the fridge. They're now both in prison. The mother is morbidly obese and a few years ago complained about the prison food.

"Every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child"

She also tried to deflect responsibility even on the stand with her OWN TEXTS that the prosecutor would read out to her. He’d ask “Does that sound right to you?” and she’d reply “If that’s what it says.”as if her phone was the one texting that crap on it’s own. Not her. “It” said to give Timothy to give hot sauce. “It” said to give him a cold shower. Nothing was her fault. She’s sickening.

this is another example of cps failing. this happens over and over again. had they actually taken action after timothee’s teachers called, he could’ve still been here. there needs to be serious reform.

It’s no wonder you have as many subscribers as you do. Not only is your voice so easy to listen to, like I’m listening to a good audiobook, but the way you tell your stories are so detailed and make me picture every detail. So good ❤

the amount of self victimization is completely insane. Kid is LITERALLY DYING and Paul and Shanda are just going on and on about how he's faking for the soul purpose of bothering them. Every tiny behavior is met with "he's faking and taking advantage of us and trying to make us miserable he's such a horrible kid I can't take it anymore." I just can't believe what I'm hearing. Timothy throws up from the hot sauce; he's being stubborn to spite us. Timothys eyes are glazed over; he's faking to make us worry. He literally can't walk because he's so malnourished; he's faking to trouble us. It's completely insane.

"Yeah we starved him but we didn't enjoy it, we hated doing it!" "Then why not just stop starving him?" "He needed to be punished." "For what!?" "For trying not to starve!"

I'm sorry, how the Fffff- someone once arrested for punching a woman into miscarrying gets to work at the courthouse?!! Background checks?? Hello?!!

For a very smart woman, the fact that she had cameras, and she didn't know that the police would go over them ... proves that "being smart" and "problem solver" are just words. You can be 100% intelligent at one topic, and 100% dumbass at another.

This was one of the most painful videos I have watched I paused so many times I hope Timothy is able to rest in peace and I’m glad justice was served it’s still shocking that there’s people like Shonda and Paul in this world

She was outside not crying because he died but instead she was trying to justify what exactly the police were looking at

This is one of those cases that make me wish the "eye for an eye" law was still in place, so, the moster would be LEGALLY subjected to the exact same torture (s)he made the victim(s) go through.

I love the way you tell these crime stories. Most true crime UKpostsrs tell you the entire story within the first 5 minutes of the video. You actually only give us a tiny bit of the storY in the intro. Thank you! Love ur channel.

You know...I watch a lot of True Crime stuff. Like, too much. This has been the hardest I've ever cried for the victim. I'm so sorry, Timothy.

This has been one of the worst, most horrible child abuse cases I’ve ever heard of. I can’t imagine how painful it must’ve been for him. The fact that the photos are banned as well because it’s so damaging to a person is just heartbreaking. How can someone just live with themselves knowing they did that?? I can’t believe someone can just carry a child for 9 months and just inflict such brutal and vile “punishments” to your own child that never deserved it. She doesn’t deserve to be called a mother. I can’t believe these types of people actually exists; it sickens me.

It’s crazy how sick in the head people can be-

I swear on my most beloved companions, those two (Shonda and Paul) got off on this shit. This is so...perverse!!

I think this is one of the worst cases I’ve heard from rotten mango. Disgusting.

The judge did the most kind and respectful thing by ordering that Timothy’s pictures will never be made public (they were that horrific). At the conclusion of the trial the judge displayed a picture of a young, smiling, healthy looking Timothy and explained that this is how he wanted the world to remember him. However, in that picture Tim looked to be around 8 years old which makes me wonder why there aren’t any other pics of him between 8 and 15? They probably never took any. I watched the trial without difficulty but at 11 minutes into Stephanie’s video it’s already too upsetting to hear her graphically describe some of the milder torture that took place. I wouldn’t be surprised if the police, paramedics, even the coroner and people who assist with autopsies had to get counseling after having seen Timothy. Nowadays many court systems provide counseling for jurors who are involved with cases where there’s disturbing and graphic evidence. Shaunda is truly the most evil and sadistic person of our times.

the way they describe the abuse as if it's just a walk in the park and nothing is wrong? so confidently in front of the detective?

It's always a huge 🚩 in the 1st place when 'parents' complain/ claim their kids are 'stealing food'

Wow... I wish I'd known of your channel sooner. Your delivery is incredible. The way you told this young man's tragic story was absolutely perfect 🖤

The Mother acts like Timothy is this big brain, master plan, anime villain trying to push their huge scheme/agenda. The child was literally just existing. Trying not to be hungry, cold, and sleep-deprived. I want to think that the brother was not directly involved and complicit, that he was participating out of fear of the mother. However, after hearing more about this case, I now think that he was brainwashed into participating and even took enjoyment out of it eventually. It's all sad really. I don't like using the word "hate" but this woman really brings me to the brink of it. I hope that the poor child is at peace now without the torment from the ones he was supposed to trust, love, and be protected by. Hug your loved ones ya'll...😟

That hot sauce is no joke. I can’t imagine how bad that poor baby felt, makes me so angry.

Timothy honestly sounds like he couldve grown up really smart with his knowledge on how to take stuff apart

My heart breaks for Timothy. No baby should have to go through such pain. May his beautiful soul happily rest in peace ❤️🕊️