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The Case of Matt Huang
📻 Episode #419
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 18, 2024
About This Episode
On January 15, 2013, Matt Huang’s eight-year-old adopted daughter, Gloria, unexpectedly passed away in Doha, Qatar. Despite the fact that Gloria had a variety of health issues and often exhibited symptoms of an eating disorder, authorities in Qatar immediately suspected Matt and his wife, Grace, of starving their daughter to death. The couple was sentenced…
The Case
On January 15, 2013, Matt Huang’s eight-year-old adopted daughter, Gloria, unexpectedly passed away in Doha, Qatar. Despite the fact that Gloria had a variety of health issues and often exhibited symptoms of an eating disorder, authorities in Qatar immediately suspected Matt and his wife, Grace, of starving their daughter to death. The couple was sentenced to 3 years in prison for the death of their daughter.
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00:04:44“Speaker 2: five percent of the people are foreigners, which mean there Speaker 2: are foreign workers that have been brought in. The majority Speaker 2: of the people who get brought into work are in Speaker 2: construction and those types of industries, and a lot of Speaker 2: these workers are paid three hundre buxham up or less.”
00:17:40“Speaker 1: Again, I don't have any words. I mean, it's just Speaker 1: too much. So what were the actual charges and when Speaker 1: were you brought to court? Speaker 2: The first three months we didn't even know why we Speaker 2: were in prison. We didn't know what the charges were.”
00:29:49“Speaker 3: whole charade, and now at some point that charade got Speaker 3: broken through via I believe the political process involving the Speaker 3: United States the Court of Appeal, but at some point Speaker 3: the breaks got put on and they said, okay, let's Speaker 3: just end this thing.”
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