State of Minnesota v. Nicholas Rekieta, Kayla Rekieta, April Imholte

[Mike Stoklasas Spock Ears]

Aaron says April likes to go hunting. She's probably more familiar with guns than Nick. But he also said she has used the deer stand on the Rekieta property, so shooting in the "backyard" is a possibility.

FWIW (unreliable narrator), Aaron has said April is a bow hunter and doesn’t hunt with guns. Her instagram seems to confirm this. I couldn’t find any gun posts.

 

[monstrous bubo]

No-one seems to have mentioned the defences available to the charge Kayla permitted abuse, so just dropping them in here:

§ Subd. 2.Defenses.

It is a defense to a prosecution under subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (2), or paragraph (b), that at the time of the neglect or endangerment there was a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the defendant that acting to stop or prevent the neglect or endangerment would result in substantial bodily harm to the defendant or the child in retaliation.

So depending on who the abuser was, Kayla could claim she was too frightened to intervene.

 

[RollerGator]

FWIW (unreliable narrator), Aaron has said April is a bow hunter and doesn’t hunt with guns. Her instagram seems to confirm this. I couldn’t find any gun posts.

Mooby was the woman in that relationship. Shd also mowed the lawn and did roofing at the house. Mooby will have to start hiring Mexicans now that she's gone.

 

[Al from Dadeville]

The universe has one hell of a sense of humor

Ultimate proof of this is the pillstream happening in between the time of the report being made and the warrant being executed

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

No-one seems to have mentioned the defences available to the charge Kayla permitted abuse, so just dropping them in here:



So depending on who the abuser was, Kayla could claim she was too frightened to intervene.

That would be a lie though. She's very clearly just as guilty as Nick. I don't think she'd get away with it so easily even if she decided to use any means necessary to blame everything on him.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

I feel rather bad for those poor interns that have to watch Nick's on stream deterioration. But damn he is so perfectly documented his decline that the DA could easily put up a time-lapse over the last 18-24 months and just remind the Judge and Jury, 5 kids in the house.

I pray that we get to see "Big shoutout to elissa clips" in an actual legal document.

 

[Exfurminatus Now]

So the police report said there were 4 kids in the house, and

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in this picture, we can see it says (in relation to the pastor), "The family he received reported information of neglect on is...."

Considering Nick has 5 kids, what are the chances that one who wasn't at the house confided in their pastor about what was happening at home? I was under the impression while reading the main thread that the pastor witnessed something himself and reported it, so forgive me if this is actually the main theory and I'm late as fuck.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Would the parent get charged with that if for example the kids fought each other?

I doubt it.

Did one of the kids tell CPS that it's Kayla who beats them when they try to ask her for food?

Physical violence by her would be an entirely separate charge. This is neglect by knowingly letting it happen

Is she charged for letting Nick drive them around drunk?

The charge is "A parent, legal guardian, or caretaker who knowingly permits the continuing physical or sexual abuse of a child is guilty of neglect of a child."

Did Aaron or another of Kayla's bulls abuse a kid as Kayla the ghoul sat back in a drugged out haze? Did Nick avoid that charge because he's practically never around his kids?

Very possible.

Can the jury take the partial silence into account and assume that what I refused to say was bad for me?

No

so forgive me if this is actually the main theory

I believe it is

 

[Dr Naomi Hunter]

The charge is "A parent, legal guardian, or caretaker who knowingly permits the continuing physical or sexual abuse of a child is guilty of neglect of a child."

My theory is that the report by the pastor specifically mentioned that one of the kids told him something like “Mom never cooks dinner for us any more”.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

My theory is that the report by the pastor specifically mentioned that one of the kids told him something like “Mom never cooks dinner for us any more”.

I disagree on the basis that Minnesota defines physical abuse as beating up the kid, or threatening to do so. See ""Physical abuse" means any physical injury, mental injury under subdivision 13, or threatened injury under subdivision 23, inflicted by a person responsible for the child's care on a child other than by accidental means, or any physical or mental injury that cannot reasonably be explained by the child's history of injuries, or any aversive or deprivation procedures, or regulated interventions, that have not been authorized under section 125A.0942 or 245.825." Mind you, they wrote an exception for things like disciplinary spanking, so that can't be it either.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/260E.03

 

[Mike Stoklasas Spock Ears]

Legal question, Nick and Kayla each have a single count of child neglect/endangerment. Can this potentially be upgraded to multiple counts? One for each of the 5 children they neglected/endangered?

 

[Balldo's Gate]

My theory is that the report by the pastor specifically mentioned that one of the kids told him something like “Mom never cooks dinner for us any more”.

I think it's something like that.

If you reverse the photo Patrick Melton/Nobody Likes Onions posted on Twitter, this is what it says at the top

"born in 2007 in charge. [PASTOR] was unsure if that was (suitable or not?)."

"Born in 2007" I think is a reference to the oldest kid.

I'll try to dig into his cancellation notices at some point, I have a suspicion for what this might refer to but I'm not sure if the timing is correct.

 

[theapropos]

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Currently, these little snippets from a Steel Toe Morning Show alog is what we have to suggest that the mandatory reporter is the pastor. Interestingly, it specifically says that he received reported information of neglect. There appears to be more to this document, however, this is all we have so far.

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Onions is a lowiq shitstirrer. I don't think there's anyone he likes. Redbar without the cancer

 

[Third World Aristocrat]

See ""Physical abuse" means any physical injury, mental injury under subdivision 13

Sad is the day that I pray they only mentally injured their children.

(9) purposely giving a child:
(i) poison, alcohol, or dangerous, harmful, or controlled substances that were not prescribed for the child by a practitioner in order to control or punish the child; or
(ii) other substances that substantially affect the child's behavior, motor coordination, or judgment; that result in sickness or internal injury; or that subject the child to medical procedures that would be unnecessary if the child were not exposed to the substances;

They could've also given some of the drugs/ alcohol for one of the older children? I don't know how old is the older one. So I don't know if it is a reasonable possibility.

 

[waffle]

Not trying to balldo guard but could complying with the search warrant be equated to an admission of guilt? That's the only reason I could see why he didn't give up the door code. Also, was the safe left wide ass open? He had to know this was coming or was ATLEAST a possibility. So much arrogance and pride......

It's going to depend wildly on local rule. That's the one thing people are being too hard on him for IMO.

I'd open the door, but only if they showed me the warrant first. Here there's no risk of not being able to the fight the warrant later by opening the door, but I don't trust them enough to not lie about one existing and trying to fake some consent search/exigent circumstances.

 

[theapropos]

After 12 pages of Idk what to call it, basic tldr.
People have had more in possession and its just months of rehab. Stop drooling. I'm not on nicks side either but you are not looking at basic stats. Rehab can be a paradise if you ever heard artie langes tale.

The difference is the child neglect thing, which is tied with child abuse but don't think that it's the same. The kids are already with relatives so the only question is custody when cps comes in, and whether he will be charged for it. This won't be 27 years. You are a loon to even suggest it. Of course if he pulls a stunt now it all goes out the window. Which is not out of character for the narcissist.

Also he represented himself until bail. He has a lawyer now. I guess he's not so far gone as we thought.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

I guess I was thinking it'd be like if the cops come to raid your computer, you obviously wouldn't give them the encryption key or whatever. That was the train of thought anyways.

You aren't legally required to willfully give your house keys, nor your private keys to the government in the US. They will attempt forced entry either way, they will either succeed or fail. There is a high chance the government will fail entry on a properly encrypted hard drive with a strong key.

Unless you have some doors stolen from the Cheyenne Mountain Complex the government will get into your house one way or another. Best you get is some borrowed time, which is why if your gonna be doing boat loads of drugs, buy a steel door and steel frame and get it properly installed, then some hurricane wrap for windows to prevent entry there. All physical security does is buy time. The government will whip out an acetylene torch or angle grinder if necessary.

Hell, Nick uses a walk in safe for his streaming setup, he should have just had a good steel door installed there, that way he could prevent the pesky kids from bothering him when he was hanging out with the corner demon. Though he would have to install a disposal system there, but a floor drain and a spigot would do the trick.

 

[Active User]

My theory is that the report by the pastor specifically mentioned that one of the kids told him something like “Mom never cooks dinner for us any more”.

In this particular case, back when they were cooking it was usually Nick who cooked because he was better at it, so this wouldn't really work for only Kayla getting the charge.

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

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Ashley Graham from RE4 after losing the Leon dick to a chink

Don't do my girl Ella dirty (she was the mocap model for Ashley, or at least the reference, for RE4 redux).

I'd open the door, but only if they showed me the warrant first.

Yeah at that point, with the warrant, you're just getting a broken door. Especially with Nick's front door set up, that's a lot of cost you have to eat, for a door that will be broken with a ram. I get Nick doesn't know or care about money, but it was just a dumb move.

Especially since it doesn't seem that the women in the house were dumping any drugs in the 30 seconds or whatever it took for the cops to break open the door. Plus, the risk to your family of potential injury. We don't know how the little girl answered the cop door knock (could be a ring doorbell for all we know), but the chance of getting a kid hurt is just... well, we know Nick doesn't care about his kids either.

What a disaster.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

It seems to state that they left the 16 year old in charge and that Melin isn't sure if that was suitable. Which is honestly kind of stupid.

Depends on how long the 16-year-old was left in charge and in what context.