KELLY NEERING WITTNESS STATEMENT

To whom it may concern; I (Kelly Neering), Drove to Texas from Michigan July 1st 2009 with my Auntie Dawn and my cousins her children. I spent every summer in Texas with my Aunt for four years. My aunt was concerned this summer because she thought her husband; my Uncle Greg was cheating on her. He had refused to accompany his family to Michigan where Auntie Dawn was trying to collect some of her possessions and a Jeep Wrangler that had been left in Michigan when they moved to Michigan. She was unable to collect these things because the people that had stored them for her wouldn’t return them. They told her that they had spoken to Gregory Marshall and gave him a deadline to get the items out of their house, the deadline had passed and most of the things had been sold. We drove back to Texas and did a little bit of sightseeing on the way, my Aunt wanted to get back catch her husband in the act and drove straight threw. We arrived at her home in San Antonio and rested the following day we went to SeaWorld. Gregory, Aadyan and I would drive rollercoaster’s and Uncle Greg would make Aunt Dawn and the two babies wait at the base of the rollercoaster. Auntie Dawn and the babies weren’t really allowed to much at all. Auntie Dawn went to the bathroom to change a diaper and we got off the roller coaster and just walked away. Uncle Greg said he was looking for her but he and Aadyan got on two more rollercoaster’s I waited behind incase my Aunt walked by. I figured she would be easy to spot pushing a big red stroller with two babies. Hours had passed and we had not found my Aunt, my uncle was swearing saying this is garbage Dawn does this fuckin shit all the time she only creates problems she is garbage. Then when I turned to him and said she’s lost she hasn’t done anything, she was left to stand and wait in the heat with two babies. Then my Uncle Greg turned to me and said “Shut-up Kelly; you’re a fuckin bitch, when your around all Dawn does spend my fucking money on you”. I started to cry but I didn’t want him to see me cry because he was scaring me and the tears could’ve been viewed as a weakness to someone so mean. When we found my Aunt and I ran up and hugged her she was exhausted and covered with sweat. My Uncle started screaming at her with his finger in her face, where the hell have you been you bitch, you ruined this day, and what if we didn’t find you, sun-of-a-bitch. Your garbage and useless, he kept going on and on like this for 10 minutes people were stopping and starring; both men and women were shaking their heads at all the bad words and right in-front of 3 small children. Uncle Greg was not even for a minute concerned that something bad had happened to my Aunt and their babies, he never once I hope they’re ok. The next day Uncle Greg went to work until 6pm he returned home and ate a meal my Auntie Dawn had cooked he complained about the way it was cooked and ordered Aadyan to the sour cream very meanly. Then at 8pm he was going back to his work and the kids wanted to go with him and they followed him into the driveway. I heard him tell the kids they could not go because their mother would not let them. Aadyan came running in the house and went to the kitchen where my Aunt was and started screaming at her “your garbage”, “you don’t do anything”, “dad does all the work and brings in all the money”, “I hate you”. Uncle Greg came in the house and I told him what little 5 year old Aadyan was saying he laughed. My Aunt asked why Aadyan was saying all those things and what was going on. Uncle Greg told her he told Aadyan he couldn’t go with him because she said no. My Aunt said look what you’ve done I didn’t even know you going. How did my son hear all these things about money, and to call me garbage? She knew and Uncle Greg started screaming and swearing, he started throwing things around the house and then left slamming the door. Aadyan kept calling my Auntie Dawn garbage for the rest of the summer and she would correct him and tell him that’s not nice, but she didn’t spank him or take away his toys. When asked why not she said he is only 5 and he is repeating his father, he thinks it’s ok because his father is doing it, Aadyan is at that age where everything his father does is golden. I would’ve spanked him. My father has not and probably never will forgive Uncle Greg for calling me names and treating everyone badly considering I was 14 at the time. Kelly Neering 400 Bradley st. Bay city MI. 48706 989-415-6465