Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Motel Horror: Baby Found Bruised and Barely Breathing

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

Police in Springfield Township, Ohio, found a bruised baby girl when they responded to a 911 call in November 2024. The baby's father, Jason Santos, and his girlfriend, Jamilee Hunt, gave a number of reasons why the 11-month-old was injured and not breathing. The baby survived, but the two adults entrusted to care for her were charged with horrific crimes. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CRIMEFIX at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/crimefixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As of right now, it looks like that baby's been extremely abused. He just got her out of the mother's care. Listen to me. Listen to me right now. This is a case that will absolutely make your blood boil. A baby girl tortured. And the people who should have been taking care of her seem to have an answer for everything. Honestly, tank was sitting right here. The tank jumped up on her.

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It involves an 11-month-old baby girl, a man who is supposed to be her father, a man who was supposed to love and protect her, and his girlfriend. The father, his name, is Jason Santos. The girlfriend, Jamie Lee Hunt, should also have been protecting this beautiful baby girl. Instead, the prosecutor in Summit County, Ohio,

says this couple did the absolute unthinkable. It was November 22nd, 2024. A 911 call came in about an 11-month-old baby who needed help. This fire call and Red Roof Inn that guy says he thinks he's one-year-old daughter's dead and is not answering questions. Red Roof in? As this officer switched gears to go to the Red Roof Inn, another officer was already there getting a pediatric CPR kid. out of his cruiser and running to room 209 to help the baby.

Oh, hi. Over here, over there. I'm cutting the body camera off right there because the baby is in the motel room on the bed and she is not breathing. Babies don't just stop breathing. The EMTs and police officers are trying to save her and they get a heartbeat. Take! A heartbeat. Let's go.

Close the hospital. What's the accurate? They said there's no drugs. They can't give me a timeline. I got a heartbeat. All right. Watch out. What job?

As medics treat this defenseless baby girl in the ambulance and prepare to take her to the hospital, an officer goes back to the room. Something is not right. They're taking her right now by ambulance. I'm gonna is that all my stuff? Yeah. Here just leave the door open. I'm gonna grab the rest of it.

You guys go. Okay. I got hers. So, look at, are you going to the squad? Yeah, we're going. These gloves? Oh, that's from the kit. That baby looks terrible, man.

Do you see all the bruises? Yep. I sure did. I'm thinking maybe SB. What's that? Shaking baby. I don't know, that's a lot of bruising. We got to get their information.

Hey, we need to get your guys' information before you leave. Is one of you doing here with the car? Driver's license? I just need it for the call. She was like that. And I'm like, no, she wasn't. I got her out of the car seat. No, like Benadryl?

No, nothing. Let's try to get her sleep. No. I don't even own Benadryl. Jason. Another officer's body-worn camera captures the rest of the conversation between officers and Jason Santos and Jamie Lee Hunt. No, they're still here. I don't know if they got room.

in this water and let me go see where they're going they're thinking all day I know so what's broken kids arm was broken hey was the baby shaking no because the arm's broken he fell with her like a couple months ago right here on their own right before Halloween he fell with her in Massachusetts you went to hospital in Massachusetts yeah that's our other what's the hospital in Massachusetts you went to it's an Adams mask North Adams. As of right now, it looks like that baby's been extremely abused. He just got her out of the mother's care.

Listen to me. Listen to me right now, okay? Right now, you had a baby that was dead upstairs. She's got bruising all over her and a broken arm, okay? She's got bruising on her from her mother. He just got her from CPS in New York. Not that long ago. Actually, a couple weeks ago, he just has court. How long have you had custody?

He has court on 25th and just got it. So are you dad? Yes. I have a dad. Okay. So what's mom's name? Mom's name is... Is she still in New York?

Yes. What's her phone number? Where's your phone? Did CPS remove the baby from her care? Neglect. We have text messages. Physical, sexual... Physical.

What's her first name? The mom's first name? The mom's first name? Those individuals, they're both negative and attaching. We get a kid. What is the mom? mom's phone number though. That was my original question. Right there, Jamie Lee Hunt is blaming this baby's biological mother for the bruising.

The officers, they're not buying it. Well, this is obviously going to be an investigation, all right? So if you guys want to make your way to Akron Children's Hospital to meet your daughter, that's fine. But just understand this is going to be an active investigation, okay? Yep. You guys got anything for them? So our, I have to contact our detective.

So our detective is probably going to be in contact with both of you. Okay. Did you be, when I want to, to the FDA to give them that medicine, did you give this officer your contact information? Yes, we did. Okay. So our detective, our detective will be. Well, I don't have their phone numbers.

I ran in, I just dealt with them last week over pills. You got a shoplifting? No. No. Oh. They were just upset. So. Our detective is going to be in contact with them.

you more than likely he'll meet you at the hospital. Okay. If you can't come out tonight, he'll be coming here as soon as he can. Okay. But just know that if you guys do anything other than fully cooperated, there's going to be legal ramifications from him. No, that's fine. So.

Nicole, what's your phone number? Right there, you heard the officer call Jamie Lee Hunt, Nicole, because that's the name she gave, Nicole a bear. And one officer has run into her before. First floor? Second floor. Second floor. Second floor. They're both in the parents are down by the car.

Okay. I'm going to get into that earlier interaction at the Coles shortly, but Nicole, she's not Nicole. She is Jamie Lee Hunt. Now back to the questioning. Which arm was it that was injured? Seriously? I'm sure left. I need him, man.

Okay. I'm sorry for the dad, right? Yes. Which arm? What caused that? I tripped over. It wasn't meaning to. Sure.

Okay. So what happened tonight? What got you to call 911? I noticed that the baby wasn't breathing. Okay. What happened before that? Did you not go get up? Baby was sleeping inside the car.

We was just... Yeah, we... Yeah, no, not over here. We just came home. I'm just asking you simple question. Oh, I know. We just came, and I'm answering. We just came home during Rodey and everything.

home doing roadie and insta cart okay so which car are we talking about this car okay so you guys came home the baby was sleeping back there and then when you went and then what else we brought the car we brought the whole entire car seat upstairs and all of our stuff right and um we noticed earlier that she had like been breathing like uh like uh like uh like a raspy breathing okay and he's like let's find some vapor rub or some suction and stuff, try to get her breathing right. And I'm like, it's probably the weather and this and that. And he's like, yeah, you're right, it probably is. And we'll make a doctor appointment, we'll get her so if we can't find over the counter stuff.

So how long do you think the child was sleeping in the car? We know she was sleeping in the car. Before you guys got here and then went upstairs. She was sleeping probably about an hour. Okay, about an hour. About an hour. Coming back from whatever you guys were doing, he said something. Yeah, it was the store called at home.

down 77 south down in the Belden village area yes sir okay okay and I went inside the store shopped the items came out I noticed she was crying a little bit like smelling like poop I'm like I know I got to get you changed we came up here brought her up to the hotel so roughly about an hour of sleeping in the car seat yeah approximately and we literally went upstairs yeah we are we literally were only here a few minutes and then that's when you notice and then Yeah. Everything got going. Yep.

All right. And he first got, um, medical problems with the, I mean, she's awfully young, but any medical problems that she deals with? I'm not sure. Okay. Because how long, you said that you just got her from the mom? Is that what you guys said? Yes.

A couple weeks ago. One second. Hi. In Massachusetts. was there? It was like right before Halloween, a couple days before Halloween. She didn't get treatment for that? We didn't think it was broken because it was going down.

The swelling had been going down. He'd been iced it. The bruising looked like it had been going away. You guys went to the hospital, you said right? Yeah, but she didn't need, it didn't get broken. It wasn't broken when you were in the hospital? They said it wasn't broken? Yeah, the fracked, it was fractured and...

It just, you should see that something is wrong with it, but outside of that. Okay. literally just ice it and it would say it okay so we stole the bruises on her face and chin or the driver of the plant where she was sitting right here the tank jumped up on her and when we delivered a instant order there was a female dog a lot whileer and he literally was jumped up on the baby and that's where she got the bruises right here and her eye is from his claw his when was that like literally a couple days ago and he keeps telling me to get rid of the dog the couple has given a story to police about a fall over a log they've blamed the bruising on the baby on the

girl's biological mother and now even the dog is in the crosshairs police they don't buy any of this remember the one officer said he met up with these two at a coals a week earlier it was actually November 11th, 11 days before the 911 call came from the red roof end. Heinz and Santos were being so loud that the police were called. Hey, folks, how you doing? Hey, we got, we got 911 call about you guys arguing and throwing things. Nobody was throwing anything. Well, I don't know. I wasn't here. I'm just telling you what I was told. Is everything okay?

Yeah, everything's fine. I'm frustrated with a store worker. No one, no one was helping me. So I started swearing and then they wanted to come help me. Okay. Well, I'm literally, looking for an item she walked the the lady walks away from me and I'm like hello I need help and then I got loud and then they wanted to help me that's what happened nothing was being thrown though no nothing was going to don't you all right the do one of you guys have an ID with you okay 235 right even knowing you guys inside a car I'll give my first and last name okay hold on a second I'm speaking with those subjects now yeah I just need to get

your name real quick what's that An I C-O-L-E. Oh, I'll say. He's good. He can't find his license. He found the vice plate. It's in his wallet. That's all right.

N-I-C-L-E. Yes. An initial? M for Marie. A-B-A-B-A-R. A-B-A-R. E? Yep.

A-B-E. 31989. And we're staying at the red roof. All right. You said you guys just got in last night? Yeah. You guys are good to go then? Yeah.

All right. Try to keep down. Yeah. I couldn't find the fucking can I was yelling from the side of the store. You can't drop F-bombs in public like that. All right. So, get a watch, all right? That's illegal, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's a disorderly conduct, so. Oh. Yeah, you can't, yeah, you can't cuss like that in public. Okay, I don't know. All right. So maybe in New York, but down here you can't do it, okay? All right. All right, good luck to you guys, all right?

Thank you. The couple was free to go, but something was obviously up with these two. Fast forward about 12 days later, social workers and doctors determine that the little baby have multiple rib fractures, along with fractures to her arms and legs, bruising, a traumatic brain injury, internal bleeding, and a broken clavicle. And it gets worse. The prosecutor said doctors also discovered evidence of rape and sexual assault. The next day, Jamie Lee Hunt is taken into custody. She's going to be charged with incredibly serious crimes. The microphone isn't. activated on this part of the body-worn camera footage, so we don't know what Hunt is saying. Do you want her in the cell or? Okay. It's towards the cell right in here. Just stop right there.

You can have a seat. I do have a bowl and I do have weed on me. It's in my bra that nobody took out. Okay. Well obviously we can't. I know. I know that camera's working. Okay.

So there's that. Go ahead and remove it. That's fine. Appreciate that. At the end of the day, you're going to probably go to a jail setting and we're going to end up. We're going to end up probably getting past your skin or some sort. So you have anything else on you anywhere? Just norms the time, okay?

We're not worried about. We're any minute. Okay. All right. Have to see. We're going to come talk with you here. That's why I'll show you that I have nothing in my shoes. Okay.

It's just big socks. Jamie Lee Hunt is going to jail and Jason Santos, he's already in the jail. You should nothing to my socks as well? Yeah. It was just your paint fault up there. Okay. Okay. You're good.

There's nothing, I promise. Nothing hurt myself or others. Okay. I've done nothing wrong, honestly. I went to work yesterday and left her in the car with him all day, literally. Alright, yep, you're good. Oh, hold on, let me flip this one in now. Do you go?

Yeah. Do you want to light it? Yes, please. I'm freezing. Work out. Nothing. Nothing here. You're all you.

It's to be detected here to talk from Jordan. Okay. Thank you. Jason Santos is now serving a life sentence in an Ohio prison. He pleaded guilty to charges of rape and felonious assault. Jamie Lee Hunt was convicted at trial of nine felonies, including rape of a child, felonious assault, and endangering children by torture or cruel abuse. Summit County's prosecutor said in a statement, Jamie Lee Hunt failed this child.

She failed as a caretaker, a guardian. and a protector, and I am disturbed by her crimes and inability to take responsibility for her role in the abuse and torture of this infant. Against daunting odds, the child is alive, safe, and continuing to heal with her new guardian, and our hearts go out to her and her family as she grows up. Jamie Lee Hunt faces a life sentence when she is sentenced on May 6th. Anyone who suspects that a child is being abused can call their local police department or the National. child abuse hotline at 800 422-4-4-5-3. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Janette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.