'Nobody Cares About You': Steve Goncalves Speaks At Bryan Kohberger Sentencing Hearing

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Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, delivers his impact statement at Kohberger's sentencing hearing.

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00:00you're on our next would be members from the Kaylee Gonsalves family first will be her father Steve

00:12today we are here to finish what you started today you've lost control

00:39today we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families

00:45wrong state the wrong police officers the wrong community

00:54you tried to break our community apart you tried to plant fear you tried to divide us you failed

01:03instead your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you

01:09I just learned from these lead investigators to their shock they worked in an investigation

01:18and actually in worked with Pennsylvania police officers and the federal FBI you united everyone

01:26everyone was united after you

01:28none of us are divided

01:32we are united in our disgust

01:37and our love for these children

01:41today you have no name

01:45because when this all started we all came together and we said let's stop even talking about his name

01:52just use initials so even the media just calls you BK that's all you are

01:59looking back when the police officers knocked on my door

02:04told me what happened to my child told me what happened to Matty Mae

02:09I don't think he was even out of the driveway before my kids turned around looked at me and said

02:14what do we do dad

02:16I told him

02:18you get to work

02:20you get your ass to work

02:23and we started calling

02:25we started texting

02:26we started emailing

02:27and you know what

02:29within hours

02:31within hours

02:32we had your white car and a camera

02:34we knew

02:35we knew from the very beginning we had you

02:38police officers tell us within minutes

02:41they had your DNA

02:43like a calling card

02:44you were that careless

02:46that foolish

02:47that stupid

02:48master degree

02:52you're a joke

02:54complete joke

02:56but we took this disaster

03:02and we did what we could

03:04we put everything online

03:07we took our kids

03:08we took our images

03:09we took everything that they did

03:10their videos

03:11their photos

03:11the girls pranks

03:14Ethan singing

03:16we put it out there

03:17we shared it with the world

03:18and the world united

03:20and all they ended up

03:23when they talked about this case

03:24is they talked about

03:26Kaylee Jade

03:28Matty Mae

03:29Zanna

03:30and Ethan

03:31everything what these people meant

03:37to us

03:38a father

03:39a mother

03:40a brother

03:41a sister

03:41we shared that with our community

03:43then we shared it with our state

03:46we shared it with the country

03:48and eventually we shared it with the world

03:50the world's watching

03:52because of the kids

03:53not because of you

03:54nobody cares about you

03:56you're not worth the time

03:59the effort to be remembered

04:01in time

04:04you will be nothing

04:04but two initials

04:06forgotten to the wind

04:07no visitors

04:08nothing more than initials

04:09on an otherwise

04:10unmarked tombstone

04:12from this moment

04:15we've all started

04:18from this moment

04:25we will forget you

04:26we want to

04:30I'll leave in closing

04:31one last thing

04:32you picked the wrong family

04:34and we're laughing at you

04:36on your trip to

04:36the pen

04:37that will be today

04:38or tomorrow

04:40I'll close with

04:42God bless all the men and women

04:47that worked on this case

04:48and all the hard work

04:50that you guys did

04:51you guys allowed us

04:54to grieve

04:55and allowed us

04:56to get through this

04:57the amount of work

04:58that you guys put together

04:59and the way that you guys

05:00put it together

05:01was beautiful

05:01there was hard times

05:03to be expected

05:05but thank you all

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