Santos and Amaru: the complete video story.

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[00:00–00:08] How much are you selling the lemonade for! A dollar. What are you raising money for? My room. So I can get stuff. Also for my mom so I can help her.

[00:08–00:15] Like buy food and stuff. How old are you? Ten. [Unclear caption at source; exact wording requires source-level review.] Could I buy a lemonade? Yeah.

[00:15–00:25] Why are you helping your? Because I know she's going through a lot right now. Yeah? A lot of parents need help with stuff. Is this your sister? Yes.

[00:25–00:33] How old are you? I’m gonna be twelve. What's going on with your. Well somebody stole her. Somebody stole her money? Yeah.

[00:33–00:46] When we got money we just give it to our mom? So we can helr her pay her bill and stuef. Did she ask you to come out here? Or was this your guys' idea. It was our idea. We did it last summer just.

[00:46–00:56] We decided to do it this summer for our mom. Oh well. She must be so proud of you guys. She was happy. And she started crying. Does she work!

[00:56–01:06] Um not anymore. Because she had a baby. But she's gonna start working again. How long have you guys been out here? Weve been out here since 3. 3 hours?

[01:06–01:16] How much have you guys made out here today? Like $20 dollars. There was this one homeless person. You don't know if he's homeless. He gave us a dollar for lemonade. Nd then we just gave him chips for free wo bags of.

[01:16–01:29] And then we just gave him two bags of chips for free. Aww why d you do that? Because it looked like he needed help. That's so awesome. But you guys are so sweet for helping your mom out. She loves treand she all.

[01:29–01:38] She treats qu, of her kids. [Unclear caption at source; exact wording requires source-level review.] A dollar? Okay well. This could pay for a couple hundred lemonades. Thank you.

[01:38–01:49] Yeah. Give that to mom and tell her that she did a goodi. Raising such amazing kids. I'll go tell her right now. You're gonna go tell her. She was happy and she started crying.

[01:49–02:00] Your mom started crying. Now you're gonna make me. If you could tell the world one thing. What would you tell the world? I would tell the world to stop the violence. Amen.

[02:01–02:05] Do me a favor give your mom a big huc? Keep being you or.

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[00:00–00:07] How much you guys selling the lemonade for? $20. 20 bucks for the lemonade? What's the sister fund? Lenollade for my sister. What's wrong with your sister?

[00:07–00:13] Her mom took her. Took her away from you? Yeah. When's the last time you saw. June last year. That's like a year ago.

[00:13–00:17] You miss her? Yeah. How much money? Do you need to get her back? I don't know. You don't know?

[00:17–00:23] It's kind of to help out my. Is this the money you’ve made today? Yeah. Well, can I get a glass of lemonade? Sure. What's your name, buddy?

[00:23–00:29] Amaro. Nice to meet you pnollade. Hey, what's up? What's going on? Ad, minesit a you're the dad? Yeah, that's my son.

[00:29–00:35] This is his buddy. They're known for doing stuff like this. All the time. Yeah, that's awesome. How old's your sister? 14.

[00:35–00:43] What happened? Custody things, man. Her mom never brought her back from. Her visitation. It's been just about a year. We haven't seen or heard from her.

[00:43–00:48] Talk to her. You haven't even talked to. On the phone? No. I have court order. Everything's in favor.

[00:48–00:57] For me and my daughter. And nobody that I contacted. Nobody did anything to help my daughter. Now my son is doing stuff like this. To help out his dad. Is it for...

[00:57–01:03] What, lawyer fees? What would you need? It's pretty rough. Lawyers want to get paid. Everybody wants to get paid. I know.

[01:04–01:10] You got a lot going on, man. Yeah. A lot of us do. On so you're going to give. All that, to your dad? Den did you decide to do.

[01:11–01:18] So... he could get my sister. Does your sister mean a lot to you? Iene le yeah. Well, here... There's more. Than $20 for you guys.

[01:18–01:24] I’m going to put it in here. Thank you. Thanks. What'd that mean. If I can get your sister home? It would mean everything to you, really?

[01:25–01:32] That's for you, bud. I’ve tried absolutely everything. I’ve been in court since 2013. That's expensive. Very expensive. I just sold my house.

[01:32–01:38] Just so I could pay my lawyer. What I could afford? You had to sell your house? Sold my house. You're kidding. No.

[01:38–01:44] You sold your house. To be able to get your daughter back. And she's still not back. Yeah. And now my son's doing stuff like this. To try to help me.

[01:44–01:51] Because he thinks. That money can. Help me get his sister back. Means you raised a good son. I’ve been sober from alcohol. For 13 years.

[01:51–02:00] Since ny daunter's been. Congrats, man. She was my motivation. And, you know. now she's. If we somehow raised you a bunch of money. For lawyer fees.

[02:00–02:08] Do you think that would help you? I don't know. Can you afford a lawyer? Not at this point. No. I owe mn lawyer some money right now. How much do you owe your lawyer?

[02:08–02:16] I think $16,000. So you think he's raising money. To help you with the lawner. It must be. You en debt? Oh, yeah. I’m in debt.

[02:16–02:21] How much though? Maybe $100k. You think if you somehow. Came across the money. There's a better chance. Of getting your daughter?

[02:21–02:30] Absolutely. If your sister is watching this video. What's something you want to tell her? That I love her and miss her. And I’m sure you'd love. Nothing more than for her.

[02:30–02:31] To come home right?