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Home to foster home before she was adopted by her case worker, veronica. annies life finally seemed to be turning around. then in 2012, annie, just 15, was found murdered, her body floating in the jordan river. >> there was never a second that your mind didnt go to, this is not what was supposed to happen. >> reporter: an eyewitness said she saw daniel ferry assault a girl the night annie was killed. that witness also said the girl had shown up with l.j., whom police could never find. but in the...

Else, she wouldnt have been in that situation. >> reporter: of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. >> unified police department. >> i need to report a runaway. p my daughters missing. >> reporter: her daughter was anne grace kasprzak. though when veronica first met annie, she wasnt a kasprzak at all.he she wasnt even her daughter. she was a client, just 7 years old, with a rough childhood. >> shed been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other pe...

Detect child abuse raise a red flag >> reporter: when he said highly probable for abuse, what were you thinking >> i was beside because i knew nobody was listening eporr: they get a second opinion. aologist says a shortfall could have caused both and a heemtologist diagnoses him with a blood clotting disorderer, possibly explaining the excess bleeding all this given to child protective services. >> their exact response was we already have all of the information e we need. >> reporter: so they di...

>> reporter: annie kaspraza had had a rough childhood. he was passed from foster home to foster home. she was passed along from foster home to foster home before she was adopted by her case worker, veronica. annies life finally seemed to be turning around. then in 2012, annie, just 15, was found murdered, her body floating in the jordan river. >> there was never a second that your mind didnt go to, this is not what was supposed to happen. girl the night annie was killed. that witness also said t...

That house. if i would have not taken a shower. if i would have done something else, she wouldnt have been in that situation. >> reporter: of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. >> unified police department. >> i need to report a runaway. my daughter is missing. >> reporter: her daughter was anne grace kasprzak. though when veronica first met annie, she wasnt a kasprzak at all. she wasnt even her daughter. she was a client, just 7 years old, with a rough childhoo...

Ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful here in america. >> the update of public charge rule is expected to go into effect on october 15th. some 380,000 people are estimated to be impacted by this, but government officials say that caseworkers, individual caseworkers that are handling these green card applications, will still have some discretion. it will be up to them to decide whether or not this will severely negatively impact somebody applying for a gree...

Going on in this facility. >> and thats key, lawrence, because its not that this is coming from their individual lawyers and that the government has not been aware of this behavior. some of these interviews date back to april. they go from mid-april to mid-june, and these are routine interviews. when a child is taken out of border patrol custody and placed in the hands of health and human services, theyre assigned a case worker, and the first thing that person does is sit down with the child and...

Border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure byproducts of overcrowded. they reported being denied a phone call, not allowed a shower, sleeping outside or only with a mylar blanket or feeling hungry before their dinner time. joining us now is julia ainsley. shes one of the reporters who broke the story. julia, this is extraordinary reporting. as i read it, its based on government reports of whats going on in this facility. >> and thats key, lawrence, because its not that...

Theyve known about this for quite some time, theyve kept this under wraps and it wasnt like this happened yesterday. they know where it happened. they know who is being alleged to be the perpetrator in this incident and still nothing from the department of homeland security, beyond what weve just gotten. >> and, again, the timing here is that this girl in early june, so a little bit more than a month ago, told a case worker for health and human services that when she was in homeland security cus...

>> and again, the timing here is that this girl in early june, so a little bit more than a month ago, told a case worker for health and human services that when she was in homeland security custody previously in april, which for what its worth is before she turned 16 years old, she describes in detail what she says was essentially a sexual assault by an officer, by a uniformed officer. it took place in front of other people. this statement that you just got from customs and border patrol saying ...