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I got locked up at age 13. from there, i messed up by getting in a fight at school while i was at placement. it got me terminated from there. threatened my case worker. they kicked me out for that, and now im here. been here for the past three years. >> the number one issue offenders approach me on on a daily basis has to do with placements. it could be to do with their history and behavior, they have been in community placements before and kicked out. its frustrating from my perspective. >> the...

Well, youre right. alma, she was 24 years old right out of college and had signed up to be a caseworker for young immigrant children. planning to work with kids who had come to the united states unaccompanied and knew they were coming on their own when all of a sudden children who had been separated were showing up. she had no answers for a year as to how to deal with them. just for example in constantines case, he arrived with a birth certificate and that was it. it was up to this 24-year-old w...

These are not children who have been separated from their parents, but oftentimes they come with a grandparent or another relative. they are considered unaccompanied and, to be sent to health and human services which provides bed, adequate medical care, schooling, a case worker. but instead right now instead of being sent directly there, theyre stuck right now at border patrol stations. theyre not supposed to be there over 72 hours, no matter your age. but instead were seeing children stay there...

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 childhood. >> shed been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other peop...

Losing its culture and west coast hub reputation t to the homeless population is the third highest in america and the most per capita of rarely enforced laws against camping so they live in tents in plainview many are addicted to heroin and meth drugs consumed in public against the law that almost never prosecuted possession of less than 1 gram does not get a court date or jail cell just a caseworker. >> to make life easier for certain categories of people has actually made it more difficult for...

>> reporter: back in 2005, veronica was a case worker for utahs division of children and family services. her job was to find homes for kids who no longer had one. annie was one of those kids. >> annie has kind of a larger-than-life personality. whatever annie does, she never did small. if there was something she liked, she loved it and she was huge. if there was something she didnt like, it was big. and there was no question about it. >> reporter: drama came with it, huh? >> oh, yes, oh, yes. >...

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. >> 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 po...

So then we can go. this morning do i live and do support in my own apartment. my caseworker comes once a week my mother comes now and again and brings me my laundry. lives in the first floor she has down syndrome. visit my parents a lot. the moment my mother wants to make sure i get a proper cooked meal at least once a week. and not like at home where i just microwave everything. i find taking the tram very unpleasant. people can be unpleasant and every so often someone gives me

So then we can go. this morning i live and do support in my own apartment. my caseworker comes once a week my mother comes now and again. visit my parents a lot. the moment my mother wants to make sure i get a proper cooked meal at least once a week. and not like at home where i just microwave everything. and soon i find taking the tram very unpleasant. people can be unpleasant and every so often someone gives me a shot of and pushes me aside. to someone thats an example thats an example of why ...

Got so then we can go. this morning to use my living to support born in my own apartment. my caseworker comes once a week my mother comes now and again and brings me my laundry. lives in the first floor she has down syndrome. visit my parents a lot. the moment my mother wants to make sure i get a proper cooked meal at least once a week. and not like at home where i just microwave everything. i find taking the tram very unpleasant. people can be unpleasant and every so often someone gives me