victims that day. right. and that will eventually be uploaded retroactively into the statistics. i guess they were embarrassed into doing it. but, no, otherwise i haven t heard from anyone. why is why is this so important to you? why is it so important that she be included in the hate crime statistics? well, it s not about her. but the fact that two very well-known murders, kalib was the gentleman killed at home by his next door neighbor in tulsa in 2016 and hearth was heather was a publicized murder as well, if those two aren t even counted then how many more have we missed? the government currently has a stance that hate crimes are pretty much going away, that, as you know, journalists have tried
orrin hatch, senator. spectacular man, please. mr. president, i can t tell you how much i appreciate you. i m the one guy who really supported you 100% now. i think you re doing a terrific job and this shows why we support you. and i have to say, these folks did a great job. i was thrilled with the way bob handled themselves. kalib and others did a good job. we have good people working with us. they were sincere in getting him out there. and the family and you better really live a good life. that s all i can say. this wouldn t of happened without you. we want you to know and when you look back over your tenure in
it s fine. reporter: 12-year-old caleb just saw his biological father for the first time in a decade. i just want you to know, i ve changed for the better. i done a 360 in my life. yeah. reporter: he knows more than any child should ever have to about the grip of heroin. it ripped his dad away from him. you were going through so much when you was that age, man. i didn t have no means to get you to where you guys needed to be. i didn t. yeah. i understand. so i let you guys just stay where you was. i knew you were well took care of. come on. just throw it. reporter: is it a crisis in this community? oh, i think so. the addiction to it and the hold that it has on people makes it really hard to get off of it. reporter: but the kindness of strangers has saved caleb. he s being raised by cindy and jesse, who took him and his brother in as foster children a decade ago. and then adopted them both.
us. reporter: kalib decided that even after so many years, he wanted to see his birth father, james, who says he s been clean from heroin for the past 18 months. it s his choice if he wants to go back on them, but i feel i can help in some way to motivate him to not use it again. reporter: what do you think when you hear kalib say that at 12 years old, he wants to be part of what helps his dad stay off of heroin? i mean, it s scary, because that s a big responsibility for a 12-year-old. and i also have a different understanding of the pull to heroin for these moms and dads, and i m sure there s a part of him that really does want to stay clean for him. there s also a part of me that knows that it doesn t always work that way. reporter: james says he was addicted to heroin for more than a decade. it cost him his family, his job,
she still is. and he says to his kid, who he hasn t seen in ten years, so what do you like? i mean, what else do you say? the children were taken, kalib and his brother, from their parents when they were two years old and thank goodness for the kindness of strangers. thank goodness for cyndi and jesse, who have taken them in and 15 years, most of them from parents addicted to opioids and other drugs. now we see what happens. right? now he s been sober for 18 months because he almost died from an overdose. can he stay sober, brooke? can he rebuild somewhat of a relationship with his son and his other children? maybe. we ll see. but i was just blown away that this 12-year-old, not only wanted to see him again after all that, but said, i want to help be the reason to keep him clean. you ve got 50% of the kids in ohio s foster system, they re there because their parents are on drugs and more than half of