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>> she started screaming. they went at it for a while. thomas takes off. my mom and my sister were not talking to each other for a whi while. big stuff and leaves. she ented up ended up taking off with thomas to an apartment in long beach. >> when anna runs off with thomas, shes 15 years old. she has absolutely no family in this country. she has no friends and she has this man who has his own place and has his own job and so

In may 2007 she gets into a relationship outside thomas. >> no one had ever known ana to have a relationship. thats what enraged thomas the most. and the fact that because she was going on her own, he was now losing complete control. >> he put her at gunpoint and he told her you ever leave me for any other guy, i will kill you. >> thomas had taken advantage of her since she was 9 years old and he wasnt going to allow her to be with anyone else or have any happiness.

Thomas saw an opportunity, and my mom showed up to the house. when i see my mom come in i automatically think this is it. this is where everybody is going to -- everything is going to explode. he put her at gunpoint and told her if you ever leave me for any other guy, i will kill you.

Thats why she went ahead and ultimately ended up living with him. >> one day she came in to the house and she was carrying a little baby. and i said anna, who is this? she said this is my son. this is moses. >> i always thought that she was my mom. i would ask and i never really knew who my dad was. >> thomas came to the house to speak to my mom. i guess he went with the intentions of convincing her for him to move back. so she ended up accepting him. about a year later my mom has my sister, gab...

I get a phone call and it was thomass brother asking me if i was in the apartment. and are the kids there. i said yeah. were all here. i said whats going on? he said once you clear the kids from the apartment, call me. i spoke to him man to man and said what did he do? what did he do to her and he started crying. >> thomass brother had told him that thomas told him that he had done something stupid and that they would find ana under some blankets. >> we were all there just waiting for a phone ca...

Have or anybody understands what he had. i think that was a course that he couldnt have changed. he couldnt help his beautiful sister but he could save the rest of the family instead of letting them be split out and spread out and make their life a continuing nightmare. he stepped up to the plate and said this is what ana would want me to do. this is what im going to do. im going be the patriarch now. im going to save this family and he did. >> the fact is thomas is still out there and thomas ne...

For something better for us. my sister and nephew was about six years old at the time. my mom, lydia, got into a relationship with thomas around 1986. >> thomas had met her and then a relationship blossomed from there where they ultimately lived together. >> he was a father image for me and he basically raised us. i mean, him as a person, it was an average person at that time. this person is going to be a monster.

Shes gone and shes gone forever. and my dad was probably going to be gone forever as well. >> thomas flew out to mexico. he took about $40,000 from my moms social security. he kind of had everything planned out. >> i always thought that by me carrying anas big secret maybe made me an accomplice. what would have happened if we hadnt waited so long? i would still have my sister. >> i dont think that i could

Been some of the most open-minded, forgiving and embracing people in the nation. in fact we have clarence thomass within our own community. but the issue is this thats morally obscene and spiritually profane, poor people, 4 million poor people -- >> how much did food stamps go up? doubled. >> and how much poverty -- >> because the crisis of capitalism. wages have been going down. >> who has been the president the last four years. i thought the economy was roars back. >> but brother bill -- >> di...