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a missing persons report was even filed. inside this really strange and bizarre story, straight ahead. and power right in your wallet. a new iphone charger the size of a credit card saves you when you run out of juice. we'll show it to you in 20 minutes. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning, i'm zoraid zoraida sambolin sitting in for carolyn costello. penn state faces the stunning blow from jerry sandusky. they face the penalties of the school's cover-ups in the scandal. the penalties are described as unprecedented. steve is in pennsylvania where they're holding the news confe...

>> 17-year-old ruby has been locked up at indianapolis girls' school for over a month. she was transferred here from lake county juvenile after being arrested for the seventh time. >> here's a kid who wasn't perpetrating crimes against other people. it was all sort of evolving around family dysfunction. unfortunately for ruby, she found herself being committed to indiana girls' school. >> my mom and i, as much as i try -- i love her to death. obviously she's my mom. we don't get along. i don't think we could live together. it never works out. >> there's only so much a system can do if a family...

Course, the prosecution will make a great deal, they already are and they will continue for the next several week as this case goes on for six, seven, eight weeks to make a great deal of her conduct after the child disappeared. conduct unbecoming a grieving mother does not a murderer make, and they are going to talk about the family dysfunction and her psychology. this is where her testimony becomes important. this is where the experts become important. and this is where reasonable doubt becomes critically important. again, the prosecution has to prove this mother with no history of abuse woul...

Doing. thank you so much. >> reporter: absolutely. two shocking court cases are moving through the system right now. both terrible stories of family dysfunction taken to deadly levels. in arizona an iraqi immigrant is accused of killing his daughter because he believed she had become too westernized. it's been called an honor killing, but prosecutors say there's nothing honorable about it. >> what could be more wrong, more dishonorable than a father ripping away the life from his own daughter, his own flesh and blood? >> now, the defense does not deny the suspect hit his daughter with his ca...