through such agony. and that a child was lost that we believe there were more than one opportunity to save. and we want to going forward learn from this tragedy and make changes as a result. reporter: for most of his life, dobson was moved from one caretaker to another. his mother, ashley dobson, lost custody of her son in 2011 for failing to care for him. she says she lost custody for financial reasons. dobson was placed with his father, okie wade. wade has an extensive criminal record. over the period of a year, children s services visited dobson s home nine times. but never discovered wade was in jail during each of those visits. every time we went to visit our workers went, we were told that the father was working, and was working very long hours, 16 hours a day, and that s why he wasn t available. should we have done something differently?
know that this child went through such agony. and that a child was lost that we believe there were more than one opportunity to save. and we want to going forward learn from this tragedy and make changes as a result. reporter: for most of his life, dobson was moved from one caretaker to another. his mother, ashley dobson, lost custody of her son in 2011 for failing to care for him. she says she lost custody for financial reasons. dobson was placed with his father, okie wade. wade has an extensive criminal record. over the period of a year, children s services visited dobson s home nine times. but never discovered wade was in jail during each of those visits. every time we went to visit our workers went, we were told that the father was working, and was working very long hours, 16 hours a day, and that s why he wasn t available. should we have done something
and that a child was lost that we believe there were more than one opportunity to save. and we want to going forward learn from this tragedy and make changes as a result. reporter: for most of his life, dobson was moved from one caretaker to another. his mother, ashley dobson, lost custody of her son in 2011 for failing to care for him. she says she lost custody for financial reasons. dobson was placed with his father, aoki wade. wade has an extensive criminal record. over the period of a year, children s services visited dobson s home nine times. but never discovered wade was in jail during each of those visits. every time we went to visit our workers went, we were told that the father was working, and was working very long hours, 16 hours a day, and that s why he wasn t available. should we have done something differently? yes, we should have.