Laura Alvarado (Child abuse investigator)

Our agency received a call from a father who was upset and was having some problems with his daughter.

But when Alvarado interviewed her, she sided with Mindy.

I didn't feel the child was an unruly child.

I felt that the child was troubled by what was going on in the home.

emotional abuse.

Again, Mindy pleaded for help.

She said, if my mother doesn't want me and doesn't want anything to do with me, then I'm willing to go to a military school, foster home.

She just didn't open up as much, and it was like,

She had just given up and she was not disclosing anymore.