The hero in this piece is probably another 12-year-old little girl who understood what her friend was telling her was horribly long and immediately told her mother.

I'm trying not to tell Matt, it's from the standpoint of this is such a horrendously bad person and there's all the bad things that they've done.

Why would you make up something horrific about somebody and then say I love them?

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case. This is your host Jim Clemente with my co-host, Francie Hakes.

Hi Jim.

It's great to have you Francie and we are back talking with one of your colleagues and friends, Paula Sparks, investigator for the state of Georgia.

Right. Paula came back. We didn't scare off the first time.

Thank you for coming back.

Not equally scared. Absolutely. My pleasure.

Well, we've heard about your best case and now it's time to get into what your worst case is.

And we know that it can actually be even traumatic even years later talking about these kinds of cases.

So just want to let our listeners know that this is something that is serious.

And we may get into topics that are kind of difficult to hear about.

But we think it's important for people to learn from these real cases, from real law enforcement professionals, because each one of them has a teaching point.

And Paula has so much experience.

Crimes against children, crimes against persons she seen in her 28 years of experience. She seen all kinds of different cases with all sorts of different lessons. So Paula, let's talk about your worst case. What what kind of case is it?

Again, it was a sexual abuse situation, natural father on natural.

So as a result, because of that, we will neither tell the name of the offender or the victims in this case to protect to protect the identities of the victim.

So tell us how the case first of all, were you was this when you were a lieutenant at the crimes against children unit in Cal County, Paula?

Yes.

So tell us how the case came into you all.

Or y'all as we say, Georgia.

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