We're told if you're a victim of a crime to go to the police and report it. But what happens when they don't believe you?

From the Center for Investigative Reporting, Rachel Delion has the story of how far one child had to go to prove her innocence.

And a word of caution, this story involves details of child sexual abuse.

In the fastest growing county in America, Polk County, Florida, its longest serving

sheriff, Grady Judd, has a large media presence and delivers unapologetic, tough on crime messages like this one about an armed man involved in a car chase.

And he chose to die in a gun fight. We accommodated him.

He said he wanted to go to heaven. We made the arrangements for him.

Running this fall for his six term in office, he's a popular sheriff.

Once invited to the White House by then President Donald Trump to discuss issues facing

sheriffs and later asked to join a federal council overseeing all programs related to

missing and exploited children.

He's made it his department's priority to go after child

predators. We'll go to the ends of the earth to arrest you if you victimize

children. Why punish me? What did I do for you to punish me? But Taylor

Cadell's extraordinary case raises questions about how despite Sheriff Judd's

tough on crime rhetoric, his department treated a child victim as a criminal.

Nothing that I did was I in the wrong at all.

Taylor had a traumatic childhood.

The state took her away from her birth mother when she was seven due to violence and neglected

home.

After a year and a half in foster care, she was adopted by her great uncle, Cadle and his wife but within months she

says he began sexually abusing her.

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