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There was a chill in the air on September 24, 1981 in the small rural community of carsters about a half-hour drive north of Calgary.

In the middle of the night, a two-year-old girl wearing only a nightie was found on a street outside of the local post office.

What happened that fateful night changed the course of a little girl's life forever.

I remember even though I was only two and a half and the memories will always stay in there and they've scarred me.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News.

Today, on Crime Beat, I want to share a story that I've covered for more than two decades.

One that shows that a crime can sometimes come with a lifelong sentence for the victim.

This is stolen innocence.

I first started working on this case in the spring of 1998 as a young crime reporter in Central Alberta.

When the RCMP issued a public notification, a warning that a repeat sex offender was being released from prison and that he was a high risk to reoffend.

His name, David John Hummel, he was 40 years old at that time.

Five years earlier, in 1993, he sexually assaulted a woman in Edmonton.

He later pleaded guilty and was given a six-month jail sentence.

Also, in Edmonton, in 1993, he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the middle of the afternoon.

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