Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And today's story is about two kids who were failed by the very system in place to protect them,

and who are both still waiting for justice.

These are the stories of Hassani Campbell and Tiana Kirchner.

It's a little after 4 p.m. on August 10, 2009, when police in Oakland, California get a frantic call from a man who tells them that his foster son is missing.

Louis Ross tells the dispatcher that he just showed up to the shoe store where his fiance works with her niece and nephew in tow because they were fostering them, and she was going to watch them for the rest of the day.

He says he parked around back and got their one year old Alia out of the car and walked her around the front of the store, and then he went in and opened the back door to go get five year old Hassani.

According to an article by Philip Rosenbaum for CNN, Louis says that he was gone for less than five minutes, but when he got back to the car, Hassani was gone.

He tells police that he searched around the car, but he didn't see him anywhere, and not wanting to waste valuable time he called police.

Law enforcement arrives on the scene soon after Louis makes the call, and they immediately begin searching the surrounding area and talking to Louis and his fiance, Jennifer Campbell.

They learn that Hassani has cerebral palsy, which impacts his ability to walk, and that's why Louis said he even left him in the car for a few minutes to begin with.

Going through the back door is easier for him than walking all the way around to the front.

Louis and Jennifer insist to police that Hassani isn't the type of kid to just wander away on his own.

They've never had an issue with him walking off, and even if he did, they're confident he couldn't have gotten too far, because Hassani wears leg braces to help him walk.

So even though he can walk pretty well on his own, he's not quite as slippery as maybe other five year olds can be.

And plus, the store is surrounded by other businesses and houses. There's a lot of people out that day. He has to be around somewhere.

Polisha down a two block radius surrounding the shoe store and canvas the area.

They stop people on the street, they go into all of the surrounding stores and restaurants, they even go door to door and ask neighbors to check their backyards and basements.

They even make a point to check in on all of the registered sex offenders in the area, as well as contact Hassani and Alia's biological parents to see if they know anything.

But no one does, and everyone's cleared that same day.

And if there are any security cameras in the area, they're never reported on, so I can't say if anyone caught anything on tape.

So that's when police bring in the dogs, six of them, to try and pick up a scent from a car.

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