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multimillionaire who was the oldest nfl cheerleader. tonight, she stands accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy, reportedly her own son's classmate. allegedly having trysts with him in her cadillac. serving him alcohol, before trying to have sex with him. molly shattuck once made history by becoming the oldest nfl cheerleader for the baltimore ravens. >> i can say initially it was intimidating. i put on the uniform and i thought -- i looked at my husband, i said, what i have gotten myself into? this skirt is nine inches from the top to the pbottom. >> reporter: that was 2006. today, molly shattuck is charged with raping a 15-year-old boy. reportedly a friend of her eldest son. indicted on multiple counts of rape, sexual contact and giving alcohol to a minor. a far cry from the woman we met eight years ago for "20/20." >> i'm a stay at home mom.

so, it's just running around with them. >> reporter: she led a seemingly idyllic life. three beautiful kids. the older multimillionaire husband. a life of luxury. shattuck appeared on "secret millionaire," giving away nearly $200,000. >> i'm not about labels. i'm not about fancy designer clothes, fancy shoes. i feel incredibly grateful for the house we live in, the life style that we lead but i was rich way before i ever moved into this large house. >> reporter: after hanging up those pom poms, molly became a budding life style mogul with exercise dvds and a book called "vibrant living." do you understand the meaning of what it means to be a desperate housewife? does that resonate with you? >> i just think that women unfortunately in today's society get caught up in what their kids

activities are and who their husband is. and they lose sight at who they are. i think their marriage tends to go stale maybe a little quicker. they feel trapped. >> reporter: but now, investigators believe this ho e housewife did turn desperate. court documents allege that the relationship with the teenage boy began via instagram. she allegedly liked a picture of his. her own son telling his friend, you should text my mom. she's obsessed with you. they allegedly began a relationship that included sexting and makeout sessions in the backseat of her cadillac. but things took a turn for the worseover labor day, when shattuck rented this house in delaware. her three kids, their friends and her alleged teenage victim were all staying over, according to those affidavits. after giving the high schooler beer, she allegedly offered to have sex with him. the boy reportedly said no to

intercourse, according to those affidavits, but told shorts shattuck performed oral sex. once outside while walking the dog and again in her bedroom while wearing pink lingerie. >> think about it this way. he, at 15, not able to form consent, had the mental acuity and the maturity to be able to say, you know what, this isn't right for me. but she, in her 40s, didn't have that same sense about her. which is something that i think plays against her in a courtroom. >> reporter: right. the 15-year-old is acting like more than an adult than the 40-something. >> right. that's the key. if he's acting as more of an adult, it makes her look worse. >> reporter: that could be the case if the charges are true. the boy's school reported the alleged incident to police and the headmaster issued a statement, saying, the parent has been prohiblted from entering the campus. and additional security measures have been in place to ensure the safety of the students. at the end of the day, she stands accused of being a sexual predator. >> this was a man and an

underage girl, you would hear people screaming from the roof tops, this guy's got to go to jail. you prove they had sexual contact, he's got to go to jail, he's a pariah in the community. >> reporter: he's a rapist. >> right. for a woman and a boy, it's different. >> reporter: here she is, dancing around in skimpy outfits, very sexualized. how does that play out in a courtroom when you're facing these charges? >> well, i think she and her lawyers are going to hope to kind of cast this as, hey, this was a big misunderstanding, she's somebody who is very attractive and maybe there was a relationship here. consent doesn't matter in a case like this. if they had the contact, she's guilty. >> reporter: and it doesn't matter if he consented or not. >> not at all. >> reporter: back in 2006, i asked her about the impact of being so openly racy. is there a downside to moms become sexier, do you think? >> no. we're just leading by example, trying to be the best women we can possibly be and if we commit to doing something, we're giving it our all. and so, what better thing could

you show your children than that? >> reporter: but why would an attractive, wealthy, high profile woman with so much at stake risk losing it all? >> even though she's a woman in her late 40s, mentally, does she feel more in sync with a 15-year-old? >> why do you keep running away? >> because you're going to bed. i don't think i should be up here. >> reporter: it's a syndrome played out in "the graduate," a tale about an older woman taking advantage of a much younger man. >> mrs. robinson, you're trying to seduce me. >> she may be wondering if she's still attractive anymore to the opposite sex. she may be very frightened about aging and whatever that means to her. but something is triggering her insecurity. >> reporter: shattuck is now estranged from her husband, mayo shattuck, the chair of a fortune 500 company. the couple filed for divorce two days before a search washt issued. police trying to locate key

evidence in her home. reportedly, her cell phone and the pink lingerie the alleged victim described. earlier this week, she pled not guilty to the charges and her ex-husband released a statement, saying he is shocked and saddened about the allegations. if convicted, this former cheerleader could face up to 50 years in prison. and for the seemingly devoted mother, custody of her three kids is on the line. up next, a highly regarded and highly unusual hospital. where pet owners go to extreme measures to save their furry friends. my family, we're close...

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>> it was probably around 100, maybe 110. >> reporter: desperate for answers, ted and lisa drove five hours from their home in massachusetts in hopes that the animal medical center in new york city could solve their mystery. at the center, you can expect typical pets like birds, dogs and cats. but they also treat chameleons like this one that ate a stone from his cage. they had a horse come in to be cat scanned. and earlier this year, they did surgery on an otter. for ted and lisa, surgery is nothing new. >> he had a surgery back in january. and it was rough. they split him because they thought he had bladder stones that were causing the bleeding. >> reporter: $58 billion will be spent nationwide on pets this year. with close to $100 million alone being spent on just pet insurance. >> oep, h, my lord.

with the first surgery, it was a $4,500 thing. this, i don't know for sure, but their estimate is $6,000 to $8,000. random visits to the cardiologist and stuff -- we're pushing over 15 grand, i'll bet. >> reporter: pet hospitals have evolved over the years and as you can see, they offer many of the same things that human hospitals do. like cancer treatment, rehabilitation and even dermatology. the animal medical center here even has a 24-hour emergency room. >> all the trauma, all the cats falling out of builds, they come through this room. >> reporter: we go and tour the e.r. with dr. richard goldstein, chief medical officer. >> we see over 45,000 cases a year. >> reporter: really? >> it's well over 100 a day. and, you know, some of them are minor, but many of them are pretty severe. the injured or sick. you never know. when you come in the morning, you never know what's going to happen. >> reporter: as we walk to one of the emergency operating rooms, a team is working on an

young puppy that had an accident. >> they got into a little fight. >> reporter: the dog's jaw is fractured, so, they will remove the broken tooth and place a splint inside her mouth. how long will she stay here? >> she'll go home today. >> reporter: today? after all that, she's going home today? >> usually if you get a fracture stable, they'll be leaving the same day. >> reporter: my jaw's hurting just thinking about it. but like any other hospital, there are not always happy endings. >> what is it like for you to see that little face staring back at you? >> it's great. it is great. it's wonderful. you learn to see the successes when you can, especially at this level of medicine. not every dog is going to leave here. not every cat is going to leave here. and not every story is going to have a happy ending. but you learn to take satisfaction out of doing the best you can for all of them. >> reporter: these doctors are heading up fred's surgical team

and they are hoping for a happy ending. >> the condition that he has is very, very rare. and it's something that we probably have seen more of this than anyone in the world at this point and that's only probably 15 to 20 cases. >> reporter: in the past, they would have taken out the bad kidney, which is very invasive and in most cases, they would just put the animal down. this might be fred's only chance. >> medication has failed, so, not only is this a minimally invasive alternative, this is kind of a last option to try and get this bleeding to stop. >> reporter: the doctors hope a new procedure only done in humans will help fred out. >> we started on humans i guess about 20 years ago. it's become sort of a standard with very good success. >> reporter: this doctor is so sure of this, because it is his technique that the team will be executing. after the technicians anest size fred, we scrubbed up and went in for surgery. after going into the bladder, the doctors will need to figure

out which kidney is bleeding, and then go inside the kidney to help clot the bleeding. this is estimated to be close to an eight-hour procedure, but by hour two, there seems to be a slight problem. >> is it possible that the condition the doctors went in thinking it was actually is something else? >> yes. >> reporter: as you can see, no blood is pumping out of his kidney. it is absolutely bright yellow and actually healthy looking urine. the doctor decides to look along the edge of the bladder. >> there you go, you see, right there. >> reporter: that blood sort of oozing out there. see it? >> right here. >> reporter: what could that be? hidden behind a small clot, a small blood vessel has republup and caused all that bleeding that fred has been dealing with. what are they going to do? >> they're going to destroy that area with a laser. >> reporter: that small hfissur

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the mother you're about to meet is on a mission. to find the baby daughter she never got to hold. an epic search to pry open a door that's been closed for 47 long years. can determination and one very good investigative genealogist reunite them? here's "20/20" anchor elizabeth vargas. >> pam slaton is a one woman department of missing persons. >> i'm searching for people. >> reporter: the age-old question, who am i? >> where did i come from, who do i look like? >> reporter: candy wagner is a searcher, too. a 62-year-old retired physical therapist, hoping to find healing. for 20 years, she's been searching for a baby she gave up for adoption in 1967.

at 14 years of age, with an absent father and a difficult mother, candy was dating a boy three years older. your first boyfriend? >> my first for everything. >> reporter: when this picture was taken, they didn't know it, but life was about to change drastically for the two young sweethearts. candy was pregnant. >> at that time, in a small town, it is absolutely traumatic. >> reporter: candy's baby would immediately be put up for adoption. on april 17th, 1967, the baby arrived. it was a girl. candy asked for her. >> may i see her? may i see her? >> reporter: and they said? >> no. no. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i yelled. i screamed. i said, please, let me hold her and they said, no, that would not be a good idea. i begged to keep her and i cried

nightly. >> reporter: when did the crying stop? >> oh, off and on, it's lasted about 47 years. my baby became the thing that i turned to. the being that offered me comfort. and i made promises. >> reporter: what did you promise? >> i promised i would find her. >> reporter: 47 years later, candy is so determined to keep that promise, she breaks a lifetime of silence to ask for help. >> i came up with a list. >> reporter: every baby girl born on that day. >> born on that day. >> reporter: pam compared birth records in the county where candy lived, and bingo, a match. a woman who was adopted, born on the right birth date and at the right hospital. this woman, barbara jo gowan. pam says she is candy's daughter. and after 47 years apart, here she is, knocking on can dip's front door.

>> there it is. >> hi, mom. >> oh, my gosh. so beautiful. you are so beautiful. >> don't cry. >> reporter: a door to the past swings closed. and another door opens. >> a poignant new beginning. we wish them all the best. our thanks to elizabeth jar v vargas for that report. make sure you check out "20/20" tomorrow at 109:00 p.m. right here on abc. thank you for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow and, as always, we're online at abcnews.com. good night, america.

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to be the brand-new host of millionaire! [cheers and applause] so let's get things rolling. our first contestant needed to take in a roommate to keep the bills from piling up. the only problem is, she's newly married, and three is a crowd, so let's get her some cash, like now. >> yeah! [cheers and applause] >> please welcome, from new york city, melissa pigden. [cheers and applause] oh, how you doing? how you doing, melissa? how you doing? >> i'm doing good, terry. >> okay, now, how are you making this work? you're newly married, and you got a roommate. >> i know. >> what's going on? >> well, right now, i'm in grad school, and living in new york is pretty expensive. >> mm-hmm. >> so luckily, we have a great roommate, who we love, but it'd be great to get out of there and have our own space. >> let me tell you, my kids get on my nerves. [laughter] okay, and i made them, so, i meanho