joining me out of l.a., gloria allred, family law attorney, victim right's advocate. e attorney and multiple jurisdictions including atlanta, and out of the new york jurisdiction, defense attorney alan ripka. weigh in, gloria. >> well, it's really interesting. first of all, why, nancy, did not the child protective services notify the father? what, in fact, is their policy when one parent is being investigated? of course, they have a privacy policy, but should that extend to the other parent? i don't think so. i think they should have notified them. >> let me see gloria, two words, they're sorry. they didn't do their jobs. come on. when this child is exposed to that type of environment and you don't tell the primary custodian, the father, you drop the ball. you really think, renee rockwell if that father had known what was going on inside that home, he'd let the girl stay there for five weeks? >> nancy, here's the disconnect. dss was actually investigating some problems that were with the 7-year-old son. so i don't even think dss knew that the little girl was in the hou

. >> gloria allred, a suspect comes in says, yeah, i kidnapped her, but i don't know where she is.it's very bizarre. i might add, pat, too, that yes, it's interesting that the mother has not come forward. one has to ask, why is she not coming forward? ordinarily law enforcement would want her to come forward. is she afraid, herself, she might say something that might implicate herself even if she's innocent? i don't know. we'll have to wait and see. >> we were finding out that dss was no stranger to this household. there have been custody issues that they have dealt with in this household from time to time. there at some point had been drugs found in this house. they're not saying this is involved in this case, per se, but if you're a police officer and you're doing this investigation, you have to keep that in mind. >>> we're receiving new leads >>> we're receiving new leads all the time. again, since that footage that was aired last night, we've received a lot of phone calls. every single phone call has to be followed up on. with on the to follow-up on leads and tips we have. >> e

joining me out of l.a., gloria allred, family law attorney, victim right's advocate. nse attorney and multiple jurisdictions including atlanta, and out of the new york jurisdiction, defense attorney alan ripka. weigh in, gloria. >> well, it's really interesting. first of all, why, nancy, did not the child protective services notify the father? what, in fact, is their policy when one parent is being investigated? of course, they have a privacy policy, but should that extend to the other parent? i don't think so. i think they should have notified them. >> let me see gloria, two words, they're sorry. they didn't do their jobs. come on. when this child is exposed to that type of environment and you don't tell the primary custodian, the father, you drop the ball. you really think, renee rockwell if that father had known what was going on inside that home, he'd let the girl stay there for five weeks? >> nancy, here's the disconnect. dss was actually investigating some problems that were with the 7-year-old son. so i don't even think dss knew that the little girl was in the h

. >> gloria allred, a suspect comes in says, yeah, i kidnapped her, but i don't know where she is.s. >> well, it's very bizarre. i might add, pat, too, that yes, it's interesting that the mother has not come forward. one has to ask, why is she not coming forward? ordinarily law enforcement would want her to come forward. is she afraid, herself, she might say something that might implicate herself even if she's innocent? i don't know. we'll have to wait and see. >> we were finding out that dss was no stranger to this household. there have been custody issues that they have dealt with in this household from time to time. there at some point had been drugs found in this house. they're not saying this is involved in this case, per se, but if you're a police officer and you're doing this investigation, you have to keep that in mind. >>> we're receiving new leads all the time. again, since that footage that was aired last night, we've seened a lot of phone calls. every single phone call has to be followed up on. with on the to follow-up on leads and tips we have. >> extraordinary breakin

. >> lisa bloom, i know your mom gloria allred represented amber frey. she was quite heroic. i mean here was an innocent tossed into the center of this storm, and she ended up really helping to nail this guy by having the courage to do those secretly recorded phone conversations. >> she really did. at the time laci was missing and people suspected scott was the murderer, amber, at personal risk to herself and her young child, wore a wire and over a period of weeks, basically interrogated scott without any help from the police and got the crucial tapes that ended up convicting him. i met amber frey. she's a lovely woman. and you know what she's doing now? she runs a spa. >> interesting. i'm glad she's doing well. it was former president bush who signed the law making it a separate crime to kill or harm an unborn child during an assault on the mother. it became known as laci and conner's law, after laci peterson and her unborn son. now listen to what laci's mom said on cnn's "larry king live" about that. >> it was important to me, because the state of california already has thi

. >> lisa bloom, i know your mom gloria allred represented amber frey. she was quite heroic. i mean here was an innocent tossed into the center of this storm, and she ended up really helping to nail this guy by having the courage to do those secretly recorded phone conversations. >> she really did. at the time laci was missing and people suspected scott was the murderer, amber, at personal risk to herself and her young child, wore a wire and over a period of weeks, basically interrogated scott without any help from the police and got the crucial tapes that ended up convicting him. i met amber frey. she's a lovely woman. and you know what she's doing now? she runs a spa. >> interesting. i'm glad she's doing well. it was former president bush who signed the law making it a separate crime to kill or harm an unborn child during an assault on the mother. it became known as laci and conner's law, after laci peterson and her unborn son. now listen to what laci's mom said on cnn's "larry king live" about that. >> it was important to me, because the state of california already has thi