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A 13yearold girl on her way home from school is followed by this man right to her door. He pushes his way in after her and seems to assault her, but the teen backpack still on fights back. I tried to get him off of me. Reporter the ledged stalking caught on security camera. The teen her identity hidden for protection describing those harrowing moments. I push him back and slam my hand in to his face and thats when he decides to get off of me. She texted her father. Daddy come home now. Some guy tried to rape me. Also this week a 63yearold woman attacked in her rural New Hampshire home after cased by two alleged robbers. Two men arrive at 9 20 p. M. And hide. An hour and a half later, christine comes home and turns off her alarm system. She calls the dog, who seems to be agitated in to the house and thats when the ljd thieves take advantage. It takes three seconds for one to get to that unlocked door. They zip tied her to a support post, and put a blanket over her head. Reporter those suspects getting away with 25,000 worth of rare coins and jewel rhode island she was left bound in the basement for nine hours before rescued. These are the latest in a series of alleged crimes caught on camera. Intruders crossing the threshold in to the place where we are supposed to feel safe, our own homes. In san jose california, this homeowner watched on multiple Home Security cameras as an intruder broke in to her home. Even pulling on the door to her bedroom where she was hiding. In central florida, men dressed as ninjas breaking in to this home tying up the homeowner. There are an estimated 1. 2 million break ins every year. A home burglary happening every 16 seconds in the u. S. Hightech security cameras and alarms are little match for a trained criminal. While on parole and trying to clean up his act, this convicted thief agreed to strap on a camera for abc news and gives up his secrets. All kind of Good Electronics down here. Wow. Reporter so you can make your home more secure. Chris patterson takes us step by step through the perfect break in using this abc news staff ers house. Make sure no one is home. Reporter once he is sure it is empty. Walk back here. Perfect. An unlocked window is invitation. Im in. Im going to make sure the doors are unlocked in case i need to get out of here quickly. He said this homeowner, like so many of us makes it a snap. It doesnt matter race nationality, income bracket, age, almost every Single Person puts things in the same place as the next one. Up to the master bedroom. First place i like to check. Common knowledge to all burglars master bedroom first. Thats where the jewelrys at. Thats what a burglar is looking for. When i opened her top drawer it was filled with jewelry bags and box. They group it together. It is matter of organization or ease for them. If it is easy for you, its easy for me. Crime knows no boundaries no demographic. No such thing as a safe neighborhood. You never know whos casing your neighborhood. Now a security expert, Kathleen Baty was once the victim. A man tried to kidnap her from her own home. I came home from work and was listening to my answering machine and he was in my home behind me with a knife. Reporter her attacker went to prison. From that day she never let her guard down. I lived the rest of my life in wait for it to happen again. Reporter she wants others to be vigilant too. Baty says many houses that appear safe are vulnerable. Houses like louisas. He cant get in. Im sure of it. Something i saw for myself when i spent the day with another convicted criminal. He told us he is reformed and wants to help people protect their homes. The windows open. Reporter first point of entry the car in the driveway with windows down. Bingo. The garage door opener in plain sight. Within 45 seconds hes in the garage and finds the door to the house unlocked. He quickly makes his way upstairs to the master bedroom where with he finds the jewelry box. 2 1 2 minutes. You did it in half of the time you thought you would do this. You saw it open. You thought maybe it has a garage door opener in it. Keys garage door opener. They will leave they wont think about it in a hurry to get in the house. Just leave it all sitting there. It turns out windows are criminal catnip. He pops the window screen and tapes the window to minimize glass shatter and noise. Some easy fixes can make your house less tempting. First baty says never leave your garage door opener in plain sight. They are watching and waiting if that are moment. Dont make it easy. Reporter better yet, lock the garage. You want to disengage the motor of your garage door opener and manually shut your garage door and bolt it. So no one can open it from the outside. Reporter it turns out 73 of home breakins are by kicking in a door. Baty says there is an easy solution for that too. You want to install a strike plate, a metal plate that goes all the way down and makes it more difficult. In other words you dont want the door to break apart. Exactly. If a burglar manages to break in patterson who has a taste for tech. I want to get the laptop to move quickly. Dont leave cords attached to electronics. Store them separately because it is sure to frustrate a thief that is sure to leave it besgliend people dont realize how valuable those things are. Without the cords you cant sell it. But since this demonstration, he is back in jail for attempted burglary. Hours ago, Police Arrested the man who they believe attacked that 13yearold and another woman. We have credible evidence which we believe lijs this suspect top those attacks. He is charged with burglary attempted Sexual Assault and false imprisonment. The survivors that survived this attack can rest assure ed now that predator is off the streets. Reporter for nightline, im gio benitez in new york. 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You display an enormous amount of calm in the face of all of this. I knew my kids were watching and they needed to see me have courage. They did. Reporter her name is Sabrina Broadbent and she was once a loyal member of the flds the fundamentalist church of latter day saints whose ancestors broke with the main stream Mormon Church for than a century ago over the issue of polygamy. Are you warren jeffs. Yes. Reporter even though the prophet of the church, warren jeffs is doing life for sexually abusing two under aged girls he is said to maintain control over every aspect of his followers lives. Obey the prophet and you will be blessed. Disaway him and it is death. When you grow up thats all you know. You thought warren jeffs was gods mouthpiece. A womans duty is to bless her husband. How old were you when you got married . 17. Was it somebody you wanted to marry. They are assigned to you. My father is like you belong to jake hole. Reporter at 17, sabrinas younger brother quit the church and began getting his family members out, sometimes in commandostyle raids as captured in the documentary sons of perdition. I could see them sad, depressed, hurt scared. Im like why not try to get them out . Reporter his most adamant opponent, his older sister is a bream nachl you can see the woman that would one day take on the flds literally pulling on one of her sisters to prevent her from leaving. Shes not going. Reporter but then according to sabrina, a bombshell dropped by her husband shook her faith. Sabrinas husband. Wanted another wife. Reporter he wanted to marry one of her little sisters. And she was 14. Reporter she called joe and her other siblings who had left the church. Were coming to help you. Are you ready. Reporter then she says her husbands family insisted on keeping her children. There was nothing i could do at that point because i didnt dare go against the church or anything. Reporter sabrina who is 32 remarried, with a 3yearold son and a career as a counselor for troubled youth never lost touch with her first four children but by this past christmas, she says it became painfully obvious as they are kids viewed her as an evil outsider. Here refeuding to accept her christmas gifts. It wasnt long after this, just last month, in fact, that sabrina sought and received full custody. On the night of her victory in court, sabrina, her brother and new husband drive in to the hearth heart of flds country when they show up with a court order at the house where her kids have been staying. Thats them. Reporter thats suddenly more than a dozen vehicles from Church Security known as the god squad, encircle them. Backing out. The god squad. I got a bad feeling in my gut. Im like lock the doors. Reporter the next morning she returns and spots two of her sons. Theres isaac. My cute little son. Reporter when sabrina goes to talk to isaac whos 13 it doesnt go well. I said isaac let me talk to you and hes like get away from me. Get away from me you apostate. Reporter she tries to associate with the chief caretaker but the woman seems to be stalling for time. She says warren is coming and he will deliver these children. Hes coming. Reporter this is when scores of Church Members start to pour in. Theres like 100 eyes on us right now. Everybody is against us. Reporter 18 hours in to the standoff perhaps egged on by the faithful sabrinas children become more defiant, they are crying trying to put chickens in their moms van and give her a handwritten note that reads we will only get in this car if you sign this paper saying we will have visitation with samantha. Im not going to sign anything. Its on my terms. Reporter as the standoff approaches the 20th hour sabrina is losing her patience. She makes a tough call. She decides to give the local sheriffs permission to take her children by force, if necessary. Im going to give them permission to get my children and put them in the van. So here it goes. Im sick of this. As if on cue, the flds women react. I started to see them bring their suitcases out. Im like okay here we go. Here we go. Escorted by their church keepers, the children walk toward sabrinas van crying. But this is when a new logjam develops. Scores of Church Members descend upon the mouth of the van. They are like were not forcing the children. They have to do it on their own. But they are so brainwashed they wouldnt step in the van. They are saying you are leaving with the devil. Reporter people in the crowd are weeping praying. Going on two hours of sleep. I couldnt eat. I just wanted to get my kids out of there. They are like oh, we can come back tomorrow. Im like this is happening today. Reporter finally, a sheriffs deputy pokes his head around the corner of the van. Folks they have got to get going. Thats does it. The kids get in. The van pulls away with the followers of warren jeffs waving and weeping. But for this beleaguered mom, the ordeal is not over. How were the kids when they got in the van . They were crying and cried about a half hour and my youngest was pulling my hair and throwing things at my head and i went back and nuzzled up to them and looked at them like they were my friends. Reporter when she gets them home they vandalized their house. They packed up their stuff. Ty they did. They sat out there with their blankets and it was dang hard to see that in. Within weeks the kids start to come around. They have come alive the last couple of days. We have been going out and doing activities with them and they love it. Reporter sabrina knows the road ahead will not be easy. They are going to go back and forth but you eventually become like the people you associate. I have been combing the girls hair every night. They have been hugging me every morning, telling me good morning. Last night my daughter actually told me to scoot over on the couch and she snuggled up and put her head on my shoulder. I lost it. I did. All right, kids. Go back. Reporter for nightline, this is dan harris along the utah arizona border. Up next what force lay me down singer sam smith admit the show cant go on for at least now. Abc news nightline brought to you by macys. Hi. Looking for a prius, i bet. Its hightech too with the latest safty features. And available entune app suite. And, im sorry. I dont mean to drone on. Honey, stop messing with jan. During toyota time, get 0 apr financing for 60 months on a 2015 prius. Offer ends june 1st. For great deals on other toyotas, visit toyota. Com enjoy your prius. Thanks, jan. Look out people, coming in hot. Toyota. Lets go places. cheering grunts buzzer sounds now theyre beating us on the boards out there, guys. This is your territory grimson. Do your job. Grimson. Hello . Hi, honey. What . Now . All right. The itsybitsy spider climbed up the water spout. giggling down came the rain and washed the spider out out came the sun. Shh. And dried up all the rain and the itsybitsy spider climbed up the spout again. rock music playing i love you, daddy. I love you too sweetheart. laughing do you believe in magic in a young girls heart . How the music can free her. Hey, its my girl. Whenever it starts . And its magic. You know, my daughter . announcer speaks a message from the foundation for a better life. I am beautiful in every single way words, cant bring me down it is one of the worst diagnosis a singer can hear a vocal chord injury. Tonight, one of the top pop stars in the world is facing the devastating consequences. I lay by your side reporter hes the british superstar with that booming, yet angelic voice with hits like lay me down. Now sam smith laying down the pike the microphone for a few months revealing he needs surgery on his vogue vocal chords. A. People say i blew out my voice, actually it is a vocal chord hemorrhage where a blood vessel break and bleeds in to the vocal chords. You say im crazy reporter the soulful smith not the only one. Ariana grande day a problem with when she was sidelined by a vocal chord hemorrhage. Reporter someone like you star adele cancelled a u. S. Tour for the same reason are. The hills are alive with the sound of music reporter years after the hills were alive with the sound of music, jewelry andrews lost her voice after a tragic vocal chord surgery. I have base notes still because i had that miserable operation which i really cant talk about. Reporter for smith six to eight weeks recovery. Cancelled may and june tour dates. The singer hoping fans will stay with him through the recovery. Wont you stay with me heres to some rapid healing. Thank you for watching abc news. Tune in to Good Morning America tomorrow and we are always online on our Nightline Facebook page and at abcnews. Com. 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