prevented in my professional opinion. and you warned them? yes, ma am. how does something like this just change everything for you? i go through anxiety. you know, i m angry, i feel dirty. scared. i m scared. well, if the victim did not go to police right away because she was afraid she would lose her job. so she took a couple of days off work and about a month after the incident she says she was laid off. aerotek says she was one of many workers who were no longer needed to clean up the beaches and it had nothing to do with what happened to her. and wolf, she s she just says to me over and over, why did i bother taking the job? it s completely ruined her at this point. abby, what about other towns in the gulf? were they doing background checks on other employees? reporter: we did find several police departments doing background checks. in louisiana, the police found
we re not. i said, you re kidding me. he said, no, there is so many of them, we were told to do drug screens and that was it. and i said, well, that s not good at all. reporter: but you actually recommended that they get criminal background checks on their employees? yes, we did. and i told them that we would do that for them, we would do the background checks for them. and he said, no. reporter: robertson worked for a company called aerotek, that hired workers to remove oil from the beaches. want to come out and talk to you. i will, but give me a couple of minutes. reporter: i m not going to shut the door and never see you again. i promise. reporter: so we waited. but they only slipped us a note through the door referring us to the corporate headquarters. did you realize you were hiring people who were registered sex offenders? thank you, ma am. reporter: this is when the blame game begins. we talk to the general counsel for aerotek by phone. he said aerotek was the