instant horror of where is she what had happened to baby savanna? the answer would come decades later and astonish the world. it happened so fast, couldn t fathom what was going on imagine, your mother fugitive. your father stranger. your home, your name your past was any of it real? the first thing i felt, jus a pit in my stomach. i jus felt like it was my fault. a mother s crime. a father pain what kinds of emotions di it stir up when you would se that crib? it would just make me cry a daughter forced to face the shattering truth i was shocked and i was jus terrified. hello and welcome t dateline a father left childless and daughter left questioning he very identity. it was a case that started as custody battle, but turned int an international mystery tha spanned two decades and took investigators nearly 10,00 miles around the world all driven by a determined dad searching for answers and hi daughter here s andrea canning with finding savanna. in
was an illegal relationship. a horrible crime to b accused of, but she insisted h wasn t the victim, she was i was petrified of him, petrified. she says he forced himsel on her did you ever have consensua sex with him never prosecutor said she was lying. she was insulted that you didn t believer? i was insulted that she thought someone would. but tutor and her pupil breaking all the rules but who was telling the truth? we both knew that what we are doing was wrong. he owned me i never have had such evidence against someone as had in this case hello and welcome t dateline, it started with racy photo found on a teenag boys phone and ended in courtroom with a jury forced t decide, was the 33 old femal tutor in the picture a victi or a predator? here s keith morrison with teacher s message. you two were in cahoots - it didn t have to and hear. he keeps stating things tha he has no evidence for a though it is facts with a turning to war you
self-defense it was her cry for help. i was imposing. i was doing what he wanted m to do. i wasn t assaulted that nigh because i did that if you ever have consensual sex with him never the proof, she offered. one text the smoking gun she claimed. one out of, well, thousands of apparently loving, and frankly explicit text. this one is so explicit we can show you the whole tags. but includes a whole line that suggests x it reads in part, never put yo through that again baby girl and the reason for that, she said is the reason that sh asked the detective what version of sex it was. it wasn t sex to her, it was sexual assault he didn t look like a 1 year old boy, he didn t ac like a 15-year-old boy he was a monster in our interview, she had just offered a stunning defens
my daughter wants to contact m or not, she knows where i am and she knows i want to hear from her, whatever happens. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin thanks for joining us. well i m andrea kaine, an this is dateline he didn t look like a 1 year old boy, he didn t ac like a 15 year old boy they said that they wer friends but then that nothin had happened the text messages are the truth. she was a 33-year-old hig school tutor, he was her 15-year-old student. he was in love. but after his mom found thi on his phone, police knew this was no innocent teenage crush. he said that they had sex o several different occasions, i