answers to those exact questions. look. under massachusetts law, it is considered child abuse if you either negligently or intentionally fail to provide for your child s emotional stability, so whether she was in the apartment knowing that the bombs were being made, exposing her child to that, not to mention exposing her child to two terrorists planning to kill people, or whether she wasn t in the apartment because as some reports say, she was working 80 hours a week, so she was elsewhere while they were secretly doing it in front of the child, that s negligently allowing the same thing to happen, and in both cases, she could be in very serious trouble and she could lose custody of her child. if she lies to any of the officials investigating any of this, she could well find herself in a federal prison. that s a six-year stint, lying during an investigation of this sort. megyn: yeah. the massachusetts statute as i see it says a judge may consider taking away legal or physical
there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered. we may get some of the answers to that as well. this could end up being an even bigger debacle than the cover up represented by the talking points. megyn: brit hume, great to see you. reporter: thank you, megyn. megyn: coming up, as boston bombing investigators shift their focus to tamerlan tsarnaev s american wife, there are growing questions about the status of their 3-year-old daughter. is anyone looking out for the well-being of this child? we looked into it. wait until you hear what we found. i ll tell you you right after the break. shocking allegations against an air force official in charge of the air force s sexual assault prevention program. wait until you hear what he s now accused of doing. and who are these brothers? they are accused of holding three women hostage for a decade. one witness coming forward moments ago to say they might have seen one of the suspects at the vigils for the missing girls. the news kee
preview of that report. he said every day there are at least 70 reports of sexual assault in the military. we ve just gotten a copy of the pentagon report. most shocking, perhaps, is there were 3,374 incidents of sexual assault reported in the past year alone, megyn, an increase of 6% from the year before. megyn: unbelievable. all right. jennifer, thank you. incredible. just ahead, judge napolitano joins us live on these cleveland kikidnappings and the growing question of whether cops could be in trouble for not finding these women earlier, especially in the wake of the reports we brought you earlier which we ll go over. plus, katy beers was held captive underground for 17 days by her captor. she joins us live ahead on what s ahead for these women. this is kate. she likes a man with a little hair on his chest. but definitely not on his back. this is hannah. she likes a guy with a smooth stomach to show off his six-pack. [ ding! ] and this is genesis. she likes men completely hair
but protecting the public is not a discretionary act. the police are obliged to do it. they re immune from decisions made for protecting the public. state differently, their failure to assure your safety or their failure to catch the bad guy cannot form a basis for a lawsuit against them even if you suffered exquisitely as a result of those failures. megyn: is it anyone s responsibility other than the police to go look for missing children? these women, two out of the three, were children when they were first abducted. well, yes. however, the government of ohio treated this as runaways, not as kidnapping. megyn: which is a problem. that s a problem. before i get you to comment on that. i want to show the viewers with john walsh who lost his little boy adam in a kidnapping where he was murdered, little adam was. he knows this case because they profiled it many times on america s most wanted . amanda berry s mother before she died, and we ro profiled ths