Annie Grace Kasprzak was born on January 10, 1997. She was raised in foster care and endured an abusive childhood before she was taken in by the Kasprzak family at the age of nine.
Veronica Kasprzak-Bratcher, a caseworker with Utah’s Division of Children and Family Services, and her then-husband, Dennis Kasprzak, welcomed Annie into their family, providing her with the stability and care she had long needed.
Their connection with Annie was instantaneous and they became an integral part of Annie’s transformative journey.
Despite the challenges that followed, including their eventual divorce, they still managed to provide a foundation of love and stability for Annie.
At 15, Annie was a freshman at the Summit Academy in Draper, Utah. She was dating Darwin Christopher Bagshaw and they had been together for a year and a half.
Their initially thrilling teenage romance transformed into a difficult situation after Annie announced she was pregnant.
On March 10, 2012, 15-year-old Annie was at home babysitting her brothers while her adoptive parents went out for dinner.
Upon their return, Annie greeted them at the door, now dressed in jeans instead of the shorts she had worn earlier. Veronica assumed the change was…
