The Department of Children and Families employee who was assigned to investigate reports of child abuse at the Barahona home is fighting to get her job back.

DCF fired Andrea Fleary for what they called poor performance and negligence, and now she’s speaking out about the case.

Just days after being assigned to the case, 10-year-old Nubia Barahona was found dead in the back of her adoptive father’s truck. Her twin brother Victor was critically injured.

It was a tragedy that Fleary says she didn’t see coming.

As a result of one of the worst cases of abuse in the State, DCF went on record trying to fix its failures, starting with the dismissal of three child protection investigators, which included Fleary.

But Fleary says she followed protocol and was wrongfully terminated.

Fleary’s attorney claims she was a scapegoat. And she adds the mother of the twins, Carmen Barahona, lied to her saying the twins lived with their father Jorge Barahona.

Fleary said she wants to go back to the agency where she’s worked for over 20 years.