Washington officials have released a 911 call made by a child welfare worker who was attempting to reach the Hart family on the day their SUV was found on the bottom of a California cliff. 
 
 The call, made by a child welfare employee with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, came into the Clark County emergency dispatch center shortly after 10:30 a.m. on March 26 — the same day the Harts’ vehicle was found at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff off the Pacific Coast Highway in Northern California, according to KOIN6. 
 
 The employee told 911 dispatchers she had tried to contact the family multiple times but had been unsuccessful, so she was calling 911 to request a welfare check, the outlet reports. 
 
 “Who are we checking on?” the Clark County emergency dispatcher asks the worker. 
 
 “The mothers are Sarah and Jennifer Hart, and according to my intake, they have six children in the home,” the worker says on the call, KTPV reports. 
 
 “I’ve been to the home Monday and Friday and knocked on the door just this morning, and I can get no response,” the worker says. “Different cars have been moving in and out, I noticed, so I feel like someone is there.” 
 
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 When asked why she was checking on the children, the worker says the department received “concerns that the children aren’t being fed,” CBS News reports. 
 
 On March 26, five of the eight members of the Hart family — parents Jennifer and Sarah and three of their children — were discovered dead at the bottom of the cliff. 
 
 Authorities have also said that Devonte, 15, Hannah, 16, and Sierra Hart, 12, remain unaccounted for and are feared dead. 
 
 On Saturday, officials from the California Highway Patrol announced that a body had been found “in the surf” around Highway 1, an area which is “in the immediate vicinity of the recent Hart Family crash.” 
 
 The body found on Saturday “appears to be that of an African American Female but the age and a positive identity could not be determined,” states a press release from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 An autopsy on the body is pending. 
 
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 Three days before the crash was reported, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services received a call reporting that the six Hart children appeared to be “potential victims of alleged abuse or neglect,” Norah West, the department’s spokeswoman, previously told PEOPLE. 
 
 In 2011, Sarah pleaded guilty to an abuse charge, admitting to taking her daughter into the bathroom, bending her over the edge of the bathtub and hitting her on the backside. 
 
 Sarah was originally charged with domestic assault and malicious punishment, according to court records. She agreed to plead guilty to the domestic assault charge and the malicious punishment charge was dropped. 
 
 She was sentenced to 90 days in jail — which was stayed — and one year of supervised probation, according to court documents. 
 
 Sheriff: Crash Was a Crime and Not an Accident 
 
 Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said on April 4 that he believes the crash was a crime and not an accident. 
 
 “I’m to the point where I no longer am calling this an accident; I’m calling it a crime,” Allman said during an appearance on HLN’s Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield. 
 
 Previously, authorities cited information pulled from the vehicle’s software as evidence that the vehicle may have purposefully been driven off the cliff. 
 
 Capt. Greg Baarts with the California Highway Patrol’s Northern Division said the Harts’ SUV was stopped at a flat, dirt pull-off area before it sped off the steep rocky face and plunged down toward the water. 
 
 Baarts also cited the lack of skid marks near the cliff’s edge — indicating that the vehicle did not attempt to brake. 
 
 However, police have not discussed a possible motive or whether a link exists between the crash and child abuse allegations in the family’s past — including Sarah’s guilty plea. 
 
 The Dekalbs, a neighbor couple, have told local media that they reported the suspected abuse of the children, and said that when state workers knocked on the Harts’ door, the family was allegedly home but did not answer. 
 
 “The next morning when we saw that the vehicle was gone, and then Sunday morning when it still wasn’t there, we figured something was off,” Bruce Dekalb told TV station KGW. ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. -- One of the mothers who died when an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff sent a text two days before the wreckage was discovered, saying she was so sick she might have to go to a hospital, according to 911 call records from Washington state. On March 26, Cheryl Hart called a Clark County emergency dispatcher to report that she had not heard back from her friend in two days. 
 
 Cheryl Hart of Vancouver, Washington, said she received the alarming message from Sarah Hart at 3 a.m. March 24, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Wednesday. Cheryl Hart shares the same last name but said she's not related to the family. 
 
 CBS affiliate KOIN has obtained audio from the 911 call, which was placed on Monday, March 26. It sheds new light on the final days of the Hart family. 
 
 "She sent out a text message at 3 in the morning on Saturday morning [sic], saying that she was sick, but nobody's been able to get ahold of her, talk to her, or seen her since that text message," the friend told the dispatcher. "Or her wife, which is Jen. So we're just concerned." 
 
 Hart said she had checked hospitals, but none said they had a record of treating Sarah. 
 
 Several hours after she called authorities, the family's SUV was discovered at the bottom of a scenic Mendocino County cliff. 
 
 Authorities found the bodies of Sarah and Jennifer Hart and three of their adopted children, Markis, Jeremiah and Abigail. Three other children, Hannah, Sierra and Devote, are still missing. On Saturday, a body was pulled from the surf in that area and authorities are working to determine whether it belongs to one of the children. 
 
 Other records released to The Oregonian/OregonLive this week from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services show Child Protective Services initially tried to contact the Harts on March 23 after abuse allegations were made against them by the family's next-door neighbors. 
 
 An official went to the family's home, knocked and rang the doorbell and left her card in the front door, records said. Two officials returned March 26 - the day the Harts' SUV was found - and the card from the Friday before had been removed. One of the officials left another card and called law enforcement and requested a welfare check. 
 
 A deputy went the same day to the home in rural Woodland, Washington, and no one appeared to be home, records said. 
 
 Authorities returned the next day, and no one appeared to be home again. 
 
 In 2011, Sarah Hart was convicted of domestic assault in Minnesota for physical abuse involving one of the children who was then 6 years old, according to court records. The family also was investigated in 2013 when they lived in Oregon after a family friend reported witnessing "controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the children. 
 
 Authorities said previously that data from the vehicle's software suggested the crash was deliberate. They said the SUV had stopped at a coastal highway overlook before speeding straight off the cliff and plummeting 100 feet (31 meters) into the rocky Pacific Ocean below. 
 
 The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday said deputies will keep searching the county coastline for the missing children as calls for service allow and that search and rescue divers are readying to be deployed to the crash site area once ocean conditions improve. 
 
 One of the missing children is Devonte, 15, who drew national attention after he was photographed in tears while hugging a white police officer during a 2014 protest. ||||| This March 20, 2016 photo shows Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sanders rally in Vancouver, Wash. Authorities in Northern California say they believe all six children from a family were in a vehicle that plunged off a coastal cliff. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allmon told reporters Wednesday, March 28, 2018, that only three bodies of the children have been recovered. Their parents also died Monday. (Tristan Fortsch/KATU News via AP) 
 
 MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. (KOMO) - Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies say Jennifer Hart's blood alcohol content at the time of a deadly crash in which her entire family perished was .102, which is above the .08 legal limit. 
 
 Jennifer Hart, along with her partner Sarah and three of their adopted children were killed when their SUV crashed off a cliff in Mendocino County, Calif. on Monday, March 26. Three other adopted children have been reported missing, and police believe they were likely in the car at the time of the crash. 
 
 California Patrol Capt. Bruce Carpenter says toxicology tests also found that Sarah Hart and two of their adopted children had "a significant amount" of an ingredient commonly found in the allergy drug Benadryl, which can make people sleepy. 
 
 
 
 "Facts in the case are coming at a rapid pace," the Mendocino County Sheriff said in a news conference Friday. 
 
 They've also confirmed the Hart family's SUV was about 70 feet from the cliff's edge, when Jennifer accelerated somewhere between 20 to 30 mph and went over the cliff. 
 
 Authorities believe the crash was intentional, but have released no other details. 
 
 Previous allegations of abuse, neglect 
 
 KATU has reported on several other incidents involving Jennifer and Sarah Hart. 
 
 In 2017, one of the Hart children jumped out of a second-story window and begged her neighbors for help. She said her parents were racist, abusive and whipped her. 
 
 In the weeks leading up to the crash, Devonte Hart went to his neighbor's house several times asking for food, adding his parents were punishing him and not allowing him to eat. 
 
 In 2013, a family friend said she "witnessed what I felt to be controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the six children. Alexandra Argyropoulos said she was told the children had been interviewed by officials but there was nothing more the Oregon Department of Human Services could do because there was not enough evidence to make a case. 
 
 After reporting her concerns in 2013, Argyropoulos said, she was told the Hart children had been interviewed by officials from the Oregon department; it was apparent that each child had been coached by their mothers on what to say; and nothing more could be done. 
 
 Court records show Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to a domestic assault charge in Douglas County, Minnesota in 2011. Her plea also led to the dismissal of a charge of malicious punishment of a child. One of her daughters, who was 6 years old at the time, showed her teacher she had bruising all over her back and torso. 
 
 And in 2008, a report obtained by KATU says one of their daughters claimed Jennifer beat her using a belt. When confronted by officials, Jennifer and Sarah Hart said the little girl was misbehaving, and added she likely got her bruises from falling down the stairs.
– A social worker worried about the welfare of the Hart family called 911 in Washington state the same day the family's SUV plunged off a cliff in California. The Department of Social and Health Services employee told dispatchers in the March 26 call that she was requesting a welfare check after repeated failed attempts to locate Jennifer and Sarah Hart and their six adopted children, People reports. "I've been to the home Monday and Friday and knocked on the door just this morning, and I can get no response," the worker said. "Different cars have been moving in and out, I noticed, so I feel like someone is there." The worker said she was worried about the family because of "concerns the children aren't being fed," reports KPTV. The couple and at least three of the children—Markis, 19; Jeremiah, 14; and Abigail, 14— died in what investigators believe was an intentional crash. Three other children—Devonte, 15; Hannah, 16; and Sierra, 12—are missing and presumed dead. The Harts were being investigated for alleged child abuse and neglect, which mystifies friends who knew them in the mid-2000s, when they lived in Minnesota, reports the Seattle Times. "They were passionate about trying to help," says Kayla Schmitz, who worked with the couple at Herberger's department store when they first got their foster-care license. "The people I know wouldn't starve their kids and lock them up." (An autopsy is being carried out on an unidentified body found near the crash site.)