Apps won't install via App Store

A week ago I got a used iphone 5 for my GF so she could log our newborn's daily achievements, but the phone won't allow the download of apps from the App Store.  If I click on the price/install button, it circles as if it's downloading, and then it returns to the same original Price button.  Trying numerous times doesn't do the trick.   No error messages appear.  I've reset network settings, as well as resetting all settings.  I've also installed the firmware (option-restore) and I've used iExplorer to access the phone's download folder and force it to remake the database file.  None of these fixed the issue.  The phone WILL allow apps onto it if they are downloaded onto my macbook pro and synced but that's a very unsatisfying solution since it's my laptop which I use most of the day while she would probably want to be perusing apps to use. 
The only other known issue with the phone is that the front camera doesn't work properly, and trying to use it also renders the back camera inaccessible till the phone restarts.  This seems like hardware to me, while the app issue seems like software, but perhaps they are somehow related.  I'm also wondering if the app problem could be related to a corrupt file in her appleID account, or to the fact that i've installed apps on her phone via my itunes (perhaps it's some kind of user permission problem). 
Anyway, I have no idea what to try next.  Surely someone here has suggestions. 

A week ago I got a used iphone 5 for my GF so she could log our newborn's daily achievements, but the phone won't allow the download of apps from the App Store.  If I click on the price/install button, it circles as if it's downloading, and then it returns to the same original Price button.  Trying numerous times doesn't do the trick.   No error messages appear.  I've reset network settings, as well as resetting all settings.  I've also installed the firmware (option-restore) and I've used iExplorer to access the phone's download folder and force it to remake the database file.  None of these fixed the issue.  The phone WILL allow apps onto it if they are downloaded onto my macbook pro and synced but that's a very unsatisfying solution since it's my laptop which I use most of the day while she would probably want to be perusing apps to use. 
The only other known issue with the phone is that the front camera doesn't work properly, and trying to use it also renders the back camera inaccessible till the phone restarts.  This seems like hardware to me, while the app issue seems like software, but perhaps they are somehow related.  I'm also wondering if the app problem could be related to a corrupt file in her appleID account, or to the fact that i've installed apps on her phone via my itunes (perhaps it's some kind of user permission problem). 
Anyway, I have no idea what to try next.  Surely someone here has suggestions. 

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