The horrific suffering of a young girl who was abused by her own mother in an escalating campaign of physical, emotional and sexual abuse is the ‘worst case of child abuse’ authorities had ever seen.

The Office of Children and Family Services has invented its own rule to withhold access to reports on children’s deaths. By Jo Craven McGinty The deaths last month of two toddlers, scalded in their ...

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The harrowing ordeal of a young girl who was subjected to escalating physical, emotional and sexual abuse by her own mother has been described as the 'worst case of child abuse' ever witnessed by ...

I’ve written this article once before. It was titled “Fatal Preservation” and appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of City Journal, following the murders of six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo and other New ...

SHE RAISED MONEY a decade ago to pay for the funeral of Elisa Izquierdo – a 6-year-old Manhattan girl who was beaten and killed by her mother. Hospital worker Delia Soto had hoped she would never have ...

The caseworker who said he didn’t have time to investigate a report that Elisa Izquierdo was being abused and the caseworker’s supervisor have been taken off active cases and assigned to desk jobs, ...

The harrowing ordeal of a young girl who was subjected to escalating physical, emotional and sexual abuse by her own mother has been described as the 'worst case of child abuse' ever witnessed by ...

The harrowing ordeal of a young girl subjected to escalating physical, emotional and sexual abuse by her own mother has been dubbed the 'worst case of child abuse' ever witnessed by authorities. The ...