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Murder of Elisa Izquierdo. / 40.6956; -73.8761. Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) [3] was a six-year-old Puerto Rican – Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse ...
Turpin case. The Turpin case involved the abuse of children and dependent adults by their parents, David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, U.S. The ages of the 13 victims ranged from 2 to 29 years-old. On January 14, 2018, one of the daughters, then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin, escaped and called local police, who then raided the residence ...
Victim of torture murder. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
The reality is more than 100,000 North Carolina children wake up to violence, substance abuse and neglect every day. Their parents often are struggling to meet basic needs.
Mary Ellen Wilson (March 1864 – October 30, 1956), also called Mary Ellen McCormack, was an American victim of child abuse whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. [ 1] At the age of eight, she was severely abused by her foster parents ...
Genie (feral child) Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [ 1][ 2][ 3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked ...
That includes 93 children who died from abuse and neglect, representing 4.05 deaths for every 100,000 children. That was 1.3 times the state’s 2018 rate, and higher than the 2022 national ...
David James Pelzer (born December 29, 1960, in San Francisco, California) [1] is an American author of several autobiographical and self-help books. [2] His 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive, was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for several years, and in 5 years had sold at least 1.6 million copies. [3]