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Child Abuse: Identification and Reporting in the Case for Baby Brianna
Child Abuse: Identification and Reporting In Child Care Settings CFS 290AA Carol Funiestas SID# 35661649 Scholarly Article Analysis July 17, 2014 Woman to be released after committing the worst Case of Child abuse in history… by alay131313 CNN iReport
January 31, 2014
I had read about this tragedy 2 years ago on the 10 year anniversary of Baby Brianna’s death and it brought me to tears. The thought that these people could do such a thing to an infant just blew my mind. And reading about this again still breaks my heart and realizing that there are many others out there living through such abuse right now leaving you with an awful feeling.
Ew Mexico
Brianna Mariah Lopez was born on Valentine’s Day in 2002 in Las Cruces, N.M. , you would think this child born on a such a special day filled with love would be a great gift to her parents this was not the case. From the time Brianna was taken home from the hospital to her tragic death at 5 months and 5 days old Baby Brianna was tormented every day of her life she was beaten, raped, sodomized, and bitten. The most important people in her life her mother and father along with her uncle were the ones that did these horrible things to her. The night before
Brianna died her family had shared a case of beer drinking throughout the night. Her mother
Stephanie Lopez went to bed leaving the child with her father Andy Walters and uncle Steven
Lopez. When her mom woke up the next morning she found the baby laying on the floor cold
And unresponsive she noticed that she had new bruises and asked what had happened to her
And the answer she got from Andy Walters was that they “played a little rough with her”.
Stephanie still did not do anything to help her dying child but dad offered to change the baby’s diaper and when he did he wrapped a wipe around his finger and inserted it into her anus he had also sodomized her with foreign

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