Posted on 08/29/2025 5:06:07 PM PDT by Morgana
A 10-year-old jumped from a two-story window in a bid to escape her stepmom and dad before she was ultimately tortured to death, according to police.
Rebekah Baptiste was found unresponsive on a highway in Holbrook, Arizona, in July after allegedly enduring months of abuse at the hands of her parents.
She was rushed to hospital where she died days later from 'non-accidental trauma'.
Doctors said the little girl showed signs of sexual abuse and had 'severe bruising throughout her body' as well as 'possible cigarette burns' to her back and 'missing chunks of hair'.
Her father Richard Baptiste, 32, and his girlfriend Anicia Woods, 29, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and child abuse.
Prosecutors described the horrific physical and sexual abuse Rebekah allegedly suffered in the lead-up to her death.
The abuse became so horrific that Rebekah ran away from home several times, including once when she 'jumped out of the second story window at their apartment in Phoenix,' according to court documents seen by Law & Crime.
In bodycam footage of the moment police found Rebekah unresponsive on the highway, Woods is seen telling officers about the little girl's escape attempt.
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Something very evil has been released. I’ve never seen so much such open depravity.
jail justice may have it’;s way
How many kids have fallen through the cracks while under social services care. I remember reading stories of children that went missing while in foster care, and it wasn't discovered until years later. A 10 year old girl repeatedly runs away from home, and nobody saw that as a fire alarm?
I totally agree. Mom or Dad needs to prioritize children before lovers. Plus, raising kids is hard. Who has time for a love life?
A posse is what is needed here. Justice needs to come to those two horrible beasts. That poor girl!
summary execution
Thank you for saying what I’ve long been thinking.
Justice will be served by the other prisoners.
Nothing upsets me more than to hear how horrible people can be towards their very own children. I wish I knew how this could be stopped.
What a more wonderful world it could be.
I find your terms acceptable.
Unalive these M Fers, by dropping them off of a high rise, into shark infested waters.
Do not lock them hang them from the nearest street light ASAP & be done with the genetic hygiene & yo can reuse the rope.
Death penalty for both and I volunteer to kick the chairs out from under them.
Very good.
There are good people in Children's Services. That should never be confused with Children's Services being a good department.
In prison they are likely to get executed...child abusers don’t get treated particularly well by the inmates, and heinous cases like this will attract lots of retribution attempts. Their only hope of survival long term is solitary confinement.
I’d dispose of those 2 wicked animals with malice.
They’d beg to die.
Poor baby. What an Angel !!!
All those kids shoulda been saved. Where were others????
Thank God the poor child is away from the torture and with the Lord.
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