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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Egad. Poor girl.
And taxpayers now have to waste money on these two evil subhumans. There is no justice.
Inhuman. Lock them up so innocent people can be safe.
Lovely girl.
The parents deserve the death penalty.
Not a word in the story about the real mother, or her whereabouts.
Send them before God. Yesterday. Period.
Sign me up for the firing squad.
I agree.
Free will and all of that.
Knelt down in front of the judge’s bench with a .45 to the back of the head, right then and there.
Even that’s too good for those animals.
First is mommy's new boyfriend. But possibly because numerically that is more common. There is a reason "evil stepmother" was a thing in folklore.
Am I saying that if you are a single parent you should not have any sort of romantic relationships until your kids are grown? That is up to you.
But am I saying that unless you are willing to put your kid before your current bed warmer that you should sleep alone? Yes.
Poor kid.
And as usual Department of Children Services pencil whipped their paperwork. 12 reports of abuse. One visit to check.
One.
Nope. 80-grit sandpaper, applied liberally across the entire body. Rock salt dip, then hogtied and left in a back-woods swamp with only his face exposed.
I married into a family - but I knew, and readily accepted, that the kids always came first. I even insisted that she stay home with them and raise them like a mother should because I had been through the baby-sitter plan and wanted nothing to do with that for my kids.
Sad story. Very, very sorry about the little girl.
In a case like this, waiving the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment could be justifiably waived. These two don’t deserve the protection provided.
Oh, BTW, that is one of my more “civilized “ ideas. Cannot and will not post here some of the more “inventive” methods i have thought of.
Oh, BTW, that is one of my more “civilized “ ideas. Cannot and will not post here some of the more “inventive” methods i have thought of.
“Rebekah’s uncle Damon Hawkins said Rebekah ‘was black and blue from her head to toe’ and had two black eyes when she died”
Both of them are dead if they are put in general pop.
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