Ten-Year Old Girl Jumps Out of Apartment Window to Beg Strangers to Save Her From Abuse But Arizona Cops & Dept of Child Safety Ignore Her Pleas.

"This world is a world in which children suffer. But we can lessen the number of suffering children... And if you do not do this, then who will do this?"
[i]- the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Rebekah Baptiste, ten, was found unresponsive on a highway in Holbrook, Arizona, on July 27 after allegedly being abused and neglected for years. She was rushed to hospital, where she died from non-accidental trauma three days later, per the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS).

Doctors said Rebekah showed signs of sexual abuse, was 'missing chunks of hair', had 'severe bruising throughout her body' and 'possible cigarette burns' to her back.

Starting in 2015, 12 reports were compiled about Rebekah's safety before her death in July 2025.

Nine months before her death, the girl managed to jump out a second-floor window at her apartment and plead for help - only for police to dismiss it and return her to the couple now accused of killing her, AZFamily reported.

Rebekah, then nine, fled from her home to a nearby QuikTrip, where she told the manager that her stepmother was abusing her.

Rebekah claimed Woods made her run laps as a punishment and had 'hit her with a brush on the back of her hand', according to ABC15.

The report read: 'She also stated she was hit with a brush and a belt on her feet, and pointed out bruising and red marks on both of her feet.'

The girl told police that she had escaped.

Rebekah disclosed this during a police interview at the Phoenix Children's Hospital last October – after running away from home.

The hospital told the DCS about this incident after examining Rebekah, per the new report.

Rebekah also showed officers a bloody lip and marks on her fingers, in addition to her other injuries.

'It has happened a lot,' she said, according to the report.

During a court hearing in September, prosecutors described the girl's dangerous escape from her parents.

'She jumped from a two–story window in an apartment complex,' Kole Soderquist, the Apache County deputy sheriff, said.

Teachers at Empower College Prep in Phoenix – where Rebekah and her two younger brothers were enrolled until May – said the children invented 'stories to protect their parents' when questioned, according to court documents.

Her uncle, Damon Hawkins, said Rebekah 'was black and blue from her head to toe' and had two black eyes when she died.

Hawkins said he and his wife had alerted Child Services, but his reports – which included allegations of sexual abuse – had been ignored.

'I made it clear to the investigator and DCS that the system failed her,' he told AZFamily. 'We have logs and logs of the times where, over the past years where they've been contacted, of the worry that we had.'

Hawkins added: 'We got word of sexual abuse about a year and a half ago, and they [DCS] turned a blind eye to it.'

Previously, the agency issued a statement after Rebekah's death, saying that she was 'a child who was known to the department.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15424829/arizona-murder-girl-escape-dad-stepmom-arrested-videos-police.html

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If you are not both saddened and outraged by all of this, I don't want to know you.

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Additional Details:

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/rebekah-baptiste-murder-how-many-times-was-dcs-called


https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/governor-takes-questions-on-dcs-rebekah-baptistes-mom-and-grandma-speak


WTF! Isn't that like asking the nightwatchman why the warehouse got robbed while he was on duty?

The governor should be calling for an [b]INDEPENDENT[/b/] investigation - and the legislature should move immediately to provide the necessary funds.

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