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Caseworkers Charged in Death of Abused 4-Year-Old NYC Girl

Two former New York City child welfare workers have been charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten, drugged and starved in her own home. Prosecutors said that Marchella Brett-Pierce was bound to her mother's bed for months and repeatedly beaten and denied food and water. At her death Sept. 2, she weighed...

Mother Charged in Malnourished Girl's Death

(Sept. 3) -- New York City authorities have filed charges against the mother of a 4-year-old girl who weighed 15 pounds when she was found dead in her family's Brooklyn apartment. Detectives found lengths of twine attached to the headboard of a bed inside the home, and the rope was consistent with bruises on Marchella...