Just over a year after 8-year-old Sophia Mason's body was found decomposing in a bathtub in central California where her mother and mother's boyfriend had lived, her grandmother filed a lawsuit against Alameda County, alleging that social workers refused to investigate numerous child abuse claims made in the 14 months leading up to her death.
in the backyard of Jackson's home after the girl urinated on the floor, and was sexually and physically abused by Jackson.
Sophia’s grandmother considered her the “light of her life,” and said that her playful and precocious behavior took a turn after she was taken back into her mother’s care, according to Sanchez. “The hospital social worker and the medical professionals who were evaluating Sophia found extensive bruising on her inner thigh, which of course is indicative of child sexual abuse,” Sanchez told Yahoo News. “But if you look at the county records, the county only says that she has bruises that are suspicious in nature. So they didn't document the location of the bruises, which they're required to do.
Hayward police records say that after the mother's arrest, a day before Sophia's body was found in 2022, she admitted thatto Kaiser clinicians and said that the girl's injuries were the result of Jackson's beating her with a belt.
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