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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Newly released documents reveal that 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste begged a gas station clerk for help and detailed ongoing abuse months before she was allegedly killed by her father and his girlfriend<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n A Phoenix Police report describes a 911 call made from a local gas station nine months before the girl\u2019s death. According to the Oct. 17, 2024 report, Rebekah told officers her father\u2019s girlfriend hit her with a brush and a belt as punishment.<\/p>\n She also described being forced to run laps and endure other forms of physical discipline for “acting out.”<\/p>\n At the time, Rebekah was taken to Phoenix Children\u2019s Hospital with a bloody lip and bruising on her hands and feet. However, investigators closed the case after her father, Richard Baptiste, and his girlfriend, Anicia Woods, claimed the child\u2019s injuries were self-inflicted.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The Arizona Department of Child Safety has since confirmed a long history of abuse and neglect allegations<\/strong><\/a> involving the family. Despite these reports, Rebekah remained in the home until her death in July 2025.<\/p>\n Richard Baptiste and Anicia Woods are currently awaiting trial on charges of first-degree murder, child abuse, and child molestation.<\/p>\n Prosecutors allege the girl suffered “long-term, horrendous abuse” before she was found unresponsive in a rural area on July 27, and died three days later.<\/p>\n Richard Baptiste, and his girlfriend, Anicia Woods <\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Newly released documents reveal that 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste begged a gas station clerk for help and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-481582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115812308480716189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rebekah.jpg\")
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