Murder of Elisa Izquierdo
Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) was a six-year-old Puerto Rican–Cuban-American girl who died of a brain hemorrhage inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 and 1995.Described by authorities as the "worst case of child abuse they had ever seen," Elisa's story made national headlines when it was discovered that New York City's child welfare system (now the Administration for Children's Services) had missed numerous opportunities to intervene in her case and ultimately save her life. These failures to protect Elisa subsequently became the inspiration for '''Elisa's Law''', a major restructuring of the city's child welfare system; increasing accountability of all parties involved in child welfare and reducing areas of confidentiality relating to public disclosure in cases of this nature. Elisa's Law was implemented in February 1996.
Elisa has been referred to as a modern-day Cinderella because she had at first been under the protection of a loving father and had befriended Prince Michael of Greece}}who had offered to pay for her private tuition until 12th }}before being placed into the permanent custody of her mother. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Bárbara Angulo, Esther Conde, Ana Suárez-Gauthier, Carlos Plaza, Rebeca Martínez, Pilar Redondo, Elisa Izquierdo, Belén Rubio-Viqueira, Luis Paz-Ares, Manuel Hidalgo, Fernando López-RíosGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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2by A. Sofía Nanni, María Piquer Rodríguez, Daniela Rodríguez, Mauricio Nuñez Regueiro, M. Eugenia Periago, Sebastián Aguiar, Sebastián Ballari, Cecilia Blundo, Enrique Derlindati, Yamil Di Blanco, Ana Eljall, H. Ricardo Grau, Lorena Herrera, Alejandro Huertas Herrera, Andrea Elisa Izquierdo, Julián N. Lescano, Leandro Macchi, Flavia Mazzini, Mayra Milkovic, Lía Montti, Agustín Paviolo, Mariana Pereyra, Rubén Quintana, Verónica Quiroga, Daniel Renison, Mario Santos Beade, Alejandro Schaaf, N. Ignacio GasparriGet full text
Published 2020-06-01
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