Girl Killed While Parents Are In Jail Was 'Amazing Child'

November 24, 2012 Subscribe · Forward Girl Killed While Parents Are In Jail Was 'Amazing Child' LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Jersey Bridgeman endured a lot in her young life, including abuse at the hands of her father and stepmother, but school officials say she was still a happy little girl. Now, with the couple away in prison for chaining her to a dresser last year, authorities are trying to figure out who killed the 6-year-old. Her body was found in a vacant house this week in Bentonville, a northwest Arkansas city best known as the home of Wal-Mart's headquarters. Continue reading... Teen Babysitter Allegedly Stabs 2-Year-Old Sister To Death Staff Had Complained About Senior Center Shooter, 'But Nobody Did Anything' Nurse Allegedly Recruited Patients As Sex Slaves Newborn Remains Found In Attic Of La Plata, Maryland Home Stephanie Fletcher, Former Walton, N.Y. Teacher, Accused Of Having Sex With Students During Class Breaks Cop Quits After Saying He Would Volunteer To Assassinate Obama Cop Quits After Saying He Would Volunteer To Assassinate Obama Casey Anthony Likely Googled 'Foolproof Suffocation': Report Cop Quits After Saying He Would Volunteer To Assassinate Obama Stephanie Fletcher, Former Walton, N.Y. Teacher, Accused Of Having Sex With Students During Class Breaks Casey Anthony Likely Googled 'Foolproof Suffocation': Report RABBI RACHEL KAHN-TROSTER Thankful for a New Day for Florida Farmworkers: Publix, Join the Fair Food Program As we thank God for the many people and their hands that produce our food, we can be thankful for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program. Publix Supermarket needs to hear from us that it is time to change. Continue reading... DAVID PROTESS Victims of Injustice Grateful at Thanksgiving As Thanksgiving approached, I caught up with five of the subjects of my stories in the last year and asked them the same question: What, if anything, are you grateful for? Here is what they said, accompanied by snapshots of their ordeals. Continue reading... LUKE O'NEIL Am I the Face of a Nigerian Online Romance Scammer? After all, wasn't it my fault in a way, for making this woman fall in love? Here was this poor heartbroken woman who had convinced herself she was in love with a man -- a man that looked exactly like me. Did that implicate me in her predicament? Continue reading... DIANE DIMOND America's War on Drugs Sputters to an End Citizens in two states -- Washington and Colorado -- sealed the deal. They voted that marijuana should be legalized. And not only is recreational pot smoking by adults legal in those two places now, medicinal use of marijuana is already the will of the people in 18 other states and D.C. Continue reading... ATHENA KOLBE Chronicling an Everyday Rape in Haiti We spoke with the police chief from the area where the assault took place. Since the medical report made no mention of the violent nature of the assault, and despite the fact that police had seen Wendy's bruises and cuts, the officer following her file said that there was nothing he could do. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.