In nearly every year of Rebekah’s 10 years on this earth, DCS was warned that something wasn’t right in the child’s world. In 2019, she and her brothers were taken away from their parents ...

There, police found Rebekah unresponsive and severely injured. “She's been running away for the last like three or four weeks since we've been here,” Richard Baptiste tells police.

Police body camera footage shows the final moments of 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste's life. Her father and his girlfriend have been accused of murder and child abuse.

Rebekah Baptiste, 10, was laid to rest after her July 30, 2025 death. Baptiste's funeral was held at a Roman Catholic Church in Surprise followed by a burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Avondale.