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True Consequences - True Crime

NM Forgotten Child Baby Brianna Lopez

True Consequences - True Crime

Eric Carter-Landin

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.8587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's Promo is Gone Cold Texas True Crime. Check them out at https://www.gonecoldpodcast.com/ or @gonecoldpodcast

Special thanks to JT Hosack for writing and researching this case and to Victoria Zellar for her help in the initial research of this case. Thanks to JT Hosack from Brew Crime and CJ from Beyond The Rainbow Podcast for lending me your voiceover talents for this episode.
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Today's episode brings us to the darkest corners of true crime. Today we are discussing the horrible tragedy of the murder and abuse of baby Brianna Lopez. Baby Brianna was only 5 months when she was murdered by the very people who should have been caring for her. This is one of the worst cases of child abuse in New Mexico history and it resulted in changes in legislation known as the Baby Brianna Law.

References:
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2016/09/16/baby-briannas-mother-released-prison-sept-25/90524908/
https://www.verywellmind.com/childhood-abuse-changes-the-brain-2330401
https://www.petedinelli.com/2019/07/10/another-disgraceful-statistic-for-new-mexicos-children-states-child-abuse-and-neglect-rates-twice-national-average-2019-child-welfare-legislation-enacted/
https://cwoutcomes.acf.hhs.gov/cwoutcomes/showLoginForm.do
https://cwoutcomes.acf.hhs.gov/cwodatasite/pdf/new%20mexico.html
https://www.momjunction.com/articles/learning-activities-for-your-5-month-old-baby_0091518/
https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/baby-development-5-months#:~:text=Five%2Dmonth%2Dold%20babies%20can,their%20back%20to%20their%20tummy.
https://americanspcc.org/child-abuse-statistics/
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/people/
https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/line/5162-child-abuse-rate?loc=33&loct=2#2/any/false/37,871,870,573,869,36/asc/any/11625
https://www.nmvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NM-KC-profile-2018-1.pdf
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/define.pdf
https://sites.tufts.edu/tier/publications/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/254893/child-abuse-in-the-us-by-perpetrator-relationship/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299473018_A_Review_on_The_Perpetrators_of_Child_Abuse
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/riskprotectivefactors.html
https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/child-maltreatment
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/media/press/2020/2020/child-abuse-neglect-data-released


https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2016/chapter-32a/article-4/section-32a-4-2/
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-371.1/
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2021/07/19/child-abuse-worse-two-decades-since-baby-briannas-death-dona-ana-county-las-cruces-violence-epidemic/7991364002/
https://www.abqjournal.com/22795/840am-high-court-to-hear-brianna-case.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/nm-supreme-court/1311084.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/az-court-of-appeals/1664044.html
https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Texas has a reputation for being tough on crime, but beneath the surface and the darkness is an incredible number of mysteries left undone.

0:09.7

There are monsters among us.

0:11.6

There are approximately 20,000 unsolved homicides throughout the Lone Star State, cases that have gone cold waiting for new information or evidence.

0:22.3

On Gone Cold podcast, Texas True Crime, we tell in-depth stories of these unsolved

0:28.2

murders and missing persons cases from the historic and mysterious 1948 disappearance

0:34.0

of Denton Coed Virginia Carpenter to the unspeakably brutal 2014 slang of Delisa Kelly

0:42.0

and Dallas.

0:43.3

This was personal.

0:44.4

It was personal.

0:45.5

Join us weekly as we attempt to keep these terrible and tragic stories alive in hopes

0:51.1

the victim's loved ones can one day see justice.

1:00.0

You can subscribe to Gone Cold, Texas True Crime, wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:04.3

Before we begin today's episode, I'd like to give a few shoutouts.

1:10.7

First of all, I want to say thank you to J.T. Hosak for writing and researching this case. I'd also like to thank Victoria Zeller for her

1:13.8

initial research in this case. And finally, I want to thank those of you that have signed up for my

1:20.4

Patreon since my last episode. So I want to thank Missy, Raylene, Molly, Deanna.

1:29.5

Thank you all so much for being patrons.

1:35.5

If you'd like to support this show, go to patreon.com slash true consequences, or you can click on the link tree in the show notes below.

1:38.5

True Consequences is a true crime and mystery podcast with stories based in New Mexico and the American Desert Southwest.

1:46.0

I'm your host, Eric Carter Bondine.

1:48.7

Five months. I think we can agree a lot can happen in that time frame. A lot of living

1:54.6

can be done and accomplished in nearly half of a year. Dreams can be pursued, lives lives can be changed and hearts can be won

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