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New records show how police found 8-year-old Sophia Mason — but it was already too late

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Newly obtained documents in the killing of Sophia Mason show that Hayward police — after getting a missing person’s report about the 8-year-old in March 2022 — swiftly determined what Alameda County social workers had failed to see for more than a year: The girl was…

Tribune News Service · Apr 10, 2023

They begged social workers to save 8-year-old Sophia Mason. She was found dead in a bathtub

Before 8-year-old Sophia Mason's body was found curled inside a bathtub in a Merced home, the young girl's extended family tried desperately to raise the alarm.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 19, 2022

Suspect in murder of girl, 8, arrested after six-month manhunt

‘In my 20 years of law enforcement, this case is the most disturbing and horrific that I’ve seen,’ Merced police lieutenant says

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022