PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Arizona Department of Child Safety is implementing reforms following the murders of three children known to the system this year, including 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste .

DCS Director Katie Ptak, who took the position in January, said in an exclusive interview with Arizona’s Family Investigates that a review of Baptiste’s case identified “systemic factors that contributed to challenges in the Department’s decision-making and case management.”

Baptiste was found with “severe injuries” and unresponsive in Holbrook on July 27. She died three days later. Doctors said she was “tortured.“ Police body camera video captured her father, Richard Baptiste, and his girlfriend, Anicia Woods, telling officers about the incident. They would later be arrested and charged wi

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