Kern County faces powerful legal claims from the biological mother of Genesis Mata, the 8-year-old girl who was found beaten to death in a bathtub earlier this month.
The mother alleges that Child Protective Services failed to protect Genesis and her brother while they were in the care of their father. She claims this failure ultimately cost Genesis her life.
“I think the whole community feels a sense of collective guilt. That this one got by everybody. There were lots of opportunities to change the outcome in this case, and everybody missed it, and we all feel terrible about it,” Hoyt Hart said…