While the community is still grappling with 8-year-old Genesis Mata’s brutal death, 17 News spoke with Genesis’ biological ...

Public outrage against Kern County’s Child Protective Services has been growing after the tragic death of 8-year-old Genesis ...

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Genesis Mata was set to start second grade at Pauly Elementary next week. She loved to dance, her grandmother said at a vigil ...

Genesis Mata was a student at Leo G. Pauly Elementary School. We reached out to the Bakersfield City School District to see ...

Ray Mata Jr. — the father and accused murderer of 8-year-old Genesis Mata — has a documented criminal history in Kern County ...

Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamonte have been charged with first-degree murder, willful cruelty to a child, and torture ...

Warning: Distressing content. A couple have been accused of torturing and killing their little girl who was found dead in a ...

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Family members and residents say alleged abuse by the girl's father was reported to the county’s Child Protective Services ...

The 8-year-old girl found dead in a Bakersfield hotel bathtub endured disturbing acts of abuse before dying last week, ...

The suspects in the murder of an 8-year-old girl in central Bakersfield have been officially charged and made their first ...