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 ...

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

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

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

Ray Mata Jr. — the father and man charged in the murder of 8-year-old Genesis Mata — has a documented criminal history in ...

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

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

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Warning that this article contains graphic material that may be disturbing to some readers.Court documents reveal gruesome ...

A protest was held Friday outside the Department of Human Services building. In attendance were members of Genesis Mata’s family and other mothers who say the system failed their kids as ...

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