Homicide Watch Chicago

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A stay-at-home mother who brutally beat her 3-year-old daughter to death lied to police, telling them that the child stopped breathing following a home invasion at her Northwest Side apartment, Cook County prosecutors said. Paramedics found Ashley Mendoza on the kitchen floor Sunday night with visible injuries to her forehead, … Read more →

Ashley Mendoza, 3, died from child abuse Sunday night at her Northwest Side home. Reader “Thea” posted this about the killing: It’s devastating that innocent children should bear angry acts of violence at the hands of parents who won’t resolve their issues and create save havens for their minors. The abuse of children everytime and … Read more →

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Chicago Sun-Times On one side of the street, an elderly woman cooed to a toddler in a stroller Monday morning. On the other, a death investigator’s sticker sealed the door to an apartment where Ashley Mendoza once blew kisses to her daddy from her window. Inside that second-floor Northwest Side apartment, investigators … Read more →