The precious little 9-year-old girl pictured above was violently killed last night on the south side of Chicago. She somehow left the house and went into to the alley where she was brutally killed; slashed in the neck and abdomen, as well as sexually abused. Her dad found her 45 minutes later...

"The girl went to a party on the block later that night with her older stepbrother and relatives at some point realized she was missing.

'Everybody was like, where is she,' her father said. 'We went looking for her and I found her in the alley. They dumped her in the alley' at the end of the block near his home, Lyons, breaking down, said.


Lyons rushed his daughter to Jackson Park Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 2:10 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

An autopsy Tuesday afternoon showed she died of multiple injuries from an assault, according to the medical examiner's office, which ruled the death a homicide." (source)

Man Chicago has had a outbreak of crime this last year. I don't know what's going on but something has to give! How can someone take a innocent child life that? This story really touched me and hit close to home. I don't know what I would do if something like this happen to one of my young siblings...

Parents guard your children! In this day and age, there is no such thing as being too overprotective. To all my fellow Chicagoans, please be careful. It not safe ANYWHERE right now.

My prayers go out to this family!