This is horrific

below is the story of a mother who was arrested for the death of her daughter who was adopted from China. I remember this adoption b/c the mother was african american and the chinese government did not want to let her adopt. Her agency and many many people in the adoptive community rallied for her and she was able to take the child home. The sad thing is that she dropped off of the adoption community yahoo groups once she was home from China. These yahoo groups are a great resource and if the mother was having difficulties there could have been other families willing to help her. This story was the second time today my heart was heavy to hear the death of a child adopted from China. The 7 year old girl who was swept into the water iny heavy waves due to the huriccan off the coast of Maine last week was also adopted from China. Anytime a child dies it is horrific and sad but for those of us in the adoptive community when an adopted child dies it tugs at our hearts a bit more.

Police have arrested a former Elk Grove resident and charged her with murder in the death last year of her 3-year-old adoptive daughter.
Sabrina Banks, 42, called 911 on May 2, 2008, and reported that her daughter Lavender was "unresponsive," said Officer Christopher Trim of the Elk Grove Police Department.
Medical personnel were unable to revive the girl, and pronounced her dead at the scene. Lavender had visible injuries that "were not consistent with an accidental death," said Trim.
An autopsy report lists the probable cause of death as "asphyxiation by smothering" and "multiple blunt force injuries," according to the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.
Trim said it took detectives more than a year to gather the evidence necessary to charge Banks with murder, assault resulting in the death of a child under 8 years of age and endangering the life or health of a child.
"It was a very long process of interviewing the mother, her friends, checking her history, working with the coroner's office," he said.
The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office issued an arrest warrant for Banks, and she was located in Visalia on Wednesday and taken into custody, said Trim.
She will be transported to Sacramento County within the next few days, he said.
Banks had one other child in her Elk Grove home when Lavender died, and that youngster has been in protective custody since then, Trim said.
The family had previous involvement with Child Protective Services in Kern County, Sacramento County CPS Director Laura Coulthard previously told The Bee. She did not provide details.
Trim said he was unaware of any further CPS involvement with Banks