"Someone had to be her advocate": A newspaper's crusade to keep a child's death from being forgotten

When 3-year old Brenda Hard was brutally beaten to death in a poor Bridgeport neighborhood just before Christmas, little attention was paid. The police investigation itself did not begin until May. The newspaper the Bridgeport Post had for years been remarking on the police department's ineffectiveness and apathy toward crimes against minorities. The newspaper continued to press the issue of the police department's investigation of the murder and offered a reward for individuals to come forward with information.