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By Attorney Deborah Stevenson, NHELD

Ever since the story broke about the poor unfortunate New Britain 12-year-old girl whose mother, aunt, and another are accused of murdering her, rumors began to fly that the girl was “homeschooled” and was killed after signing a withdrawal form on August 26, 2024, stating the family was moving to Farmington, and signing another form that same day indicating the mother’s intent to “school her at home”.

National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) has refrained from commenting on that because the forms that she purportedly signed have not been released, such that the claim remains simple hearsay.

We are commenting now, however, because we do have evidence that the date that the murder occurred was June 21, 2024. How do we know that and what is the evidence? We know because we have read the publicly available Case Detail appearing on the state’s Judicial Website concerning the mother, Karla Garcia.

On that site, you will see that it shows that Karla Garcia has been charged, among other things, with murder. Adjacent to the charge you will see a column stating the “Date of Offense”. Under that column it is clearly listed that the Date of Offense of the murder is June 21, 2024.

This is extremely important because if the Date of the Offense is June 21, 2024, when the little girl was enrolled in the fifth grade at the public school, then it would appear that the child was murdered over a month BEFORE the mother allegedly signed the withdrawal and notice of intent to school at home forms, on August 26, 2024. That appears to be a reasonable conclusion based on the available facts known at this time.

Assuming that to be the case, then, all of the rumors, statements, and arguments that have been swirling around in the media until now clamoring about the need to “regulate homeschooling” because this tragic murder was caused because the girl was “homeschooled”, is absolutely false. Those who are responsible for spreading these rumors now owe the homeschool community a very large and genuine apology.

This should be a wakeup call to everyone. It’s never a good thing to jump to conclusions without having solid facts first. We hope the lesson is well learned.

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