In a case that echoes the tragic child deaths of Sophia Mason of Hayward and Phoenix Castro of San Jose, a federal lawsuit accuses Contra Costa County social services authorities and Antioch police of failing to protect an 18-month-old girl from the alleged deadly abuse and neglect of her parents.
The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and identifies the baby girl only by the initials O.Y. for the protection of two living siblings, said she arrived at a hospital in August 2022 with her face and body covered in bruises, numerous head injuries, a severed pancreas and bleeding in her abdomen and brain.
She died soon after, with a doctor ruling it a homicide, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the siblings’ adoptive parent against Contra Costa County, Antioch Police, a Pittsburg Health Center pediatrician and the girl’s mother and father, Jessika Fulcher and Worren Young…