Her name was Candace. Two unlicensed Colorado therapists, their two assistants and the adoptive mother of a 10-year-old girl are charged with “child abuse resulting in death” after the troubled girl stopped breathing during a “rebirthing therapy” session.

Therapists curled Candace into the fetal position

inside a flannel sheet and pushed against her from

all sides.

She gasped for air. She begged them to stop.

She cried out that

she was dying.

They said go

ahead.

And then she did.

The Rocky Mountain News devoted an entire section to Candace’s death, including tracking down her birth mother in North Carolina six months after the tragedy to inform her of her daughter’s passing.