Murder of Jersey Bridgeman
The murder of Jersey Bridgeman was a child murder case in which a 6-year-old girl was abducted from her home in Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 20, 2012. Later that day, Bridgeman was found murdered. Her case garnered considerable international media attention in the United States and Europe. The media attention caused spurred debates about child protection in part due to the prior convictions and lengthy sentences for the perpetrators of aggravated child abuse against her, involving a high-profile trial, and the especially heinous nature of that abuse and circumstances surrounding her subsequent abduction and murder.