I first heard about a child named Xavier because of my job with a child care council. A home daycare provider called me to ask what she should do about a child in her care that had bruises.   Xavier and his brother told the provider that the mother’s boyfriend did it to him.   I told her to contact CPS. She did not and the child stopped coming to daycare. A few days later, he stopped living, beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend.  There was no public outcry just small articles about his death. His death was not  widely publicized, in part because I believe the community was ashamed because not a year earlier another young boy was brutally tortured and murdered. His death sparked the public outcry and shouts of "Never again". With Xavier it happened again and we failed and we buried his story like they buried him.  In fact Xavier did not even get a headstone, a funeral service or an obituary until a year later when one woman heard his story and started a drive to raise the money.