Grand jury indicts foster mother and grandparents in Spring Valley girl's death

Aarabella McCormack tried to escape from her family’s Spring Valley home. Her younger sister told the grand jury that they both wanted out. Two years before Aarabella died at age 11, she managed to briefly escape. And when a good Samaritan saw the girl early one November morning, barefoot and carrying a backpack, the 9-year-old asked not to be returned to her family. Testifying last October before the same San Diego Superior Court grand jury, th…

The criminal case advances for three family members accused of murdering a girl adopted in August 2022 and torturing their sisters. A judge could set a trial date starting next month. Prosecutors say that adoptive mother Leticia McCormack, along with her parents Adella and Stanley Tom, beat Arabella, 11 years old, and her two younger sisters with oars, deprived them of food and water, isolated them in their rooms, denied them access to the bathr…