🕯️ What We Now Know: The Truth About Mimi’s Case | Connecticut Child Protection Reform
The story of Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia has shaken Connecticut to its core. It is a tragedy that no one with a heart can ignore — a story of a child who slipped through every net designed to protect her.
According to search warrants obtained by WFSB’s I-Team (Smink, 2025), Mimi died in September 2024 — long before her body was discovered behind an abandoned property in New Britain nearly a year later. Investigators found that her mother and her mother’s boyfriend admitted to restraining and starving her. Despite multiple red flags, no one checked on Mimi after she was withdrawn from school under the guise of “homeschooling.”
This devastating failure mirrors what many child advocates have warned about for years — a system too slow, too fragmented, and too trusting of paperwork over people. When a child is removed from public education, there must be follow-up, home visits, and accountability. There must be a real human safeguard between a vulnerable child and potential danger.
Mimi’s death was preventable. Her absence should have triggered alarms, not silence.
That silence — the gap between what was reported and what was done — is why we need Mimi’s Law. It’s why so many in our state are demanding reforms to ensure:
- In-person
welfare checks for homeschooled children.
- Accountability
within DCF when repeated warnings go uninvestigated.
- Oversight
in custody orders so no parent is erased from a child’s life by default.
- Prohibition
of convicted abusers from residing in homes with minors.
These are not radical ideas. They are common-sense protections for children who cannot protect themselves.
We can’t bring Mimi back, but we can make sure no other child vanishes in silence.
✍️ Sign the Petition for Mimi’s Law
Every signature adds strength to her legacy — a legacy of protection, justice, and hope.
Smink, S. (2025,
October 20). Warrant: Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia died Sept. 2024;
mother admits to starving her before death. WFSB.
Sullo, M. T.
(2025, October 15). Petitions call for “Mimi’s Law” in aftermath of girl’s
murder. Patch.
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