ANDREA TUDHOPE

MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST

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When Viyolla Matok came out of her C-section at Research Hospital back in January, she heard something no new parent wants to hear. "They told me I couldn't take her home."

"I'm just now beginning to forgive myself."

"'In America,' he told me, 'In America, we sell hamburgers.'" But Nabil Haddad didn't have a clue what a hamburger was. It was 1958, and Haddad was looking for a job.

“I feel like if it were a suburban white child that went through the same thing Daizsa did -- finding the body in a motel room, with an unsolved murder… I feel like the whole media would cover it."

Why They Didn't Report: Kansas City Sexual Assault Survivors Share Their Stories - KCUR

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Bidding School Goodbye, Kansas City Students Inspired By Life Of Slain Classmate - KCUR

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How A New Approach To Family Court In Jackson County Helped This Mother Keep Her Baby - KCUR

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