Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sophia Mason, 8, in a photo released by the Hayward Police Department after she was reported missing. (Hayward Police Department) ...

Sophia Mason, the 8-year-old girl whose 55-pound body was found decomposing in a bathtub last year, might be alive today if Alameda County social workers had not dismissed the danger the child was in.

Minutes after Paul Caneiro was found guilty in the brutal and shocking murders of his brother’s family in their Colts Neck home in 2018, standing outside the courtroom, the childhood friends of Sophia ...

A man charged with murdering Sophia Mason — the 8-year-old Hayward girl whose gruesome death nearly four years ago highlighted numerous failings in Alameda County’s child safety net — accepted a plea ...