Janie Unique Buelna was a 23-month-old girl living in a Phoenix apartment near Interstate 17 who died on March 11, 2011. Child-welfare and police records describe a pattern of repeated, severe abuse over time: scars on her back, buttocks, arms and legs; broken teeth; a split lip; a prominent bump on her head; a healing skull fracture; and severe burns on one leg, a foot and the top of a hand. Reports show an earlier March 2010 allegation that her custodial grandmother, Juanita Trevino Rodriguez, had slapped Janie and that the child had visible swelling and bruising.

On the afternoon of March 11, Rodriguez left to visit a son in jail and left Janie with roommates Humelio Dominguez-Vazquez and Christopher Joseph Lopez. The caregivers later found Janie unresponsive; they called Rodriguez first and did not immediately summon emergency services. Paramedics took Janie to St. Joseph’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Lopez told detectives he had put Janie in very hot bath water while high on methamphetamine; the three adults later were arrested and indicted on multiple felony child-abuse counts. The medical examiner was still determining precise cause and manner of death at the time of the indictment.

Does anyone have information about Janie, the apartment on Black Canyon Highway, or the people who lived there in 2011?