New York (CNN) -- New York Police Department officials say they can't explain why a fearful woman's domestic-abuse report -- written in the woman's native language of Spanish -- was never translated into English for review, and for possible action. The woman and her two daughters subsequently were stabbed to death. The woman's husband, arrested as he tried to flee to Mexico, now faces charges of first-degree murder. And a group that has a lawsuit pending against the city on behalf of six other Latina women says the case of Deisy Garcia and her young daughters is far from unique in New York.
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Deisy Garcia and her two small daughters were stabbed to death in January
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Garcia's ex-husband -- the girls' father -- faces first-degree murder charges
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Garcia filed a domestic-abuse report last year, in her native Spanish
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NYPD officials say they can't explain why the report didn't get translated for possible action
Police say officers at the murder scene filed their own report, but the department has no explanation for what happened to Garcia's report from months earlier or to another report from @placeholder, again written in Spanish, after a November incident.