Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Rare Prosecution of Mother for Failing to Protect Her Daughter From Abuse 
  
 Houston nurse Abigail Young went on trial today on charges she failed to prevent the death of her 4-year-old daughter whose body was battered with 80 bruises, had a severed pancreas and a fractured skull. 
  
 There were also indications that the girl had been sexually abused. 
  
 Young, 34, faces up to life in prison if convicted on the one count of injury to a child by omission. Jury selection began today in Young's unusual case. 
  
 Her daughter, Emma Thompson, died June 27, 2009. 
  
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 Young's boyfriend at the time, Lucas Coe, 28, is to be tried in September on charges of aggravated sexual assault. At the time of Emma's death, Coe was facing an unrelated child abuse charge in another county. 
  
 The prosecution of a mother for not protecting a child is rare, legal experts said. 
  
 Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, told ABCNews.com that the prosecution of a parent, especially a mother, for causing harm to a child by omission were highly unusual. 
  
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 "Most of the times when a child is harmed by a parent, the other parent is usually found to be also a victim of the abusive parent," Guerra Thompson said. "Although technically, like in this case, the mother has an obligation to protect the child and report the abuse, because of her status as a victim as well and really her psychological helplessness, prosecutors generally exercise their discretion not to charge." 
  
 Guerra Thompson called the case of Abigail Young case "eye-opening." 
  
 "The facts in this case may have indicated that the mother was not a victim herself and that she really was in a position to help her child," she said. 
  
 Colleen Barnett, the Harris County prosecutor trying the case, told the Houston Chronicle, "Emma was a precious 4-year-old girl and she deserves justice, and that's what we hope to get." 
  
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 Investigators said Young did not call 911 when her daughter allegedly cracked her skull after falling off a toilet. Instead, Young carried her daughter to her car and drove her to the hospital. Coe and his own daughter, who had been at Young's house, were seen by neighbors leaving the home shortly after Young left with Emma for the hospital. 
  
 Young stopped the car shortly after she left when Emma apparently passed out in the back seat, according to pre-trial testimony. She called 911 from her car and first responders attended to the girl there. Emma was believed to be dead already. 
  
 After Emma was declared dead at a hospital, Young returned to her two-story home on Haverford Road as neighbors and police investigators assembled outside. 
  
 Mom on Trial for Failing to Protect Her Daughter 
  
 Julius Villareal, a neighbor, told ABCNews.com. that Young appeared unusually calm given the circumstances and that she gave neighbors contradictory versions of what had happened. 
  
 "She told one group one thing and then told another group of neighbors a totally different story," he said. "She was cool, calm and collected. She seemed kind of normal for someone who just lost a child." ||||| A year after a suburban 4-year-old's gruesome death helped force a state review of child abuse investigations in Houston, there's little else to show that Emma Thompson passed through this world. She's buried next to a grandfather she never met and no formal headstone is placed on her tiny grave, which features a humble funeral home marker and half-dead petunias. 
  
 That changes today as prosecutors begin jury selection in the first of two trials to determine how Emma — a sexually abused child found with 80 bruises, a severed pancreas and fractured skull — died on June 27, 2009, and if her mother, registered nurse Abigail Young, 34, failed to prevent the injuries that ultimately killed the preschooler. 
  
 "Emma was a precious 4-year-old girl and she deserves justice, and that's what we hope to get," said Colleen Barnett, the Harris County prosecutor trying the case. 
  
 Young faces up to life in prison if convicted on the one count of injury to a child by omission. Her boyfriend at the time, Lucas Coe, 28, is scheduled to be tried in September in Emma's aggravated sexual assault. 
  
 "From all I have seen she loved Emma as much as any parent could love any child," said Colin Amann, Young's defense attorney. "It's just a violation of the natural order of things when kids precede their parents." 
  
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 From the start, there's been nothing textbook about this child's homicide on Haverford Road in Spring. 
  
 Three weeks before Emma died, her pediatrician notified Texas Child Protective Services that she had tested positive for genital herpes, a sexually transmitted disease. But because there was no sign of sexual intercourse and there are rare cases where the disease is transmitted by nonsexual contact, Emma was not removed from her home. Unknown to CPS at the time was the fact that Coe, who was facing an unrelated child abuse charge in another county, was Young's paramour and frequent house guest. The agency has since said had it known that at the time, Emma would have been taken into custody immediately. 
  
 But CPS' missed chance with Emma isn't the only unusual aspect of this case. 
  
 The sequence of events on the day of Emma's death has prompted questions about whether Young was duped by a boyfriend or was a willing participant in her own daughter's death. Young did not call 911 when her daughter apparently cracked her skull after supposedly falling off a toilet. Instead, Young placed the girl in her car and drove her to the hospital herself. Meanwhile, Coe and his own daughter, who had been at the house that day, left the scene shortly after Young left with Emma for the hospital. 
  
 According to testimony at a hearing last year and records released since the death, Young stopped the car shortly after she left when Emma apparently passed out in the backseat. She called 911 from her car, and first responders came to the car. But Emma was already believed to be dead. The girl was taken to Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital, where she was declared dead. 
  
 Then Young returned to her two-story home on Haverford to face a team of police investigators and neighbors huddled near her home. 
  
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 Julius Villarreal, who lives across the street, remembers the night well. 
  
 Instead of ducking into her two-story home to grieve the loss of her youngest, he said a dry-eyed Young talked to investigators and then addressed the group of neighbors, almost as if she was trying to "set up" the story they would hear later of her daughter's violent injuries. 
  
 Villarreal said Young told them in great detail that Emma had fallen off the toilet in the bathroom, cracking her skull and splitting her lip. She also told them how she theorized it was a diabetic seizure. She then talked about how there was a lot of bruising on the girl caused by CPR attempts by emergency responders. Young even told how there was bruising on the little girl's thighs because of the great force she used to pull Emma from the car once she passed out. 
  
 Villarreal said he was struck by how everyday Young's demeanor was despite losing a child that night. 
  
 "To me, she acted calm, like she had lost $5," Villarreal said. 
  
 Young made a great show of telling the group that Coe was good to her and her girls, that he never harmed anyone, Villarreal said. And after investigators left, Young told neighbors they could come over to the house. There was nothing disturbing to see, she told them, because she had cleaned up the bathroom before she left for the hospital. 
  
 "'I bleached the bathroom,'" Villarreal recalled Young telling them. 
  
 A call for comment, made to Young's mother's home, was not returned. 
  
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 Young's actions after her daughter's death could have been her way of grieving or perhaps altered by her own physical state, her attorney said. 
  
 In the week leading up to Emma's death, Young had been taking prescription drugs, Amann told the Houston Chronicle. 
  
 "She (Young) had been sick the week before Emma died," said Amann, who did not provide further details other than to say that his client is innocent of the charge and had nothing to do with Emma's death. 
  
 For the past year, Young has been free on bond, living in Brenham - where Emma is buried - and where her mother lives. 
  
 Young has a job in a local plant nursery. She has had no contact with her other two girls, who have been placed with her second ex-husband. 
  
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Student:
In a rare court action a Houston mom is facing prosecution for failure to protect her 4-year-old daughter from the vicious lover charged in the girl's death. Emma Thompson had some 80 bruises, a severed pancreas and a fractured skull when she died last year. Her mom's boyfriend faces trial on aggravated sexual assault in the girl's death. Usually, "when a child is harmed by a parent, the other parent is found to also be a victim," a legal expert told ABC News. "The mother has an obligation to protect the child, but because of her psychological helplessness," prosecutors generally don't file charges in such a case. The prosecutor in this case told the Houston Chronicle that Emma "was a precious 4-year-old girl who deserved justice, and that's what we hope to get." Emma's mom, nurse Abigail Young, claimed her daughter hurt herself when she tumbled from a toilet seat. Young faces up to life in prison if convicted of injury to a child by omission. Her two other daughters have been placed with a former husband. "Hopefully, other children will not have to suffer" Emma's fate, but that "doesn't take away from the pain she must have gone through in those final hours," said a neighbor.