By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Savannah Hardin's death earlier this month should never have happened, say many of the experts now taking a look at the short, painfully tragic life of the nine-year-old who was allegedly "run to death" by her grandmother and stepmother.

Both women, Joyce Hardin Gerrard and Jessica Mae Hardin, have now been charged with murder.

Divorce and custody documents filed over a period of many years show a history of fractured family relationships, with Savannah’s divorced parents fighting over her welfare; claims of mental instability and abuse between her father and his second wife; a common bladder problem that required frequent doctor visits; and counseling for the outgoing young girl who despite it all managed to remain among the top students in her third-grade class at Birmingham, Alabama's Carlisle Elementary School, reports the AP.

The Florida Department of Children and Families investigated allegations that Savannah was being mistr