Absolutely Criminal
filed in Nonsensical Ramblings on Jan.27, 2006
Feeling sad today because there have been so many horrible news stories in the last two weeks dealing with violent crimes against innocent children.
It began with the step dad that beat his 7-year old daughter to a pulp while she was tied to a chair (because she wouldn’t stop acting like a child…), then the father who killed his two kids with a hammer (a HAMMER!), then the mom who wanted to free her 5 month old from a breathing problem by drowning her in a tub (the baby is gonna make it miraculously), then the stupidity of the mom who was caught on camera letting her kids out of the trunk of her car (she claimed they asked to ride in the trunk…), the two year old who died of a cocaine overdose, then the six-year-old girl accidentally strangled by the family golden retriever as the dog playfully grabbed the girls scarf and dragged her around the yard, and most recently this story about the tractor trailer in Florida that plowed into a stopped car full of children and then ramming their car into a school bus – which was also full of kids. The 5 children in the car (oldest was 15, youngest was a baby) were all killed when the car exploded on impact, and many of the kids on the bus were severely injured. Then we find out the children in the car were all foster kids and the adoptive grandfather had a fatal heart attack when he heard the news.
So sad. So horrible. What kind of world is this?
January 29th, 2006 on 12:48 pm
these stories made me want to cry, throw up, and scream…i don’t understand it either…i sat up until 2 am the other night watching CNN cover this latest story of the 27 year old woman and her 9 month old baby found shot to death…what a fallen world we live in, and what a scary thing it is to bring a child into it…thank goodness we have someone else in the drivers seat
January 29th, 2006 on 12:49 pm
i don’t know if my link worked…i am sure you have heard the story…but here is the link again…
http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_024061839.html
January 29th, 2006 on 4:18 pm
I hadn’t heard of this story Christine. So sad.
January 29th, 2006 on 5:32 pm
I’m not really sure what to say. It isn’t enough to be sad but it really seems there is no where to begin. It is tempting to just walk away from the news. I am in the living situation where I could literally do that (and I did do that for four months in 2004). But then, sure, I wasn’t depressed by the news stories… but the children were still being abused, killed, and neglected, many times by those who are supposed to be protecting them. So we tell their stories, we try to keep them from being sensationalized, we support movements like Shiloh in NYC that give children a place to go, we pay attention to & vote our conscience in elections (especially local and state level) that have referendums that affect both the preventive work and the aftercare of abused children. But what then? There is still such a feeling of hopelessness because it keeps happening… As I said, I’m not really sure what to say. But, I think the first step is a post like this. Telling the story, refusing to say “it’s not my kid”. The hardest thing, is that the story repeats itself so often.
January 30th, 2006 on 7:14 am
Thanks for the pick-me-up on a Monday morning.