Post by CCADP on May 17, 2005 19:58:20 GMT -5
this is a true story.
I was reading a book about a young boy who was horribly murdered at the age of three; after his whole short life was one of horrible; unthinkable abuse; physical and sexual; until the day he was murdered by his own parents.
The community was horrified and traumatized; the felt the loss of this baby like their own; everyone being invested in it; and attending the funeral for this tragic child.
When I was thinking this it was not long after hearing tons of horrific abuse stories of DR prisoners - and I am talking HORRIFIC stories - the worse you can imagine.
So I wondered; if that three year old had managed to live through that beating; and somehow live through the next several years of abuse as bad as those first three that he did live- and then one day when he's sixteen; having truly never seen anything positive about life; love, family, support (I am sure u are familiar with research explaining just how important the first five years of life are) - and then one day; he strikes back.
This person who a minute ago was a sympathetic victim that ALL of us would embrace; has now become the offender. Maybe he even did something as bad or (worse?) than what was done to him. But NOW that he has done something that he would never had done had his life taken a different path; now he's the bad guy; so evil and so monstrous that he must be killed.
Where was society's outrage every day that a helpless child (as helpless as this poor murdered 9 year old) was screaming to a deaf world for help ?
So; now we just wipe out the problem we never looked after....?
I was reading a book about a young boy who was horribly murdered at the age of three; after his whole short life was one of horrible; unthinkable abuse; physical and sexual; until the day he was murdered by his own parents.
The community was horrified and traumatized; the felt the loss of this baby like their own; everyone being invested in it; and attending the funeral for this tragic child.
When I was thinking this it was not long after hearing tons of horrific abuse stories of DR prisoners - and I am talking HORRIFIC stories - the worse you can imagine.
So I wondered; if that three year old had managed to live through that beating; and somehow live through the next several years of abuse as bad as those first three that he did live- and then one day when he's sixteen; having truly never seen anything positive about life; love, family, support (I am sure u are familiar with research explaining just how important the first five years of life are) - and then one day; he strikes back.
This person who a minute ago was a sympathetic victim that ALL of us would embrace; has now become the offender. Maybe he even did something as bad or (worse?) than what was done to him. But NOW that he has done something that he would never had done had his life taken a different path; now he's the bad guy; so evil and so monstrous that he must be killed.
Where was society's outrage every day that a helpless child (as helpless as this poor murdered 9 year old) was screaming to a deaf world for help ?
So; now we just wipe out the problem we never looked after....?