BBM -
That's what always gets me, too about these heinous evil crimes...vics aren't engaged in risky behaviour, at home - minding their own business, or doing normal things like jogging or walking to school....and little kids - oh, that one really gets me.
ETA: and I've been thinking as long as I stayed home I would be 'safe'...so much for that after reading an article where Pat Brown said (FWIW) that home is a greater danger than in public....(this was in context to a story about sexual assaults, but still....)
How a human could ever begin to plan & carryout something so horrible is beyond my comprehension...and how MH could even read a book in his cell is mind boggling....how can he concentrate to read a book? I just don't get it.
Yes, Texas it is a scary place that we ALL are living in..No matter whether in a downtown urban highrise apartment building, to a nice "safe" suburb off from a larger city's "dangers", to the small, cozy, "security" of a little town far away from the "evils" of big city life..
This evil is everywhere it knows no boundaries, no races, no social classes, nor is it contained to one specific area geographically.. This evil is 2 doors down from us, 1 block over from us, standing in line behind us in the bank or at the checkout of our local grocery store, it is preying on our "false" sense of security that we have in our everday lives.. Looking, waiting, watching, lurking from literally yards or even feet away, unseen and unknown to us..
This evil is obsessing and fantasizing about our precious innocent children whom are happily enjoying every minute of life, unaware of what is out there waiting and watching for the opportunity to rob us of our children, to rob our children of their beautiful innocence.. Evil covets the perfect innocence and evil must inflict pain, misery, and sorrow on that which they have so long obsessed over..
As we are carefully and thoughtfully, responsibly and considerately live our lives and raising our children nourished with love, affection, encouragement, and respect.. Doing for our neighbors what we want someone to do for us in our time of need, struggle, or help.. And yet still evil finds its way into our city, our town, our neighborhood, our street, and then the unimaginable...
Evil finds its way into our home...just as it did last Wednesday afternoon in Tina Herrman's home. Their "home", their safe haven, their place of security and comfort, that many nights I imagine Sarah and Kody awoke from childhood nightmares to be comforted by their mom that everything was fine, everything was ok, that they were safe in their home where there were no "boogie" men, that it was all just a nightmare..
Evil found its way there and it robbed this family forever of any sense of security, safety...It entered their home that day and it took EVERYTHING that mom and her two children ever knew of what it is to feel safe and secure and it replaced it with pain, misery, torturous and brutal pain that eventually ended 3 of those lives being stolen away that night.. And to leave the one sole survivor forever altered from the evil that she witnessed and endured in those hours and days..much of it all in the "safety" of her own home with her mom and brother.. A living nightmare unlike anything she was capable of comprehending that a human being could inflict and direct...A nightmare that her mom could not wake her from and comfort her thru..
Matthew Hoffman is the evil of which I speak.. And it can take its shape as anyone and its deceit runs deep.. It is EVERYWHERE AT THIS POINT and I pray that God keep us safe from this evil that knows no boundaries...The evil such as Matthew Hoffman..
