I am so sorry for what you and the many other victims of abuse had to experience during the years that should have provided you with your best memories not your worst. I am sorry that you and the many like you, had to spend so much of your adult years learning to trust, because those who should have been the most trustworthy let you down, I am sorry that those that had their childhoods stolen by adults (who more than likely perpetuated the treatment that had stolen their own childhoods) stole yours. I am sorry for the innocence stolen and smiles missed. I am sorry for the children of my generation who legally had less protection from abuse than did domestic animals, because dogs and cats were given legal protection before children. I am sorry for the nightmares that were a reality, that the monsters were in your waking hours and sleep was your escape. I am sorry for the antidepressants and therapy so many have needed to overcome what happed behind the closed doors at home where you should have felt safe and secure. I am sorry for the spouses and future spouses of these children because they too have to pay for the loss of trust, thrown away by those who who should have been protectors not abusers. I am sorry for all of the abused children who used and abused alcohol or drugs to self medicate to bury the pain, fear and anger, never finding the safety, security,love and help need to move past their loss. I am sorry that as a society for all we have learned we have not found a way to protect the most vulnerable amongst us. I am sorry that everyday we see, hear or read of another dispicable act perpetrated upon another beautiful child. I am sorry for the little boys who grew up to be abusers because that was the example the saw growing up. I am sorry for the little girls who had their innocence stolen only to repeat that theft with their own children. I am sorry for the victims that committed suicide because they never found their way out of the darkness. I am sorry there were no protectors there for you, no comforters to hold you tight and make everything ok. I am sorry for the fear the children of abuse deal with raising children of thief own always second guessing themselves, checking and rechecking every interaction to make sure they dont follow in the footsteps of their own abusers, so often over compensating. I am sorry that we have, a war on poverty a war, on drugs a war on terrorism, a war on graffiti but no war on abuse. Child abuse, sexual abuse, elder abuse, domestic violence, spousal abuse, mental abuse all have one thing in common, victims. When will we take a ZERO TOLERANCE stand on violence, and abuse? When is enough enough? When is the death of 1 child from abuse or neglect too many? WE THE PEOPLE have to say ENOUGH. We can organize to save the three eye two toed gloglesnot, raise billions of dollars to protect protest and preserve habitation for some irrelevant. We can spend trillions of tax dollars on reasearch of pig farts or build bridges to nowhere but when do we use our money our time and our resources to protect our most valuable asset, our children? Children are not property. They are gifts on loan, entrusted to us only to prepare them for a happy health future where the can be contributing members of society. The future doctors, lawyers, farmers,chefs, waitress, pilot,Mother, Father and scientists who will cure cancer, solve world hunger, love and be loved and be able to pass that to the next generation. It matters not what color our skin is, what language we speak, what country we are born in, what political party we join, what religion we have to what gender we are our children are the future for this world. How many future doctors or scientists have already been taken? Was Sherin supposed to cure cancer? Was Gabriel Fernandez supposed to be our first Hispanic president? Was Adrian Jones supposed to end world hunger? We will never know because they died at the hands of those that were supposed to,protect them, love them unconditionally, teach them how to be kind, loving contributing memebers of society not hide them away in culverts or feed them to pigs. 1 just 1 too many!
Where are the mad mothers the mothers against drunk drivers made change for the better. Where are the mothers against child abuse or child murder or child neglect. Liam Roberts starved to death age 6, 17 pounds, Sterling Koehn starved to death age 4 months, under 7 pounds, KeYounte Penn age 2 and JaKarter Williams age 1-year-old cooked to death in oven.
ENOUGH
JMHO