Great posts! A child is gone and gone too soon and the people that brought him into the world and that he expected to love him the most failed him the greatest. I have no empathy or sympathy for them because of all of those emotions are focused on Noah. He IS the victim. Not the parents who neglected him.
You know it is sort of ironic in ways how society views the dangers concerning young children. They have all these programs that warn about stranger danger yet in truth only 5% of those who abuse and murder children are strangers. A child is more likely to be killed by drowning in a pool or in a car accident than being murdered by a stranger. No one seems to want to talk about the dirty little secret in America which is the other 95%. Its like focusing on an ant and ignoring the huge elephant in the room.
Those are really the ones that children have to fear the most. It is the enemy within their own homes the majority of time who is a danger to them whether they are physically (including beatings and repeated rapes), emotionally abused or grossly neglected. Many more bio parents murder their children than when a stranger does. It is very rare for a stranger to murder a child even if they are a pedophile. Yet over 400 children are murdered each year and mostly by one of the biological parents or someone who lived within the home with the child.
And do you ever notice when a parent is arrested for sexually abusing their child they rarely do hardly anytime for it? One man had raped his little daughter for four years and only got probation but if a stranger had raped her once he would have most likely been given at least LWOP.
It sends such a horrible message. It is as if its ok to physically abuse (including rape), or grossly neglect a child as long as that child is seen as property of the parents to do with as they wish. Sometimes the justice system gives meaning when a parent says 'I brought you into this world and I can take you out.'
I have said many times before that it seems if the offender is a 'mother' the child victim is seen as having less worth in our justice system. I have come to that sad conclusion based on the great disparity we have when it comes to punishment meted out between the two genders for the same type of crimes. Time and time again if moms don't get off completely by using some excuse then they don't do nearly the time compared to a 'father' when he kills his own.
Every now and then the mom will be punished severely if she murders her child or children but it isn't very consistent. Heck even if they kill an adult they are far more likely to be acquitted or receive a much lesser sentence even if the crime was brutal and premeditated.
If we are ever going to really be Justice for ALL then we have got to start giving each and every one of these precious children who are murdered the same weight regardless of the gender of the offender.
Every time a trial comes up that involves a female defendant my stomach stays in knots hoping that true justice will prevail. If the case involves a male I don't worry about it nearly as much. Society by and large in the criminal justice system are far harder on a male than a female. They are afforded no excuses and a female is. Only 2-4% of mothers who murder children are legally insane yet we seem to see that defense as if it is like wearing an old shoe whether it fits or not and of course the abuse excuse seems to be tattooed on the hip of all female defendants these days.
If this mom is charged with murder I have no doubt the excuses will rush forth from her attorneys from PPD to abuse claims.
We have to start giving these children.... who lives a horrible abusive life or who dies a horrible death at the hands of a parent(s) .........equal worth/value. All of them deserve nothing less. If not, we are failing the very ones who are most deserving of true justice.
IMO
