Here's to that!!!
And may her justice help prevent such crimes in the future, too!
This must end! It has become endemic in our culture. The statement MUST be made that it will not be tolerated and the conditions that ALLOW this to happen will NOT be repeated.
Here's to you, Aliahna, that your short life will not have been in vain. Know that you are loved by so MANY even as you have transcended our world and the wretched one you were entrusted to. <3
I think I am becoming quite cynical in my old age.
Even when these monsters are faced with the death penalty, these monsters continue to commit these atrocious acts against our children.
It is as if nothing scares them and the only thing they are concerned with is that fleeting moment of self-gratification.
They know the consequences, yet they continue to steal, abduct, molest, assault, beat, rape, and then murder our babies.
They know that they can, and likely will, be caught and brought to justice, and that still does not stop them from doing their dastardly deeds.
It is not only utterly maddening, but the rate at which these offenses are occurring is staggeringly frightening.
We only follow a few of the cases that occur--there are untold numbers of children who are barely given a bleep on the newsreels that are dying at the hands of caregivers and/or their significant others every single day. There are children being beaten and abused so badly that they die in their own homes. There are children being molested and then killed by people who are supposed to be caring for them. They are being tossed away like garbage to spend eternity in landfills or in some out of the way wooded area with society none the wiser as to their whereabouts.
What gives these people the right to cause such irreparable harm to babies? Why are we always hearing of women being murdered by a husband because he doesn't want a divorce? Why do boyfriends think that it is okay to kill their girlfriends rather than face a breakup? How can a mother so viciously hate their own child that they can beat, abuse, or starve them over a period of time until they die right before their very eyes?
What the hell is wrong with our world? How has our world become so ugly that it is almost commonplace to hear of these atrocities?
Possessiveness, permissiveness, political correctness, and even a bit of bleeding heart mentalities, in my opinion, have led to a lot of what we are seeing lately.
Yes, there is a time for leniency, but we MUST draw the line when it comes to teaching our children about boundaries.
These crimes of today are being committed by people who as children were raised with a "Me, Me, Me" mentality. They were raised watching violent and sexually suggestive television/movies, not to mention the violent video games that stock the shelves. They have no respect for other people AT ALL--much less for humanity in general. They could care less about how their actions impact other people--they only are concerned about themselves, their lives, their little world.
As a little girl, I took piano lessons. I rode the city bus across town to the local community college where my mother worked to take my lessons. Every morning my mother reminded me about the rules of riding on the bus. "If an older person or a pregnant woman gets on the bus and you are sitting in a seat close to the front, get up and move back further and give them your seat. If the bus is full, and there are no other seats, then YOU must stand up."
I was 9 years old.
And I have never forgotten.
It is called respect.
I see our younger generation(s) growing up with absolutely no sense of respect for other people. I defy anyone to relate a scenario such as my city bus ride that they have witnessed in the past day, week, month, year. I bet there are almost none. The younger generations do not care if their actions in some way negatively impede on anyone else. If it does not benefit THEM, it is unimportant.
It makes me sick.
More than that, it makes me sad.
This sense of entitlement in which these people are growing up is going to lead to more and more cases such as little Aliahna's. Whatever led to her death was due to a sense of sheer entitlement.
Michael Len Plumadore decided that he was entitled, he had the need and the right to make her breathe her last breathe--he stole away HER right to live, to go to that birthday party, to grow up, to have a family. I am not even going to get into the possibilty that he sexually assaulted her, because we don't know that yet (although I have very strong suspicions).
How dare he?!
I don't know what the answers are to changing things, to stop the permissive/entitlement tide that has swept through our world of late. Changing the laws to make them stricter only makes the abusers and murderers hide their crimes better so that their victims are not found, making it that much more difficult to prosecute the perpetrators.
I don't know how to stop the child molesters, the wife murderers, the baby killers. I don't have the answers.
All I know is that IT HAS TO STOP.
