About 2 weeks ago I subscribed to Google News Alert on the subject of “child abuse”. What I have read so far made me sick in the stomach. I stayed awake all night several nights ago...I could almost visualize the children's suffering...trying to find an answer... what has happened to human morality such that one is no longer able to differentiate “right” from “wrong”? People who abuse children are pretty low down scums of the earth, to say the least. Do they have a heart or a soul?
Case 1: The police in Los Angeles described this 5 year old’s body as “a study in pain”. He was covered in cigarette burns, including to his genitals. He couldn't fully open his hand because it had been burned on a stove. His tooth was broken with a nerve exposed. And he had been made to sit in his own urine and feces. The 5 year old remains hospitalized by kidney failure brought on from malnutrition and from months of "unbearable psychological and physical abuse.
For two years, authorities said, the mother subjected her son to what veteran detectives described as shocking, ritualistic abuse. The 5-year-old was hung by his hands and wrists from a door jamb and beaten with some sort of leash or chain, police said. He was routinely denied food and water, burned with cigarettes on his body and genitals, and left to sit in his own urine and feces.
In the past few weeks, his hands were held to a hot stove, according to Capt. Fabian Lizarraga, causing injuries that may leave them permanently disfigured.
The boy's 24-year-old mother, allegedly committed the acts for about two years without detection -- until a bizarre series of events last week.
Case 2: In the USA a Bensalem man allegedly beat his daughter so badly she was hospitalized for two months because of bleeding on her brain. Parts of the 6-year-old victim's brain weren't receiving blood and other parts were under pressure from the bleeding inside her head after more than four months of abuse that began in August. She told police that her father continually struck her in the back, chest, legs, neck and head with both his hands and various household objects. The child had abrasions to her forehead, chest and back and was unable to move her left arm and leg, according to court records. She had retinal hemorrhages and bleeding causing pressure on her brain. Other portions of her brain had softened due to limited blood flow while others weren't receiving blood, according to court records. Doctors also found a still-healing rib fracture while examining an X-ray. Dr. Cindy W. Christian, the abuse and neglect specialist, told police the injuries showed repeated physical abuse.
Case 3: Two months after a Chandler woman took her 2-year-old stepson to the hospital unresponsive and weighing less than 13 pounds, the woman and her husband were arrested and charged with child abuse. The boy had to be resuscitated when he arrived at Chandler Regional Medical Center on April 26, and was flown to Banner Desert Medical Center where he was placed in the intensive care unit. He was discharged from the hospital almost a month later weighing 18 pounds, 11 ounces - almost 6 pounds more than when he arrived. "The profundity of what happened to this kid, this is dramatic, this is way out there," pediatrician Dr. Glenn Diebert told police. "This is a 10 on a scale of 10." Dr. Diebert compared the boy to a neglected child in a prison camp.
According to medical records, the boy was born healthy and weighing 6 pounds, 3 ounces. He gained weight consistently until he was 7 months old, when he weighed 17 pounds, police said. The child lived with his biological mother until he was 5 months old.
Are we doing enough to protect our innocent, beautiful and angelic children?
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