Child Abuse

We started yesterday by celebrating the coming of my nephew's baby. The baby shower was decorated with balloons and baby bottles, and the gifts were tiny and precious. Then we got the phone call that a friends little boy of four had been beaten by his mother's boyfriend and was being taken to the hospital by ambulance.

By the time we got there Dominick was in surgery. The surgeons had removed a piece of his fractured skull so the brain had room to swell. Then the surgeons came into the waiting room to tell us that he was brain dead they had pronounced him dead in OR and it was the worse case of child abuse they had ever seen. His little body was burnt with cigarettes, lighters and a torch. His skull had been fractured, nose broken, and his body was badly bruised. He was kept on life support while the medical team looked for matches for his organs. At 10:00 this morning we all said our last good-byes as they removed all the life support and within 30 minutes he left us.

This brought back so much pain, anger and hurt, because 3 years ago I lost my 2 year old granddaughter to child abuse. She was sick and wouldn't quit crying so her mother's boyfriend suffocated her with a pillow.

Both of these senseless death happened in the safety of these children's home. Both of these children had mother's and boyfriends on drugs. Both of these children homes had been investigated by CPS and both these children were left in this environment to fend for themselves.

My anger comes from why are drugs an excuse for this kind of behavior? Why are these children left in the environment where they aren't safe? What could these two babies have possibly done to deserve the physical and mental pain they had to endure. Both these babies had family that would have gladly taken them, loved them and kept them safe, but were not allowed the option.

I was fortunate enough to save one of my grandchildren from anymore of the abuse she had already experienced. She was 18 months old when she came to live with me and had been sold to the highest bidder every night for drugs.

How can we allow our children or grandchildren to live under these conditions?

Dominick you are safe with God now.