It’s getting so bad that I do not want to read the latest news. A mother left her two year old girl and an almost one year old boy with her boyfriend. He had agreed to bring them to meet her in the store parking lot where she was employed when she got off work.
When they picked her up, the mother apparently realized that the little girl was seriously injured. They took her to a local hospital. The hospital immediately “life flighted” her to a trauma center where she died that evening. The cause of death was a brain hemorrhage.
In a court appearance, the man admitted to the judge that he had shoved the girl off of a bed and that her head hit a chair. Apparently, he previously told detectives that he had also shaken the girl while grasping her neck. There was also evidence that she had been slapped in the face. Right now, the boyfriend is charged with injury to a child, but that will probably be upgraded to murder.
Apparently, the boyfriend was also heard telling the mother to let him talk to authorities to explain what happened. Once again, a woman was so attached to a boyfriend that she was going to follow his lead with law enforcement people, even though he had murdered her daughter. We also appear to have another “tough guy” boyfriend who beats small children.
At this point in previous blogs, I usually say that this kind of event seems to be happening more and more in our country and that I do not know what has happened to cause this upsurge in violent crimes against small children. I have thought a lot about this terrible trend. I have wondered if an event in the last number of years could have influenced our society towards an attitude that lowers the value of children as human beings.
In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose to have the life in their womb aborted. National statistics show that serious child abuse incidents tripled in the twenty year period that begins in 1976. Are the two related? I think that they are. That is my opinion. What do you think?