Down the Rabbit Hole

Voiceless Victims

There are far too many stories in the news lately about children becoming victims of senseless violence. The Casey Anthony trial and subsequent "not guilty" verdict has elicited outrage and inspired people all over step up and memorialize Caylee, this innocent toddler who has been denied justice. There is something touching about strangers all over the world leaving their porch lights on in honor of her memory. Her perfect little face has appeared over and over again in pictures on the news and each time her shy little smile tugs at your heart it makes you ache for the loss. There is something particularly heinous about parents who would harm their own children. There is something especially loathsome about people that would abuse that ultimate position of trust. It is hard, looking at my own daughter, to imagine what has gone so fundamentally wrong with these parents that they turn against their own babies. It is beyond disturbing.