As the topic for this week.... Abuse is ranged in different forms, ways, sizes,and amounts. It can also vary from different ages.
My main focus is child abuse; as you can see.
Later on I will briefly introduce similar issuse leading up to different ages.
I was surfing the web, to find something intriguing to bring up for a discussion, when I found myself looking at news reports.
The following was found in the Chicago Tribune; this article is on of the many that slightly disturbed me:
"An Iowa man accused of sexually abusing three of his nine children. He was captured in Chicago. The man was taken into custody Thursday morning at an apartment complex where authorities believed his mother lives. The man was thirty-six years old! Officials searched an apartment and learned the man fled out a back door. Officers found him hiding under a stairwell.The man faces eight counts of sexual abuse. His wife, who was arrested in Des Moines on Monday, faces three counts of neglect. The Associated Press is not using the couple's names to protect the privacy of the children."
So, knowing it's anywhere and everywhere, and could be happening right here and now, how does it make you feel? Sick, angry, dissapointed, disgusting? You not alone, thats why this blog is here.
Anyway, to my point.... This shouldn't be surprising to anyone viewing, but yet it still takes us by surprise.
I ask myself questions all the time like, why children have to suffer, along with our young adults and our elders. Even the disabled.... The world is cruel, and life sometime sucks, and we think that theres nothing to do
WRONG! Theres plenty to do.... Abused childern, young adults, physically disabled, and our elders think that there is no way out of abuse.
That there is nowhere to turn but down. That there is no hope, no prayer, no nothing to get them through.... don't let another life end, another heart fail, another inoccent life vanish from our touch.
Everyone want to be a hero, right? Its almost everyones dream.... well it can be! Think back to the beginning of this post. Think about those three children and how they will have to live on in pain knowing that their Father abused them...
Think about if it were you in there position....
I don't know if the kids were treated correctly after they were found, or that they are safe now, or if they are even still being abused by whoever the are with now... I don't know these things for a fact... But what if were you, and what if there was no one there for you... I know I would be in a place where there is no light, no place for returning, a place where guilt is playing tricks on my mind, feeling ripped up and worthless for the rest of my life...
Think about little kids, from the ages five and up maybe younger feeling the same way you and I feel, except their the victims and we can only imagine.... The pain, the misery. Deep internal wounds that can never be healed. Broken hearts that will never be whole. Trust that is blown away in the wind.
Although everything won't be back to the way it was.... Everyone can try. Whether is a friend, family member, a neighbor, and friend of a friend... Show that person that you care.... Be that person's hero!
I don't want to say too much.... Until my next post.
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