My wife and I have been disturbed at what seems to be a large number of news stories in which children are the victims of many heinous crimes and we are especially saddened and repulsed by the stories in which the children die at the hands of their parents.
I comfort myself in knowing that the LORD will take these innocent souls unto Himself and relieve them of the suffering they experienced on earth, but I still mourn the lost life and potential of those children, along with the other innocents murdered for profit and convenience.
The Gospel According to St. Luke 17:1-2
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
I notice there were also four older children, so six children under 12 in the family and the "The father's lawyer, Michael Cridland, told the court that his client had not been responsible for caring for the twins and had not seen them since Christmas."
ReplyDeleteSo I am thinking that family break-up, leaving the mother to care for the six herself, may have had something to do with this.
We had a murder of a toddler by his father this weekend. The parents were separated and he had the child for the weekend.
I wonder if family break-up often precedes these tragedies.
I have found that in most cases it is the tools, tricks and crafts of the world, flesh and the Devil which has led to these heinous crimes.
ReplyDeleteIn my real world job, I must deal with those who have committed crimes upon children (rape, incest, assault and murder) and have found that most of them did so out of sinful and ungodly reasoning.
A father, grabbing his 6 month old by the ankles and bashing her against the wall, killing her because she was keeping him awake and cutting into "his time".
Another father that repeatedly slammed his son against the floor of their apartment, because he was mad at the boys mother, the child eventually died from his wounds.
In all of the cases I have been involved in, there is no other explanation than evil and sin. All of the defendants were cleared for trial by court ordered psychological evaluations and few showed any signs of remorse and believed that they are being wronged by their arrest and prosecution.
It is unfortunate that the State Department of Corrections has separate units to house such offenders, because if they were integrated into the general population in most prisons and the other inmates learned that the offender had harmed a child, the outcome could be painful or deadly for them.
God Bless,
Kevin