Who is protecting the children? Is a question I find myself asking over and over again in my head each and everyday. This question keeps tormenting me because it’s question that no one is asking. I know a story but the word story might imply that it’s a lie or fable but this story is so true. The children are living a very abuse home where the children are being raped, beating and murdered everyday. We here in the United State stands proud that we protect our children because we are the guardians of the future. Every once in awhile one child slips through the crack and we fail at our duties of protection and when it comes to light we do our best that it never happens again. Then the question pounds my head even louder. I hear the voice of the children calling out to me. They are hungry, they are fearful, they are abuse, use, and cased away. So the guardian came riding a huge white horse, valiantly with his sword unsheathed. He cuts the head off the parent of those children and vows to protect the children. He tells them, “no one will ever hurt you again and I am here to look after you”. We cheer because the evil parent is dead.
Then under the protection of the Guardians the children again begins to be killed, raped, and tortured. Who is protecting the children now? WE ARE THE GUARDIANS! Isn’t life value the same across the board? Why is it that we place a higher value on our own lives and indirectly devalue the lives of the ones we fought to protect? A life is a life whether it’s Guardians or the children. Its time to stop this rape, murder, torture and belittlement of life
6 comments:
I just sent an email to my friends yesterday about a little girl that was taken away from her mother due neglect/mistreatment only to be sent back to that same home. She was later raped and killed by her mother's boyfriend (or husband). I thought that was a damn shame and the state agency really failed that child.
I don't understand why children proctection agencies are always in the news for failing to do an adequate job!
Yes we are the Guardians, and we need to do the best job we can.
Great post Stone!
Thanks for popping in on my blog. Nice to have a like minded Bahamian navigating the blog world too. I'm new to this and I hope to hear from you more, and I'll definately be keeping an eye on your blog....
I agree. Heartwarming post, Stone.
Good point...maybe it is not excusable when even one child falls through the cracks.
That is the real and urgent question today in the richest nation on earth.
How can the state tell us we have to feed, clothe, educate, and raise our children
and pay their medical bills, but that we don't have the right to protect!!!
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