Sad day: R.I.P Sandra Cantu
This morning I am sitting here sipping my morning coffee while MSNBC plays in the background as I read the news on the net. A typical morning for me...coffee, and news. There are reports on Obama visiting Turkey...debates on whether or not his first 100 days in office have been time well spent...everyone has an opinion.
Then I read a "breaking news" story on AOL news; California Missing Girl's Body Found. That little girl, Sandra Cantu, who came up missing the last week in March...has been found. Sadly her little body was discovered in a suitcase that had been thrown into an irrigation ditch.
Sandra, a beautiful and innocent 8 year old child, was murdered and discarded by some monster that has yet to be named. The report said that she was still wearing her little pink "Hello Kitty" shirt. The image of this sweet little girl's body being shoved in to a suitcase is just so shockingly horrific that my mind doesn't even want to imagine what her final moments of life was like.
Below this announcement was a link to the story about James Harrison of Graham Washington, and how he murdered his 5 children, before killing himself. The suspected reasoning for the slayings was he was upset when he learned his wife was leaving him for another man.
Five children killed by their own father, and now little Sandra's body being discovered in that suitcase....there really are no words to describe the emotions this all stirs up..
It's a sad day...
Hug and love your children...
Then I read a "breaking news" story on AOL news; California Missing Girl's Body Found. That little girl, Sandra Cantu, who came up missing the last week in March...has been found. Sadly her little body was discovered in a suitcase that had been thrown into an irrigation ditch.
Sandra, a beautiful and innocent 8 year old child, was murdered and discarded by some monster that has yet to be named. The report said that she was still wearing her little pink "Hello Kitty" shirt. The image of this sweet little girl's body being shoved in to a suitcase is just so shockingly horrific that my mind doesn't even want to imagine what her final moments of life was like.
Below this announcement was a link to the story about James Harrison of Graham Washington, and how he murdered his 5 children, before killing himself. The suspected reasoning for the slayings was he was upset when he learned his wife was leaving him for another man.
Five children killed by their own father, and now little Sandra's body being discovered in that suitcase....there really are no words to describe the emotions this all stirs up..
It's a sad day...
Hug and love your children...
Comments
Again, thank you for sharing and for visiting my blog as well, I am sincerely grateful to you for doing so.
All the best to you and, of course, to all the wonderful children out there, too.
Now, off I go to find the kleenex, it seems I suddenly have "something" in my eye.
xox
Tara
What nags at me is we hear about the ones whose lives are tragically taken from them, but not many countless others there are that live a daily HELL of abuse....
Yup...pissed..sick..angry...sorrow pretty much sums up what I feel today when I think about all of this.
Eva, you are so right about all of those countless others that we don't even hear about and that alone makes the subject of abuse all that much more heartbreaking. Geez, I can't even imagine how many out there are living in hell each and everyday and doing so in silence, just thinking about it tears me apart.