Children come in all shapes, sizes, colors, gifts,
talents, and personalities. They come to us in little packages of perfection,
so tiny, so precious, so fragile, we wrap a huge blanket of protection around
them their first few years.
At least that’s what we hope a good mother and father
will do.
Broken kids, with broken bones and broken lives, are hard
to fix. We can’t just take a shaken baby to the hospital and expect it to be
alright. Once the baby is broken, the damage has already been done. Many times the
destruction is irreversible.
Kids can be broken in a number of ways, physically,
sexually, and psychologically. But when a child is murdered—it’s a break that no
one can fix!
The Department of Children and Families Officials say
that while the number of child abuse cases have remained stable, the number of
extreme cases is on the rise.
One teenage mom facing jail time, admitted she burnt her
baby’s genitals with a straightening iron. The baby also had several broken
bones. Read
Story A 20 year old mother who killed her infant son, took the
corpse shopping with her the next day. Read
Story A Grandmother and
Stepmother are being tried in the death of a 9-year-old Alabama girl for forcing
her to run for hours, without fluids. Police say the girl was ordered to run
for 3 hours as punishment for lying to her grandmother. Read
Story Another mother who was
being tried in the death of her 2 year old son, was given a suspended sentence,
and smirked on her way out of the courtroom. Read
Story
The tragic stories seem to spread all over the U.S.A. like
wild fire. Many cases even involve the mother’s boyfriend. In one recent case,
Gavin Sola, 22, of West Melbourne, is facing first-degree murder charges for
the death of his girlfriend’s infant son. Read
More This is just one of many horrific cases that are making headlines
each day. A Pennsylvania mother went out of town, leaving her 27 year old boyfriend
to take care of her three children. The youngest child, an 18 month old left in
his care, suffered a broken leg and later died. Read
Story A 30 year old Raleigh man
abused his girlfriend’s 19 month old daughter. The toddler suffered lacerated liver
and bruised kidneys. She also had blood in her stomach, cuts on her lip, and bruises
on her head. He also tried to set the place on fire. Read
Story
These are tragic stories for sure. However, there are a
variety of ways to discipline children without abuse. Parents can give their
kids a time out, put them in their bedroom, take their favorite toy away, or
even offer rewards such as a special snack or to watch a favorite movie for
good behavior.
Sadly, this particular doctor thought that waterboarding
was a good way of showing discipline to his 9 year old daughter. Waterboarding
is where you hold a child’s head under a sink of running water, allowing it to
go up their nose and in their mouth. Thankfully, the good doctor, and his wife
(who watched this take place four different times over a two year period) are
being charged with reckless endangerment and conspiracy. Both of their children
have been removed from their home and placed in protective custody. Read
Story
Other parents from a Russian Muslim Cult are being
charged after taking their children into captivity for more than ten years.
Living underground in unheated cells, many of these children age 1-17 have
never seen light of day. Read
Story
These articles show us that parents and adults are the
one’s who need fixing. These precious children have been betrayed and broken by
everyone and anyone they trusted. It seems anyone can have and own a baby—but to
purchase a house, car, or to take out any kind of loan, a mound of paperwork
and a background check is required first. Then, and only then, if you meet the
required qualifications, can you be trusted to pay back such a huge debt.
Tragically,
these children are paying their parents debts with their very lives!
What if, as adults, we made sure our lives were in order
and could pay the debt of being responsible parents before ever bringing a
child into the world? What if we, as responsible parents, checked the
backgrounds of those we entrusted to our children’s care and made them go
through a mound of paperwork before leaving our children with them? Imagine how
many kids would still be here today, unbroken, healthy, and thriving, planning
their futures!
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Written
by: Lisa Freeman,
Lifelong Abuse Survivor & Advocate for Child Abuse, CEO of Abuse Bites,
Healing Projects Specialist for Bully Police USA, Award-Winning Author &
Speaker from Michigan, Certified Pet Therapist & Dog Trainer More
About Lisa Freeman
