The police differentiate between child abuse and child neglect. But I won't. If we are to create a society that values our children and protects them at all costs, we must examine all these stories to find the cures.
Out of Amherst, Virginia we learn about 19-year-old Sandrina Mae Busick whose eight-month-old son ended up in the hospital with severe burns. This, and the fact that the mother is being held in the Amherst County Jail without bond, is all that the report shares.
In Tahlequah, Oklahoma 19-year old Amber Walker and 18-year old Henry Carey were literally having a tug-of-war with their two-month-old daughter when her leg broke. However, an examination at the hospital revealed that the child had suffered inujries two other times. This child is TWO MONTHS OLD!
In Johnson County, Texas a 33-year old man faces allegations of domestic violence and child abuse after threatening an assaulting two of his three children. Details are scarce.
I cannot write about child abuse without writing of sexual abuse of children. Only four days into 2010, and we learn about Jared Mohler who is accused, along with his father and three brothers, of sexually abusing children on the family farm in Bates City since the 1980s. Deplorable. How can five men abuse child after child for DECADES?!
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