The media ran a story yesterday about a 9-year old’s letter to Santa (http://is.gd/bYID). Normally a fun and wonderful experience, right? Not for this little one. Her request was simple: Please make her relative stop touching her and her sister.
My heart broke for that little girl and her sister when I read the story. It seemed everyone in her life had failed to protect her, so she turned to Santa – a mythical figure she probably doesn’t believe in any longer – to save her. I cannot begin to understand the loneliness she must have felt to think that was her only option.
There is no justice in today’s legal system for someone like this. Jail isn’t enough, death is too easy, and the fires of Hell are too late. I wish that Hand of Justice was more than an idea for a book.
~T.S.
This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for more crazy headlines from our schools.