Feeling brokenhearted tonight. Why do so many children have to suffer at the hands of people that are supposed to care for them????
I have a very hard time reading or listening to the stories in the news about little children being injured or killed at the hands of family members. These stories always bothered me and made my stomach turn but so many times now they hit so hard and I can't stop the tears from streaming down my face.
Tonight in my room I was busy putting some things away when the local news came on. First story was about a little six year old girl who was shot in the back by some person who chased her family's car down the road after they got turned around and lost in an area of the city. I gasped and my stomach knotted up and my prayers went up for this little girl and her family. They made the mistake of turning around in an apartment complex parking lot and apparently their headlights shined into someone's apartment and he did not like it and came after them with a gun, following them and shooting at them as they tried to drive away.
Before I could go to change the channel another story came on. A five month old child is in the hospital with a broken arm. The mother brought the child the ER because when she got home and picked him up she felt a popping in his arm. The police were called and both parents were taken in for questioning. The child had bite marks on him as well (this is when I lost it, shaking, crying, heart pounding, Joey had been bitten). The father admitted that the baby would not stop crying and so he twisted his arm to try and make him stop. He twisted it so hard he broke the infant's arm. I wanted to scream but my son lay sleeping just a few feet away from me.
So here I am two and a half hours after that news story and I can't close my eyes. I can't stop thinking of this poor little boy who suffered at the hands of his father. I can't close my eyes because the nightmare of that horrible day fills my mind. The images of my precious grandson laying on that hospital bed bruised and battered. Never to open his eyes again. Never to smile at us or tell us "shupp" again.
I haven't written much on here lately as we are still waiting for the last appeal to be finished. Hopefully we'll have good news about that in a few weeks. I have every faith in the Idaho Supreme Court that this will be resolved once and for all very soon.
Please do me a favor and love your little ones, cherish them, play with them, see the world from their level by getting down on the floor and playing with them. Relish in the accomplishments, big and small. Take lots of pictures and videos and hug them extra special for me.
With a heart full of sadness and eyes that can't stop leaking, Grandma Kathy
My dear friend: we have never met in person, yet my love for you and your family is as strong as any love I have for dear friends. I know there will be a day we meet and I can give you a big hug. I will never forget that night when you posted in the group for prayers. None of us knew at that moment anything but that your grandson had been rushed to the hospital. I will never forget that gut wrenching sick feeling I had the moment you shared with me what happened. I remember through tears explaining to my family what had happened. Except Aubrey who was too young to understand. Bailey and I stayed on a steady quest to pray as hard as we could. We would wear our Justice for Joey shirts and shared his story everywhere!!! We wanted to bring awareness and explain to people if you get any "feeling" a child is being abused to make the call, tell someone do SOMETHING, because if one life got saves Joey didn't die in vain. That he and he alone from heaven saved one child. I will never forget our late night chats and the updates during the trial and praying even harder this scum bag awful "person" would get every bit of what he deserved. I still proudly carry my key chain and find my attention being caught by it and breaking into prayer for all of you all over again. Joey is fine he's a shinning star in the glory in heaven, but I pray for peace for you and Erin and the rest of the people who loved that beautiful little boy. I still am reminded with the key chain, to share share share his story!!! With each person we share with one more child may be saved and how glorious that would be FOR THE CHILD AND FOR JOEY!!! Imagine his smiles from heaven when he sees one more child was saved. Through tears I tell you my friend and your family. I love you, I am still here and I pray for you all the time!!! Until we meet I will hold you in my heart! Justice for Joey!!!! AMEN!!!!
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