** Child Abuse Casts a shadow

Another Guest Blogger! Enjoy, and share your thoughts, please!
-Nomz and Sazaran

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”

Herbert Ward

It breaks my heart every single day to know that at least 4 children in America have died from child abuse. What a selfish act to hurt an innocent child, toddler, or infant. The most disturbing part for me to swallow is most of the abusers are either a Mother or a Father to these children. These are the people children are suppose to be able to run to when they need comfort, love, attention, and support. Instead they raise their hands at them and think thats a better to take care of the situation. What are we doing as a society to help? Most of us seem to look the other way and never report it. A call to the police could change a child’s life, even save a life.

CPS is a place I feel needs to re-educate their staffing. So many times Mothers with post partum depression are let off the hook with a slap on the wrist. Then later they have abused their children or even kill them. If these workers would just take a minute to actually do their job more lives would be saved. If someone is sitting there saying I think my child belongs with God you shouldn’t just shrug that off. That’s a direct threat to the child.

I also strongly believe that foster parents need to be evaluated just a tad bit more. I read a case where a foster parent had a child in her care for less then a few hours and struck a blow to a six year olds head and killed him. To me it’s so simple if you don’t want to look after children as a foster parent then don’t become one. These children need a safe place to go, and just putting them right back in danger really gets my blood to boil. Maybe if the state would put cameras in their home it wouldn’t even cross their mind to hurt a child.

Where is the justice for these concrete angels? So many of the abusers are walking free as of right now! How is that justice? You can get more time for killing a cow or a dog than a child? We need to step up and open our eyes. We need to speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves! We go to great lengths to protect other countries but look at what is happening right under our noses.

Mothers, Fathers, brothers, sisters, and grandparents if you feel so much stress or anger towards a child call help. Put the child in a safe place while you take a ten minute break to collect your thoughts. It only takes 3 seconds to shake a baby so hard they will be handicapped or killed. Remember that a baby never died from crying, but a baby can die from blunt force!

You can call me Junbzee.

-- Edits from D.O. --

If you suspect child abuse, please call (in the USA):

1-800-4-A-CHILD (422-4453).

For more information regarding child abuse, please visit this site.