Several months ago a baby approximately 7-8 months was left on a cold stairwell in a Toronto parking garage. A man was caught on a grainy video throwing her to the ground like a piece of garbage. After 2 hours in the -14 degree Celsius weather she was found face down bleeding slightly from cuts to her face by a passerby who just happened to noticed a tiny cry.
Two people were arrested in Kitchener yesterday. They are 30 years old, married with 3 other children. They moved from North York last month. Each face four charges: criminal negligence causing bodily harm; assault causing bodily harm; abandoning a child; and failing to provide the necessities of life
I don't know why but this news story hit me very hard when it happened. You hear of horrible things happening to children everyday and it seems to me that I have been blocking all these images out of my mind. However, perhaps because there was video of the man throwing her to the ground, or, because the picture of her was so eerily similar to my own new born daughter I felt sickened, upset, horrified and more. That someone could do this to their own child when there are so many options available just breaks my heart. Tonight I will hold my children close.
Here is a link to the globe report:
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Dear Dan:
I remember around 1990 there was a horrible murder of two young girls in the Burlington, ON area, one of them Kristen French - a beautiful 15 year old, normal, young teen. The details of that event are still talked about in the media to this day. It haunts me still and for the same reason, i think, that this infant's tragic story did to you. At least, reading your blog made me think of how insane it was that a person could do such things to a child.
This is not always a world of love or justice. Partly it is, of course, but the "other side" will always, sadly, be with us. The measure of how we fight against it, is how we love our children and all the other wee ones in the world who need our voices to give them the justice they deserve. You are such a great mommy - i know my grandchildren will always be loved.
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