Monday, November 26, 2007
Headline brutality
The murder of Riley Ann Sawyers tests one's opposition to the death penalty.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
The girl was beaten with leather belts, had her head held underwater in a bathtub and then was thrown across a room, her head slamming into a tile floor, Trenor said in the document. She said they kept the body in a storage shed for one to two months before they put it in a plastic bin and dumped it into Galveston Bay.This is the kind of headline brutality toward children fueling The Nancy Grace Show night after night. But in Elizabeth, a 13 year old boy riding his bike after midnight was shot & killed. In Newark, an 8 year old boy just walking on in daylight was targeted & wounded in a drive-by shooting. Who knows why? For evidence that child abuse & indifference to child welfare is epidemic, just look in today's paper, no matter where you live. A world of sociopaths, alcoholics & drug addicts, sadists, an endless variety of perverted minds.