Deaths from Abuse
Two news stories, June 15:
A 3-year-old dies in a foster home from a beating; her sibling was placed in another foster home where she was raped and is now in a mental hospital. She was 6 at the time. They had a home with their grandmother; a sewer pipe broke and social workers deemed the home unfit. Result of this very horrific decision: one child beaten to death, another in a mental hospital. A 13-month-old dies at a day-care center of a beating, because he wanted to watch TV instead of having a diaper change.
What is wrong with us? What is wrong with a nation of people who treat their children with such little regard? Every day we throw children in the garbage because of abuse, neglect, etc. It is bad enough when we do this to helpless animals, but when we do it every day to a helpless child with just an article in The Times to document it, we have reached a point in our society where we perhaps need a license or a review board before we can bring a child into this very disposable world.
SHARON L. STEWART
West Hills
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