Another Girl Has Simply Disappeared

Yesterday was a sad day. A few days ago, another beautiful little girl went missing. She simply disappeared. No clues. No one saw anything. Nothing left behind. No scent for the dogs to pick up. Nothing. Hundreds of volunteers and police searching the 3 mile radius around her home. Nothing. The grandmother was on TV yesterday begging whoever has her granddaughter, "Just drop her off. Just drop her off at a store, a gas station, someone's front porch. Just drop her off. She is loved and my heart is breaking." I could feel this gramma just bleeding inside. Then later a report came on about the mother's past. Apparently she had moved over from California. In California, she had served 4 years in jail for beating another child and locking her in the closet for hours at a time. There were other instances of child abuse and neglect. And yet, when she got out of jail, she still had custody of her children. What is wrong with our system?! Why did this woman have her children after all that? We should be protecting our children above all else. This makes me feel physically ill. How scared must a child be living in a situation where they don't feel safe. I've said it so many times before. God gives parents the privilege of having children. Parents need to love and protect and nurture those children. Now, to be fair, I don't know what happened to this latest 5-year-old girl. I don't know if the mother did something horrible and has hidden the child, or not. For today, I am going to hold on to the hope that some concerned and caring person knew what was going on inside their house and decided to take the girl to keep her safe. Please, please, please, if you don't do anything else with your life, protect our children. Speak up if you see something wrong. Do something. Keep speaking up and don't stop speaking until that child is safe. If we see something bad happening and do nothing about it, we are almost as guilty. Just do something. Anything is better than nothing.

Today is listen to your mom or dad tell you a good childhood story day.