Auntie Charo's Soapbox

As each of us prepare to celebrate Easter, there's a child that will never celebrate his fourth birthday, his sister at GMH, fighting for her life because their father allegedly stabbed the three-year-old to death and almost killing the little girl.
KUAM reported this evening that the father who's 23 is in critical condition after he tried to hang himself. In a perfect world, no one would judge the man who now fights for his life at GMH, the same hospital which the little girl fights for her life. I'm not sure that if I were a doctor or nurse that I would be as caring for the man who could bring himself to stab a child hoping that it would kill the child.
How could a human being look into a child's innocent eyes, loving and caring, joyful, eyes that perhaps look forward to looking for Easter eggs and stab it to death? I can't begin to imagine it, let alone bring myself to pick up a sharp instrument and kill a living lowly animal, let alone a precious child. What has gone wrong with our people?
I think that somewhere in some newscast, I heard that April is the month for the awareness of Child Abuse. I think that we haven't done enough to bring the awareness to those who have become parents of little ones. I have shopped at Ross and at K-Mart and have witnessed mothers who talk to their children as if they were trash, not only using vile language, but mean spirited as well. I leave wondering how they'd feel if those words were the last ones their children had ever heard, but the parents that they are, they'd probably not give a care.
We really have to figure out how to handle our child abuse problem. We can't go on abusing or killing our children. We can't continue looking the other way. I hope this guy lives and I hope he pays for what he's done(allegedly) to his son and daughter and that whoever's reading this reaches out and hugs his/er child real tight and is glad for the gift of that child and that you'll say a little prayer for the little boy who went to Heaven before he got to look for the Easter eggs and for his sister who now fights for her life.