I had the worst training meeting today all on Child Abuse & Neglect. Talk about mood killer. I heard the most horrific stories about children being held down and burned with cigarettes to parents drowning their children and shaking babies to death.
Now look--I don't want children but don't get me wrong, I like working with them and caring for them. I saw my nephew today briefly after the meeting. He's just around ten months old and he is the most adorable thing in the world. I looked at him and thought, "This is horrible.... How can anyone possibly hurt a child? They are innocent, they're like puppies!" It's beyond me that people can knowingly inflict harm upon a child or an animal. I even heard about a sexual abuse case where the uncle told a judge he raped his niece because he wanted to help her become a woman. She was EIGHT.
In my Sociology class we were talking about abuse last week and this girl, Genie, came up. My teacher asked me to visit the site feralchildren.com and I found this:
"Genie (not Jeanie, Geanie, Jeannie or Geannie and, in any case, not her real name) is a modern-day "wild child" who, until discovery at the age of 13, had lived in a state of severe sensory and social deprivation. Strapped to a potty-chair in her home in Temple City, Los Angeles, California, Genie wasn't taught to speak, and was denied normal human interaction."
(Excerpted from: http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=genie)
Honestly, people are so sick. It's so sad the world we live in. I wish I could save everyone. I'm sick of reading horrible stories about Dave Pelzer and other abused children.
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