Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Another kind of Black Day

The very day Arthur Freeman murdered little darling Darcy by throwing her off the Westgate Bridge will go down in history as the day that we all failed because we don’t want to get involved; vulnerable children were given to a psychotic father costing the life of a little treasure, the Family Court has failed again and we let it. On the same day a Madam faced charges for allowing a 14 year old girl who lied about her age using forged papers so she could work as a prostitute meant again we have failed. We failed both the Madam who was never removed from her own childhood nightmare and for her whole life we have ignored the 14 year old; I have no doubt that both come from very similar backgrounds as appears to be the case in court documents. Again, on the same day three girls were killed on the road after a nights partying and one of those ‘girls’ was a mother herself at only 18, why?

It is highly unlikely the 14 year old won’t have any future and we will all feel sad for her until she turns 18 then we will turn on her and throw her to the wolves because of her birthday and when she is 18 she risks being killed through stupidity.

It is indeed a very tragic and solemn day which is beyond words and there will be so many victims born out of today’s sustained barrage on the ‘family’ that I can only hope we respond to this disaster as we did the Tsunami with both funding and care because this is the worst kind of ‘national’ disaster. Remember the two little boys and their mum but for god sake remember the little girl and all other victims of a society that doesn’t seem to care. We need to deal with this with more urgency than ever before because quite clearly we have lost our moral compass and just don’t care anymore.

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