October 25, 2012
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Two families…
In a small town in Southern New Jersey this week, one twelve year old child lost her life and two teen boys ruined theirs- over a bike! Two families caught in the middle of pain and agony are trying to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense. It’s a place where you let your kid ride her bike to visit friends and don’t expect her to encounter danger. The brothers, 15 and 17, killed her and stuffed her in a recycling bin… and then kept her bike. Their mother concerned about something she read on one of the son’s facebook notified police. Neither family will be the same. How do you begin to move on when your precious child is stolen from you like that? How do you move on when you realize the boys you love are capable of such evil? It must have killed that mother to do the right thing and call police. It doesn’t bring the other child back, but it begins in a very tiny way to make amends for something that can’t be fixed. Would you be able to call the police on your sons? I’m not sure….
Comments (1)
It’s tough, but the mother did the only thing she could do. Reminds me of a time I got burglarized by the kid next door when I was on vacation. The mother did the right thing, reported it (she found some of my stuff in his bedroom) and her son went to jail. It’s tough, but it’s the only right thing to do.
(Easy for me to say. I’m not in the same position of either of those mothers.)