Ever since I started working for Blue Cross Blue Shield I started watching CNN on the tv in the break room during lunch and breaks. Is it just me or are most of the news stories on CNN recently about murder and horrible things going on in the world? Sure politics make up a majority of the newsworthy headlines recently as to be expected. I know a lot more about the race now than I did before working there. However I am so heartbroken by all the “other” news stories out there. Adults killing kids, kids killing kids, a Marine losing his mind and doing the unthinkable, I mean is there anything that is happy to report anymore?
These news stories are just so disheartening to listen to. It makes me scared to think that I am bringing my child up in this world. The stories that get me most are the parents who kill their children. What the hell goes through their minds at that moment. I mean there have been times I’ve been really angry at my son, but I could never lay hands on him enough to end his life. I fought too long and too hard to bring him into this world and I couldn’t think what the world would be like without him. These people are throwing kids off bridges, tasering them with tasers, tossing a newborn out of a car on the side of the road. I have zero tolerance for this kind of crap. There are so many women out there who cannot have kids of their own who would love to take a child that wasn’t wanted and give it a good loving home. There is no need to kill an innocent child. If you are too scared to do adoption, then take the child to a police station, a hospital, a church, anywhere where that child will be found safe and taken in by someone who will help it. There are so many options that murder is not necessary at all. Not to mention if you don’t want kids, there are ways to protect against that too. Birth control is free at most walk in clinics. I could rant for hours on this soapbox because it’s something that I’ll never understand. How could a parent bring a child into this world just to take it’s life when the going gets tough or when they are bored with playing parent? It makes me wish I was a judge sometimes, cause I’d seek the death penalty for them all.
The story today was Mr. Cutts’ trial. This man was a cop who was accused of killing his 9 month pregnant girlfriend last year. Police were called after the victim’s mother found the son at the home alone and no sign of her daughter. When asked by the police where his mommy was, the little 2 year old boy stated, “Mommy’s in the rug!” I followed this story a bit last year when it broke into the headlines. Now Mr. Cutts is on trial for the murder of Jessie Davis and her unborn child. They are seeking the death penalty if he’s convicted. To hear him tell “his” side of the story today made me ill. This man was a cop, what the hell was he thinking? He said that he “accidentally” his her with his elbow and she “fell hard”. Well being a law enforcement officer wouldn’t he then proceed with CPR and call 911? Oh no not him. He did do CPR and when he got no response from her, he rolled her up in a carpet and tossed her body in a nearby field. Did I mention that he left the 2 year old child (who was also his) at the home alone. That child was alone for two days before anyone came looking for Jessie Davis. This story sickens me in more ways than one. How can anyone kill a pregnant women? I just don’t understand.
That brings me to the Marine who done lost his mind and killed a fellow Marine. According to news the woman was going to testify against the male Marine in a case where she was accusing him of raping her. Well instead of facing charges for rape, he now will face charges of two murders because the female Marine was also pregnant. (Again killing a pregnant woman!) He went AWOL and ran to Mexico after the murder. Her body was found in his backyard buried in a shallow grave and burned. I guess he thought that no one would ever find out. Totally senseless. What goes through someones mind when they choose to murder another living being?
I thought about this. Sure there are certain times in my life when I can easily say that I would murder someone. If someone tried to hurt my husband or my son. If a man tried to rape or hurt me and I felt I had no other means of escape. It doesn’t make murder right, but it makes it explainable. In the cases I’m seeing on the news lately, there is no explanation, it’s just senseless, stupid and cold-hearted. What is this world coming to? I know that things will never get better, but can they get much worse? You tell me.
