Crimes against the innocent

Now, I realize this is not a fun topic, but this is something that really, really bothers me. Inflames my sensibilities, if you will. I'm talking about these mothers who take it upon themselves to end their lives and take their children with them. Yeah, they are "mothers" alright.

I read a story on Yahoo news about a young mother in Texas who hung herself and her 3 young daughters. She also tried to hang her 8 month old daughter, but she was found alive and taken to the hospital. Thankfully, the baby survived and is OK, but the other little girls are dead at the hands of the one person in the world who was in charge of their safety.

What I don't understand is how, as a mother and a human being, you can look into the face of a 2 year old and wrap a noose around her throat. How do you make the decision to look into the face of that baby girl and ultimately decide that she will no longer live her life? If you are depressed or hate your life, then do what you've got to do for yourself. End it if you decide...but why take a child, your own child, and cause them to suffer? It's disgusting and it makes me angry.

The rest of the story was peppered with accounts of other women in the area, and in other parts of Texas, who've decided that the only answer to whatever problem they have is death for themselves and/or their children. One woman fatally severed the arms of her 10 month old baby. I don't know if her immediate intent was death for her child or just permanent maiming. Either way I want to pummel her.

I get more angry and sad as I read stories like these. And this isn't anything new....remember the high school girl who had a baby then crushed it's scull with a rock and dumped it in the trash? My hatred for these types of woman started when I heard that story, I think. I'll never forget the sadness in my heart when I heard that on the news for the first time.

Disgusting. All of them. I don't care if you can't pay your bills or if your boyfriend/husband is an ass; children do not deserve to suffer your fate. They have a chance at life without you. And if you're willing to kill them, then they deserve a chance without you. I wish I believed in a heaven or hell. Then there would be some sort of eternal punishment for the unthinkable crimes against the truly innocent. This goes for child molesters and child murderers. Some how, as a mother, I find the women who kill their own children reprehensible to a level that is beyond my description.

If you've ever been loved by a child or been in charge of taking care of one, you probably understand what I mean....how completely trusting and pure their affection and love for you really is. It's unmeasurable. Which is why I find murdering mothers and the crimes they commit so heinous. It makes me sad and angry and I don't think that will ever change.