Today I grieve for a young girl who I didn't know. She share's a first name with my own cousin and the last name of the man I love-a name I may one day call my own.Why do I grieve? She is no longer with us. Why? She was ripped from among us by the most horrendous act of violence that one may ever experience as WOMAN. She was 16/17. She left home to run an errand which would change the course of her life either way it turned out. Earlier in the year she had taken a regional exam and left home to collect the results at her school. She did so, run another errand and was never seen again. People speculate about what happened and they have no right. No-one deserves what happened to her. Why did it happen to her? Well first she was a girl. Whoever took her, [may have raped her and] murdered her obviously had an attraction to women though it seems to be a sadistic one. He felt the need to exert his power on a young girl who probably couldn't defend herself. It may have been planned or it may have been a crime of opportunity. Unless he is caught we will never know. Her death reminds me of a rape and murder which took place when I was much younger. The killer's reason was written on a wall- she had too much "style" (meaning she was too snobbish).
So today I grieve, for her and for all those young lives we've lost to the viciousness of rape and murder. I pray that her family can recover from this blow and find the strength to go on.
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