Reply #39: I understand how you feel.... [View All]

As a mother, I feel a knot in my stomach every time I read something like this. I can too well imagine helpless children crying out to the parent...confused and wondering why mommy or daddy is hurting them.

For years I thought such people should be put to death. I can't imagine wanting to live if insanity led me to commit such an atrocity against anyone, let alone my own children.

That's exactly how I felt a few years ago, when I first learned about the brutal attack and murder of an 8 year old boy who was playing in his front yard when a madman came up to him and started stabbing him. I was angry, and wept for this child I'd never seen before. His 2nd grade photo was on the news and in the papers every day.

Then I saw the photos of the attacker. I wanted to hate him. I couldn't. I could only hate what he did. The man's face was a portrait of inner agony. I don't know...maybe you had to see it to understand; but all I could think was that there was no hell we could subject the guy to that he hadn't already experienced via the voices in his mind.

I weep for both of them now...