It has been weighing heavily on my mind since the day I first heard about it last week. I was driving to work and I listen to CNN Headline News on XM during drive time. I heard the story about the nineteen year old father in Texas that put his two month old daughter in the microwave in a hotel room.
I can't even begin to describe all of the emotions that I felt as a parent- and I cannot even fathom what this father, FATHER was thinking. I got to work and I cried. You hear terrible stories every single day about parents that abuse their children, but for some reason all I could think about was Hayley at two months old. Innocent. Tiny. Unsuspecting.
Now this is real injustice. When there are people trying with all their heart and their life savings to have children and you hear stories like this it really makes you wonder what this world is coming to. And yet, somewhere in Galveston, Texas there is a tiny two month old baby girl recovering from one of the most heinous acts of child abuse I have ever heard of.
I do not care to hear that the devil made him do it. I don't care if he heard voices in his head. I don't care if he blacked out and has no knowledge of it. It makes me beyond sick to my stomach to think that this baby girl for the rest of her life will have to live with the physical scars of something her father did to her. And someday she will know what the physical scars are from and then she will also live with the emotional scars as well.
I cannot possibly save all the children of this world. When I was hoping to become a mother I dreamed about holding my baby, loving it, nurturing it, and teaching it right from wrong. I am sad, and heartbroken that I have to teach my baby girl that there are people out there like this.
I pray that my baby girl never comes into contact with anyone or has any experiences like this in her life. I will protect her with all the ferocity that a mother can muster, and I will pray that it will be enough.





