In my previous post, i spoke of child abuse...and in the list of family who can betray a child by abusing them...i left out the "mother" thinking...mothers can't hurt their children...why would they...?
I was so wrong...today i am disappointed, hurt, scared and have realized more than ever...that this place is full of cruelty. And children are most unsafe here.
A close friend of mine shared a video that left me dumbfounded. I wont embed it here, because i cannot give space to something so negative on my blog. I will however brief you about it...A malaysian woman (18 yrs) i think is shown beating her 10 month old baby...continuously...this is caught on a camera phone by a woman who's voice we hear telling this lady to stop...but this woman filming doesn't do anything to stop her...
She beats the child by kicking it, hitting her with a pillow, pinching her, pulling her hair, throws her cell phone at her...i couldn't sit through it. Watch it if you have the will power....Apparently shes in jail now, for eighteen months (i would have sentenced her to death). The baby, thank god, is safe and in foster care and is doing well. However, we'll never know about her mental health...the torture may manifest itself very differently later on.
Today,after watching this...my friend (who shared this video) and i have decided that we will have to do something for children in the coming year. In whatever way, in whatever capacity.
A close friend of mine shared a video that left me dumbfounded. I wont embed it here, because i cannot give space to something so negative on my blog. I will however brief you about it...A malaysian woman (18 yrs) i think is shown beating her 10 month old baby...continuously...this is caught on a camera phone by a woman who's voice we hear telling this lady to stop...but this woman filming doesn't do anything to stop her...
She beats the child by kicking it, hitting her with a pillow, pinching her, pulling her hair, throws her cell phone at her...i couldn't sit through it. Watch it if you have the will power....Apparently shes in jail now, for eighteen months (i would have sentenced her to death). The baby, thank god, is safe and in foster care and is doing well. However, we'll never know about her mental health...the torture may manifest itself very differently later on.
Today,after watching this...my friend (who shared this video) and i have decided that we will have to do something for children in the coming year. In whatever way, in whatever capacity.
This video shook the ground upon which i stand. It shook me out of this oblivion that i am in.
I feel like shit.
I feel like shit.
But it needed to be something so brutal to wake me up.
Jamaican mother charged over daughter’s rape
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/news/breaking-news/06/03/jamaican-mother-charged-over-daughter%E2%80%99s-rape/
Mother, live-in boyfriend accused of horrific child abuse
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/18666349/mother-accused-of-abusing-4-year-old-girl
Just 2 of the many news items in the past couple of days in the news. As I mentioned previously, I shudder to imagine how many more are out there.
I have been thinking about this since your last post and I believe that the incidents are rising because we are changing as a society and as individuals. Our need to assert ourselves as individuals and our desires to be over and above everything else has meant that we are taking the easy and the cruel way out in the choices we make. And children being the helpless, dependent, silent voices that we have around us are easy targets to either give vent to our frustrations or to advance our greed/desire. How do we change that? How do we create a society which is less about the individual and more about the families we create? I am sometimes scared that we are on a ride that cannot be reversed, maybe just slowed down?
I fully support your endevour to do something positive in this matter. As an artist, you have the gift to express yourself in a manner that people can relate to and it would be a loss if you do not do that. So go ahead and do whatever you can. Best wishes for that!
P.S. - Are you aware of the "ring the bell" campaign for stopping marital abuse? That was so simple but so so effective. Great learning from that. And sorry if I rambled a bit in the middle - sometimes the enormity and cruelty of all of this tends to be very overwhelming.