Several days ago, I put up a status asking for prayers & positive thoughts for a co-worker who lost her child due to a senseless act of violence. This woman is one of the sweetest people I know, and it tears my heart out knowing that she is going through this.
Thursday night, Feb 6th, her boyfriend came and picked her up from work. Her daughter was unconscious in the carseat. The boyfriend claimed the child was asleep. The woman knew something was wrong, and it was confirmed when they stopped at a traffic light. She made the decision that the child needed to go to the emergency room. The local emergency room called for life flight and little Lanie was flown to Cleveland Rainbow Babies & Childrens hospital where she died early Friday morning as a result of severe head trauma.
The boyfriend was arraigned in court Monday afternoon and has been bound over to the grand jury. *What I wouldn't give to sit on that jury!
It is sad enough when a child has to go under the moritician's blade for natural causes, but its even sadder and far more disturbing when a child has to go under the mortician's blade as a result of violence committed against that child.
This little girl didn't get to start school, didn't get to learn to drive a car, go on a date, or live to see adulthood all because the man responsible for the loss of this young life was jacked up on heroin and he decided to beat her for whatever reason.
*We do not know all of the details - what we know is that he IS responsible and if there is a god he will not leave prison alive!