The news tonight is dominated with reaction to a not-guilty verdict in the trial of a young girl's death in Florida. Most of the commentators have been outraged. I haven't followed the trial or the story, but from what I can gather from opinions I respect is that it looks very much like someone is going to get away with murder.
A friend of mine recently told me a similar story from Honduras. A two-year old child, left with a "friend" of a working mother, died. The initial story was fever and diarrhea. The body, along with confessions of two older siblings, told a different story.
It was a story of being tied up. A story of being beaten with the blunt end of a machete. A story of sheer terror.
The case in Honduras will never be reported, let alone go to trial. An investigation might lead to the children being taken away from the working parents, shuttled off to the anonymity of some orphanage.
A murderer will not even be arrested, let alone found "not guilty."
Justice, like revenge, is sometimes best served cold. But it is always served. Oh yes.
The blood of two little girls cries from the ground. I have to believe it is heard.
Your right-winger
1 day ago
Justice systems will always fall short, since they are as imperfect as the societies they reflect. But the guilty never really get away with anything.
ReplyDeleteI'm a firm believer in karma, and in this case, karma will win.
ReplyDeleteIf a man willfully sheds the blood of a person [and keeps the guilt of murder upon his conscience], he is fleeing to the pit (the grave) and hastening to his own destruction; let no man stop him! Proverbs 28:17 Amplified Version
ReplyDeleteThe law let her off. Society will not. She will be imprisoned by society for life. And if she does not repent? She must face a day of judgment.