Caitlyn Boyd
January 1, 1997
Theme: What world problem concerns you the most, and how would
you solve it?
Hey everyone, how's it goin'? I am not sure that there is a world
problem that concerns me the most because many things concern me, babies
dying of AIDS, kids killing themselves with guns that their parents have
in the house, people on welfare. I could really go on and on. But a
problem that makes the saddest is the problem of child abuse. A while
ago, I was reading an article on child abuse and it really affected me.
Being the overly-emotional person that I am, of course it made me cry.
There was a story of a five year old boy who weighed something like 25
or 30 pounds. I don't know if you know anything about kids, but that is
how much toddlers (about 14 months to 2 years old) weigh. The child
looked like he was about 2 and he was 5. When Social Services finally
got there, he was playing in his own feces and hadn't been cleaned in
like two weeks or something. I read the article a while ago so it is all
very sketchy. They took the boy to be examined and it was discovered
that this little 5 year old had gonorrhea of the throat. That was one of
the most disgusting things I have read. Obviously there was some
extensive sexual abuse going on also. How could someone do that to any
child, much less your own child? I know that is something I will never
understand. I never want to be able to understand that. I don't really
know what the solution to this problem is. There is no real way to
prevent this because you have no idea what other people are doing in
their own homes. But the punishment for this crime should be severe. I
am not trying to make anyone's life more important than someone else but
this crime is worse than murder in my mind. This child has to live with
this for the rest of his life. He will forever know that his father
forced in to have oral sex and gave him gonorrhea. I just think these
people are disgusting and they deserve the absolute worse punishment
possible. I hope I didn't depress anyone because I know I am depressed
after writing this. I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays and I
will talk to y'all later. Take care.
Caitlyn
cxboyd@maila.wm.edu
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