Children should be able to trust their parents above all others.
Reality is that is often not the case and it is not
Until tragedy occurs that we realize that
Mom or dad is the enemy, hiding right there in plain sight.
Parents with problems- psychological, physical, economical, the list goes on,
Leaving us to ask ourselves as a society how could we allow children to
Ever be at the heart of a search that started in the hands of their mother?
The other day I passed two teams on the side of a major highway, searching for these children in the brush and in a storm runoff pond. My heart literally crumpled & it literally took my breath away. I can't fathom how that family is feeling. At the same time it is hard not to be cognizant of the fact the mother is someone's daughter, who turned out to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. How devastating do you think that diagnosis was, and what did they go through to get there? Where is the fine line between someone is being treated and they can be relied on to take medication and raise children, and becoming judge and jury and deciding she cannot be alone with her children?How do we know whether she is playing the police as people accuse? Is she even capable in this mindset? Or does she know exactly what she did? Sadly it is a case that will most likely always have more questions than answers. How many more Jacob and Sarah's will have to know the love and pain of a mother who can't control that she can't be trusted?
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