Life continues to create itself and fall away, and suffering returns, and delight arrives, if even for a moment–agony, peace, rapture.
-Sandy Boucher, “Hidden Spring”
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The above quote from Beliefnet.com’s Daily Buddhist Wisdom newsletter was waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home today.
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This is a disturbing reminder that monsters often inhabit human bodies.
NEWARK, N.J. - A 7-year-old boy’s remains were found in a plastic storage bin Sunday, a day after his two brothers were found alive but starving in a locked room of the same house, authorities said.
Faheem Williams had been dead for weeks, Edward Gordon of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office told The Star-Ledger of Newark. An autopsy was scheduled to be performed Monday.
The child’s twin brother, Raheem, and another brother, Tyrone, 4, were being treated for starvation and dehydration at University Hospital in Newark.
The most disturbing and heartwrenching comment came from the innocent lips of the surviving twin, Raheem, on Sunday when he told investigators at the hospital that he “had another brother who had been missing for weeks.”
Police found Faheem’s body in another basement room later that day.
I feel awful for the surviving boys - perhaps surviving this ordeal is worse than death. I would think that the psychological - as well as physical - damage incurred by these two little boys must be quite extensive) Since the article suggests that the mother was/is in a NYC hospital, I have to believe that this was just a tragedy all around. Perhaps it’s naive of me to hope that the mother loved the boys - and would not have treated them this way. Then, again, where is the father?
James said the younger boy had suffered burns from his neck down that affected his ability to walk.
Both boys were enjoying food and freedom to play, he said, noting that Tyrone was eating jelly from a jar.
“[They are] two kids with good manners, good spirit, suffering for no reason of their own,” he said. “They’re reaching out for love and caring.”
What kind of a monster could knowingly mistreat little kids this way?? I truly believe in an ‘eye for an eye’ for crimes this ungodly cruel and sick - lock her up in a room and withhold food and water until she dies… See how she appreciates the endless pangs of hunger and thirst. It’s a very prolonged and painful way to die. (Why should the tax payers have to support this witch?!?)
Hang her. Shoot her. Inject her.
Just kill her.
. . . Deep breath . . .
I’m pretty sure that the Buddha wouldn’t approve of my vehemence.
Unlike poor Faheem, I have a lifetime to repent.