There was a case in the news recently
( and this is EXTREMELY upsetting, so don't read further if you don't want to )
about a little boy (3) whose mother and baby-sitter allowed two men to rape and torture him in exchange for meth .
I just...I know there's no understanding it, and I was glad to see that against all odds the boy is alive and won't suffer permanent (physical, anyway) damage. But I just can't see how things like this happen.
DS just had a bad dream about five minutes ago. I went to comfort him and said something like "oh don't worry, mama and daddy wouldn't let anything happen to you," and I thought of that little boy. For a minute I thought I'd really gone insane with rage. I just want to do something, and there's nothing to be done. I just don't understand a parent allowing someone else to harm their babies.
Does anyone else ever feel like this? :( I try not to read upsetting things too often (had PND issues with things like this right after DS was born) but sometimes I hear about them anyway and I really just cannot stand it.
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to really not understand how parents hurt, or allow others to hurt, their children?
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CheerfulYank · 17/08/2011 08:14
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