IT’S OUR DUTY TO PASS THIS ON

BLUE RIBBON AGAINST CHILD ABUSE

My name is Sarah
I am but three,
my eyes are swollen
I cannot see .

I must be stupid,
I must be bad,
what else could have made
my daddy so mad?

I wish I were better,
I wish I weren't ugly,
then maybe my Mommy
would still want to hug me.

I can't speak at all,
I can't do a wrong
or else I'm locked up
all the day long.

When I awake I'm all alone
the house is dark
my folks aren't home.

When my Mommy does come
I'll try and be nice,
so maybe I'll get just
one whipping tonight.

Don't make a sound!
I just heard a car
my daddy is back
from Charlie's Bar.

I hear him curse
my name he calls
I press myself
against the wall.

I try and hide
from his evil eyes
I'm so afraid now
I'm starting to cry.

He finds me weeping
he shouts ugly words,
he says its my fault
that he suffers at work.

He slaps me and hits me
and yells at me more,
I finally get free
and I run for the door.

He's already locked it
and I start to bawl,
he takes me and throws me
against the hard wall.

I fall to the floor
with my bones nearly broken,
and my daddy continues
with more bad words spoken.

'I'm sorry!' I scream
but its now much too late
his face has been twisted
into unimaginable hate.

The hurt and the pain
again and again
oh please God, have mercy!
oh please let it end!

And he finally stops
and heads for the door,
while I lay there motionless
sprawled on the floor.

My name is Sarah
and I am but three,
tonight my daddy
murdered me.

There are thousands of kids out there just like Sarah. And you can help

It sickens me to my soul, and if you just read this and don't pass it on I pray for you.

Please pass this poem on as a Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse because it could possibly change a child's life.

You would have to be one heartless person

to not be affected by this post.

Because you are affected,

do something about it!!

All I am asking you to do is take some time

to send this on and acknowledge

that this stuff does happen,

and that people like her dad do live in our society, and pray for child abuse to wither out and die,

Pray for the safety of our youth.

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Tj, this is exstremely graphic, but gets a message across about what is being done to these young children in the world all too often. Thank you for all you do getting the word out. Hopefully it will help prevent at least some children from going through this in the future. It brought tears to my eye's.

Only if others here, copy the above and send it on, will the whisper be heard.

Wake up world - Stop this NOW !!

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I have passed this on, and as you, River, have stated  it " gets a message across about what is being done to these young children in the world all too often." and I did get back two replies requesting that I not forward such disturbing things, of course I will respect those requests, but it brings me to point out as I have stated in the past, there are those who live by, what the eyes do not see, the heart does not feel, and maybe that is the number one universal reason why so many horrific things go on in society and I think that really needs to change...but how do we change that? Awareness and knowledge bring change and I feel that it is awareness that leads people to seek the necessary knowledge to journey the path of bringing positive changes, but if people choose to be blind to anything upsetting to them how will they ever be part of a united solution and progress to end the atrocities that take place all over, everyday?

I UH THINK IT'S, C NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL MENTALITE 2DAY. UNFORTUNATELE. IGNORANCE IS BLISS. NOT REALLE. I DO'NT NO. IT'S SAD.

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The answer is in the Flash

"Not doing anything is as bad as abusing the child yourself."

Turning your back, is doing nothing, is ABUSE.

Not wanting to see it, is what we all want, but that can only happen when the ABUSE no longer happens.

Some of you know I was abused and grew up in an alcoholic family. It was aweful and everyone turned there back on me, my parents and teachers and neigbors. If you see a child being abused or know of one do something to help if you can especially if intervention needs to take place. A Child is waiting for someone to help. Some times what we do does not always cure the problem but it usually gets the ball rolling to help the child. Sometimes just being a friend and being there for them to talk to and giving them a safe haven to come to helps. Please don't turn your back on them it is just like being an abuser too. I'm all for helping abused children any way I can.

Dear Yvonne, I am sorry to hear that you suffered so as child when you growing up and that people turned their back on you. I truly empathize with you and all children, teens who are suffering horribly now and adult survivors of abuse. Here is my some of my story and know you are not alone and us survivors stand together. We support each other at times and children when we have the chance to. I have been there to listen to children over the years. I really feel for people who are survivors of childhood abuse of any kind. I too was severely abused as a child and it was horrific. I was abused by others including a teacher and a principal, as were by those two as well.

  It was only through  God's grace, mercy and help, my brothers help who 8 & 9 years older than me, good people and a very kind, gentle priest, who didn't know about it, who made me feel good about myself and always told me how much God and Jesus loved me, cared about and loved by them and God and Jesus.  I manage to somehow be a good natured and happy child inbetween the times abuse which were short lived before I was a young teen. I was a very active child and by the time I was an older child I kept myself away from home alot out doing good things and having fun with friends. I have good memories too of when I was a child because of good people and friends. . I was lucky to be able to get away from him at times and to be able to still have much happiness elsewhere. There were some things I didn't even remember until not very many years ago because my little mind as a child blanked them out as happens with some children. What I went through made me empathetic to others who suffer from abuse and I am not ashamed to talk about what happened to me because we need to speak out. We are not the ones who have something to be ashamed of. Knowing of all the horrible and horrific abuse that has happened and is still happening to children and teens is so heartbreaking and I pray for them all the time. But there are times where I am not ashamed to say I cry for them too. It really hurts me to know that they have suffered so much and are still suffering so much. I have not just stood by and not done anything I have become involved and reported cases of abuse.

What makes me upset is that the children are usually not even taken out of their abusive home and their parents not made to even take counseling. The children should be taken out of the home and not returned at all in some cases because some people will never change. There are some parents who will with a whole lot of counseling and anger mangagement programs. I am all for trying to help heal families but the children have to come first. The social services system is needing a lot of reform and the governments should have something set up to monitor the social services people. Because they obviously are not doing their job a good deal of the time. I am not saying they don't do some good for children. But far too many children are left in abusive homes where it continues in between visits from the workers and the children are threatened with what will happen to them if they talk. In all cases of abuse when the children are taken out of the home or not they should be seeing child counselors to help them to get through the damage & effects that abuse has had on them emotionally, psychologically and physically. There is long term affects on child who survives abuse regardless of the level of severity. But yes it is even worse when it is severe or extremely severe. It leads to all kinds of problems when they are in their teens and as adults alot of times too. It can lead to suicide, drug use &  alcoholism even as teens and even adolescents,( I have heard of that since the 70's when I was a teen that adolescents do that too and encouraging teens that told me to help them stop) what they call cutting and some do that over large areas of their bodies, there is the problems of out of ordinary things they do to get high, they don't care about their safety even as children alot of times and they will do things that are dangerous to their safety and I had even been a witness to some of these things and had heard of alot them not just having read about it or seen it on programs on tv.

There have been other times in public when I spoke up to someone who was abusing a child. Once it was a really bad case of abuse and I was in another town in a bus terminal. I phoned the police and they didn't respond even though I told them how severely the child had been abused.  Besides what I had already said since the man took the child in the washroom and you could hear his screams or pain. I couldn't believe that clerk's cruel attitude. The clerk at the counter acted with appalling coldness by smirking when I asked him if he was going to do anything to stop it and saying what do you want me to do about it. He could of phoned the police himself or intervened if he wasn't so cruel and cold-hearted. My heart aches so much when I see these beautiful children being abused or even hearing of it.     It is well known that social services  say we try to keep families together and then pick and choose which ones they will help and take away and which ones they won't. Not really caring how much the children are suffering or not.  I am sure do care but too many don't. For far too many of them it is just a job and they care more about their paycheck than the children. If that wasn't true they would not be leaving children in abusive homes. The ones that say they really care about the children I have heard they say look I really care but my hands are tied. What a bunch of balarney! That is just excuse not to work harder to save those children. If they care about them then fight for them and stand up for what is best for the child(ren),their well being and their safety. It shouldn't be families first in all cases to beging with the child social services system was set up to protect and help children who were being abused. Children should always come first in their consideration and decisions. It is the children who are defenseless and need protection. When are things going to be done right for the children and their right to be free from abuse as was meant to be.   There is alot wrong with the social services system and it is supposed to be there to ensure the safety and well being of children and teens. But it is all too often failing them. How truly sad that a system that was put in place to help protect and ensure the safety of children is leaving  them in abusive homes to be abused more.         I do all I can in supporting peititions on here and  plan to start putting more news articles in the news section. We need to keep petitioning governments to make changes to the social services system and to have them monitored since they fail to help children all too often. Much more people need to care I agree completely but the social services systems around the world need reform. Alot of changes need to be made or the children are not going to get all the help they need. It is also very important for that to happen as well.

Have a good day everyone. I will bring you links to any news stories or articles I find to post in how people can help. Also I will look to see if I can find any that talks about how to try to get others to get involved.

 

 

http://www.care2.com/news/member/967954481/1277227

I searched the web today and found a good link for people to pass on to everyone they know to do with how to recognize child abuse and neglect. The link above is to where I put it in a news story to try to raise awareness and try to encourage people to get involved and report abuse. I am hoping this will help and I am going to put it in causes and the network blog as well. Have a good day everyone. Peace, Ariel

Thanks for all your caringness and concern for little children. I also will help if ever I came acrossed any abuse, so far I have not. I have some scars from my abuse but I'm doing ok in life, but I think it had to do with my grandparents and others that showed me kindness, strength and goodness, Plus my Father in Heaven and Jesus. Unfortunately there is a lot of abused children out there and for some reason, most don't get help until it is nearly to late or after it is to late. I pray for the children of this world, it is so much more evil than when I was growing up. So many drugs and alcoholic families. Parents need to value their children, more. Thank you AJ and TJ for caring and doing all the things you all do too. Love and hugs! Yvonne

Dear Yvonne and friends, I have decided to break the silence of what has been going on in my granddaughter's life, my daughter and I. I guess partly because I could use some support from people who care and also maybe someone here can offer some advice that might help me with a legal battle that is going to happen in the near future because now it has gone way too far. The partner my daughter is with is the second one in a row in my granddaughter's life who is abusive and now my hands are tied unless I take it to court having a lawyer help me fight these false allegations they are saying about me to cover up for the abuse of the partner if there is still abuse. I have to suspect there is a good chance of it since I have been shut out of their lives for 8 months now because that partner fought with my daughter for a few months before she gave in and stopped the visits. Now months later my daughter has taken to telling lies about me and I know it is a way for the partner and the other family to get me back for saying something to children's social services that were true about their really bad and abusive home life. With the teens being allowed to do drugs and their friends to go there and do drugs and underage drinking that the parents supply the alcohol and they have physical fights in the family too. All of this has often happened with my granddaughter there and my daughter is too afraid of them or been influenced by them too much that now she has turned against me and is telling lies about me now to the police. She was abusive in her talking to me on the phone and said to the police I was making harrassing phone calls. I have only called there once in a long while and I for sure wouldn't be harrassing in the way I would talk. I was just trying to see if I could get through to her that this is not good for Jessie and all I am asking is for her to be allowed to see me. So here is a good deal of the story. Also I found out that there are over four thousand grandparents who are being kept from being able to see their grandchildren when the children love them too. These are grandparents that have talked to a member of the government and this representative in government received a small group of about a dozen grandparents in his office. He then introduced an amendment to be made to the Family Law act to give grandparents the same rights as parents. It is now in the lost stage with the committee for those matters decides if it passes or not. I am here to tell my story and also say that children's social services are not doing their job right and children are doing without their loving grandparents sometime due to their mishandling of cases for these children who are in their care or under their supervision. I want to start a petition for petitioning the committee to make the right decision and to please do it soon since the committee has had it in their agenda for well over a year and a half. I also would like to petition the government for there to be reform and supervision by a committee or something for Children's Social Services to ensure they are doing what they should to help and protect children in all ways. As well as a child's right to see and go out with their grandparent(s) if they want to. Children have rights too and good grandparents are a very important part of a child's development and I can find that information online to include in the petition for the grandparents and Family Law being changed in Canada. I wonder how many they don't know of that this happening to. The children suffer alot in this way too. We need to protect the children from selfish and self-centered parents too who are using their children as weapons to hurt their ex-spouse, common-law partner or a parent of the ex or their own parent for doing something right as I did to try to help my granddaughter and protect her, That whole family are abusive bullies and well just horrible people. I do believe in the power of prayer because it is helping me get stronger rather than them knocking me down with this as they hoped to. I will keep praying for a good resolution for this for my granddaughter and myself. I will also pray that they will somehow see the error of their ways. I would like to ask for anyone who believes in Jesus and God here to please pray for my granddaughter and her well being and for us to be reunited with my court case. I don't have much money being on disability but I am looking for a part time job to pay for the fee that it will cost for a retainer to hire a lawyer. I am going to have him look into proving my allegations that I told the worker since that is the only way to fight for my granddaughter's rights is to prove they are wrong living people and liars when they told the Children's Social Services they weren't like that at all.  Thank you for listening to me I really need some support especially now that they have phoned the police and lied to them because they are trying to make a case against me with false allegations so when I go to court they can say see what she is like, what she did. My poor Jessie she is surely missing all the good love and times we always had together. This so unfair and hurtful for her. Thanks again all.

                               Peace, love and hugs,  Ariel

Oh yes the other thing I want a lawyer to do is to help me get the false allegation of harrassing phone calls taken out of the police's system. Isn't it illegal to make a false report to the police too. I had a feeling for a long time that their objective was to try to find a way to prove me an unfit grandparent by harrassing me into being upset and doing something they could say I did wrong. So I taped quite a few phone calls that at least show my end of the conversation was reasonable and calm.

Dear friends,  I forgot to add I would like to make up a petition to the US government on these problems for children and the way the system is failing them. I know alot about the system in Canada but not much about it in the US but have heard much. I think it would be beneficial to such a petition for the US if anyone here knows of any sites already that could help me do some research because I think it would help to have links to sites that speak the truth included for them to go to and see the proof is out there about the system needing reform. I just thought of something too if anyone would like to help a bit that would help me do it quicker. My other idea is to make a petition to send to the president and all state representatives to do something to do something and soon to help all the homeless youth and adults. Can anyone tell me if this has been done yet in the US for the homeless youth and adults? I know something is in the works now finally in Canada for the homeless and the people living in poverty. Let me know if the government has been petitioned and even if they have maybe we should keep doing it so we can let them know we won't give up and we will keep standin up, speaking up and taking action. That we will not let them just ignore that these are real people and they have to do something for them because they have just as much right to be helped as anyone and have a big need to be.