I'm only saying that, when someone commits a crime, many times their families are as victimized as the families of the actual victims. I assume the best (most times) and I'm assuming that, at one point, this woman held her child in her arms, (just as I did with my own son), wondered at his perfection, and realized that he had all the potential in the world.
Then watched him turn into a monster with no hope of Earthly redemption.
Maybe I'm just projecting how *I* would feel if my son turned out so badly. Maybe she's a crack-whore who doesn't give a crap one way or the other. (Most likely she contributed to what he's become.) Maybe I'm only hurting for the way it *ought* to be.
And yes, I'm thinking much more about the mothers, wives, fathers and children of the dead cop and of their loss. My husbands a soldier and I know that they've worried about him every day. (You can't help it when someone you love is walking into the fire.) I have no doubt that they've prayed for his safety then put his life in God's hands and hoped for the best. And now their plagued with his absence and thoughts of all the things he'll never get to share with them in this life.
Oh yes, I'm so glad this dirt-bag has taken a dirt-nap! I'm relieved that he won't have the opportunity to hurt anyone again! I'm also relieved that our courts and news won't be strangled with his trial for the next year.
(I can sympathize with his mom and still have no problem that this man received a well-earned justice.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896461/posts
(I *really* need to learn to speak HTML! *sigh*!)
These people are truly walking the walk.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896387/posts
I understand fully what you are saying.
May God’s protecting angels continue to keep your husband safe.
God Bless and thank your hubby for me.