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THIS WAS EMAILED BY KATRINA LEGARDA PLEASE READ AND PASS ON
Sarah
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 your forgiveness, cause you would have to be one heartless
person
to not be affected by this email. And because you are affected, do
something
about it!! So 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,
but
also pray for the safety of our youth.
Please pass this poem on as a Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse because
as
crazy as it might sound, it might just indirectly change a life. Hey,
you
NEVER know.
Please forward
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i just want to ask: do you have any contact to atty. katrina legarda? perhaps, her e-mail address or her number at her law office? i wish to interview her for my prelim paper. sorry, though, i used your commentary section to reach you. hope to hear from you.
Posted by daisy at January 5, 2006, 2:35 pm