I can't handle all of this horrific baby abuse in the news...?

Question

I have heard a few awful news stories and i am all torn up inside. I don't know how somebody could hurt a baby. I feel like I want to protect all the babies in the world, but I am helpless.

There's the detroit couple who abused and scalded their 1-year old. When police investigated, they found a 2-month old baby that had been creamated on a bbq grill and the bones hidden.
Then there's the snippet i caught about the baby that was dead, bleeding from the mouth and rear. They suspect sxual abuse.
Then there's Baby Grace that washed up on shore in Texas.

Seems like demons do exist and they live all around us. The only thing that helps me feel better is that God must put these babies in an extra special place in heaven for what they had to endure while they were here. And for the babies that are being treated like this and don't die, I don't know how to help them. They might be better off dead and that's a terrible thing to say.

Is there anything I can do?

Answer 1

Sarah, it speaks to your goodness of heart and tender feelings that you feel as you do. And as you grow older, these feelings will always make you feel exposed and vulnerable, but please don't give up. It takes courage to feel as you do - and it takes courage to act on your feelings.

Forgive me if I get disgusted at some people who simply throw out right-wing political or religious ideology in response to your question. Their attitudes will do nothing to help deal with the problems of our world, and generally make things worse.

Of course there IS a way that you can act positively on your feelings.

First, as others have said, right now you can volunteer in programs that serve children's needs. One of the easiest and yet most important is to visit a local hospital newborn nursery and help hold, cuddle, and feed babies who must be there a long time. it is now known that infants from their earliest days need that kind of caring contact with people and that giving of your time and self that way is of immense benefit to the infants.

(And, oh, by the way - this is one of the most effective crime prevention actions of all kinds. Babies neglected or abused in infancy indeed do grow up with serious emotional and psychological problems that among other things leads to crime.)

Next, consider a caeer in public social service. Health education, social work and related fields are the ways our society at least TRIES to prevent harm to our children and if possible to find ways to restore and repair abused children.

Then, pay attention to politics when it comes to paying for school lunches, helping single mothers get good child care and training or employment help, expanding early childhood education, improving (in genuine ways, not the phoney Bush "No Child Left Behind" program) public education, relieving poverty, finding alternatives to prison and oppression for EVERY person who commits ANY kind of criminal act (America has become a very repressive country that manufactures abusive people in prisons), improving the living standards of the middle and lower economic classes, and related subjects.

And ultimately, you must live a life of example.

That's all one heck of a challenge, but if you wish, you CAN do it.

Ignorance, hatred, resentment, poverty and desperation are the cesspits in which human cruelty is nourished. To fight it, you must look to crafting a society that understands this and acts positively against it.

There are no demons, just as there are no magical beings whose wave of a hand can bring all wrong to an end. Instead, it is up to all of us to recognize the demonic consequences of our own culture and social behavior, and the potential for good in every person - and then cultivate that good.

Best wishes to you!

Answer 2

Unfortunately, there is nothing anyone can do about it. Is there a punishment that is great enough to make the adults suffer that hurt little babies? I don't think so. I say that there is nothing anyone can do because the inhumane acts caused on a baby is done behind closed doors and the public usually finds out about it too late.
I like to think that prayer is the ultimate. So tonight at 7 I am going to have a prayer for all those adults who are sick and about to lose it, that an angel may touch there hearts, that a little helpless baby who has not endured cruelty at the hands of an adult won't ever have to, that the little baby who has been treated unkindly, cruelly,and abused and abandoned be delivered from the hands of that beast,and that anyone who has a kind heart, who can help an innocent child, to please do so and love that baby unselfishly.
Please if you have time, say your own prayer too and anyone else you know.

Answer 3

In Malaysia, recently there's the case of Nurin,a seven-year-old. She was missing for a month when someone found a bag.She's folded up inside it.I don't know about the rest of the world, but for us Malaysians(mostly) we frown upon this kind of action.I think people like this are foul,heartless,and beastly.
The right way is to educate YOUR children to beware of strangers.It would be great if you can get other children to do the same. You know, like a Campaign in your neighbourhood and such.
The way to prevent? Maybe everyone should be more compassionate towards others, and have that little curiosity (the kind that makes you interfere in suspicious business thus saving lives), and be caring towards everyone. It's not gonna work if you're own your own.
But I guess our world's too messed up now, huh?Better work on that Mars exploration thingy, people!

Answer 4

There are things that are worse than death and although it breaks my heart to see any creature suffer, death in these cases is relief.

I understand your feelings. Der Lange mentioned (very eloquently I might add) some things you can do.

Making every child a wanted child is an admirable goal. The anti-abortion people consistently focus energies on POTENTIAL life that these little children go unnoticed.

For the haters (save me the garbage about putting children up for adoption, most people who adopt want white babies)

Anyway, count YOUR blessings and buck up. We all have these feelings, it's what we do to make the world a better place that helps us cope.

Peace.

Answer 5

I'm not sure if there is much that you can do. Maybe just not do the same to your kids, you know.
Take solace in knowing that for some of these babies, they're not suffering anymore. But the Universe works in many mysterious ways. Nobody gets away with anything, especially for inflicting trauma. What goes around comes around. If not in this world, if not in similar ways, then I'm sure in many other ways.
These people will pay the price eventually.

Answer 6

No hun!!! Not really...
There are alot of sick-oz out ther and i undersatnd how you feel about the abuse of babies. but not saying that you can't do anything. cuz you can

start some

1.blogs
2.web pages
3. advertisements
4. submit news articles

to get the people more people aware. because you might just meet someone who feels the same way you do. And maybe they have some ideas to how you can help those babies endangered!

Answer 7

There have always been some people who had babies and were not prepared to deal with them. In the past, most of the time the family was there to provide a safety net for these people. When there is an extended family, there is support for the fragile, be they children, or less responsible adults.
With the loss of family support and the loss of any moral compass in the lives of our young people, we are going to see more of this kind of thing.
If we are going to stop it, we are going to have to allow extended family members some rights, which they don't have now. We are going to have to start, once again, to teach children right from wrong, in whatever religious context, and we are going to have to quit making every social aberancy a disease, and treat it for what it is, anti social behavior.
Until we are willing to take on the current sacred cows of the ACLU and their ilk, we are going to see more and more of this and other violence directed at the weakest among us.

Answer 8

I agree pray for the souls of those that are being mistreated. Those who willingly hurt a child in these ways shall have to pay the price when they die. Their souls will burn for all time hell. And until then when they're in jail they always have to keep an eye out for their safety. Pedophiles and anyone that mistreats children seem to get seriously injured or killed while in prison. I call it Death Penatly Massachusetts style. It's quick it's easy and it's cheap.

Answer 9

Demons do exist and to think that things are going to get a lot worse than better for those that do not believe until the rapture. Don't you ever stray from God's precious word. Pray pray pray. I just had a baby May 3, 2007 (Luciano) that just stares and stares at me like I am his only hope. Let's stare and stare at Jesus cause HE is our ONLY hope.

Answer 10

This is *precisely* why I refuse to watch the news. Really--I can't tell you the last time I actually turned on the TV to watch the news--neither network nor cable news. It's depressing as hell and makes me sick to my stomach to hear the awful stories they broadcast. And honestly, why do they do it? Why do they feel it necessary to broadcast a story about a baby who was killed in Detroit when I live in Atlanta??