Sometimes we are reminded of the utter depravity that human beings are capable of. Most of us shake our heads with disbelief at the atrocities of your Ted Bundys, your Manson families, your wannabe actors that kill their mothers.
While all murder is reprehensible, it is my hope that there is a special place in hell for mothers that kill their children. Susan Smith, Casey Anthony, Andrea Yates … you can claim depression or a past plagued by abuse or that the devil made you do it or whatever, but the idea of a child being slaughtered by the very hand that brought it into the world …
It gives me the shivers.
And it pisses me off.
On May 14th, a Maine resident found the body of a young boy on the side of the road. The little boy, whose death was considered a homicide from the get-go, was unidentified for days as police followed tips from all over the country with the help of a computer-generated reconstruction based on … well, you know.
The town of South Berwick, where he was found, rallied around this nameless child, creating makeshift memorials and holding …
