Thursday 28 January 2010

Tragedy, Sadness & Compassion

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There is much tragedy and sadness in this morning’s papers.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her two children under five years of age. A father has been jailed for twelve years for killing his eight year-old son and two teenage stepchildren in an arson attack. These are not the first of these sort of stories.

What induces anyone to take the lives of innocent children is beyond comprehension. All one can say is that their minds must have been so powerfully and terribly overtaken by emotion that all rationality ceased to exist.

One thing is for certain and that is they, as well as their families, will live for ever with the terrible memories of what was done. All deserve our compassion.
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