Concrete Angels
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I did this post of abused children years ago, but whilst browsing through YouTube this morning, I stumbled upon another video of child abuse and could not help feeling the pain for them all over again. All this, whilst the image of a girl I work with flashed back to me. The image of pain, mistrust and loneliness with all the physical scars that will be with her for live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUVn6KLBQY&feature=response_watch

How often are these poor children abused by the very people whom they trusted? Where is justice for these poor children? Even sentencing the aggressor does not bring justice, because nothing can wipe away the emotional and sometime physical scars on these victims. No amount of counselling will ever bring back the innocence to any child who has suffered thus.

Victims of child abuse normally grow up feeling worthless and mistrusting of people. They may crave for attention yet cringe when you try to be close to them. These feelings are what I experienced from the children. They bottle up so much pain in them.