It's a M.A.D world out there...

Woke up early this morning (by the freaking music from the Tai Chi group downstairs AGAIN!! - must make a mental note to do something about it..) and was reading the papers when an article on the front of the 'Home' section caught my eye. This numskull of an a**hole guy killed a 2 month old baby girl (daughter of his girlfriend and another bloke) after he had an argument with the baby's mother. Apparently, he slapped the infant repeatedly until she bled from the mouth and eventually died from skull fractures. WTF is wrong with this person?? His victim is a defenseless baby who can't even fend for herself!! Where did he find the heart to do it? Did he look into her eyes when he was raining her with slaps?? Didn't her cries wake him from this senseless stupidity? Personally, I hope someone can slap some sense into him until he dies from a fractured skull.

That got me pretty upset and when I flipped the page, there was an article about this unwed mother who managed to go through the entire pregnancy without anyone knowing or seeing any doctor, and she gave birth on her own at home. She claimed that her baby boy was stillborn so what did she do? She wrapped the baby in some cloth and newspapers and hid his body in the storeroom for a week before moving it to an electrical riser compartment before it got discovered by the meter reader. Maybe she's hoping that the body will miraculously vanish into thin air one day and she can pretend that nothing's ever happened.

If the baby was indeed stillborn (I don't know the truth but I beg to differ), which mother would bear to wrap the little body up and leave it to decompose in a storeroom/ riser without a decent burial/ cremation? It really bothered me how these 2 (and many more) little lives were wasted. Every baby deserves to be loved, nourished and protected until they can fend for themselves.

It's really a crazy world out there... Again, I am not religious but I do believe in karma... What goes around does come around - eventually.