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...PSYCHOLOGY GRADUate who has worked with children for 40 years, I know the child always loves the parent, even if that child is being neglected or mistreated. When a child begs not to be returned to her mother, something is certainly terribly wrong. Please listen to the children. Elisa's pain and humiliation were heartbreaking. SURVIVOR OF CHILD ABUSE Gloucester, Ontario...
...ensure that child's safety. People must be exhorted by all means possible--legislation, ongoing public-awareness campaigns or whatever it takes--to denounce the mistreatment of children. As the mother of a six-year-old, I am numb with sadness thinking that other poor sweet children like helpless Elisa are still living in hell on earth. CATHERINE F. ST.-AMANT Montreal...
...methadone addict for eight years, but I was smart enough not to have children back then. I figured that if I couldn't help myself, I had no right to bring a child into the world to include in my suffering. I'm 13 years clean. When I saw Elisa's face on your cover, I was horrified. I am taking a special lunch hour today. I will pick up my son at school and take him out for his favorite lunch and hold him. NAME WITHHELD ON REQUEST Chicago...
...LITTLE ELISA IS ANOTHER SAD EXAMPLE of the many shameful deaths that occur across the U.S. Many children whose lives are nightmares go unnoticed and don't have a prince in their lives to help bring their stories to the public eye, as Elisa did in Prince Michael of Greece. How many tiny victims have been hushed by the inadequacies of the system? How many battered women have ended up dead, their muffled cries for help unheeded? How many more unnecessary deaths will it take for the voices of the abused to be heard? Why does it take the torture...
REGARDLESS OF THE SHORTCOMINGS OF the CWA, I place most of the blame for Elisa's death on people in the neighborhood who knew this family. Awilda Lopez, a brutish beast of a woman who unmercifully abused Elisa and beat her to death, could not have got away with this if someone had stopped by to question and report her as many times as was necessary to get the child away from her mother. We are all our brothers' and sisters' keepers. We cannot wait for someone else to do the right thing. If we see something that is wrong...