Who would hurt a child

I stumbled across a story today that literally made me physically ill. The story of Baby Brianna. This child lived the most horrific life in the short 6 months that she was on this earth. There is a video on youtube from a news station about her, complete with photos of her post mortem body and a description of the attrocities she faced. It is simply to graphic for me to post, but here is a run down.

She has old and new bruises all over her body, she has old and new skull fractures, she had bite marks old and new all over her. Apparently she was thrown into the air and allowed to hit the ground. Her father and her uncle raped her multiple times, and her mother was to blame for the bite marks.

If this isn't enough to make you sick, I feel sorry for you. As a mother myself, I'm having a very difficult time understanding what kind of a mother would let these things happen to their child. Who could sit back and do nothing as someone raped and beat a child that has never done anything to anyone and has no way to protect herself.

I wish I could go back and not watch it. I wish I could go on living my life and know that children are suffering around the world but not have the images of this innocent baby's lifeless body etched into my memory forever. This is weighing heavily on my heart and I am helpless to do anything about it. I don't know that anyone could have helped Brianna, but I can't shake the feeling that we have all failed.

Go and rest with God, Brianna. Your suffering is over.