Justice why are you always so late? I called you, emailed you, I’ve talked to you, and shown you pictures of innocence coming closer and closer to perish. Justice you’re too late now; the screaming child is silent kissed to sleep by violence. That child did not want your help but was in desperate need of your help. Why do you not sympathize for the little black and blue hand that reaches out?

Yes, a household has their rights and has their privacy but when the child cries for help and the whole neighborhood hears the sound is public, when the child goes to school with blackened eyes and bruises on almost every inch of skin it’s seen publicly. When privacy is seen publicly then those rights are now wrong.

Others have come to you justice for help: Concerned grandparents, divorced parents, and family friends come to you for help to save a life and all you did was assist the abused child’s fatal fate. You ignored my calls, deleted those emails, didn’t listen to my worries, and threw away those pictures you turned away from that innocent child, you turned away from justice itself.

Karis Clark, 17
Oak Harbor