This makes me physically ill...

[inlovewithyourghost]

This keeps getting worse and worse...
I happen to personally know family members of the deceased, but even if I didn't, this gets to me on so many levels... As a human being... a daughter... a future mother... a woman. And it makes me physically ill to think of the atrocities that are committed every day throughout the world.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13797098/detail.html
POWDER SPRINGS -- A lawyer for a woman killed along with her two daughters in Cobb County says the family fled Kenya in 2001 because she feared the girls would have to undergo female circumcision.

Annabelle Kuria

Immigration attorney Charles H. Kuck said that Jane Kuria left Kenya in January 2001 after the death of her husband and the destruction of their home. Kuck said that according to her political asylum application, the couple was targeted in Kenya because of their opposition to female genital mutilation.

Kuck said that Kuria suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after she was forced to undergo the procedure.

"She was afraid for her daughters more than anything else," Kuck said Thursday evening. "She was terrified that it would happen to them."

A judge had recently denied her request for asylum. A hearing was scheduled for her daughters later this month.

Investigators Do Not Believe Cobb County Murders Were Random

The 46-year-old Kuria and daughters, 19-year-old Isabela and 16-year-old Annabelle, were found dead Wednesday morning in their two-story Powder Springs home. Authorities say Kuria's seven-year-old son, Jeremy, and eight-year-old cousin Peter Thiande were both found unconscious.

Investigators have questioned one of the boys. Cobb County Police spokesman Dana Pierce would not say yesterday which of the boys was questioned and would not reveal details about the conversation.

Police investigating the case have otherwise remained tightlipped about the killing, refusing to release details on a possible suspect or motive.

The mayor of Powder Springs said citizens are frightened but, she said, police have told her the murders were not random. She said people should still practice safety.

And my heart goes out to the boys... I want nothing more right now than to be able to sit with Jeremy and hold him in my arms... or at least just his hand... He's holed up in a hospital under armed guard. His immediate family all having been beaten to death, his extended family and friends forbidden to see him... what happens to him if he does survive? At the minimum, he will be physically scarred for life from his own brutal beating. I hate to even consider the worst case scenario... Though I'm certain at this point, it isn't death.

And all for what? Was it just a robbery gone bad? Were they targeted by their own country? Was it really all about a mother trying to protect her daughters from the horrific practice of female circumcision... just to pay for it with the lives of her entire family (even if Jeremy does survive, his life is forever changed)? A large part of me prays that this isn't the case. Not to say that a random killing is any less disturbing or gruesome... but as a woman who hopes to have my own daughters (and sons) some day... I find this particular scenario a bit overwhelming.

My thoughts and prayers are with Jeremy and Peter as well as with all of the extended family and friends...

 

[Adi87]

I really don't know what to say to this.

My prayers are with yours on this...

 

[inlovewithyourghost]

I really don't know what to say to this.

My prayers are with yours on this...

 

[scheherazade_79]

Sending you a massive hug

 

[damppanties]

 

[FatDino]

*hugs*

 

[rgraham666]

*hugs*

 

[reignophelia]

 

[matriarch]

...and once again, a judge refusing to accept the very real threats on these people's lives and refuses them assylum. They have absolutely no concept of the horrors of living in countries with oppressive political and cultural regimes......because it doesn't happen 'here'...(insert whichever 'civilised western country you wish', they're all the same), it can't possibly happen 'there'.

Gimme a break.

 

[TE999]

(((hugs)))

 

[starrkers]

...and once again, a judge refusing to accept the very real threats on these people's lives and refuses them assylum. They have absolutely no concept of the horrors of living in countries with oppressive political and cultural regimes......because it doesn't happen 'here'...(insert whichever 'civilised western country you wish', they're all the same), it can't possibly happen 'there'.

Gimme a break.

I don't know about other "civilised western" countries, but here judges don't have any concept of life outside their cloistered cosseted existence, let alone the horrors of less "civilised" countries. Should be a part of the job that judges have to come down from their ivory towers and live in the real world for several months of the year.

 

[SlickTony]

I don't know about other "civilised western" countries, but here judges don't have any concept of life outside their cloistered cosseted existence, let alone the horrors of less "civilised" countries. Should be a part of the job that judges have to come down from their ivory towers and live in the real world for several months of the year.

Ain't that the truth?