Since I started blogging more about current events, as opposed to cold cases, the onslaught of brutality that children must face everday is so much more apparent. It is ugly. It is heartbreaking. It makes me angry. It’s all too hopeless a feeling that is very hard to shake. As a writer and blogger, I hear these stories everday. You, as readers, hear them, too. I know of regular blog readers that have to take a break from reading to save themselves from depression. But, to many of us, these are only words that cause us pain. We don’t know these children. We cannot imagine the horror that befalls them. For them, these words are their life, and all too often –it is their death.
Kayla Fernandez was born prematurely. The little girl has had two heart surgeries. Her days were more recently spent at a specialty health care center. Before that, Kayla lived in northern California. There, in 2003, it is believed she suffered from head trauma and fractures.
According to the LA Times, Kayla was taken from the specialty health care center to the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Kayla died at 11:33 AM, Monday, September 29. She was only five years old.
I hope that the person or persons responsible for terrorizing and killing this poor little girl answer for their crimes. I hope, that as long as they continue to draw breath, they never come close to another child. This should never have happened. No child should have to live and die like this.
Santa Monica: 5-year-old girl’s death investigated as a homicide
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