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Oh, Jane. How horrifying. I can't imagine being so angry with anyone that I would hurt a child (my or anyone else's) as a result. That poor mother. Bless her. I will be praying for her.
Good God!... Just... why??...
I mean, senseless doesn't even begin to describe this. When the hate in your heart is so big that you're willing to take the life of someone who's completely innocent just to harm your target of hatred, then that has to be a sign that you've gone out of control! And that you've got to step away from the plane/car/gun/knife/whatever and think!!
Just a flash of rationality is all that's needed!
dammit... what rant of mine's going to make any difference?... If the man was rational to begin with, this wouldn't have happened.
How arrogant is it to presume that your hatred is so important that you must erase the potential represented in a growing child to achieve your aim? That your hatred is far more important that the potential contribution that child would make to the rest of her family, to her friends, to society... We call this monstrous with obvious justification, but we also need to remember the ultimate sin here is selfishness. That's the sin that led to this murder. When you're selfish enough to believe that the deliberate killing of an innocent is somehow justifiable, then you've gone overboard.
How sick and how sad that story is. My ex and I have been apart now for almost fifteen years and though we may have had our differences, as far as the kids go, we agree 100% and have never said anything bad about the other or done anything that could be construed as "using" them for any purpose. That poor child.
I read about this today while I was at my daughter's in Terre Haute. How sad and maddening this is. I wondered how close it was to you.
When I read the article online a few minutes ago, I wondered if it was your neighbor's house. How sad and sickening.
To top it all off, the dad got what he wanted--he made his ex-wife's life hell.
My sister's husband plowed the family vehicle into a snow bank, making the eldest child cry due to being pummelled into the seat belt on impact and the middle child cry because she had car sickness due to the erratic driving on the way to church...that's right, on the way TO CHURCH. What an ass.
What is WRONG with people? Oh yes, they're getting a divorce. And I really hope she and the kids never get in a car with him behind the wheel EVER again.
Some people are just sick. And they should never be allowed to be a parent.
This one hits close to home for you, Jane. I'm so sorry. Especially sorry for the mom.
How horrific and sad. I feel so badly for that mother. Nobody should betray a child's trust. Sick.
I am so glad that YOU are physically ok. I know your head may not ever be wrapped around that sort of thing.
I am so sorry.
My heart goes out to this little girl's mother and the rest of her family. Sickening. That's the only way I can describe it. There's no answer to "WHY??!?" that will make it any better - but you can't stop wondering.
When I first heard this story (before all the facts were in), I remember thinking "that poor man." The image of the child looking to her father to make it better and him not being able to keep the plane from crashing. How helpess and horrible he must have felt. Now this. She was alone. She probably looked to her father to stop what was happening, maybe even asked him to stop it but he wouldn't, not even for his own child. That puts a little hate and rage into my own heart to tell you the truth.
Children should be able to trust adults. They always will trust adults. Its what makes them children. That is why I am such a freak about having my kids in my control all the time. It isn't enough to teach them to be careful. They can't help being trusting and I wouldn't want them to.
I had read your first post about the crash before seeing an early story posted online about the pilot flying into the home of the parents of his ex. I thought then, "I hope he didn't hurt her folks." And then I happened by your site again. Such sadness for that little girl, for her mom.
The fruits of unhealthy narcissism.
God help us, but that man was just another canary in the coal mine.
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils."
--Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
I cannot fathom an evil that kills one's own child, and attempts to kill others. I had thoughts of you the second I heard of it, dear Mamacita.
God comfort your neighbors and their family.
You know...there have been times in my life over the past 5 years of my divorce and dealing with the X that I could and have wanted to go strangle her (in my mind only of course) however, I could never EVER EEEVER imagine huring one of my kids to keep them from her. NEVER. WHAT in tarnation was He thinking!? I just don't understand. I have thought about that little girl all day the past few days.
How awful 
I will never be able to comprehend how a parent, or any adult, could do something like this to a child.
I can. Real easily:
The "child" is an IT. IT is not ME! IT is important to the ex, so I (i.e. ME!) can hurt HER by destroying IT. (Especially when IT has a slot just like HER.)
I didn't say it was pretty, but that's how I read it.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. For now, I will pray for all involved, and go on. Maybe when there's less emotion in my mind about it, I can actually think about it. At this point, anything beyond, "My god..." just brings flashes of unpleasant images and imaginings.
Hope you're doing OK with it all.
How horribly, tragically, unbelievably sad. All I can think about is the living hell that mother now has to endure.
Wow, I heard about that story on my local news and had no idea you were nearby. I cannot comprehend how this person came to decide that it was a good day to kill himself and his daughter because of a divorce and I pray for the mother who is left behind alone.
ARGH!!!!!!!! That is just so horrible. Horrible!! And that poor woman, left to think about her daughter's terror in all of that.
Scum, indeed.
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