Last nights child abuse segment on Carte Blanche shocked and disheartened me. The two most recent stories to date on two children who both died from the severe beatings they had endured. Little Jordan who died from a head injury, his mother and her lesbian lover have now been convicted of first degree murder. Nikita who also had died the next morning after her father had beaten her and then locked her in the bathroom, to be discovered the next day by her grandmother. Both these stories brought me to tears. What is this world coming to I ask myself? Why is there so much affliction and evil and what makes me even more mad is that the system is what seems to be failing us. What bewildered me was the fact that women involved in domestic violence have more protection against violence than small helpless children. The young voices of today therefore cannot be protected the way they are supposed to be. It’s as though the department of social welfare have turned a blind eye, saying it’s due to not having adequate funds. How absurd to think we can and must accept an excuse like this. I just cannot swallow or digest an excuse like that. No-one should. Justice must be done to eradicate these barbarians from our society. We have to stand together to make sure we help give the muted children’s voices back.