“Not all men” they said. How can the response to a cry out for help be “not all men”? It has been way too long since we failed as a society but it’s still so heartbreaking to hear. Heaven was only seven years old and this excuse of a man took her childhood, her happiness and her life. It’s crazy how this happened a year ago and nobody heard anything about it. This man has a wife and children. Heaven was playing with his daughters when he took her. She was too young for it, she didn’t know to fear being alone with a man or what he would do to her. I wonder if she kept apologizing to him because she thought she was being punished for something. How could he possibly do that? How could anyone of them do it?
Heaven didn’t even know what was being done to her but she had to endure it. This man had everything planned out. He pulled her in and shoved sand in her mouth so she wouldn’t scream. He forced himself on this child which led to him fracturing her spinal cord to the point that it was popping out of her back. Her windpipe was damaged from all the pressure he applied on her little neck while choking her. He raped her, killed her and took razor blades to cut her all over her body to make it seem like she died of an accident. He cut her little seven year old body, washed her body with bleach and threw her out in the street. This may be hard to hear but this was actually the reality of this little seven year old girl who was robbed of her childhood and her life.
It took six months to arrest this man. The judicial branch was not willing to cooperate with her mother. This man’s shameless family members were threatening Heaven’s mother instead of condemning their own brother. As if all he did wasn’t enough, he even escaped prison at one point to look for Heaven’s mother and get revenge. After all he has done, he seems to think that he is the victim. People who lived in the same neighborhood are defending him claiming that he is a “man of God” and an active member of the church. They say that he isn’t that kind of person and that Heaven’s mother must have done something to him to make him mad. For them it's easier to look for a way to support and defend this man instead of standing with a woman who lost her daughter to this man. They use the name of God in vain to try to justify and make this man into a saint when he is the embodiment of evil. Shame on them and shame on the people commenting saying they would do it too and that he should have raped her mother too!!!
Yes, we know it is not all men but it is all women. No man understands the fear women feel when a man holds on to us as he tries to force us to talk to him, the fear we feel when we are alone in a room with a man, the fear we feel when a professor calls us to his office to “talk”, the fear we feel when we hear a man walking so close to us in an alley or how scared we get when we walk past a group of men. It may not be all women but every single woman has been exposed to a form of sexual harassment. Not all women have been sexually assaulted but all women have faced sexual harassment of some type.
Justice for Heaven and every other victim of sexual and domestic violence/assault!!!!!!
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