Heinous Crimes

Beating, whipping, slapping, spanking, boiling hot water, running in the yard for 2 hours, locked in cages, closets, water-boarded, bottom of foot or lower leg, hit with a flexible rod or branch (switch), starving, hidden from society..........dare I go on? IT IS ALL WRONG. Particularly, against children.

I read about a man
He beat his child to death,
Momma, was at work
When Billy took his last breath,
When she came home after work
She saw him sleeping in his bed,
She claimed in the morning
That she didn't know he was dead.

Beatings for an hour
When homework wasn't complete,
Meals and water withheld
Children not allowed to eat,
Make them run in the yard
For two hours at a time,
In ninety-degree heat
These punishments are a crime.

Dad said, "Never in a million years
did I want this to occur",
I thought I was the best Dad
Loving and pure,
But my kids wouldn't listen
When I cussed, barked or yelled,
Never understanding
Kids just want to be held.

Parents or their surrogates
Most often perpetrate these crimes,
Children beaten and bitten
Hundreds of times,
Men claiming, their own father
Did the same thing, when they were young,
Getting a good whipping
When they stuck out their tongue.

Then going on to say
I leaned my lesson, don't you know?
That's why I do it to my kids
Because now I'm a pro,
I'll teach them a lesson
Beating harder than my old man,
Those kids need a whupping
I gotta do what I can.

These days our domestic animals
Are often better treated,
They are provided a "forever home"
Identification and shots completed,
A soft comfy bed, toys, snacks
And rawhide bones,
Meanwhile little Billy is locked in the basement
Dreaming about ice-cream cones.

Heinous crimes perpetrated
Domestic violence and child abuse,
It is never OK
There's not a single excuse,
To allow for this behavior
It is abhorrent and evil,
A parent, such as described
Is lower than a Boll weevil.*


* Boll weevil: the most destructive cotton pest in North America. Best eradicated via pesticide, or crushing beneath one's heel.


https://americanspcc.org/child-abuse-statistics/

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