What is wrong in the world when...

this is how we choose to deal with the murder of an utterly helpless child?

http://www.fox6now.com/news/sns-ap-wi--infantstarved,0,2620397.story

what does it say about our values as a society when it comes to the lives of children?

what does it say to people who think about commiting crimes against children?

what does it say to those children who live through a crime commited against them?

Is it really any suprise that those who live through these horrid experiences develop such anger, resentment, and self loathing that they victimize others? (not that this is ok).

Maybe she had post partum depression which is truely awful, but why do the sympathies fall to the mother and seem to downplay the consequences of her actions--the fact that a child died in an uterly cruel fashion.

When I read or hear about these children, they become my child for an instant and it truely breaks my heart. It has always upset me, even when I did not have children, but now it cuts so much to the core of my being that it is impossible not to have my heart ache at these stories.

I do not want to know what makes a human being do such a thing, but I do want to know why there seems to be such a level of tolerance in our society for crimes against children.