On the morning 10th of July 2011, a seven-year-old boy was murdered. The boy was stabbed seventeen times and his life could not be saved. A man, 53 years old, was arrested for murdering the boy. The man was the boy’s father, who admitted the fact that he had stabbed his boy, but claimed that he didn’t mean to kill him.
The boy was at home with his father and his grandmother. The mother left for work earlier in the morning. The grandmother was tricked to to go outside, she got locked out before the stabbing was carried out and she tried to get help from the neighbours. The boy’s mother had on several occasions reported the father for assaults and threats.
We are many people who are struggling to ensure that these children are not forgotten. I want to be a part of this, I want to remind everyone, these children must stay in our memories, even if it hurts.
Blunted as we are today, we now need to pause. To wake up, we need to try seeing these events from the child’s perspective. To wake up, we need to force ourselves to see dad coming towards us with a knife in his hand. We need to imagine this boy’s fear and pain. If we close our eyes, this will pass us as well, while sitting in the 21st century jet plane – and the world will be the same tomorrow…
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