This is so tragic. Apparently the little girl had been abused since she was 6 years old; she was 15 weeks pregnant, and they found out when she had bad stomach pains and was taken to a hospital.
So at 9, this young girl has already dealt with severe abuse for years, and now the pregnancy and abortion, plus the excommunication in a country where the most Roman Catholics live in the world. She needs help and therapy, and not to be the center of an international religious windstorm. Let's hope and pray that within Brazil, her identity is kept secret and that (perhaps) she can have a semi-normal life. And that the stepfather gets the maximum sentence.
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This is so tragic. Apparently the little girl had been abused since she was 6 years old; she was 15 weeks pregnant, and they found out when she had bad stomach pains and was taken to a hospital.
So at 9, this young girl has already dealt with severe abuse for years, and now the pregnancy and abortion, plus the excommunication in a country where the most Roman Catholics live in the world. She needs help and therapy, and not to be the center of an international religious windstorm. Let's hope and pray that within Brazil, her identity is kept secret and that (perhaps) she can have a semi-normal life. And that the stepfather gets the maximum sentence.
March 12, 2009 - 10:27amThis Comment
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