Heartless
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
oh, how could you be so heartless?
(Kris Allen's song – Heartless)
This is my reaction when I read about this woman who made her autistic daughter starved to death. Yes, the daughter might have some problems because of her autism, but it doesn’t mean that the mother can do such things. Things that have been said as unimaginably heartless and cruel. My heart keeps crying when I read about this unbelievable action.
SYDNEY, Australia – An Australian woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter.
Justice Robert Allan Hulme called the girl's death "unimaginably heartless and cruel" as he sentenced the 36-year-old mother on Friday.
The woman was convicted of murder in June. Her husband, convicted at the same time of manslaughter in his daughter's death, was sentenced Friday to 16 years imprisonment, with possible parole after 12 years.
The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons meant to protect the identity of their three other children, had pleaded not guilty to murdering their daughter.
The girl, known as Ebony, weighed barely 20 pounds (9 kilograms) when she died November 2007. Several doctors testified she suffered the most severe case of malnutrition they had ever seen.
Give us good heart, make us good men, Lord. Don't let us become heartless persons. Amen.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
--- Luke 6:45
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