Crying Child Monument

As one who has buried a child, I know the pain all too well.

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This monument was constructed to commemorate the children in Jamaica who’s lives have been cut short due to vile, callous individuals who in truth deserve to be eliminated from the face of this Earth,
It began on September 2008 when eleven year old Ananda Dean was abducted and subsequently slaughtered leaving the nation in a shock as the search for this missing girl remained televised up to the point where her body was finally discovered,
Surely while heartbroken many of us wouldn’t fully be able to comprehend the emptiness and grief experienced by her parents, siblings and immediate loved ones.
While nationally renowned it is also a fact that she is merely one of many children who have lost their lives on account of forces lacking empathy, compassion and values; as of 2016 the monument has officially ran out of space covered with the names of children who met their…

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Author: Léa

A wanderer who has found home and herself in the South of France.

2 thoughts on “Crying Child Monument”

    1. It was years ago and yesterday as such quakes are. You left kind comments on a poem I wrote about her and posted back in 2012. That too was yesterday and long ago. x

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