“Naomi was such a very special little girl who brightened up our days. – Paul Schleising
How much would it take to “lose it”? How much would it take to have a moment of madness and as they say “snap” and do something that was totally irrational and against our nature. That was my thought when I read the story of Joanne Hill.
Mrs Hill from Connah’s Quay in Flintshire, was jailed at Chester Crown Court last week for killing four-year-old Naomi, who had mild cerebral palsy. She was given a life sentence.
From the accounts given she held her daughter under the water for up to 10 minutes. While the pictures of the sweet innocent girl and the mother who looks distant and not aware of her surroundings can tell a huge story, it is still something of a shock to believe that it could happen.
By nature mothers are meant to be nurturing , the carers, the providers and most importantly the one a child would trust the most. I’m sure having to bring up a child with any kind of cerebral palsy is difficult and should not be underestimated but it would take a complete change in attitude to turn on the on the child and drown them.
We are fragile at times and can be asked to take so much mentally and physically that we can wear ourselves out and become distant and go inward, which is probably how depression starts.
We have so many qualities that we know of ourselves and so much more that we continue to discover. Not all of it is positive as there is no such thing as perfection, because there would be an argument as to what that was.
Naomi’s father Simon Hill stated that “The fact that Naomi has been taken away from us at such a young age and in such a terrible way is something we will never come to terms with.”
To have any other reaction at that stage would be out of the ordinary. He has called his wife “evil” and I’m sure in that position we would lash out. Some are genuinely evil, who have no remorse for the things they do and the people they hurt.
There are others who are in mental anguish and suffering and cannot distinguish themselves from those who are evil. They need help, like any one of us, they need to know that they have done wrong as well.
That poor little girl dying was a waste of a life, one hopes we can all learn from this incident.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 and is filed under Uncategorized.
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