Why I see the bad in men I don't know for sure. A woman has committed murder, having shot her husband then fleeing with her children, to be apprehended days later her daughters with her, safe and sound. My small mind realizes something went wrong with her, and then my black heart nudges me saying things like sure there did, she probably walked in and caught him doing something untoward to one of her babies.
What an unfair judgement on someone I don't even know. I should be shocked into indignation. She shot and killed her husband?! She disrespected a man of God so much as to take his life, then run with his children?! How dare she! I should be muttering with disdain: They should fry her! They should make an example of her.
I know what I should be thinking, yet my heart and mind go in just the opposite direction. He had to do something. He had to hurt her so badly, somehow... What could he have done to cause her to want to remove him so completely from her daughter's lives?
I know, I know, no prosecuting attorney would ever want me to be on the jury. I don't blame them either. I should be ashamed of myself. I'm awful. :(
Posted by juel at March 27, 2006 03:19 AM