When Maria (name disguised), dying of cancer, watched her partner hurt her three young children for the 7th time that month, she did the most painful thing a mother can do. She sent them away. She secretly arranged for them to be rescued and adopted, so that she could ensure their safety when she knew she could no longer fend for them. She couldn’t bear to leave them with him while she spent her last days in the hospital. Maria gave up the chance to spend the last moments of her life with her children in order to make sure they would have a safe and healthy life.
Parents and grandparents out there, you know, there are few things that chill us to the bone more than the abusing of children. We simply cannot conceive how anyone could do such a thing to an innocent child. And yet our world i…