http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100902/ap_on_re_us/us_infant_skeletonsThis story is unique. In a lot of ways, it resembles the plot of a book. However, it is real. I am not going to hazard a guess as to what happened to the infants because I do not have any information that the police do not have. I have only seen what is in that article. I do not pretend to have anywhere close to a full picture. Cases that involve children are different than cases that involve adults. The world perceives children as innocent and the younger they are the more that is true. Everybody takes a side. I merely want to look at the different sides.
Some will see it as murder. Some will believe that someone killed these babies. Some will see it as a tragic accident. Some will believe that something happened that was beyond the control of human beings. I think that either is quite possible. I also think that we need to define murder because the possibility of abortion has been brought up. There are many gray lines.
The cops are doing their very best on this case, and only time will tell what the answer is. There is also a possibility that the police will never know what happened. It is a
cold case. There will be few people left who know what happened if there are any at all. Those that are still alive would likely not be able to remember much of anything.
The article states that we may never know why the babies were placed in the trunk or who put them there. That is true. However it is also true that we may never know how they died or who they are. Contrary to what the cop shows on TV tell you: the coroner does not always know what the cause of death was. That is just how it goes.
Another thing that really interests me is the things that were in the trunk with the babies. It may be completely random junk, but it might also have had a significant meaning to whoever put it there. IT is said to be "a pearl necklace, an iron with a thick electric cord, a girdle, a figurine, books, photos, documents and a cigar box painted with depictions of saints." Some of that had to have meaning. I would love to know more about the books, photos, and documents. Maybe they could reveal who the family was. We can just add that to the list of questions that may never get answered, or at least not one released to the public at any rate.
There are going to be a lot of reactions to this story. In fact there already are over four hundred comments posted to this article. Many of them are to the tune of 'the police are wasting time and resources looking into something that happened decades ago.' To those people I ask: What if it were you? What if they found your body decades later? Would it be a waste of time and resources then?
I am personally inclined to agree with Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck:
"Justice, even when delayed, is still justice."
~WriterFreak~
"Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
