Someone to love

I probably shouldn't be posting this while riding the tide of emotions that are washing through me right now.

At 12:58 pm this afternoon, it was announced that Dubuque police recovered what appears to be human remains in the backyard of a house. The house is occupied by a mother and her 6 kids. The police came to be in that backyard because someone notified police that the 2 year old little girl that lived there had not been seen for at least a month, maybe longer. The mother refused to cooperate with police and sent them on wild goose chase after wild goose chase, all along knowing that the child they were looking for was buried in the same backyard that she had played in with her friends and siblings only months earlier. I saw and talked to some of the officers, investigators and county attorney employees both yesterday when this all started and today. I know that they were working 24 hours a day, praying under their breath, so that they could find this child safe and unharmed. I saw their fatigue battling with their desperation to find this baby.

20 months old is too young to die, but no one of any age should have their last thought on earth be that the person they loved the most is the one who hurt them the most.

To you Tamelia Harris, I say this: There are thousands of women out there who would give anything to have the beautiful children that you do. Thousands of women would have taken Cecelia and loved her like a mother should. Hell, I would have taken her and loved her if you couldn't. We shouldn't even call you her mother, because a real mother could never, NEVER, do what you did.