Andrew Vachss is needed this week. There are a couple, no three, no make that four or five news stories this week that singe the soul. I won’t go into too much detail, because I do not want to singe anyone’s soul second hand. I want to encourage and strengthen.
A mother laughed as she beat her toddler to death. Another mother threw her 6-year-old off a bridge. The Archdiocese of Chicago released thousands more files about priests who abused children, because the retiring cardinal wants to get that job finished before he retires. In Alabama, a ring of child abuse was revealed after a victim vanished.
Rescued
A man kidnapped a woman off the street in Philadelphia, who fought him and was rescued by police Wednesday. He had previously kidnapped a woman, doused her with gasoline, and asked her how she wanted to die, according to police who arrested him. Thank you, police. His previous victim had escaped to tell the story.
According to police, the man, Delven Barnes, was being held Wednesday night on an unrelated Virginia warrant alleging attempted capital murder, assault and malicious injury with acid, explosives or fire, and he would face federal charges in the Philadelphia abduction, authorities said.
This is one dangerous world.
Some people come close to not being human.
That is why I love Andrew Vachss.
