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COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY?
Posted on October 25th, 2012 5 commentsSHRINE FOR ANDREW
The memorial for Andrew Moyer, Jr., the six-week-old baby murdered at 146 Locust Street in Columbia. The parents were arrested last night (click here).
The photo is courtesy of the website ColumbiaPA17512 (click here) and someone posted this caring and very thoughtful comment there:
Columbia needs a church willing to open its doors once a week, not for a service, but for new and expecting parents especially those that are young, single, perhaps living in poverty…Offering a discussion on coping skills. Doctors and other professionals could be invited to speak. Maybe offering donated baby clothing for free also. Anything to help prevent horrific acts like that done to Andrew. Perhaps the support group could be named after baby Andrew. Columbia could come together as a community to help those in need among us.
Please check back later today.5 responses to “COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY?”
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To bad he wasn’t treated like a shrine in his short life.This story makes me sick.How do people do this to a tiny helpless baby.He suffered for days before his nit wit parents and her boyfriend came up with a plan.Monsters just Monsters.
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barryinwinnipeg October 26th, 2012 at 00:21
I worked for COBYS part-time as a parenting educator during the period I was employed full-time by the County, and we taught parenting classes in shelters, the prison, in churches, and in libraries across Lancaster County. I did a lot of parenting classes and I found that they were very generally very helpful, including the new baby support groups we offered. Still, the fact that in one of those years eleven children in Lancaster County died from child abuse or neglect reminds me that there are dark places in the human experience we were never meant to go through. I still have nightmares from my time at Children and Youth EIGHT YEARS AFTER I LEFT! God have mercy on that precious little one.
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Your job must of been tough.I know I can’t understand how we as humans hurt the helpless and animals.This story is burtal.They had so many choices and places to go for help and guidance.I just want to hug my 3 children and 2 grandchildren.This story breaks my heart.
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hereshecomes October 27th, 2012 at 19:57
Parenting classes are great–some people just don’t know how to do things that seem like common sense to most people. Then again, the people who need them most are probably least likely to take them voluntarily. Even a person who knows infant care can be too immature, impaired, or irresponsible to do the right thing and put the child’s welfare first.
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steohanie October 27th, 2012 at 21:47
Im so tired of people making excuses for young parents. I was raised in a horrified manner, my story terrifies others who know it. I was 15 when i became pregnant. 16 when i gave birth. I am 35 now my daughters are 19 &17yrs old now. One College bound , one already in, loving, beautiful , strong independent young women. I raised them on my own, never on welfare. We are a tight family…so this bullshit about young parents and their stupid nonsense excuses enrages me. When you become a parent at any age…ur heart cares, protects, beats for your child. I was never taught to love as a child… but that didnt stop me from being a mother…people who do this kind of thing are evil n have no heart…no soul.
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