Our book club has just completed its discussion of Danielle Trussoni's Angelology. The question we spent the most time discussing is this: "Apart from religion, is there such a thing as pure evil?" One need not look much further than the latest child murder, that of Zahra Baker in North Carolina, to know pure evil must exist. As we have heard and seen from videos of her on television, she was a child who had experienced much trauma in her ten years. Yet, amazingly enough, every picture showed a happy, smiling child.
Evidently she was being raised by her grandmother in Australia before she came to the United States to live with her father Adam and stepmother Elisa. She lost a leg and her hearing because of treatment for bone cancer. The way she lost her life is still being determined by the authorities although the evidence strongly points to the father and stepmother. Elisa evidently gave directions as to where to locate Zahra's body. We must ask ourselves as a nation once more, "What kind of person would kill such a beautiful, innocent child?"
Neighbors of the family have now come forward to report their concern for Zahra, sharing stories of a stepmother's berating of her stepdaughter because she would not use her prosthesis as much as her stepmother thought necessary. What is the lesson we can learn from Zahra's murder? Obviously, it is to report to the authorities any suspicion of child abuse. We cannot be silent on this issue. Pure evil does exist, and it robbed Zahra of the life she might have had.
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