A few days ago I got an email from one of our readers that has been following the cases of the abused and murdered children that we report on here at BNN since just about the beginning started with the Caylee Anthony case. PAW69 has become a friend of mine throughout all these months as well. She sent me a link to a video and requested that I write an article for Christmas and include this link for it in the article.
I listened to this video and even though she fairly warned me ahead of time that it would make me cry, I did exactly that. The tears are still in my eyes. Anyone that has a heart would like this video and probably cry along with it also, so please click here and listen for yourself. Thank you PAW for sharing this with me and Merry Christmas to you and please send your husband the same wishes as he is in Iraq. My Prayers are with ya’ll as well. God Bless you and your family!
Christmas is my most favorite time of the year. I love being with family. I love hearing the little children running around on Christmas morning anxious to see what Santa Claus brought to them. It used to put a huge lump in my throat when I would look at my two sons opening their gifts on Christmas morning. I have so much love for my kids and I was always so proud of them.
As much as I loved them then, I love them even more now. The sad part is though, I am guilty for something that I was not aware of at the time. When they were young, the thought of someone taking them away from me never crossed my mind. I am guilty of taking them being there with me for granite. I just never imagined them being anywhere else but with me in my home on Christmas morning.
Now I am from New Orleans and lived across the lake from it since I was 11 years old. I had a home in Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit which left it with 6 ft of water inside and the house was 3 to 4 ft off the ground already. Needless to say I lost everything except for some greatly appreciated photos of my family that my daughter in law managed to salvage for me.
I was fortunate enough not to be home when the hurricane hit. I was in Canada but my youngest son, was here living with his Dad at the time. He was left with a friend of his because no one in their wildest dreams expected the disaster that our area received. We have survived dozens of Hurricanes before and came out without a drop of water in our homes or any damage at all. When the water started coming up my son’s friend’s family knew they had to get out but my son’s Dad couldn’t be reached by then so she packed him up and took my son to Florida with them.
Now there was no phone service, not much internet services, and lots of places didn’t even have electricity so it was next to impossible to find out anything about anyone back at home, and trust me I have a big family. I walked the floors, I cried day and night, and I was online begging for someone to help me so I could find my son. Finally about 3 or 4 days later, (to be honest I don’t really remember how many days it was now) I got an email from him while he was in Florida telling me he was OK and that was the first chance he got to get to a computer to be able to get in touch with me.
I fell to my knees and thanked God my son was taken care of and he was fine. I cried as I thanked God. A few months later we brought my boy to Canada to stay with us for a while and I couldn’t get enough of being with him again. I kept thinking of how close I came to possibly losing my son and it was tearing my soul out of me. That year for Christmas I cried myself to sleep thanking God for my children and grandsons and I swore I would NEVER take having them for granite again.
So I have a bit of a taste on what all these children’s families are feeling. I say a taste because that is all it is. My story was with a happy ending but some of these don’t even have an ending right now. The waiting … the sitting on edge …the jumping every time your phone would ring not knowing if it is going to be good news or someone calling with bad news. I just can’t imagine what they are going through. How can they have a Merry Christmas? How can they keep life going as normal as possible for the other children in their family? All I can say is my heart goes out to them and I keep praying that one day they too will have a happy ending.
I am going to ask a huge favor from all of you on this Christmas Eve. I want each of you to go to your children, your husband or your wife, your mother or your father or anyone that you love and give them a big hug and tell them you love them. Do it just because you can, not because you want something or because I am asking you to. Let them feel your love. Knowing you love and appreciate them can mean so much to them. Doing so will bring you peace in your heart, knowing that you have someone special to love.
My prayers for these children includes Caylee Anthony (found dead), Adji Desir (remains missing), Haleigh Cummings (remains missing), Somer Thompson (found dead), Elizabeth Olten (found dead) , Masaraha Ross (remains missing along with her mother Ronkeya Holmes), Alex Mercado (drowned) Rebecca Marie Allen (found alive), Sandra Cantu (found dead), Anthony Holland (found alive), Shaniya Davis (found dead), Hassani Campbell (remains missing), Giovanni Gonzalez (reported dead), Nevaeh Buchanan ( found dead) and Shannon Dedrick (found alive), Angel Miguel Perez (found safe) Luis Martinez (found dead) Luke Finch (found alive), Kayvon Lewis (fighting for his life), Andrue Jankwitz and Nathaneal Hale (found safe), Robert Manwill (killed), Conner Conley (killed), Marc Anthony Bookal (missing), and Sarah Haley Foxwell (missing).
Simon and my son Joey and I will be having Christmas Dinner with my family tomorrow and you can bet when we say our prayers of thanks it will include all these children we have been following and it will include all of you that support us here too.
We wish each and everyone one of you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR and God Bless You All!!!!!!
Jan Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThank You very much Jan. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
My prayers are with each and every one of these children and their families.
Merry Christmas my fellow bloggers.
Please be safe.
Thank you for your story Jan. Merry Christmas to you, Simon and your family. Thank you for caring and the hard work both of you do.
Jan & Simon….how can I thank you enough for your incredible posts which I am a very Loyal Fan of…..you keep us abreast of each and every baby, child and teen who is thrust into the news because of the EVILS of what others have done to them. Each child is important, from the youngest to the eldest. They were given as a gift from God to love and protect them until God calls them to return to His home…..but some are called sooner than they should be called. The very parents who should be loving them and protecting them are the very ones who have abused and/or murdered these innocents. How sad for these lovely children who never got a chance to live their lives to their fullest. To be happy going to kindergarten, to play in a park with other children, to look forward to when they find that special person in their lives to marry and have a family of their own…..all this has
been robbed from them because of someone selfish enough to cheat them of what should’ve been rightly theirs to keep.
Each and every day we see this in the local news and on the nightly TV news.
Let us all join forces in calling out for what should be stricter laws for the protection of innocent banies and children…..we must be the voice of these children when their own parents are not.
We all need to help protect these precious children. The Good Lord loaned them to us to raise and to teach them the good life. If we do not stand up as a NATION and help protect the little ones, then heaven help us all. Laws need to be changed to prosecute quickly and lock the abusers up forever and a day. I pray that we will stand up for the little ones and I pray every night that the Good Lord gives us strength and the wisdom to do what is right and protect our babies.
Jan ans Simon God Bless You Both and God Bless Our Children.
I have an address where Haleigh might be but Christmas is standing in the way. It could be a Christmas Miricle if it wern’t for Christmas… the irony
My regular contacts Captian D isn’t responding, he might be on vacation. TJ is on vacation and I’ve spoken to Theresa Neves’ sister but we couldn’t get ahold of Theresa. She just got on line and is reading the email I forwarded with the info on the address. It still begs helplessness cause since the information comes from a psychic the on duty officers aren’t gonna run by there and do a thoughough search of the house or land. It’s Christmas Eve. Tomorrow is Christmas. I pray since God gave the information on where she is to an address now that the powers that be in the police dept will at least look.
Jan, yes a tear jerk-er. Paw69 thank you for sharing it. Great article, we have so much to be thankful for. Merry Christmas!!!!
E-mail me, Crystalkdreams, I will go and check
Merry Christmas to you and Simon!
blstarke I need an email address for you
jlucia@windstream.net
Crystalkdreams,
I am a scientist. I do not believe in psychics, as not one has ever passed scientific scrutiny, nor has one EVER given direct information to LE that led to the recovery of anyone (despite what the show “Medium” claims). I do not believe Haleigh will not be found at that address. Of course, when she is not found, you will claim that she WAS there and moved, or the person who was there is somehow connected with her disappearance, etc etc etc. The fact is not one psychic has ever given direct information to LE that led to the recovery of a missing person. Psychics come out AFTER a missing person is found, saying they knew all along. Haleigh will not be found at that address.
Sorry, meant to say I do not believe Haleigh will be found at that address.
Could we get an update on this….What happened, if anything?
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