I commend Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene for once again serving as a champion for abused young people in our society.
In his recent column series, he focuses on the grave and disturbing injustice served up by Judge Nodine Miller in the case of the murder of 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois.
Greene rightly focuses the light of truth on this dark and deadly case of judicial indifference.
Where is justice and mercy in the midst of this case? Has the abuse of our children become so commonplace that our courts err by accepting it and, by such acts of judicial indifference, essentially condone the violence done to those who are most vulnerable in this world? Take a look beyond the judge’s bench. Is this court’s decision an accurate reflection of society’s current view of P.J.’s plight?
The casual, detached expediency by which this court decision was handed down begs answers to these questions.
Bob Greene calls all of us to a greater sense and showing of compassion and concern for those young people, who suffer at the hands of their malevolent guardians. Ignorance and indifference to the truth will only cause more suffering. When we do our part in response to such heartrending crimes, justice and mercy for P.J., Patrick Bourgeois, Tracy Lynn Bratton and the whole of our society will yet be served.
