EDITORIAL | Who will hear the cries of desperate parents?
The unbearably slow wheels of justice only torture children further, while parents helplessly watch on
24 March 2025 - 04:30
Families are torn apart, victims re-traumatised, cries of desperate parents and violated children echo and the hope for justice remains just that — hope. Parents of children who were victims of abuse, murder and other atrocious criminal acts have been reduced to mere statistics...
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