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 Finding a Safe Home of LoveHome is Lost Imagine this: a child named Jose says, “I woke up this morning hoping today would be better than yesterday. My father is always drunk and he beats me with his belt. My mother doesn’t stop him. She’s usually high on drugs herself. People ask me how I got the bruises on my face but I can’t tell them the truth. My little sister is so scared, she cries all the time. I wish I could help her but I’m scared too. Then one day, the door swings open and the police come running in. They take me from my room and I am put into a car and driven away. All my things are left behind. I didn’t do anything wrong. I want to go home. I just want things to be better.” Lost in the Jungle This horrible story is too often true. In
the State of Florida each year there are over 9,000 such children who have
been removed from their place of residence by the state because of some
form of abuse. Who are these children? They are children of all ages: they
are newborn infants; they are toddlers; they are school-age boys; they are
teenage girls. They are children who have been abused or abandoned –
mistreated by the very people who should have been caring for them. They
share one thing in common however: they need help, every one of them. |
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