Posted on 02/15/2021 6:17:16 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
Something stirring happened one evening last month at a family-style restaurant called Mrs. Potato in Orlando, Fla. By night’s end five strangers would each instinctively make crucial decisions. The result, according to police, was that the life of an 11-year-old boy likely was saved.
There is a lesson in what took place, and it starts with what a woman named Flaviane Carvalho saw.
She was serving meals to a table where a family of four was sitting. Three of the people—an adult male, an adult female, and a four-year-old girl—were sitting on one side, seemingly enjoying themselves. The boy was on the other side, not being spoken to and not speaking. He was the only one for whom the adults had not ordered food. Ms. Carvalho thought this was odd.
Then she noticed bruising near the boy’s eye, and a cut above his nose. And more bruising on his lower arm. She could have done nothing.
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Love to read the rest of the story but it’s behind a subscription wall.
Why post articles to which one must subscribe? I used to get the WSJ, but since their increasing RINOsity, they can shove it.
Not signing up, so I’m going to need the Cliffs Notes version of this.
So the WSJ says I have to subscribe or log in to read their article..I say FO WSJ
Alternate hosting, no pay wall.
https://news360world.com/2021/02/12/opinion-the-kindness-of-strangers-probably-saved-a-boys-life/
But she couldn’t just let it go. On a piece of paper, in big letters, she wrote: “ARE YOU OK?” She stood behind the table and held the paper up so only the boy, alone on the other side, could see it. He made a motion with his head. She sensed he was afraid. So she wrote another message: “DO YOU NEED HELP?”
A little more before the wall.
Here is the story from a different source with no pay wall:
Hero waitress secretly helps severely abused child after seeing couple deny him food at Florida restaurant: cops
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-orlando-florida-waitress-saves-boy-from-horrific-abuse-20210114-e5pqgns3vnbkbllkm6qstn6ugq-story.html
bused-boy-police-say/PRDSIJIQENDJRCMPCUIY77OUXE/
God was there! Why else was that waitress, on duty!
Ignore my bad post #9
Sorry!
Alternate articles
Those pigs look like nobody ever denied them food.
Thank you. Disgusting people...
The boy was being tortured by his stepfather), Timothy Wilson, (with permission of the mother), including being hung upside down with straps on ankles and neck and beaten with various objects including a broom handle and fists. Also staved. The five people who intervened were the waitress, the owner who told her to call 911, the 911 dispatcher who notified the police, and the two polices who arrived, interview the boy and sent him to the hospital. The police chief said they saved the boy’s life.
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Thanks to those who provided non-paywall access to the article.
So sad! There has been an increase of child abuse b/c of the lockdown - “us” teachers are mandated reporters and surely someone at the school would have seen the bruising, etc., and reported it (that is if he attended school at all, public or otherwise).
With the lockdown, the kid is more vulnerable and chances are lessened that anyone would see the bruising and other trauma that was inflicted upon this poor child.
This is not uncommon in child abuse scenarios - mother’s boyfriend (or new husband) abusing previous children with the full knowledge of the mother - she does it to “keep her man.”
Thanks for the update. That kid will need years of therapy to
deal with the violence and terror he was subjected to.
Characteristics of the last days before God purges the earth by fire: lawlessness, rampant sexual immorality and perversion, lack of natural human affection due to pleasure-seeking, violence and murder, and, among other signs of the times...
abuse of children.
Matthew 18:6-7 NKJV
[Jesus said:] But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
Anyone else wondering if the local social services/CPS/cops had been to that home before...
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