I wish I'd quit clicking on these links. They always make me want to barf. Anybody think this child will not be warped for a lifetime with this kind of trauma deep within her memory? I hope a good foster home can rebuild her. The terror she must be feeling right now...heartbreaking.
And it will be hard to convince her that she wasn't abandoned because she's a bad little girl who doesn't deserve to be loved. I can see her fleeing into a teenage boy's arms--and early pregnancy--in about 10 years, unless she's lucky enough to get great foster/adoptive parents.
The terror she must be feeling right now...heartbreaking
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As a small child, at about her age, I momentarily lost my parents at a neighborhood fair. I was hysterical.
When I worked for a school district in CALIF, I had a brother-sister who came home from school one day (they were about 7 and 8 - and found the house totally empty and parents gone. They clung to each other like they were afraid one would disappear at any moment.Sometimes, I wonder that stoning is too good...