AmyYa's Journal

For those of you that are not in the NH/MA area, there was a murder earlier this week in a rural town here in NH (not that far from where I live)- Mont Vernon- where the woman/mother of the home was massacred by two teenage boys (4 were involved in the robbery, only two in the killing) with a machete and a long Knife, and her 11 year old daughter was also attacked-- she managed to survive to call 911 and was rushed to Children's hospital in Boston, MA for surgery and is still in the ICU----

This is horrible enough- but add on top of this that the mother of one of the two that actually did the killing was a coworker of mine not long ago (she left for another company a little while ago).  I cannot imagine the horror and pain she is going through right now, knowing that her own son could do such a thing.  I knew her well enough to know it wasn't anything that SHE did that made him turn this way. 

And worse still, because of something I witnessed when I was a child I have entirely TOO good a mental picture of what the mother looked like after she was murdered.  And I find myself praying over and over again that the girl did NOT see her mother after the attack- because I KNOW how impossible it is to get those images of someone you love out of your head.