April 29 is Kelsey Briggs Day (in Oklahoma, but it would be a good thing to have such a day in every country)
April 13, 2008 at 12:21 am | In Politics |Tags: Angry, Bruises, Children, Domestic Violence, Kelsey Briggs
Sniff. I got this video from someone on Facebook, and received it with a warning: “This is a tear jerker”. It is, but should be watched anyway.
As a reminder that one should not look away when one notices signs of abuse (bruises, malnutrition, fractures) in a child (and one must hope that the youth council in charge is not as hesitant as the Youth Council in Bad Herself that I once called - to _absolutely_ no avail; the people there first announced to the family in question that they’d be paying them a visit soon (instead of making an announced visit immediately), and when they still found bruises on the child the left without taking action, feeling satisfied with the explanation that the kid ‘took a tumble’ - just thinking about it makes me so angry all over again…)
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me and my friends will celebrate kelseys life here in blackpool england there was definately a miscarriage of justice for kelsey cant believe this abuse happened to her makes me cry rest little onex
Comment by tracey beveridge — April 15, 2008 #
I know, it is such an incredible sadness - one can lose several nights of sleep over it.
Comment by anaj — April 15, 2008 #
since i watched the you tube sights on kelsey it has been on my mind a lot i have a daughter whos 3 years old how can anyone hurt a child me and my daughters father argued a lot it wasnt nice for her so i broke up with him and took us back to my hometown i have been back home for two years now as a mum i protected my daughter why didnt kelseys mum protect her seeing as she wanted kelsey back home with her it hurts me to know how she was failed love to kelsey
Comment by tracey beveridge — April 15, 2008 #
that was very brave of you - if more women had the courage, I am sure that things like the murder of Kelsey wouldn’t happen; I guess it usually happens when women have the feeling that they might not be respected as much without a husband, or when they already have spent a too long time in an abusive relationship that they fail to see what is really going on
Comment by anaj — April 15, 2008 #
I myself came across this on Facebook many months ago.I have to be honest I cried for days over this,And was truley upset that I had seen the video clip ,But at the same time I have 5 children ranging from 23 to 9 and I could never of imagine conflicting such alwful pain on any of them.I work two jobs and remembered the 28.4. as kelsey briggs day
I was doing a 9 hour shift and truley couldnt wait to get home just to let her know I loved her even though I didnt know her,I came home to a computer taken over with my 14 year old on msn . So I waited till today to say god bless you again beautiful little kelsey our familys love is with all your familys that are suffering xoxoxox
Comment by Allison Ramsey — April 29, 2008 #