Victims

One day at a time is how the Huxley family coped after Lauren (centre) was bashed. Picture: Jeff Darmanin

Bashings, killings, rapes, shootings, stabbings, and murders – we hear about them every day, with alarming frequency.

Crime is so much part of our lives that the horrifying detail of them flits through our consciousness faster than it took me to type this sentence.

Rarely do we stop and think – properly – what these people, the victims of these terrifying stories, are actually going through.

We’re numb to their pain, and perhaps for good reason. But how do they do it?

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  • Rosalee says:

    01:41pm | 16/10/09

    Nina has taken hold of a negative event and created from that experience positive effects. Such action is heroic and should be treated with respect, not denigrated as some kind of ‘agenda’. Appropriating the problem of violence and translating the issue of violence into some kind of arena for comparing… Read more »

  • Rob says:

    05:57pm | 03/07/09

    You didn’t object to Nina’s agenda-pushing comment, Caili. I suspect you may have an agenda of your own. Read more »

 

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