It is hard to reconcile Zahra Baker's beaming smile with the harsh events of her early life.
Zahra was rejected by her birth mother and then developed bone cancer. This resulted in her having a leg amputated at age five, and further misery descended when chemotherapy caused her loss of hearing. Despite this, she was a happy little girl and a new life beckoned when she moved to the United States with her father.
It was not to be ! Zahra became a missing person, and now police have discovered body parts containing her DNA in a North Carolina timber area. It seems that Zahra was murdered and her body dismembered to hide the crime.
Most children are loved and nurtured by their parents, and yet all too often some unfortunate child slips through the net and suffers an awful fate. We have government agencies that are supposed to keep watch and prevent these sort of things, but the combination of over-work and human frailty leaves gaps - and there are failures.
No doubt the justice system will grind slowly - and eventually someone will face court and pay a price for Zahra's murder.
It is just so sad to think that despite all the systems in place to ensure that children grow up to achieve their dreams a small percentage will go unnoticed - and suffer an end like Zahra.
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