My mom posted this on Facebook a little while back. I feel like the prison system is full of people who need emotional healing. Traumatic childhoods affect the rest of your life. Ken Raleigh Sr.'s childhood and adolescence involved abuse. Abuse of alcohol, verbal and even physical abuse. And then the trauma of November 28, 1943. He obviously needed help - but I don't know if he had access to that kind of help or if it even existed in his earlier years. I believe we all have agency and will be held responsible for our actions, but that God will judge us perfectly and justly with every consideration and mercy. However, it makes me ache that being hurt can lead to hurting others - and children! Oh, I am so glad I believe in a God who loves the little children and will someday make up for every wrong done unto them. I know Jesus Christ is the ultimate source of love and healing and grateful for the hope we can have in his atonement as we wade through the heartache this life can bring.
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