This article reminds me of David Dorn!!!!!SourcePosted on August 26, 2013 2:32 pm by EJ Montini Recalling the unimaginable One of the worst things about a job like mine is the realization, based on experience, that human behavior which should be unimaginable… isn’t. Like a parent killing his child and then himself. That is supposedly what happened over the weekend, when Chandler police say 25-year-old Rajneesh Saini shot and killed his three-month-old son and then took his own life. It’s unimaginable. It’s unthinkable. It’s … happened before. Here. Years ago I received in the mail a letter from a woman named Koby Lyn Robinson. She was in the news at the time for having put a gun to the head of her 6-year-old daughter, Kaylea, pulling the trigger, and then shooting and killing herself. But some miracle, Kaylea lived. The letter I got from Koby Lyn was postmarked the day of the shooting. She wrote in part, “I’m concerned that despite my careful planning, the press will exaggerate and fudge on the reporting of my suicide. I waited on you once at the Spaghetti Co. and praised your ‘reporting.’ … You have a beautiful daughter, so do I. I had dreams for her, but single moms really struggle to ensure those dreams for their children.” There is no way of understanding how a loving parent can do such a thing. There’s no explaining it. Or justifying it. Or anything remotely like that. I don’t understand it. None of us do, I’d guess. But here is how Koby Lyn explained it: “There is no place in our society for those of us who need emotional and mental healing. There’s no place in our society for those of us who are very young, very old or very vulnerable. I just couldn’t keep on fighting … “I beg you please don’t let the press butcher my name and hurt my family. I’m not a horrible person, I’m not a murderer, I’m a middle-aged, sad, lonely desperate mom who just couldn’t go on. There are many out there just like me. Maybe God will forgive me and let me help those people from wherever this journey of death takes me.” |