This past weekend, my 15 year old step-daughter went with a church group to the hills of Kentucky to give food and gifts to families that had none. While standing there, she saw a little boy - about 5 years old - telling her mother that he wanted to see Santa Claus. She didn't respond to him. He asked, again. He asked several times. She finally tired of hearing him ask....so she took her cigarette and burned his arm with it.
This posed a couple of confused thoughts for my young step-daughter:
1. How could someone be so mean?
2. How come when someone does something nice for you, such as providing your entire family with food and gifts that you would otherwise not have, do you not reflect and become a nicer person?
3. Why is it that the adult woman that was there with her and witnessed this act did absolutely nothing?



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