This beautiful girl killed herself...

Rape victim Audrie Pott

This beautiful girl killed herself after her (alleged) rapists circulated pictures of the incident. Story >

Her name was Audrie Pott. She was 15 years young. In the wake of the terrorist bombings in Boston, this story has taken a back seat.

As the father of two daughters, I can imagine the pain her family endured, but will never know the deep anguish Audrie Potts went through that would convince her suicide was the only way out.

Something is fundamentally wrong with the violent men and environment that allowed this, and something is equally wrong - and maybe harder to fix - when the support structures we build for children fail them.

Because somewhere along the line, Audrie believed she was utterly alone, and fixing that means fixing you and me.

[2013-04-13]

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This is what what MSNBC.com looked like after the bomb blasts in Boston during the marathon.

This was at 5:42pm ET, April 15.

(Blogger is having trouble showing the full image; hopefully the blur gives the general idea.)

Imagine turning on your TV or radio and getting gibberish because too many people are trying to watch or listen at the same.

Not a criticism, just an observation. Someday folks will look back and say stuff like, "Remember when you actually lost a cell signal?"

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