Question:
What one news story haunts you over and over?
FaerieWhings
2007-06-11 17:10:28 UTC
The one that gets me is about little Katie Flynn.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/weekinreview/22vitello.html?ex=1319169600&en=352df946df74cce5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I can't get over how this story hurt me when it happened and hurts me to this day thinking about it.

What news story bothers you each time you read about it or think about it?
32 answers:
Ponyboy99
2007-06-11 17:18:23 UTC
The one girl in Mn. who endured a life of sexual abuse, and was finally murdered by her mom and her moms boyfriend. She was scalded in a hot bath and died from her injuries. She was 10 or 11 if I remember correctly. P-i-s-s-e-d me right off, and saddens me to this day.
WhaleTale155116
2007-06-11 17:18:53 UTC
The challenger- it blew up a few days after my 6th birthday, and we were watching live at school. I could be 100 years old, and still remember that moment like it was yesterday.



I, strangely enough, also remember vividly, the central park jogger story, now better known as Trisha Meili, and I remember where I was when the story first came across the news in 1989 and where I was when I heard that she was giving up her anonymous identity and wrote a beautiful, heart felt story book entitled "I Am the Central Park Jogger."
catersqueen
2007-06-11 17:24:17 UTC
9/11 because I lost a very dear friend, then I would say stories like Diane Downs in Oregon who claimed the bushy stranger did it... She was the one whom went on the drive at night time towards Marcola Oregon for site seeing for her 3 young children, uhuh.... any types of news where children are harmed in any way really bother me, I guess do to the fact that I have felt the loss of a child due to medical reasons, a child that I wanted so much in my life, and lost her... then those people who have choices but choose to do the wrong thing at the cost of the child and not them selves... well I'll stop there..
Lil's Mommy
2007-06-11 17:17:17 UTC
The Andrea Yates story gets me, I just don't understand how a mother could ever get to the point that she could kill her children. I know she had depression, so do I but I have never once thought about hurting my daughter. The thing that just tears my heart up is she killed 5 of her kids, did she not realize what she was doing after the first one. What kind of monster could do something like this. It really just bugs me and brings tears to my eyes every time there is another case of children being killed by the mothers. You see and hear about it almost everyday now.
purplelove
2007-06-11 17:14:03 UTC
THere are so many stories I hear on the news that haunts me. THe main one being here in my city. Last week a mother killed all five of her children by hanging them. THe youngest survived, she was just a eight months. Who would do something like that. That story really tears me up inside. Also the VT tragedy
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:20:06 UTC
Shawn Hornbeck...amazing....but still scares me to pieces that it happened only an hour away from where Ilive, over here that was the #1 story since our news over there and and news is the same since we have the same broadcaster...amazing <3 I didnt read yours but Is that the one that was on Oprah? Where that little girl got her head cut off bc of a car accident? That was so sad ='(
Red
2007-06-11 17:12:44 UTC
Hurricane Katrina
sjnmo
2007-06-11 17:13:25 UTC
9/11
Urchin
2007-06-11 17:13:33 UTC
Nicole Simpson
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:13:28 UTC
Besides 9/11, the Adam Walsh story is still sad after all these years.
greeksofia
2007-06-11 17:15:38 UTC
Well in an email I got this it made me cry and now I can't stop thinking about it.



> > > Mommy.. Johnny brought a gun to school,

> > >

> > > He told his friends that it was cool,

> > >

> > > And when he pulled the trigger back,

> > >

> > > It shot with a great crack.

> > >

> > > Mommy, I was a good , I did What I was told,

> > >

> > > I went to school, I got straight A's, I even got the gold!

> > >

> > > But Mommy, when I went to school that day,

> > >

> > > I never said good-bye,

> > >

> > > I'm sorry Mommy, I had to go, But Mommy, please don't cry.

> > >

> > > When Johnny shot the gun, He hit me and another,

> > >

> > > And all because Johnny, Got the gun from his older brother.

> > >

> > > Mommy, please tell Daddy; That I love him very much,

> > >

> > > And please tell Chris; my boyfriend; That it wasn't just a crush.

> > >

> > > And tell my little sister; That she is the only one now,

> > >

> > > And tell my dear sweet grandmother; I'll be waiting for her now,

> > >

> > > And tell my wonderful friends; That they always were the best;

> > >

> > > Mommy, I'm not the first, I'm no better than the rest.

> > >

> > > Mommy, tell my teachers; I won't show up for class,

> > >

> > > And never to forget this, And please don't let this pass.

> > >

> > > Mommy, why'd it have to be me? No one deserves this,

> > >

> > > Mommy, warn the others, Mommy I left without a kiss.

> > >

> > > And Mommy tell the doctors; I know they really did try,

> > >

> > > I think I even saw a doctor, Trying not to cry.

> > >

> > > Mommy, I'm slowly dying, With a bullet in my chest,

> > >

> > > But Mommy please remember, I'm in heaven with the rest.

> > >

> > > Mommy I ran as fast as I could,

> > >

> > > When I heard that crack, Mommy, listen to me if you would,

> > >

> > > I wanted to go to college, I wanted to try things that were new,

> > >

> > > I guess I'm not ! ! going with Daddy, On that trip to the new zoo.

> > >

> > > I wanted to get married, I wanted to have a kid,

> > >

> > > I wanted to be an actress, Mommy, I wanted to live.

> > >

> > > But Mommy I must go now, The time is getting late,

> > >

> > > Mommy, tell my Chris, I'm sorry but I had to cancel the date.

> > >

> > > I love you Mommy, I always have, I know; you know it's true,

> > >

> > > And Mommy all I wanted to say is, "Mommy, I love you."
Ms Ghost
2007-06-11 17:16:12 UTC
The Virginia Tech massacre involving a demented spree killer named Cho-Seung Hui. A total of 33 people died (including the shooter).



It shocked the world, really.
behappy9805
2007-06-11 17:13:18 UTC
that woman a few years ago... susan smith... drowned her two little boys in a car. I really hate any story involving kids being hurt or animals. Also a case in the atlanta area recently involving cruelty to animals..
llselva4
2007-06-11 17:14:12 UTC
The story of the Texas woman who hanged her 3 children and herself.
Oklahoman
2007-06-11 17:13:01 UTC
The four-inch fold in the heating shield on Space Shuttle Atlantis. I hope this current shuttle mission doesn't end like STS-107. (In 2003, Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry.)
?
2007-06-11 17:16:19 UTC
Katrina
mamapoulette
2007-06-11 17:13:35 UTC
Any news story that has to do with children being abducted and murdered...I'll never understand in this lifetime how someone can do those things to a child.
Susan
2007-06-11 17:15:34 UTC
Ones that happen to me personally, or affect friends and family on a personal level.



Or, that one news story about the teenage boy that raped his neighbors dog and it died of internal bleeding :-(.
cuttin_in_mcfly
2007-06-11 17:13:57 UTC
Andrea Yates drowning her kids. A horrific tragedy on so many levels.
lonetraveler
2007-06-11 17:15:49 UTC
Mass killer Ted Bundy
Becky<3
2007-06-11 17:12:54 UTC
My past is the story that haunts me..and maybe my future!
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:14:31 UTC
andrea yates drowning her 5 children
mary2148
2007-06-11 17:17:05 UTC
oh wow...i just read the story of katie flynn...what a tragedy..my condolences to the family
Aeryn Sun
2007-06-11 19:13:16 UTC
john gacy, that happened very close to where some relatives live and it really hit home.
Bren
2007-06-11 17:13:30 UTC
OMG THAT IS TERRIBLE!!



The one that still gets to me is Jon Benet Ramsey
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:12:47 UTC
virginia tech .. the video of cho speaking before shooting.
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:12:16 UTC
VT tragedy... RIP
blueJean
2007-06-11 17:15:47 UTC
Charles Manson.............once was enough to last a lifetime...
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:14:06 UTC
anything involving hurting a child!!!!
Smarty Pants™
2007-06-11 17:15:38 UTC
J.F.K. assignation.
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:13:56 UTC
that most people believe in the death penalty. but how many american millionaires have been put to death ?
anonymous
2007-06-11 17:13:41 UTC
Paris Hilton going to jail

JAIL IS NOT HOT

FREE PARIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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