OPINION - The article in Friday’s Daily News in which Judge Mohini Moodley slated the community of Chatsworth, teachers at a local school and a social worker was a wake-up call.
If there is blame to be shared for Baby X’s death, we as a community should take collective responsibility. We are generally a community suffering from an inability to act when we are aware of children being abused.
Are we becoming a society of degenerating morals? If we believe in the old Chinese proverb “The fish rots from the head,” each of us needs to ask which part of the fish we are. We need to start working on the rot by reviving the values of our forefathers. If we don’t, the future will be saturated with the decay of the present, and child abuse, rape and murder the order of the day.
We as a community must never allow another child to die this way. We must hang our heads in shame for robbing Baby X of her young life. To all those who were complicit in the death of the child, remember the law of karma.