Deborah Mills
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It's wrong
at 8:42am on July 28th, 2009
Here's my answer to the question of the day - 'Do you think getting abortions is wrong?'
Of course it is wrong. Does anyone think it is a great idea? Anyone who knows Anatomy and Physiology can only conclude that the moment that one sperm enters the egg is the only black and white line between being not pregnant and pregnant. But consider the alternative. And if you are sensitive at all...do not even read what follows.
It was day like any other late July day in Spring, Texas, hot and muggy, when Royce Zeigler, 24, decided to stay home from work to help 19-year-old Kimberly, his new bride of less than two months, "discipline" Riley. Riley had become a problem. The little 2-1/2-year-old girl didn't have any "manners". She refused to learn how to say things such as "thank you" or "yes sir" or "please." According to Kimberly, Royce wanted her to use a belt to spank Riley.
No one knows what happened that day other than Kimberly Ziegler's statement on November 24th to the investigators at the Galveston County Sheriff's Department. Kimberly told a horrifically sadistic tale, one of where the little girl was beaten with leather belts, of holding Riley's head under water, and of pillows being used to smother Riley. Like most children, Riley disliked taking medication, but Riley reached for the Tylenol offered to her for the pain and swallowed it eagerly.
At one point during that horrendous day, Riley whispered into her mother's ear, 'I love you' and Royce demanded to know what the child had said. When Kimberly told him, he said that the 2-1/2 year old Riley was 'being manipulative.' And so the 'punishment' continued.
When Royce grabbed Riley by her hair and threw her across the room, her tiny head hit the hard tile floor and her skull cracked in three places. Shortly after that, Riley began having trouble walking but was accused of faking it to get sympathy. Not long afterwards, Kimberly and Royce realized that Riley was dead.
They got into their vehicle and drove to Walmart to search for something they could store Riley's body in. They walked the aisles until they found a blue plastic Sterling storage tote, a "Walmart" casket for little Riley. They wrapped her in plastic and then laid her into the storage tote and covered the body in wet cement. They then put the storage tote in the shed that sat out in the back yard. Riley's body stayed in that shed, day after day, night after night, her body decomposing in the hot humid Texas heat while Royce and Kimberly thought about what to do next.
Eventually they drove 75 miles to the Galveston Causeway with the storage tote containing Riley in the back. It was there at the Causeway that Royce and Kimberly left Riley believing their troubles were finally over. No one would know who this little girl was, if anyone ever found her. At least they hoped.
On October 29th, approximately 105 days since that fateful morning when Royce stayed home from work to teach Kimberly how to "discipline" Riley Sawyer, a fisherman near Green's Cut found a blue plastic storage tote,and inside the decomposing body of a little girl.
Of course, know one could have foretold the outcome of Kimberly's pregnancy, but this story has made me think about abortion as sometimes being the lesser of two evils. I hope that reincarnation is possible, so that the souls terminated by abortion can return to a different life, to a better situation. I pray that this is true.
