The Haunting Image

Since July I have been haunted by this image: This computer generated image of a little girl whose body washed up on the shore of Boston Harbor has been on the news again and again as the search for her identity went on. We knew she was a toddler, a beautiful little girl. Surely someone missed her, someone knew her, someone would come forward to identify her. Three months passed. Fifty million people saw her image — online, on the news, on the billboards in the Boston area. But no one said anything. No one could tell us who she was.. Every time I saw that little face — and because I live in Maine, just a few hours north of Boston, I saw her often — I felt a deep sadness for this lost and nameless child, a most profoundly abandoned child.  Yesterday we learned who she was. Her name was Bella. She was not quite 3. Her mother was arrested as an accomplice in her murder. Her mother’s boyfriend arrested for causing her death. Neighbors were interviewed and expressed puzzlement that they had not heard or seen her, yet they did not contact the police, even though her image was all but impossible to escape. They chose to believe the mother’s story that she had lost custody of Bella, because that was easier than believing that Bella was dead, that her mother knew that and was implicated in her death. We know she had grandparents, that they adopted one of her siblings yet they remained silent. Because no one ...
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