Editorial: Honor Joanna's life, not her death

Nothing feels so horribly awful as violence visited upon helpless children, whether our own, a neighbor's or a victim we never knew that we see in the news.

Joanna Mullin's heinous death just three weeks after her 6th birthday is especially disturbing because she was snatched from her bed next to her younger brother while sleeping at their grandmother's house.

This is troublous on so many levels, it is hard to identify a single painful emotion -- they are all so raw.

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