Kelsey Shelton-Briggs

Kelsey Shelton-Briggs
28 December 2002 - 11 October 2005

Lennard shared this video on Kelsey Shelton-Briggs today. Watching it left me wrought with emotion.

Child abuse should never be condoned. Kelsey was the victim of such who died needlessly at the hands of an abusive stepfather, a neglectful mother, and a court system that failed her miserably. Conversely, the US-Observer Oklahoma reveals that her biological father was not quite the war hero as depicted. By contrast, he was in fact, a violent physical abuser with a series of assault charges and Kelsey's Purpose was but the work of her paternal grandmother to wreck revenge on her former daughter-in-law and manipulate the subsequent media exposure to her advantage.

Kelsey was unfortunate to be caught in this entanglement. She was a bright, spritely child with such zest as seen in the video. Towards the end, the spark was replaced with a sad glaze in her eyes. It was this that left me in tears. How do you snuff out the life of such an adorable and bubbly child? My heart aches for this random child was but a stranger. How could her own flesh and blood watch as she withered?

We will never know.