Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the

frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener discretion is advised.

This week's story are listener's suggestion.

Thank you to Ashley for bringing Kathleen's story to my attention.

This is the first of a few cases out of South Africa that I've scheduled for the second half of this year.

There is an epidemic of abuse against women and children happening in South Africa that needs urgent attention.

Something needs to change. whether that is greater education, more resources or improved support for victims.

We need to do more to protect those who are the most vulnerable in our communities.

And given the little information we have that's out there about this story. This is about a very

newborn baby, only a week old, so she didn't get much of an opportunity to experience anything

in this world, except for the torture she will experience at the hands of her sperm donor. So this

will be a much more casual type episode. If you do like the more conversational episodes, please let me know.

I would love to be able to do more like this in the future where there isn't information

out there, but they are all important stories to tell. With that in mind, we're going to take

a quick break now for a word from this week's sponsors.

June 2020,

Wurvedee and South Africa.

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