What Would You Do?
I watched a program that brought the perpetrators of crimes together with the victim or the victim's family of the said crime. I always wondered what would I do if that happened to me. How would I react seeing someone who hurt my loved one or friend and cost them greatly? I watched an episode of Oprah yesterday and they had three families on their who were the family members of a victim of death by either murder or accident. On the first part, the victims were under 18 and one was killed with a baseball bat after he taunted and bullied a younger boy who was 100 pounds lighter than himself and 6 inches shorter. It was sad because one boy is gone and the other one is in juvenile detention for 12 years. In the other story, a young man drag racing killed a mother and her young daughter. And the last one was an accident by children playing a game. Needless to say, the perpetrators or their families got to hear each others story. I can't say I would have reacted as well as they did because I can't imagine the hurt and pain I would feel to know that my loved one is gone and the one who caused their death is alive. But if it was my loved one who was the perpetrator, then I really don't know how I would react because I wouldn't know how to approach the victims family. Well, what do you think you do if you were in either position?
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