Mom: Somer 'assumed they wouldn't hurt her'
The mother of Somer Thompson said Thursday that the slain 7-year-old "trusted everyone and assumed they wouldn't hurt her." Diena Thompson also said that while Somer's killer is still on the loose, "I just try to keep staying strong for my family."
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While having coffee this morning I was listening to this interview with Diena Thompson and if you listen to the broadcast you will hear something very disturbing. She has been getting hate mail from from certian people who are saying that Somers abduction was here fault beacause her children had to walk to and from school.
In her situation if you live 2 miles from the school there was no bus transportation, Dieana lived .09 miles from the school. There are many families that don't have the ways and means to pick up there children .
When I went to school which was many moons ago I lived about a half a mile from the school and was picked by a bus, It was a safer time, then it is today. I did a little research on the subject and found out that there are many states that follow the same guidlines and some distances are even more than 2 miles. We can't stop all the bad that happens in the world but we can try preventing it .... Another bill that should be passed is on busing children especially elementary school.
As far as the hate mail there is a time and a place for everything, I would never try to stop freedom of speech, but the family is already going through enough how about a little compassion......GROW UP.