Letter to Santa: Make My Relative Stop Touching Me

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:02:00 GMT

This has to be the most heartbreaking wish list in the history of the world. And yet, I never imagined I would be this grateful to Santa Claus.

A nine-year-old girl from Texas decided to ask for something monumentally important for Christmas this year, giving a whole new meaning to the childhood belief that if you ask Santa for what you want, he’ll give it to you. The girl wrote a letter to Santa asking him to make one of her relatives stop touching her and her sister. She turned the letter, which may have been for a school assignment, in to her elementary school. It somehow got into the hands of a school counselor, who arranged for the child to meet with a children’s advocacy group.

As a result of the meeting, 55-year-old Andres Enrique Cantu, whose relationship to the girl is not being disclosed to protect her identity, is being held on charges of continuously sexually abusing a young child for four years. He faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.

Thank you, Santa.

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Boy Dies After Being Granted His Last Wish

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Lorraine Fleming, whose son Reece died of cancer recently, is holding on to the comfort that Reece was granted his last wish before he died: to marry his school sweetheart.

After 8-year-old Reece, who had battled cancer for half of his life, was told that he had only a few weeks to live, he popped the big question to Elleanor Pursglove, his close friend of many years. She accepted, and on the appointed day, Elleanor arrived at Reece’s house in a wedding dress. Her mother acted as vicar as the school friends exchanged rings and vows. Reece, dressed in his favorite shirt, also presented Elleanor with a red rose.

Prior to getting “married,” Reece had told his mother, “I’m not ready to go yet.” But the night of the wedding, he seemed truly at peace. “Mum, I can go now,” he told Lorraine. He died the next day.

Reece had fulfilled many other life ambitions as well, such as riding in a Ferrari and a Porsche, having a pirate party, and spending a day at a fire station.

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