❤️HER NAME IS MATILDA❤️
She was patting a baby goat.
She was having her face painted.
She was eating lollies.
She was laughing with her sister.
Little Matilda was … existing.
Shortly after this photo was taken a man ended her life.
A GoFundMe for Matilda’s mother is available for donations.
I cannot look at Matilda’s final photo without crying. We’ve lost 26 children to violence this year. As I write, we’ve lost 64 women to violence this year. I know four times more men have been killed. Matilda’s murder has hit me harder than all of the others – not because she is more important, or more innocent, or more fragile, or more cherished. It has hit harder because this little girl – only 10 years old – was patting a baby goat and smiling like it was the happiest moment she’d ever known.
How could a man raise a rifle, point it at a little girl in a yellow dress, look down the barrel and squeeze that trigger?
Even though I’ve seen every kind of violence, I will never be able to find an answer to that question.
I will never understand how a man can kill a smiling girl in a yellow sundress patting a baby goat.
MATILDA MATTERS!❤️
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