Gospel Prism

There is nothing more chilling and more indicative of the total depravity of humanity than this act. I am rarely surprised by anything when it comes to sinful depravity. But when a mother kills her child, that still is quite disturbing to me. Tragically, it seems to be a regular occurrence. First it was Baby Grace now identified as Riley Ann Sawyers, killed by her mother and then stuffed into a box set adrift at sea, and then there is this account:

A worker at the Food Mart store in south Augusta told police she saw the woman enter the restroom with the two children, a boy and girl, and then heard a scream, Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength said.

The worker called 911, and when deputies arrived they forced the door open and found the woman on the floor, holding a steak knife and covered in the children’s blood.

Michelle went to the bathroom and I heard the children crying,” store clerk Amanda Thomas told WAGT-TV.

A moment later, Thomas said, “I heard a different sound that didn’t sound right. I went back there to get the door opened and I couldn’t get it opened and I didn’t hear anything.”

Thomas and two other customers in the store said they weren’t sure what to do when they heard the screaming, the television station said.

She said Hawes was a regular customer and seemed different when she entered the store Thursday.

“I felt something wasn’t right about her. I had no idea she did anything to those kids,” Thomsas said.

As police led her out, Thomas said Hawes appeared detatched.

“She wasn’t crying. she didn’t show any emotion,” she said.

A witness, Sheila Langston, said she saw one of the children being removed in a bag.

`The mother didn’t have any remorse. She wasn’t crying, nothing,” Langston said.

As there an act that provides a more apt example of what Paul writes about in Romans 1:28-32: “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”