Gambling Grief

From American Policy Roundtable

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Gambling Grief 
Thursday, August 25, 2005

In Broward County, Florida the papers will tell you there is nothing wrong with gambling.

Ask Bill Seitz, Ohio State Rep and he’ll tell you the same.

Ring up Governor Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania and he’ll sing the praises of legalized gambling casinos.

But you won’t here that song from Adecelli Snyder. In fact you won’t hear any more songs from the two-year old girl who was killed in Las Vegas by her mothers gambling addiction.

They found her body covered with sores and insect bites, in a trailers full of rotting garbage and rats.  She weighed only 11 pounds and died of starvation. She was born with cerebral palsy. Her mother and her boyfriend got state disability checks to keep Adecelli alive and well, but they spent the money in the casinos.

She has two young sisters who are alive and now in the custody of the County.

Sure alcoholics do this to their sick children. Drug addicts do the same.

But you don’t find many people hooked on the NFL or movies, or golf who starve their disabled children to death.

I know, gambling is just another harmless form of entertainment where no one gets hurt.

Isn’t it time we change that song in America.

Wherever you live–you can have a copy of this story. You can send it to your local paper, to your politicians, to your friends.

It’s the least we can do to remember another of God’s precious children lost because the grownups couldn’t handle the truth.

Gambling Grief - August 25th, 2005