The film Precious reappears in the form of an investigative report in today's Los Angeles Times.
Thank you to Hector Becerra for his interviews and excellent writing in the series titled "Innocents Betrayed."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-child-death29-2009nov29,0,7023900.story
Johnetta Harrison is the abused fourteen-year-old who cares for her alcoholic mother and five younger siblings in Compton, south of Los Angeles.
Majella Maas is the kind preschool teacher who tries to intervene and get help for little Dae'von Bailey--like the school counselor played by Mariah Carey in Precious.
But in this case Dae'von is beaten to death by the man in whose home he is placed, and afterward Johnetta is taken to live with a kind relative in Hesperia, north of Los Angles County.
As we enter Advent, remembering the birth of a baby who came to bring love and to face down evil, let us also remember the precious children around us endangered every day.
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