There aren’t any words that can truly comfort the parents,
grandparents and family for the tragic death of a 3 month old baby, however
when the death is deemed a murder, the emotions become unimaginable. It’s the gripping scenario of truly painful
circumstances in which Monica Bliss Ockwig, the grandmother to the victim,
brings to light in her true story of the homicide of Whyatt James Sander titled, Where the White Dove Flies.
The book is a tribute to Ockwig’s grandson; a recount of
facts articulated with emotional prose in a journalistic format. Her terse book of less than 50 pages reads
like “Cliffs Notes” of the event. Monica
Bliss Ockwig spares any elaborate descriptions or embellishments while she
concentrated on the facts of the case, bringing the reader into her mindset
from the first ring of the phone call notifying her of the mishap to the
funeral, then following through with the court proceedings. The details of a woman under the influence of
drugs and alcohol, inconceivably backing up a van over the campsite tent
housing a mother and a baby, killing the infant and nearly killing the mother
as well, becomes hashed out in many angles of thought.
A rather difficult and upsetting series of circumstances of
course, hovering around the untimely and unnecessary death of an innocent baby,
the book is a blood pressure riser as Monica Ockwig brings her maternal
disbelief and temper into the mix of interactions over the course of
events. The reader is unavoidably
empathetic to the pain and suffering of the parents and family over
the dreadful loss. The ability to
forgive becomes a challenge many cannot achieve, nor is it really warranted for
such a cruel act? The DUI aspects of the
driver complete with oblivious sentiments fuels the emotions. The courts gentle and inconceivably light
sentencing also amplifies the emotional stress of the victim’s family.
The raw message is brought fourth for the reader to learn
from the painful loss of one family. The
behavior of addicts, the ramifications of such a loss to a family, coupled with
our legal system which seems unjust is soberly discussed. This book should be required reading to all
that have been arrested and convicted of DUI with alcohol and cocaine usage,
and used by MADD and other political activist groups in strengthening the laws
and increasing penalties.
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