Baby Hope.

Jim Mason was a hard man. He worked in the Butchers shop cutting meat.
He married Cheryl and moved into a small flat in the poor part of Melbourne.
Jim didn’t communicate very well and bashed Cheryl on a regular basis.
He broke her nose and knocked out some of her teeth.
She had no one to ask for help.
Unfortunately before she finally decided to leave she found out she was pregnant.
Jim smashed the furniture and screamed at her. He didn’t want a baby.
He said he wouldn’t have anything to do with the little bastard.
Mrs Cranburn lived next door to them and often heard them fighting.
She was a tough lady and had spent time in jail for armed robbery.
Her husband died a few years ago and she lived alone.
Cheryl would go and visit her and cry on her shoulder.
Mrs Cranburn told her that if Jim touched her again she would take care of him.
Time went by like the healing of a broken arm.
Cheryl had a baby girl she called Hope.
Jim refused to pick up the baby or care at all.
In fact he beat Cheryl every time the baby cried.
One violent evening Jim was angry with the baby and Cheryl was in the bathroom.
He dragged her out of the house naked.
She managed to pickup Hope and carry her into the middle of the road.
Cheryl decided to make a stand. She had no where to go and it was time to settle.
Jim came out into the road swinging a baseball bat.
Cheryl stood there naked and with her baby Hope in her arms.
Jim came closer and swung the baseball bat.
Just as he was about to hit Cheryl Mrs Cranburn came out of her flat.
She had a rifle and pointed it at Jim.
It made him even more angry and he charged at Mrs Cranburn.
She laughed out loud and blow his brains out.
The neighbours saw what happened and quickly put Jim’s body in the boot of a car.
No one knows where they dumped him and no one cares.
Mrs Cranburn put a blanket around Cheryl and the baby and took them inside.
“Well I guess you’re a single Mum now” said Mrs Cranburn
“Yes thank you so much.” Answered Cheryl.
The Police investigated but no-one saw any point talking to the them.