" Indifference Kills a child "

I just read your editorial " Indifference kills a child ".

     The David Cash sub-plot of the murder story ( Jeremy Strohmeyer 's

    hideous murder-molestation of a 7-year old girl in the woman's room

    of a Nevada casino. )   reminds me of the shocking 1987 movie " A

    River's Edge " Dennis Hopper has one of his " possessed" roles in

    the movie based a real case of abominable " indifference " :

           A high school kid brutally kills his girlfriend and abandons

    her body in the woods. Friends of the psychotic kid come around to

    look at the girl's pitiful decomposing body. Words spreads beyond

    the demented clique .But nobody reports the crime -for a long time.

         Movie reviewer, Roger Ebert, wrote that there were many op-ed

    articles on the case-which was seen as " symptomatic of a wider moral

    breakdown ".

         I agree with the USA TODAY editorial's point : " People like

    Cash... won't be cured of their inhumanity by the law ."

          One significant detail about the despicable characters in

    " The River's Edge "  : They were already incorrigible drug addicts

    and alcoholics ."

          The Marine Corp general who recently had a letter published

    in USA TODAY on the importance of " character " in life would

    agree that such kids never learned the meaning of the word .