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Tuesday was a day many had waited for — the day one of the two adults responsible for a heinous crime against a handsome young boy was sent to prison.
It represented the end of a two-year journey, one where a community demanded justice for the abuse and death of a toddler.
After watching Chad Carr get sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, Vincent Hill’s father made a statement to the media.
Actually, he made several. But during his several minutes of answering questions a theme emerged.
“I want my son to save other kids.”
Richard, we do too. This sad, sorry and tragic tale should not be forgotten.
We’ve offered a rallying cry to the community in the past. V is for Vincent, and V is for Victory.
And we have written dozens of news stories the last two years about this case. All of them will live on not only in print, but our internet archive.
And today, we’ve reorganized our internet archive of stories connected with Vincent Hill’s death into it’s own special section of our website. Anyone the world over may read, and remember, what happened to Vincent Hill.
But as this draws to a close, and we all want to see this sorry tale never repeated, we are reminded of the words of judge Richard Walker.
“There is lots of anger in this case and I feel some of that anger,” Walker said. “But anger that does not motivate change is useless.”
So read the archive and get angry — and lets start making change.
— Kansan editorial board
Tuesday was a day many had waited for — the day one of the two adults responsible for a heinous crime against a handsome young boy was sent to prison.
It represented the end of a two-year journey, one where a community demanded justice for the abuse and death of a toddler.
After watching Chad Carr get sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, Vincent Hill’s father made a statement to the media.
Actually, he made several. But during his several minutes of answering questions a theme emerged.
“I want my son to save other kids.”
Richard, we do too. This sad, sorry and tragic tale should not be forgotten.
We’ve offered a rallying cry to the community in the past. V is for Vincent, and V is for Victory.
And we have written dozens of news stories the last two years about this case. All of them will live on not only in print, but our internet archive.
And today, we’ve reorganized our internet archive of stories connected with Vincent Hill’s death into it’s own special section of our website. Anyone the world over may read, and remember, what happened to Vincent Hill.
But as this draws to a close, and we all want to see this sorry tale never repeated, we are reminded of the words of judge Richard Walker.
“There is lots of anger in this case and I feel some of that anger,” Walker said. “But anger that does not motivate change is useless.”
So read the archive and get angry — and lets start making change.
— Kansan editorial board
