• Shatoya Currie (Girl X - 1997 Chicago Case): A 9-year-old girl who was abducted, raped, and brutally attacked in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project in 1997. The attack left her blind, paralyzed, and unable to speak. The case gained national attention and symbolized violence in public housing. Her attacker was sentenced to 120 years in prison.

Girl X...

Didn't get a chance to build her castle in the sand

When she was 9 her innocence was taken by a sick man

Who preyed upon her as she ascended a stairway

Her life hasn't been anywhere near the same since that day

He lured her into his apartment and violated her to no end and

then He carried her back into the stairwell and he went back

into that torturous den of an apartment with his girlfriend and

played pretend While this child lie in a hallway covered in grafitti

and roach spray Unconscious and unable to say --- what

happened to her. This happened in January of '97' in a place

soon to be defunct called Cabrini Green Where residents are

mostlly heard about and seen In a negative light on the evening 

News When truth be told it is only a handful that abuse I say

that because I was once on the other side And I know that

many residents have morals and pride But the ones that get the

attention are the ones that are violent Not the law abiding,

hardworking, ambitious silent. But back to the subject at hand

Which is Girl X, who is now a grown woman Whose life was torn

apart one winter day when she Was on the way home from her

grannie's house By an ex offender who sexually assaulted and

doused Insecticide into vital organs leaving her disabled For

this heinous act her assailant got 'life' Thrown across the table.

Life on the table Life on the table Which means he is still able to

breathe, eat, sleep, watch tv and exercise, While she sits in a

wheel chair unable to perform basic functions like opening her

eyes. Needless to say, in this instance and many like it, I don't

believe the punishment fits the crime, And it is too much to try

to convey in a rhyme But when they are sentenced 'life'

shouldn't be an option they should be all out of time.

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