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His name was Lattie McGee. I never met him, and he never met me, but he touched my life in a profound way when I saw his face on the news one day. His little body was bruised and battered, every bone in this child was broken or shattered. He was tortured to death at the age of four, on the south side of Chicago, like a prisoner of war. He was beaten, he was gagged, then hung upside down. He was burned, he was starved, and then he was bound inside a dark closet to hang there and die, for no one heard the little boy cry, no one heard the little boy cry. Thirty years to life, Johnny Campbell received. He showed no remorse, he never even grieved for the tiny boy named Lattie McGee who died so young and so tragically. If the time ever comes for Johnny to be free, I pray the parole board will look at him and see that no man who tortured a child that way, should ever again see the light of day. Let him suffer alone, let him rot in his cell! For what he did to Lattie, may he burn in hell! Before he takes his last breath, before he can state his case, I hope that he sees Lattie’s innocent face. May he look terror in the eyes, may he feel Lattie’s pain. May he struggle to survive, but let it be in vain. When the last light goes out before Johnny Campbell dies, may he forever and ever, hear Lattie’s cries… forever and ever, hear Lattie’s cries…
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