There are times when I just can’t get over a song, especially a song with a real message. This song will make anyone cry, I guarantee it.
it was around the Christmas vacation in 1989, I recorded this song from the radio. This was before I discovered CDs. I did a lot of radio recordings at the time.
The song I’m referring to is titled Dear Lord Jesus. Written by Richard Klender and sung by a then nine-year-old girl named sharon bats.
Before showing the lyrics of this moving song of immense emotion, I will give you the facts about the song. It is a true story about child abuse.
In NYOn May 14, 1981, a girl named elizabeth lisa washes. By November of the year 1987, the entire world came to know her as “Lisa Steinberg.”
On November 1, 1987, Lisa Steinberg was beaten to death by a NY lawyer, named, joel steinberg. This brutal and inhumane crime occurred in West 10th Street 14in greenwich village. It would later be a wake-up call to child welfare authorities and the law on how they would handle crimes as unimaginable as this.
First, he savagely beat his resident lover, hedda nussbaum. He then gave several blows to smooth head. His little brother was found in a back room, lying on the floor, tied to his crib with a short rope, dressed in dirty clothes.
If that wasn’t bad enough, they both waited over 12 hours for help. smooth he did not die that day, he died three days later of severe brain injuries.
When heda found later smooth I no longer breathed joel She didn’t want to ask for help yet, but eventually she did. smooth he was in a coma for three days.
This seedy child killer deserves no name, just shame and a ticket to hell. And the lover of his resident of him, he deserves more than what he received. He got off easy in the eyes of the law. In 1989, he was convicted of first degree manslaughter and later released after serving only 15 years.
Many others should share the responsibility for this crime. Child welfare workers, police officers, and even a teacher who had seen the evidence of abuse in smooth body, did not report this or do anything about it. So we have another case of a girl who could have been saved if someone had been willing to help her.
hedda nussbaumshe was abused by her boyfriend, joel steinbergfor years and was beaten by him just before he delivered the blows that killed smooththerefore she couldn’t help smooth. She was not prosecuted because she was found unable to help. smooth and was not involved in her abuse other than not reporting it.
Following smooth birth, his biological mother, paid joel steinberg, attorney, $500 to find him a foster home. She never found a home and although she never adopted Lisa, she lived with joel throughout his short life.
smooth birth mother, was awarded $15 million in damages in September 2003 from a civil lawsuit she originally filed against Steinberg, Nusbaum and various city agencies. The city of NYhe settled without admitting any wrongdoing in 1999 and paid $985,000.
To learn more about this horrific crime, log on to Lisa Steinberg In your search. Also, when logging into the song title, Dear Lord Jesusthe song can be downloaded.
smooth he deserved to live a long and happy life. She also deserves the recognition and attention of child abuse awareness. She leaves you with the lyrics of this special song that is definitely a moving story of smooth short life of gross neglect and deadly abuse.
Dear Lord Jesus
(lyrics and music by Richard Klender and sung by sharon bats)
Dear Lord Jesus
I just had to write to you
something scared me a lot
when i saw it on the news
A story about a girl
struck black and blue
Jesus thought it would take you this right
Dear Lord Jesus
I don’t understand
Why did they take your mom and dad?
I know they don’t mean to hit
With wild and angry hands
Tell them how great they are, I pray
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
We need love and shelter from the storm.
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
Won’t you keep us safe and warm?
Dear Lord Jesus
They say that she can die
Oh I hope the doctors stop the pain
I know you could save her
and take her to heaven
So she would never have to hurt again
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
We need love and shelter from the storm
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
Won’t you keep us safe and warm?
Dear Lord Jesus
Please tell me what to do
And please don’t tell my daddy
But my mommy also hits me
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
We need love and shelter from the storm
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
Won’t you keep us safe and warm?
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
They need love and shelter from the storm.
Please don’t let them hurt your children.
Won’t you keep us safe and warm?
THE END