The Liberal Gun Club Forum

As we watch the Cleveland DA and police distort and essentially discard the case of Tamir Rice, I am reminded of another murdered 12 year old.

Her name was Georgia Lee Moses, and she was abducted and killed in Petaluma, California, in 1997. Petaluma is the same city where, a few years earlier, a child named Polly Klaas was also abducted and murdered. The Klaas case became a national obsession.

The case of Georgia Lee Moses, a Black child running from poverty and a troubled home life, barely drew attention.

And then Tom Waits wrote a song that has become a lament for all the Georgia Lees in America.

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Thank you for remembering Georgia. I often think of her when I pass that memorial sculpture.

I knew Georgia Lee Moses. She and her family came to the church in Rohnert Park a few times when I was the Vicar there. She was about 10 at the time. Then the family moved to Petaluma, about 7 miles south, and I lost track of them. Terrible shock when she was murdered.

Where is the memorial. I would like to stop by there the next time I am up in the Northbay.

The "steel angel" scupture, which was created by a couple of local firefighters, used to be alongside Hwy 101 near the Petaluma Blvd South onramp, where her body was found.

When they started work on widening the freeway a few years ago, it was moved to the lawn outside Petaluma City Hall.

Says it all: