“I am begging you to just let me go, please. You may not think you have a choice, but there is always a choice. I promise you that I will not speak of this to anyone. I won’t tell a soul. I am a mother, and a daughter. If you do this you are taking someones mother from them. You are taking my mother’s only child from her. I may deserve this, but they don’t, they haven’t done anything wrong. No one would know so just-“

The woman’s pleas were silenced when a gunshot rung through the air. Now somewhere in the the world was a motherless child, and a childless mother.