Bonnie launched an investigation of her daughter's death, eventually uncovering evidence that had been kept secret by the police for eleven years. The Compassionate Friends, is that parents usually need help to overcome the ruinous and debilitating effect their child's death has had on them. This help is most often given by family and friends, but it can also be given by others, including professionals, at any time and in any place. People want to help bereaved parents, and those parents need help. But Bonnie learned painfully that most non-bereaved do not know where to start.
Children die every day.
And although no one can ease or take away a parent's grief, anyone can learn ways to help bereaved parents cope with their heavy and long-lasting burden of pain. She also founded a chapter of The Compassionate Friends in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where she lives and writes.