Your knack for a chilling senryu is incredible. This - in tone at least - very much reminds me of your winning cancer senryu from a few weeks back. A devastating few lines of poetry. Well done.
Somehow pain inflicted upon children hurts deepest, as we so want them to at least be free of all the bad stuff when they are most vulnerable. Alas, fate is does not discriminate in age!
Well chosen format, the fewer words, the deeper the impact.
I appreciate you tackling newspaper topics this way, makes us stop and think a while longer.