Use of word ‘maimed’ is ‘obscenity’

Nancy Cassada Nelson, of Chesterfield
    I am writing to you regarding your front page article, headlined, “Concert to benefit families of bus crash victims.”
   I speak as a resident of Chesterfield Township and as a lifelong reader of the Register.
   I was appalled by your use of the word “maimed” to describe the children who were injured in the bus accident.
   Dozens of doctors, nurses and therapists are working, and people of many different faiths are praying, to assist these children in their recovery. You are the only one who has diagnosed them as “maimed.”
   Both families are maintaining Facebook pages, partly to prevent the spread of such misinformation. You might want to refer to those pages and get the most recent updates on the children’s progress and even their whereabouts before you publish another such article.
   The fact that you are the managing editor of the newspaper is most disheartening. Do you not own a thesaurus?
   Whatever happened to “all the news that’s fit to print?” Your use of the word “maimed” in this context is an obscenity.