The subjectivity of defining "child abuse"

[Low D Flat]

There are close cases. This wasn't one. Leaving lacerations all over a four-year-old's legs is monstrous. Especially when you figure that this was a man who lost another son when a grown man beat the child to death.

There are plenty of cultures where it's OK (or mandatory) to do things like razor off a girl's clitoris. A democracy is perfectly entitled to say that that's beyond the pale, and so was this.