Disgusting child abuse

[Lee]

Was she banned from caring for children? Probably not...

[Chris]

Only 18 months? She should have got life for that, it's just sick.

[j0rd]

This makes me so angry, especially knowing she only got 18 months for it.

[jasey]

I hate to be the bringer of reality but the reaction to this video is really overblown and incredibly predictable. I do not condone what this woman is doing and think she was not punished enough. It is very twisted and it is sad that someone videotaped it but you have to sheltered and innocent for this to make you think the death penalty is warranted here.

There are crazy cases that make this look like a video of a kitten mewing all over the world. I understand that this is was videotaped so it is easier to relate to because you see it happening. Look around the internet, though. There is an eastern european video of teens stabbing and kicking another teen (literally) to death in a forest — also on camera. They were never caught, actually. I didn't see the internet uproar like this about that video and it has been around plenty long enough for people to notice.

If we're talking about recent, there was a recent video leaked depicting a man being held as he struggles while another man uses a rusty knife to cut open his throat all the way across as his blood spurts everywhere and he eventually slumps dead. Is that all over Facebook? Not as far as I can tell.

People are jumping on this because it is a baby. They feel like the baby can't protect itself so they should get angrier. That's true, the baby can't protect itself and did nothing to warrant anything close to this vicious abuse. Does that make the baby any more valuable than someone older? That Russian teen videotaped being gangbeaten to death couldn't protect himself either. He was injured to incapacity very quickly and was against many more teens than he could handle. No one deserves to be beaten like this on video. On the same note, no one deserves to be killed with a knife and violent, blunt kicks and punches on video either.

What confuses me is we find the video of the baby getting hurt on Facebook, Twitter and sharing sites. The only place you can find the outrageous and angering videos of people getting slaughtered while men and women alike look on and laugh are places where people glorify it and share it as entertainment. Be real here.

Is it that you care more about babies? What about whose abuse wasn't on video? What about the babies who weren't abused but rather killed outright in painful ways? More than two baby girls a day are killed in Pakistan on purpose simply because they are girls and not boys. Do you think that is bad? In modern China, the estimates for female infanticide (not abortion — they kill the babies after they are born and healthy in barbaric ways) range anywhere from 25 000 000 to 40 000 000. I think I may have seen one or two posts about that in my entire adult life on the internet. A baby getting smacked around and slapped on video, though, seems to get all the support in the world.