Which is worse? And, how would you choose to punish someone guilty of these?
Which is worse?
Option #1: Traditional physical or sexual abuse of a child?(Kicking, Burning, Molestation) Option #2: Medically abusing a child? (Injecting feces into a feeding tube to make the child sick or scrubbing the child's skin with oven cleaner to give them an unexplainable rash- btw, these are documented real occurences)
And, how would you choose to punish the abuser?
I need as many answers as possible since this is part of my research for an essay I'm writing for my composition class.
There is a major difference between these options... Option #1, is generally caught and punished, while Option #2 can end one of three ways: The abuser is caught (usually years after initiating the abuse), the abuser moves on to a younger child when the original gets old enough to "tell on them", or the child dies. Also, 98% of the abusers in option #2, is the child's own mother. I'm not asking to be disgusting!
2007-08-15
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