Disturbing stories are so common that often they are the focus for a day or two and then we wait for the next manifestation of the mental illness that permeates our society.
A video of a mother assaulting her teenaged daughter surfaced this week on social media. A man assisted in restraining the young woman, while the mother verbally abused her and physically assaulted her with a piece of wood. The mother accused her daughter of being sexually active, which the young woman denied. At one point the man threw the child to the ground for the mother to continue the beating. A woman was heard taunting the child, encouraging the mother and said that she would upload the video to social media. Once again, the social media exhibitionist spirit was displayed. What do we call adults who are proud to upload videos of children being assaulted as a way of shaming them? I refuse to believe that they are educated or even possess common sense. Based on the evidence many can be considered degenerates. But perhaps they too had experiences of surviving a cycle of trauma which eliminated any compassion in them.
