Reply #5: Any child-abuse case is a horrible, tragic one

[Berry Cool]

but the number of "killed by the mother's boyfriend" cases just gets me furious.

Who the fuck are these men who think they have the right to do anything they want to a kid who's not theirs?

Who the fuck are these women to have whatever it is--low self-esteem, a drug addiction, I don't know what--that causes them to allow their children to be abused by their boyfriends? That sometimes even makes them participants?

I know it gets worse. I know there are men who kill their own children. I know there are women who kill their own children just fine on their own.

But damn, the "killed by the mother's boyfriend" pattern is SO common, SO overwhelmingly common, that it creates a special kind of fury in me.