"I think most people are outraged by that"

So says Michelle Elliott of the charity Kidscape, about the decision to give the mother, grandmother and aunts who forced young children to fight on video for their own amusement. And I would entirely agree with her. The BBC describes exactly what was on the video:

"The boy, aged two, is seen crying after being punched in the face by his three-year-old sister and is told by one of the four women in the room "not to be a wimp or a faggot" and to hit the girl back."

What sort of people are these? Those kids were their own family - their own flesh and blood. And they insulted and goaded a weeping two year old boy into punching his three year old sister. Again, what sort of poeple are these? The answer is total scum.

And for them to only get 12 month suspended sentences is pathetic. They are child abusers in the sense that they got children to abuse each other. A prison sentence is neccessary not just to send an example to others, but to actually punish these miserable excuses for human beings.

The explanation of the judge that these four scumbags do not present a danger to society and therefore shouldn't be imprisoned provokes a hollow laugh. No, they weren't a danger to others. Just their own family.