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These parents were "getting off" on the abuse. This type of sadism - the books on the head, the locked room - it's as cruel as they were able to come up with. This is going to sound awful, but these parents should be tried, convicted and put to death. They are evil.

Their actions are not those of parents who are stressed, or parents who are walking a line between "abuse and letting kids run the household". They enjoyed inflicting pain of the innocent and helpless - they are the definition of evil.

57 posted on 07/19/2006 8:53:45 PM PDT by GOPJ ("...we're in the third world war, which side do you think should win?" -- Newt Gingrich)

I mentioned sadistic in my post. And, of course, I was being sarcastic.
susie

64 posted on 07/20/2006 8:18:26 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)